The New Ways
Forward
An invite-only executive AI learning series
As GenAI continues to evolve, 2026 brings the opportunity to fully realize the potential of AI agents for your people, your processes, and your customers.
Join us as we continue The New Ways Forward, our executive AI learning series for Bay Area executives.
What to expect:
- Learn and gain inspiration from VC innovators, AI leaders, and the builders of AI through rapid-session panels and practical demos grounded in real-world experience.
- Collaborate and connect with industry peers through roundtable conversations featuring honest dialogue around successes, roadblocks, and lessons learned.
- Gain tangible next steps to evolve your organization, whether modernizing your data, enabling your teams to grow with AI, or unlocking customer value.
Your opportunity
60+
Form connections with and learn from more than 60 business and technical leaders from the Bay Area and beyond at each session.
10
Explore 10 upcoming and past sessions by attending or reviewing outcomes, or select the ones that will mean the most to you. Can't make a session? Let us know and we'll be happy to share insights with you after.
6K+
More than 6,000 consultants at Slalom are trained on generative AI and ready to help you realize the potential AI brings to your organization.
Transforming data management and governance with AI
How do you approach the seemingly insurmountable tasks of effectively creating, procuring, preparing, and using your data for AI?
Download insights from seven leaders in AIZero-cost brainpower and robots coding for robots?
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Read the key event takeaways
Upcoming sessions
Agentic Coworkers
Featuring OpenAI: Get a behind-the-scenes look at how organizations are designing, deploying, and scaling AI agents that collaborate with humans, streamline operations, and unlock unprecedented productivity.
After, join a roundtable discussion catered to your industry or job function to identify opportunities, solutions, and next steps in making agentic coworkers a reality at your organization.
February 26, 2026
Agentic data foundations
Agentic data foundations are reshaping enterprise decision-making and operational agility. Gain practical strategies for building autonomous, high-trust data ecosystems that accelerate innovation while maintaining governance and control. You’ll leave with actionable insights to harness agentic systems for scalable, resilient, and future-ready data capabilities.
April 16, 2026
Build, Buy, Operate
What “build, buy, operate” choices are you facing as you adopt or scale agentic AI? Join us to compare operating models, investment approaches, and risk considerations that shape sustainable AI adoption. Expect to gain a clear framework to evaluate capabilities, accelerate time-to-value, and responsibly operationalize agentic systems.
June 11, 2026
Multi-modal personified
Transform the way your organization interacts with data and customers. This session highlights how rich, multi-modal models—enhanced with enterprise persona design—enable more intuitive, contextual, and autonomous experiences across the business. Gain insight into emerging architectures, governance considerations, and practical use cases for deploying personified AI agents at scale.
August 20, 2026
R4: Reach For
Save the date for our global innovation summit in Seattle, WA. More details to be released Summer 2026.
October 5-7, 2026
Bridging Innovation
End the year looking forward as we “bridge innovation” to identify enterprise-ready AI capabilities. The session explores how to evaluate emerging technologies, de-risk adoption, and establish the right mix of partners to accelerate transformation. Get practical guidance on sourcing innovation, validating readiness, and building a scalable support ecosystem for AI success.
November 5, 2026
Past sessions
Building unpromptable wisdom
We celebrate the year of solutioning and discuss how leaders can create and wield irreducible guidance for our teams where the algorithm ends. Starting with a hands-on vibe coding session led by Replit, and ending with a panel discussing how to lead in the era of vibecoding and beyond, attendees found inspiration and solutions for their 2026 leadership plans.
Insights coming soon
Creative value with AI agents
AI agents deliver powerful benefits, but demand dynamic orchestration, higher development costs and governance attention. We identified solutions for the right balance: using where clear value is measurable and expanding thoughtfully to deliver tangible returns.
- Download key themes from the session.
- Review Slalom's roadmap for building and deploying agents.
- Get the ebook from Infinitus: Applying AI across the patient journey.
Data as a differentiator
150 leaders gathered in Napa for an immersive off-site learning excursion to reimagine what it means to be a data-driven organization and discover new paths to shaping a culture of data.
- Get the event summary.
- Read the executive outputs.
- Download our Complete Modern Data Stack framework.
- Read the article: Snowflake Openflow.
Building an adaptive and secure organization
Building a resilient organization that swiftly responds to talent and human capital needs, but also prioritizes security is imperative. We solutioned around empowering quick pivots, ensuring those pivots are secure, and measuring adaptability for optimization.
AI for ROI
The ambiguity surrounding ROI fundamentally affects strategic decisions across every level of an organization. This session addressed how to evaluate ROI early on to maximize emerging technologies and ensure innovation drives value.
Transforming innovation with AI and GenAI
The fourth session in our series discussed core technical capabilities, major impacts, lessons to apply to the enterprise, navigating common challenges when innovating with AI, and how to maximize return.
- Download the two-page summary
- Read the recap of key themes and learnings.
Productivity in the Age of AI
Learning sessions ranged from technical, hands-on journeys to strategic, expert-led panels around integration, AI-powered accelerators, and how to best leverage training and pilot programs.
- Download a two-page summary of the session.
Transforming data for AI
Our second session brought deep discourse around trust in AI, data management, data governance, and implementation solutions. Discussions ranged from the preparation of engineers for a world where AI co-pilots prohibit professional growth to the importance of utilizing trustworthy sources for data.
- Listen to a post-session podcast powered by Qurrent.
- Read the recap of key themes and learnings.
- Download a two-page summary of the session.
Creating growth in your industry with GenAI
The arrival of generative AI is prompting an era of augmentation of our mental powers. Attendees discussed unlocking creativity, with executives offering insights into unique approaches, varying mindsets, and a path forward to expansion and optimization.
- Listen to a post-session podcast powered by Qurrent.
- Download a recap of key themes and learnings.
- Access a look forward to data and AI.