Deepak Sachdeva

Deepak Sachdeva

Chief Information Officer United States Air Force

Agenda Day 1

1:20 PM KEYNOTE: Building the AI-Optimized Enterprise: Infrastructure for 2026 and Beyond

•    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

Agenda Day 3

9:55 AM PANEL DISCUSSION: The ROI Imperative – Discussing Strategic Pathways to Achieving Business Value

•    Defining what business value means
•    Real-world examples across industries: from autonomous customer service agents  to dynamic R&D copilots
•    What it takes to move from experimentation to production—including data, architecture, and change management
•    Best practices for optimizing inferences
•    How to measure ROI, value creation, and performance gains in real-world agentic deployments
•    Lessons from enterprises that successfully moved from pilot experiments to production-ready agent ecosystems