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Pre-Day: Monday, 13 Apr, 20265:00 PMWelcome Drinks & Networking Reception7:00 PMDinner
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Main Conference Day: Tuesday, 14 Apr, 20268:00 AMRegistration & Networking8:50 AMOpening Remarks from AI CEO Summit Founder, Ed Nelson9:00 AMKeynote
Special Guest Keynote
Speaker(s):
Peter DeSantis
SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum ComputingAmazonPeter DeSantis is Senior Vice President, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).
Throughout his career at Amazon, Peter has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its General Manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, Peter led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 Availability Zones worldwide. Most recently, as SVP of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.
Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Time:9:00 AMSession Type:KeynoteForce Inline Description:09:25 AMKeynoteAgentic AI at Zoom
Speaker(s):
Xuedong XD Huang
Chief Technology OfficerZoomXuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.
Prior to joining Zoom in 2023, he worked at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow. He began Microsoft’s speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft’s AI teams to achieve several of the industry’s first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. He is an inventor with over 170 U.S. patents and has authored over 100 papers and two books. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the IEEE Bose Industrial Leader Award in 2023.
Xuedong received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his M.S. from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his B.S. from Hunan University in 1982.
Time:9:25 AMSession Type:KeynoteForce Inline Description:09.50 AMFireside ChatThe Unique Challenges in AI & Digital Transformation at 100+ Year Old Firms
Speaker(s):
Sastry Durvasula
Chief Operating, Information & Digital OfficerTIAASastry Durvasula is the Chief Operating, Information and Digital Officer at TIAA, responsible for powering the enterprise’s business growth, scaling innovation and client impact, driving operational excellence, and accelerating TIAA’s transformation. In his role, Sastry drives operating strategies and enterprise-wide capabilities in alignment with the company’s strategic goals through four connected pillars he oversees globally: Technology, Digital & Client Experience, Operations and Shared Services. He is a member of the company’s Executive Committee.
Sastry’s responsibilities also include Business Operational Effectiveness, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, Client Tech Labs and Strategic Partnerships across Retirement Services, Nuveen Asset Management and Wealth Management, and serving on the board of TIAA Global Capabilities in India. Previously he served as TIAA’s Chief Information and Client Services Officer, a role he held upon joining the firm in February 2022.
Sastry’s recent accomplishments include – leapfrogging TIAA’s technology, digital and data ecosystem to a modern cloud-based stack, launching the company’s GenAI platform TIAA gAItSM, forging strategic partnerships to transform recordkeeping and FinTech investments and incubation through TIAA Ventures. Sastry and team also built and rolled out an award-winning, global Guild Network and Guild Gigs to upskill/reskill colleagues and foster a learning culture, that includes an AI Guild with several thousand active members.
Previously, Sastry served as the Global Chief Technology and Digital Officer, and Partner, at McKinsey & Company. In that role, he led the strategy and development of the firm’s differentiating digital products and platforms, internal and client-facing technology, data & analytics, AI/ML, cyber and hybrid cloud ecosystem, and served as a senior advisor on client engagements.
He also held Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data & Analytics, CIO and global technology leadership roles at insurance broker and risk management company Marsh and at American Express, where he spent 15 years. He was also a consultant for several Fortune Global 500 companies.
Sastry brings a breadth of global experience in the technology, financial services, payments and insurance domains, and a proven track record in leading and transforming large organizations, shaping innovative digital strategies and experiences, driving complex risk, regulatory and cyber security capabilities, and managing global P&Ls. He successfully led the development of strategic B2C, B2B and B2B2C products and platforms, FinTech and InsurTech partnerships, digital labs, M&A and new ventures.
Sastry is a passionate advocate for diversity and sustainability. He is the executive co-sponsor of Achieve, TIAA’s Business Resource Group advancing women, executive ambassador of TIAA’s Sustainability Action Team, served on the board of Girls in Tech, and has championed industry-wide initiatives focused on women in tech, including ReWRITE and Half the Board.
Sastry holds a master’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, is credited with 40+ patents and plays a leadership role in technology industry/academia consortia. He is a lifelong learner, a recognized speaker and influencer, and recipient of several honors and industry awards, including Future Enterprise North America Awards CIO of Year, by the International Data Corporation (IDC) and an Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Awards honoree, by the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC).
Franziska Bell
Chief Data, AI & Analytics OfficerFordFran Bell Ph.D. is Chief Data, AI and Analytics Officer at Ford Motor Company, a role she assumed in January 2025.
In this role, Fran leads a diverse team of experts focused on enhancing how the Ford enterprise solves business problems and drives business value through data, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics.
Fran joined Ford from BP, where she most recently served as Chief Technology Office (CTO) and Senior Vice President (SVP) of Digital Technology. At BP, her leadership encompassed a large technology organization responsible for software and platform engineering, data science, AI, data analytics, data engineering, data management, UX research, design, and change management. Before her time at BP, Fran held executive positions at Toyota Research Institute and Uber.
Fran holds a doctoral degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a postdoc from Caltech.
Moderator
Stacey Haas
Senior PartnerMcKinsey & CompanyAs a leader in McKinsey’s Consumer Practice, Stacey helps clients drive profitable growth, with a focus on portfolio strategy, innovation, and design-to-deliver above-market growth.
Recent examples of client work include the following:
- designed a new approach to driving breakthrough innovation for a consumer company
- guided a consumer-packaged-goods company through a global product-offering redesign while also building the internal design-to-value (an integrated approach to designing products that deliver the greatest value) capabilities
- developed, in collaboration with a client and McKinsey Design, a new product, from the process of defining the “white space” to the development of the consumer-tested working prototype
Stacey is also a leader in All-In, McKinsey’s diversity and inclusion initiative.
Time:9:50 AMSession Type:General Session (Presentation)Force Inline Description:010:15 AMNetworking Break11.00 AMKeynoteLessons Learned from Enterprise AI Deployments in 2025 - QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
Speaker(s):
Dan Tinkoff
Senior Partner & Global LeaderQuantumBlack, AI by McKinseyDan is a senior partner in McKinsey’s New Jersey office and leads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally and in North America. He leverages his data and AI expertise and extensive industry knowledge to advise leaders and chief digital and AI officers of life-science businesses on their strategies and operating models. He also works extensively with organizations on transforming and innovating their capabilities for today’s dynamic healthcare and technology landscape.
Examples of his recent client work include:
- helping a leading pharmaceutical company envision and design a tech-enabled direct-to-consumer channel for medication dispensing, telehealth, and assistance across the continuum of care
- assisting a leading eye care company in building a differentiated B2B2C e-commerce platform to create more value for eye care professionals and their patients
- supporting a leading healthcare company’s program to identify new business models to generate revenue from its data assets
- helping a major pharmaceutical company develop an enterprise advanced analytics strategy, operating model, and implementation plan to drive a more than 10 percent incremental earnings increase from prioritized analytics use cases over three years
- envisioning the AI-enabled future of a leading veterinary diagnostics and software company
Time:11:30 AMSession Type:KeynoteForce Inline Description:011:20 AMPanelHuman-Centered AI Leadership & Culture: Change Management in the AI-Driven Enterprise
Speaker(s):
Fidelma Russo
Chief Technology Officer & EVP, Hybrid CloudHPEFidelma Russo is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Hybrid Cloud business unit, and the company's Chief Technology Officer. Fidelma's Hybrid Cloud team is tasked with solving some of IT's biggest challenges, including transforming business through the power of data, modernizing IT infrastructure with a true cloud experience, and dramatically simplifying operations across hybrid cloud IT estates - all as they help customers accelerate their adoption of AI.
As the leader of this global organization of over 5,500 employees, Fidelma is responsible for driving the strategic direction, development, and execution of HPE's GreenLake platform, storage, private cloud, and SaaS solutions, along with creating an innovation pipeline through the capabilities and services of the Office of the CTO.
Fidelma joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in September 2021 as Chief Technology Officer, where she led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE's GreenLake platform, a central offering for all of HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions and cloud services.
Based in Houston, Texas, Fidelma has more than 30 years of technology leadership spanning machine learning and analytics, global IT business services, cloud services, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.
Prior to joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fidelma was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services business unit at VMware. She has held notable senior leadership positions including Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Iron Mountain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at EMC, Vice President of Adaptive Infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard, and Senior Vice President of Network, Storage, and Software at Sun Microsystems.
Fidelma was appointed to Equinix's Board of Directors and audit committee in June 2022, and she also sits on the HP International Bank's Board of Directors. In July 2023, Fidelma was recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators of 2023.
Fidelma holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from University College Cork, a master's in computer science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Magnus Östberg
Chief Software OfficerMercedes-BenzMagnus Östberg is the Chief Software Officer (CSO) at Mercedes-Benz, where he spearheads the development and implementation of the MB.OS vehicle operating system. Born in Sweden, Östberg holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and an Executive MBA from the University of Gothenburg. With a career deeply rooted in automotive software, Östberg brings extensive experience from leadership roles at Mecel, Delphi, and Aptiv. His expertise spans vehicle software, infotainment, telematics, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Notably, at Aptiv, he was instrumental in the development and launch of the ADAS Satellite Architecture for multiple automotive manufacturers.
Forrest Norrod
Executive Vice President & GM, Data Center Solutions GroupAMDForrest Norrod is executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Business Group at AMD. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of strategy, business management and engineering for AMD data center products. Norrod has more than 30 years of technology industry experience across a number of engineering and business management roles at both the chip and system level.
Norrod was previously vice president and general manager of the Server Business at Dell from December 2009 to October 2014. He joined Dell as CTO of Client Products in August 2000, and held multiple engineering and management roles during his tenure.
Prior to Dell, Norrod worked at Cyrix Corp from 1993 to 1997 and led the integrated x86 CPU businesses at National Semiconductor from 1997 to 2000.
Norrod is a member of Intuit’s board of directors, a leading provider of financial tools for individuals and small businesses.
Norrod earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and holds 11 US patents in computer architecture, graphics and system design.
Moderator
Jeff Hart
Senior PartnerQuantumBlack, AI by McKinseyJeff is one of McKinsey’s leading thinkers on bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve core commercial sales and operations processes for core industrial clients, including those in chemicals, energy, and metals and mining.
A key partner with QuantumBlack, Jeff oversaw the development of our proprietary B2B commercial analytics platform that converted McKinsey’s best thinking on sales and pricing into reusable software that any B2B client can use.
Examples of Jeff’s recent work include the following:
- standing up a commercial analytics center of excellence that leverages machine learning to recommend prices and includes new processes and training programs. This new capability is on track to deliver more than $200 million in additional margin for a petrochemical company
- supporting development of a digital factory, including operating model and skill building, for a midstream oil and gas company; the first product focused on identifying data issues and increasing uptime on critical assets
- partnering with a sports team on an analytics transformation to fully embed its use of technology and advanced analytics
Outside of McKinsey, Jeff is a board member for Combined Arms, a not for profit focused on improving the effectiveness of organizations that provide support to military veterans and their families.
Time:11:50 AMSession Type:PanelForce Inline Description:012:00 PMPanelRe-Skilling & Upskilling at Scale: Building the Human-AI Workforce
Speaker(s):
Shriram Revankar
Chief Technology OfficerDolby Technologies
Fiona Tan
Chief Technology OfficerWayfairFiona Tan is Wayfair’s Chief Technology Officer, and oversees a global innovation team responsible for creating market-leading experiences through its world-class e-commerce platform. Prior to Wayfair, Fiona served as senior vice president of U.S. Technology at Walmart where she was responsible for innovation and engineering execution spanning its site, mobile app and all associate and merchant-facing technology across its e-commerce and stores business in the U.S. Her prior roles at Walmart include senior vice president of Customer Technology and vice president of Engineering. Prior to Walmart, Fiona served in a number of leadership roles at Ariba, where she led a global engineering organization responsible for the strategy, lifecycle, and delivery of the Ariba Commerce Network, as well as TIBCO Software. Fiona has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
Meerah Rajavel
Chief Information OfficerPalo Alto NetworksAs Chief Information Officer, Meerah is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ global information technology functions, driving a comprehensive strategy to scale and rapidly deliver innovative solutions for our worldwide teams.
Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2022, Meerah was CIO at Citrix and held past leadership roles at McAfee, Forcepoint, Cisco and Infosys. Meerah deeply understands the IT challenges across the industry, among organizations of all sizes.
Meerah holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from the Thiagarajar College of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, India. She also holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Tolga Kurtoglu
Chief Technology OfficerLenovoAs Corporate CTO, SVP, Lenovo Technology Committee Vice-Chair, and Lenovo Executive Committee member, Dr. Tolga Kurtoglu leads Lenovo's corporate technology strategy and R&D planning & governance. Additionally, he leads Lenovo Research with focuses on AI, computing for smart devices and infrastructure, wireless communications, metaverse and robotics.
Dr. Kurtoglu is a seasoned technology leader with deep expertise in business and innovation strategy. Prior to joining Lenovo in July 2024, he served in various roles as a chief executive & chief technology officer in leading organizations focusing on technology strategy, corporate innovation and incubation, and new business creation – including HP Labs, Palo Alto Research Center, and Dell.
Dr. Kurtoglu has numerous patents and publications in the fields of automation and machine intelligence, fault tolerant system design, and 3D/digital manufacturing. He brings over two decades of tech industry experience. During this tenure, he oversaw the transition of more than 40 innovations to the market through various commercialization strategies, including new product introductions, spin-offs, and partnerships with major corporations.
Dr. Kurtoglu holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, from the Univ. of Texas-Austin, and resides in Silicon Valley, California, USA.
Time:12:30 PMSession Type:General Session (Presentation)Force Inline Description:012:40 PMThe Trusted Data Layer for AI Agents: Governance, Security & Interoperability at Scale
Speaker(s):
Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product & AI OfficerAtlassianTamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively. Her goal: build AI‑native, world‑class products that set the standard for how millions of knowledge workers get things done.Previously, she was President of Product and Technology at Glean, and Chief Product Officer at Slack, where she guided the company through rapid growth, a public listing, and acquisition by Salesforce.
Bala Vaidyanathan
VP, Head of Data & AIFedExBala Vaidyanathan is vice president and lead for Data & AI at FedEx. Under his leadership, FedEx has leveraged their extensive data ecosystem to enhance shipping efficiency and improve logistics and supply chain operations. Their data-driven solutions deliver value for both internal teams and external customers.
As a recipient of the FedEx Five Star Award, and with almost 20 years of industry experience, Bala brings deep expertise, curiosity, and a first-principles mindset to every challenge. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Florida. His technical research contributions have been published in multiple journals, and he served for several years as an associate editor for the international publication Networks.Time:12:40 PMSession Type:PanelForce Inline Description:01:20 PMNetworking LunchSit-down, table-service lunch with seating plan in Rosewood garden
Session Type:General Session (Presentation)Force Inline Description:03:00 PMPanelThe State of Enterprise ROI: Where AI is Delivering Value, and Where it Isn't
Speaker(s):
Katya Andresen
Chief Digital & Analytics OfficerCigna
Rani Johnson
Chief Information OfficerWorkdayRani Johnson is chief information officer (CIO) at Workday. She oversees the company’s global information technology organization, with responsibility for the internal deployment of Workday products.
Prior to joining Workday, Rani served as CIO at Cloud Software Group where she was responsible for developing the vision and overall business strategy of the IT organization. Preceding Cloud Software Group, she served as CIO at TIBCO, SVP and CIO of SolarWinds, and CIO at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
Rani began her career interning at NASA Johnson Space Center and was part of a team that had code deployed on the International Space Station.
Rani holds dual degrees in electrical engineering and general engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Spelman College.
Mike Blandina
Chief Information OfficerSnowflakeMike serves as the Chief Information Officer at Snowflake, overseeing global IT, data and security functions. Prior to joining Snowflake, he served as CIO of Payments at J.P. Morgan. Before joining the firm, Mike served as the Chief Executive Officer at Bakkt, a publicly traded company specializing in digital assets trading and payments. Before Bakkt, Mike was Head of Payments Engineering at PayPal, where he led the team through PayPal’s second IPO in 2015, and led Google’s Payments Engineering and Wallet Engineering teams through the launch of Google Wallet in 2011. Additionally, he founded and developed two startup Payments/Commerce companies which were both acquired at maturity. Mike is also a Veteran who served four years in the United States Army.
Moderator
Robert Brooks
Founding Team & Chief Commercial OfficerLambdaRobert is part of the founding team of Lambda, a GPU Cloud purpose-built for AI training & inference that has raised over $800M. At Lambda, Robert has scaled revenue from single-digit millions to billions. Prior to Lambda, Robert led sales at Tempo Automation (IPO in 2022) & Stack Overflow ($1.8B acquisition).
Time:3:00 PMSession Type:PanelForce Inline Description:03:45 PMPanelBeyond the Foundation Model: The Future of Multi-Agent Enterprises
Speaker(s):
Ori Goshen
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive OfficerAI21 LabsOri Goshen is Co-CEO of AI21 Labs alongside Yoav Shoham. A seasoned entrepreneur, Ori Goshen has over 15 years of experience in technology and product leadership roles. Prior achievements include co-founding the network analytics company Crowdx, and spearheaded the development of VoIP.
Ramin Hasani
Co-Founder & CEOLiquid AIRamin Hasani is the Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI and a machine learning Scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Previously, he was jointly appointed as a Principal AI and Machine Learning Scientist at the Vanguard Group and a Research Affiliate at CSAIL MIT. Ramin’s research focuses on robust deep learning and decision-making in complex dynamical systems. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at CSAIL MIT, leading research on modeling intelligence and sequential decision-making, with Prof. Daniela Rus.
He received his Ph.D. degree with distinction in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria (May 2020). His Ph.D. dissertation and continued research on Liquid Neural Networks got recognized internationally with numerous nominations and awards such as TÜV Austria Dissertation Award nomination in 2020, and HPC Innovation Excellence Award in 2022. He is a frequent TEDx Speaker.
Rodrigo Barnes
Chief Technology OfficerOwkin
Tim Davis
Co-Founder & PresidentModularTim Davis is the President & Co-founder at Modular, whose mission is to create an AI hardware abstraction layer for the world.
Previously, he served as a PM at Google, helping to create & scale AI systems inside Google Brain including infrastructure like TensorFlow, on-device AI & large model infrastructure.
Tim studied Engineering, Finance and Law in Australia and the US, and now resides in California. He has been developing AI systems for more than a decade.Time:3:45 PMSession Type:PanelForce Inline Description:04:30 PMAfternoon Networking BreakModerated Discussion Groups of 6-8 Execs - De-Briefs of Takeaways from the Summit
Time:5:00 PMSession Type:BreakoutForce Inline Description:05:45 PMConference Close
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