Agentic AI Exchange
From Pilot to Production: Turning Agentic AI Vision into Governed, Scalable, Measurable Reality
San Diego, California | April 29 - May 1, 2026
Agenda Day 1
Tools and Infrastructure
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS
12:45 pm - 12:50 pm
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OPENING REMARKS AND DELEGATE ORIENTATION
12:50 pm - 1:00 pm
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CHAIR WELCOME
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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ICE BREAKER
1:15 pm - 1:35 pm
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KEYNOTE: Building the AI-Optimized Enterprise: Infrastructure for 2026 and Beyond
Deepak Sachdeva -
Chief Information Officer,
United States Air Force
• Assessing the technologies defining AI Infrastructure in 2026
• Monoliths vs Modular: rethinking AI Architecture with real-world trade-offs
• Explore CPU vs GPU shifts and the re-architecture of cloud contracts
• The rise of AI-defined networking, storage, and resource orchestration
• How hyperscalers are countering neoclouds
• How energy constraints and sustainability now directly influence workload placement
• What enterprises must build today to prepare for self-optimizing, agent-driven infrastructure in the next 24 months
1:35 pm - 1:55 pm
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KEYNOTE: Building Trusted Multi-Agent Systems: AI-Ready Data, Open Protocols, and Interoperable Execution
Ranjan Sinha Ph.D. -
IBM Fellow and CTO, Software Innovation Lab,
IBM
- Transforming enterprise data into grounded, AI-ready context
- Connecting people, agents, and tools through open protocols
- Making execution portable across systems with interoperability layers like Substrait
- Using observability, validation, policy control, and repair loops to make production agents trustworthy
1:55 pm - 2:25 pm
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Discussing Companies' Real-World Approaches to Move from Single Agent to Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems – Obstacles, Opportunities and Successes
Mathew Paruthickal -
Global Head, Data Architecture, Utilization, & AI Engineering,
Opella US (a Sanofi company)
Jyoti Chawla - CTO & Chief Architect CX Americas, Cisco
Krishna Gade - Founder and CEO, Fiddler
• Determining organizational readiness: infrastructure, data, and orchestration capabilities required to support multi-agent systems at scale
• Where today’s agentic tooling falls short and what must evolve for true autonomy
• Governance, risk, and human-in-the-loop considerations for safe autonomous collaboration
• Communication, coordination, and conflict resolution strategies among agents
• Key design trade-offs: centralized vs. decentralized control
• Practical lessons from real-world implementations
• Tips for charting a roadmap from single agents to fully coordinated, enterprise-grade agent ecosystems
Mathew Paruthickal
Global Head, Data Architecture, Utilization, & AI EngineeringOpella US (a Sanofi company)
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm
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KEYNOTE
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm
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NETWORKING BREAK
3:20 pm - 4:20 pm
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ROUNDTABLES
Neil Aronson -
Global Head and Senior Director Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Risk,
Coinbase
Wendy Zhang - Head of Applied & Agentic AI and Executive Director, Genentech
Gopal Renganathan - Senior Director, Data & Analytics, Compass International Holdings
Ajay Kumar - Chief Information Officer, Zero Motorcycles
1.ROUNDTABLE: Innovate Boldly, Govern Carefully: Navigating Vendor Risk in Agentic AI
Led by Neil Aronson, Global Head and Senior Director Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Risk Management, Coinbase
As organizations rapidly adopt agentic AI, expanding the vendor ecosystem can accelerate innovation, but also introduce new layers of risk. This roundtable explores how leaders can balance speed to market with responsible vendor selection, governance, and oversight. Participants will discuss practical approaches to evaluating AI vendors, managing security and compliance, and avoiding vendor lock-in without slowing progress. Join peers to share real-world lessons on building a resilient, scalable, and trusted AI partner ecosystem.
2. ROUNDTABLE: Evolving Team Structures for the Age of Agentic AI
Led by Wendy Zhang, Head of Applied & Agentic AI and Executive Director, Genentech
3. ROUNDTABLE: Trust at Scale: The Human Architecture Behind Enterprise Agentic AI
Led by Gopal Renganathan, Senior Director, Data & Analytics, Compass International Holdings
This roundtable explores the full lifecycle of human oversight in agentic AI systems from initial training and evaluation to real-time monitoring, correction, and retraining to measurement of human judgement. We’ll assess oversight models by risk profile, organizational readiness of roles, tools and thresholds for human intervention, as well as impact of human oversight on enterprise confidence, compliance and time to value. Join other practitioners discussing regulatory and audit expectations, and alignment of enterprise governance with standards and risk frameworks. Walk away with practical insights on how to quantify human error risk and design of oversight workflows to minimize it.
4. ROUNDTABLE: How to Build the Business Case and ROI Payback Timeline for Agentic AI
Led by Ajay Kumar, CIO, Zero Motorcycles
Other Topics may include:
1. Mastering Multi-Agent Orchestration: Scaling Agentic AI Across the Enterprise
2. Recalibrating Cloud Strategy for the AI Workload Era
3. Discussing the Good, Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Latest Tools to Build Agentic AI Capabilities
4. Straightening Out Data Foundations to Unlock AI’s Full Potential Straightening Out Data Foundations to Unlock AI’s Full Potential
