Innovation with Intent: Building Smarter Digital Futures
In today’s AI-powered landscape, digital innovation is no longer just about speed - it's about purpose, connection, and resilience. As emerging technologies reshape the enterprise, leaders must align innovation with business strategy, while balancing bold experimentation with operational excellence.
This summit will explore how to build agile, product-aligned organizations, foster interconnected ecosystems that drive seamless innovation, and strike the right balance between automation and human empathy. From embedding ethics into AI to redefining leadership for the digital teams of tomorrow, join your peers to explore what it takes to lead meaningful, measurable transformation in a rapidly evolving world.
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Core Themes
AI with Purpose: Aligning Innovation & Business Strategy
AI success depends on strategy, not hype. Discover how digital leaders are aligning AI investments with business priorities, strengthening data foundations, and building AI literacy across the enterprise. Learn what it takes to deploy AI that drives measurable impact - while minimizing risk, avoiding complexity, and enhancing long-term value.
An Interconnected Future: Building Ecosystems for Seamless Innovation
To innovate at scale, organizations must move beyond silos toward seamless ecosystems. Explore how leaders are building interconnected platforms that enable fast iteration, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable governance. From sustainability to ROI, learn how to design ecosystems that drive value and keep pace with evolving business needs.
The Power of Product-Aligned Strategies
Product thinking is redefining how teams work, innovate, and deliver impact. Learn how to shift from project-based delivery to product-aligned models that emphasize outcomes, continuous learning, and long-term value. Explore how this mindset transforms org design, fuels collaboration, and builds the foundation for scalable, sustainable innovation.
Striking the Balance: Human Expertise and Empathy in an AI World
AI can accelerate outcomes - but it can’t replace human creativity, empathy, or trust. Discover how leaders are integrating AI in ways that elevate customer and employee experience, support decision-making, and preserve human insight. Explore how to design AI-human partnerships that are ethical, intuitive, and grounded in real value.
Innovate Boldly, Operate Brilliantly
Bold innovation and operational excellence can - and must - coexist. Learn how digital leaders are scaling next-gen tech while safeguarding performance, trust, and continuity. From agile funding to smart governance, explore proven ways to build digital momentum without compromising the resilience and reliability your business depends on.
Redefining Leadership to Build the Digital Teams of Tomorrow
Modern leadership demands more than technical fluency. Explore how digital leaders are shaping high-performing teams through influence, empathy, and adaptability. From org design to talent development, learn what it takes to lead across functions, build trust, and drive innovation in an AI-first, business-aligned environment.
Speakers
Steve Reese
Queena Cheung
Dave Crouch
Monique Lesser
Andy Horvitz
Mathias Faux
Deepak Sachdeva
Hao Dinh
Daniel Lucas
Eduardo Chamia
Dan Grant
Mukul Kumar
Seun Aiyese
Srikanth Geedipalli
Aaron Gette
Kentorri Garmon
Chris Zaharias
Saaket Varma
Hussain Qureshi
Arthi Subramanian
Agenda
1:10 pm - 1:35 pm
Opening Independent Keynote
AI Horizons: Transforming Defense Simulation and Strategy
Innovations first developed for defense are redefining what’s possible in AI-driven modeling, simulation, and decision intelligence. Executives outside the military will recognize striking parallels to their own transformation challenges—using vast, complex datasets to make faster, higher-confidence decisions in volatile conditions. The presentation demonstrates how AI accelerates scenario testing, predictive analytics, and digital-twin simulations to anticipate outcomes and optimize responses—reducing human error and improving readiness. In a business context, these same capabilities translate into smarter forecasting, more resilient operations, and the ability to model risk and opportunity before acting.
The session also highlights how collaboration between defense R&D, startups, and AI innovators has unlocked new standards for precision and scalability—advances that can be applied across sectors from manufacturing to logistics, healthcare, and finance. For executives leading digital transformation, the real lesson is strategic: how to transform AI from an experimental tool into a core capability that enhances situational awareness, drives ROI, and builds enterprise-level resilience in a rapidly changing global landscape.
1:40 pm - 2:20 pm
Panel
Redefining Leadership to Build the Digital Teams of Tomorrow
Today’s digital and IT leaders are not just technologists - they are strategists, change agents, and catalysts for business transformation. As digital capabilities become central to organizational growth, leaders must build and nurture high-performing, cross-functional teams that can adapt quickly, drive experimentation, and deliver continuous value. This demands a shift from traditional operating models to agile, product-aligned teams that work fluidly across business and technology domains.
From fostering a growth mindset to enabling seamless cross-functional collaboration, this discussion will spotlight the leadership strategies that unlock talent, fuel continuous learning, and drive progress.
Discussion points:
• Leading with influence, empathy, and vision in times of rapid change and expanding responsibilities
• Creating a culture of innovation, trust, and experimentation
• Designing team structures that break down silos and enable deeper cross-functional collaboration
• Aligning digital delivery with business outcomes without slowing the pace of innovation
• Developing future-ready talent through upskilling and reskilling
• Defining and measuring success for modern digital teams in an AI-driven world
2:20 pm - 2:45 pm
Keynote
Innovation in AI Model Efficiency
From LLMs to SLMs: Compression for Cost-Effective AI Inference
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Roundtables
Track 1: AI with Purpose: Aligning Innovation & Business Strategy
AI’s rapid evolution presents both opportunities and challenges for technology leaders striving to deliver real business impact. Moving beyond the hype, successful AI adoption requires a clear alignment with business objectives, seamless integration with existing systems, and a workforce that understands its value. With studies showing that a significant portion of AI initiatives fail to meet expectations, organizations must be deliberate in their approach - balancing innovation with operational integrity, mitigating risks, and ensuring AI adoption serves tangible business outcomes rather than deploying technology for its own sake.
This roundtable will examine how to harness AI effectively, ensuring strategic adoption that enhances business value rather than creating unnecessary complexity.
Discussion Points:
- Distinguishing AI hype from real business value: Identifying the use cases that truly drive impact while avoiding unnecessary investments in unproven technologies.
- Building AI literacy across the enterprise: Engaging leadership and employees in understanding AI’s value and potential, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Balancing AI integration with operational integrity: Enhancing existing operations without causing disruptions, while addressing risks such as data leakage, bias, and regulatory compliance.
- Laying the groundwork for AI success: Ensuring AI initiatives are built on a strong data foundation and a strategic approach to drive scalability, accuracy, and long-term value.
- Using generative AI to enhance CX and UX: What does it take to design AI interactions that feel human, ethical, and intuitive?
- Proving ROI from AI investments: Establishing clear success metrics and financial objectives to measure AI’s impact on efficiency, cost savings, and revenue growth.
Track 2: An Interconnected Future: Building Ecosystems for Seamless Innovation
In a world where speed, experience, and adaptability define success, digital leaders are rethinking innovation - not as a department, but as a dynamic ecosystem. Moving beyond silos and legacy limitations, today’s most successful organizations are building interconnected environments that enable fast experimentation, fluid collaboration, and user-centric product development.
This roundtable explores how to architect innovation ecosystems that align with strategic goals, support seamless experiences, and foster co-creation across teams, partners, and platforms. We’ll discuss how to prioritize the innovations that matter, generate measurable ROI, and sustain momentum in fast-changing markets.
Discussion Points:
- Designing interconnected systems that accelerate product innovation and enable seamless experiences across digital touchpoints
- Aligning innovation efforts with business and customer goals to ensure focus, value, and adaptability
- Fostering collaboration across internal teams and external partners to expand innovation capacity and speed
- Building cohesive, scalable ecosystems: How can organizations integrate new tools, data, and platforms while maintaining governance and shared ownership?
- Embedding sustainability into ecosystems: How can we align long-term innovation goals with environmental and social responsibility?
- Measuring impact & ROI: How to track the value and long-term benefits of innovation ecosystem investments
Track 3: The Power of Product-Aligned Strategies
As digital demands rise, organizations are reimagining how they structure teams, measure value, and deliver experiences. Product-aligned strategies provide a foundation for continuous innovation, shifting the focus away from isolated projects and tasks to outcomes that drive real business value. This mindset empowers cross-functional teams to solve meaningful problems, deliver sustainable impact, and prioritize the innovations that matter most.
This roundtable explores how product thinking reshapes not only delivery models but also organizational mindsets and change readiness - enabling continuous learning and helping leaders scale a culture of product excellence.
Discussion Points:
- Shifting from projects to products to empower teams and align success metrics with long-term value
- Emphasizing outcomes over tasks to ensure product efforts deliver real, measurable business impact
- Rethinking team structures and driving organizational change to promote agility, alignment, and adoption of product-oriented mindsets at scale
- Fostering a culture of ownership and experimentation to support continuous learning and innovation
- Expanding innovation capacity by leveraging open collaboration and external partnerships
- Balancing agility with long-term vision to scale product practices without losing strategic focus
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
1:1 Meetings
4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
Masterclass
No-Code, No-Risk: How Anyone Can Prototype Real-World AI Solutions in Minutes (aka Vibe Coding)
AI doesn’t require coding expertise. With no-code tools, anyone can quickly prototype solutions, predictive maintenance, sales forecasting, or digitizing manual processes, in minutes. This session shows how to start small, validate ROI early, and scale confidently. By “talking to AI” in natural language, attendees will discover how accessible AI is for every skill level. If you can spreadsheet, you can AI, unlocking innovation while reducing risk and accelerating adoption.
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Interactive Session
The Hidden Pressures of Leading Digital Innovation
Today’s digital & technology leaders are under immense pressure - expected to be strategists, innovators, crisis managers, and culture leaders, often all at once. This highly interactive session explores the human side of leadership: the invisible stressors that come with the role, and how senior technology leaders can build resilience while leading high-performing teams.
We’ll unpack the real challenges you face - from balancing stakeholder demands, retaining top talent, and avoiding burnout. This session creates space for reflection, connection, and shared learning with your peers.
Come prepared to engage - your perspective may be exactly what someone else needs to hear.
7:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Gala Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Diamond Toast
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner Keynote
Addictive Leadership: The Science of Motivation, Fulfillment and Sustainable High Performance
Why do some leaders ignite relentless passion while others leave teams drained? In this high-energy session, former Professional Sports CIO and Executive Leadership Coach Steve Reese reveals the hidden science of human motivation, rooted in Dr. Steven Reiss’s groundbreaking research.
Drawing on riveting stories from the world of pro sports, Steve shows how the most successful leaders unlock something deeper than talent - the inner drive that makes people want to give their all. You’ll learn how to identify what truly drives your people, transform workplace culture, and unleash innovation and sustainable high performance - without burning anyone out.
8:00 am - 8:40 am
Panel
Innovate Boldly, Operate Brilliantly
Technology leaders today are constantly walking a tightrope between innovation and operational resilience. As organizations push the boundaries of what's possible with AI, automation, and next-gen technologies, the pressure to move fast can collide with the need to maintain operational excellence. The challenge? Driving bold digital change without disrupting the stability, trust, and performance the business depends on.
This panel brings together three leaders who are redefining what it means to innovate at scale - without compromising core operations. From agile resource models to tighter business alignment and smarter risk-taking, they’ll share practical strategies for delivering breakthrough innovation while sustaining operational integrity and long-term value. Join us to explore how to drive digital growth without losing control.
Discussion points:
- How can digital leaders accelerate innovation while ensuring business continuity and operational resilience?
- What role does leadership play in fostering an innovation culture and driving true collaboration across digital, product, IT, and business teams?
- How do agile resource and funding models support faster iteration without burnout or chaos?
- What governance models support experimentation and speed while still ensuring security, compliance, and business alignment - and is it truly possible to move fast without compromise?
- Which metrics best capture both innovation impact and operational health?
- How do you decide which innovation efforts to scale, pause, or sunset - especially when resources are constrained?
8:40 am - 9:10 am
Keynote
Enterprise Modernization: Achieving Deterministic Outcomes with AI
Enterprises don’t fail at AI because of limited ambition or technology - they fail because their data lacks discipline. As organizations race to modernize, the challenge is no longer building more innovative models but ensuring that intelligence behaves predictably within deterministic business systems.
In this keynote, Hussain Qureshi, President of mobileLIVE, explores why most AI initiatives struggle to produce measurable ROI and how disciplined data foundations can change that. He’ll unpack the growing disconnect between probabilistic AI and deterministic enterprise operations, revealing a path toward trustworthy, explainable, and governed intelligence.
Attendees will gain a practical view of how modern enterprises are engineering deterministic AI - through governance, observability, and automation - to achieve consistent outcomes, reliable decisions, and sustainable modernization at scale.
9:20 am - 12:10 pm
1:1 Meetings
9:20 am - 10:20 am
Roundtables
Track 1: AI with Purpose: Aligning Innovation & Business Strategy
AI’s rapid evolution presents both opportunities and challenges for technology leaders striving to deliver real business impact. Moving beyond the hype, successful AI adoption requires a clear alignment with business objectives, seamless integration with existing systems, and a workforce that understands its value. With studies showing that a significant portion of AI initiatives fail to meet expectations, organizations must be deliberate in their approach - balancing innovation with operational integrity, mitigating risks, and ensuring AI adoption serves tangible business outcomes rather than deploying technology for its own sake.
This roundtable will examine how to harness AI effectively, ensuring strategic adoption that enhances business value rather than creating unnecessary complexity.
Discussion Points:
- Distinguishing AI hype from real business value: Identifying the use cases that truly drive impact while avoiding unnecessary investments in unproven technologies.
- Building AI literacy across the enterprise: Engaging leadership and employees in understanding AI’s value and potential, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Balancing AI integration with operational integrity: Enhancing existing operations without causing disruptions, while addressing risks such as data leakage, bias, and regulatory compliance.
- Laying the groundwork for AI success: Ensuring AI initiatives are built on a strong data foundation and a strategic approach to drive scalability, accuracy, and long-term value.
- Using generative AI to enhance CX and UX: What does it take to design AI interactions that feel human, ethical, and intuitive?
- Proving ROI from AI investments: Establishing clear success metrics and financial objectives to measure AI’s impact on efficiency, cost savings, and revenue growth.
Track 2: An Interconnected Future: Building Ecosystems for Seamless Innovation
In a world where speed, experience, and adaptability define success, digital leaders are rethinking innovation - not as a department, but as a dynamic ecosystem. Moving beyond silos and legacy limitations, today’s most successful organizations are building interconnected environments that enable fast experimentation, fluid collaboration, and user-centric product development.
This roundtable explores how to architect innovation ecosystems that align with strategic goals, support seamless experiences, and foster co-creation across teams, partners, and platforms. We’ll discuss how to prioritize the innovations that matter, generate measurable ROI, and sustain momentum in fast-changing markets.
Discussion Points:
- Designing interconnected systems that accelerate product innovation and enable seamless experiences across digital touchpoints
- Aligning innovation efforts with business and customer goals to ensure focus, value, and adaptability
- Fostering collaboration across internal teams and external partners to expand innovation capacity and speed
- Building cohesive, scalable ecosystems: How can organizations integrate new tools, data, and platforms while maintaining governance and shared ownership?
- Embedding sustainability into ecosystems: How can we align long-term innovation goals with environmental and social responsibility?
- Measuring impact & ROI: How to track the value and long-term benefits of innovation ecosystem investments
Track 3: The Power of Product-Aligned Strategies
As digital demands rise, organizations are reimagining how they structure teams, measure value, and deliver experiences. Product-aligned strategies provide a foundation for continuous innovation, shifting the focus away from isolated projects and tasks to outcomes that drive real business value. This mindset empowers cross-functional teams to solve meaningful problems, deliver sustainable impact, and prioritize the innovations that matter most.
This roundtable explores how product thinking reshapes not only delivery models but also organizational mindsets and change readiness - enabling continuous learning and helping leaders scale a culture of product excellence.
Discussion Points:
- Shifting from projects to products to empower teams and align success metrics with long-term value
- Emphasizing outcomes over tasks to ensure product efforts deliver real, measurable business impact
- Rethinking team structures and driving organizational change to promote agility, alignment, and adoption of product-oriented mindsets at scale
- Fostering a culture of ownership and experimentation to support continuous learning and innovation
- Expanding innovation capacity by leveraging open collaboration and external partnerships
- Balancing agility with long-term vision to scale product practices without losing strategic focus
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Panel
Striking the Balance: Human Expertise and Empathy in an AI World
As AI adoption accelerates, leaders must navigate the complexities of integrating AI-driven automation while preserving the human expertise that drives innovation, collaboration, and strategic decision-making. AI has the potential to enhance productivity, drive real-time insights, and streamline operations, but without careful implementation, it can introduce risks - such as eroding trust, limiting creativity, or creating operational friction.
As AI becomes more pervasive, the ability to integrate AI in ways that enrich human experience- particularly through CX and UX - is emerging as a critical advantage. For technology leaders, the challenge is not just about deploying AI, but ensuring it enhances rather than replaces human-centric decision-making and engagement.
This panel will explore how organizations can integrate AI to elevate both customer and employee experiences while maintaining authenticity, trust, and long-term business value.
Discussion points:
• How can leaders position AI as a tool to augment - not replace - human capabilities? What does an effective partnership look like?
• What strategies and team structures enable effective AI integration while enhancing human decision-making, innovation, and collaboration?
• How can AI-powered automation coexist with human empathy in customer interactions - and what impact does this have on engagement and brand trust?
• How do you foster a culture where AI complements rather than stifles employee creativity and problem-solving?
• With the rise of generative and agentic AI, how do you balance innovation with concerns around ethics, trust, and unintended consequences?
• How can leaders bring employees and stakeholders along the AI journey in a way that builds literacy, fosters buy-in, and demonstrates empathy?
11:05 am - 11:35 am
Masterclass
The Future of Learning: Reinventing Ourselves in an Age of AI
The future of learning is about personal reinvention. As AI accelerates the pace of change, knowledge and expertise have a shorter shelf life than ever. For executives, this raises a deeply personal question: how do we keep learning fast enough to stay relevant? Join Dr. Mukul Kumar for a provocative session exploring how executives can reframe their relationship with expertise, rediscover the joy of learning, and build futures defined not by what they know, but by how they learn.
12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Closing Keynote
Future Proof Your Business in the Era of Generative AI
Generative AI isn’t just another tech trend, it’s a fundamental shift that’s transforming how we live, work, and connect. Within the world of digital innovation, it is driving unprecedented change, and the gap between early users and true market leaders is becoming clear. This session will explore how forward-thinking organizations can harness this technology to reimagine products, services, and customer experiences, and why acting with vision now will determine who leads the next era of the digital economy.
1:05 pm - 2:10 pm
1:1 Meetings
12:55 pm - 1:05 pm
Beyond the Challenges
The Starling - Atlanta, GA
A unique stay minutes from downtown. In the heart of Midtown Atlanta, we are next to Colony Square with several restaurants, shops, and featured events.
Why attend?
Connect with like-minded senior leaders for a curated agenda, focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Be a part of exclusive shared learning, horizon scanning and actionable insights enabling organizations to deliver transformative strategies.
Build meaningful relationships with solution providers matched to your business priorities to help accelerate your projects and deliver your objectives.
