Agentic AI Exchange East
Shifting from AI Delivery to AI Orchestration, Enablement, and Long-Term Value Stewardship
New York, NY | November 4 - 6, 2026
Agenda Day 1
TOOLS & INFRASTRUCTURE
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
OPENING REMARKS AND DELEGATE ORIENTATION
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
CHAIR’S WELCOME DAY ONE
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
ICE BREAKER
12:45 pm - 1:05 pm
KEYNOTE: The Rise of the AI Factory Model — Building Scalable, Reusable AI Infrastructure
Bharat Bendre -
Senior Vice President of Technology,
Equifax
1:05 pm - 1:25 pm
KEYNOTE: Foundations for the AI-Optimized Enterprise: Infrastructure for 2027 and Beyond
Deepak Sachdeva -
Chief Information Officer,
United States Air Force
1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
KEYNOTE: Agentic AI: From Hype to Enterprise Business Value
Philip Guido -
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer,
AMD
The first phase of AI was defined by massive investment, hyperscaler build-out, and a race to develop increasingly powerful models. The next phase will be defined by how effectively enterprises turn those capabilities into business value. In this keynote, AMD Chief Commercial Officer Philip Guido will examine how agentic AI is changing enterprise requirements and why organizations are increasingly focused on right-sized compute, workload economics, and hybrid deployment. Drawing on AMD's view across industries and workloads, he'll show how companies are moving from AI promise to practical, measurable ROI.
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: Creating an Effective Orchestration Layer to Move from Single Agent to Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems
Mansoor Basha -
Chief Technology Officer,
Stagwell Marketing Cloud
Arun Reddipalli - Head of Global Data Platform and Governance, Kimberly-Clark
Venkat Vedam - Head Of Gen AI And Front Office Analytics, Manulife Investment Management
Michael Mocanu - VP, AI, Data & Governance, Liberty Mutual
2:15 pm - 2:35 pm
KEYNOTE: How to Reimagine and Design the Agentic Enterprise
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
BUSINESS MEETINGS
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
BUSINESS MEETINGS
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
NETWORKING BREAK
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLES
Chad Aronson -
Global Head of Intelligent Automation,
Uber
Jason McKay - Chief Information Officer & VP of Business Process, Riggs Distler Company
Aaron Gette - Chief Information Officer, EōS Fitness
1. ROUNDTABLE: Leveraging Agentic AI for Intelligent Automation
Led by Chad Aronson, Global Head of Intelligent Automation COE, Uber
2. ROUNDTABLE: Effective Strategies to Tackle Skill Gaps, Increase AI Literacy, and Establish Trust to Drive Adoption
Led by Jason McKay, CIO, Riggs Distler
3. ROUNDTABLE: Navigating the Changing Tokenomics to Avoid the Million Dollar Day
Led by Aaron Gette, CIO, EōS Fitness
Other Topics may include:
- Context Engineering - Feeding AI the Right Data and Information to Make Smarter Decisions
- Understanding the Latest Open-Source Innovation
- Discussing the Good, Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Latest Tools to Build Agentic AI Capabilities
- Navigating the Clash Between Agentic Vision vs Reality Navigating the Clash Between Agentic Vision vs Reality
- Hyperscaler vs Neoclouds: Exploring Economic Models and Enterprise Appeal
5:20 pm - 5:50 pm
BUSINESS MEETINGS | concurrent INNOVATION WORKSHOP: A New Level of Visibility - Strategies to Achieving Full-Stack AI Observability
- How observability capabilities must evolve to keep pace with increasingly dynamic, self-optimizing systems
- Exploring emerging requirements such as real-time insight into model and agent behavior, telemetry for GPU and accelerator utilization, cross-layer correlation between data pipelines and inference workloads, and governance-ready auditability
- Understanding what new visibility, instrumentation, and automation are required to maintain reliability, efficiency, and trust in AI-first infrastructure, and what metrics to track
