Wendy Zhang

Wendy Zhang

Head of Applied & Agentic AI and Executive Director Genentech

Agenda Day 1

3:20 PM ROUNDTABLES

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: Straightening Out Data Foundations to Unlock AI’s Full Potential 


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 



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