AI Practitioner Summit
Key Topics
The AI Practitioner Summit brings together 70 engineering and operations leaders for a candid conversation about where organizations really are in their AI journey. Through honest, experience-based discussions, speakers will share what worked, what didn’t, and what they learned while driving AI transformation inside their organizations.
Enterprise Transformation
AI Product Innovation
Engineering Leadership
AI Adoption
AI Practitioner Summit
A place to honestly discuss what's working
Summit Agenda
September 17, 2026
Morning Coffee & Registration
Arrivals, badge pickup, and informal networking over coffee and light breakfast bites.
Opening Remarks Sigma Software
Panel 1: Operational Transformation (with AI)
2026 is a year of efficiency, organization sought approaches and tools to design and implement new better versions of themselves. This panel brings people who have gone or undergoing these transformations to share what worked and what didn’t for them.
Audience exchange, moderated conversation with audience
Networking Lunch
Case Study: Using Snowflake Cortex to Accelerate Internal Transformation
Case Study: Building with IronClaw: Secure AI for Internal Transformation
Panel 2: The Assurance Layer: AI Security, Compliance & Cost Visibility at Enterprise Scale
As AI becomes core business infrastructure, the controls around it become non-negotiable. This panel covers what the assurance layer actually looks like in practice: access policy, compliance exposure, security risks in AI systems, quality gates, and cost intelligence at scale.
Coffee Break
Lightning round, 3 speakers
What is your biggest AI regret?
Panel 3: From Assisted to Agentic: Rethinking How Engineering Teams Deliver
Engineering teams are moving along a spectrum, from AI-assisted coding to agentic SDLC to fully AI-native delivery. This panel examines what each stage requires, how to manage the transition without disrupting production, and what brownfield modernization looks like in practice
Fireside chat and closing remarks
Happy Hour & Evening Networking Reception
Featured Speakers
Industry leaders sharing insights from the frontlines of AI adoption and enterprise transformation.
Alexey Stoletny
Leo Shklovskii
Kouros Esfahany
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Oleg Korenfeld
Mamdouh Alramadan
Alex Brownstein
Wei Wei
Eduardo Gonzalez
Boris Trofimov
Julie Gordon
Manny Flores
Song Du
Michael Gelb
Justin J. Leto
Sandra Baez
Tom Fleischer
Jeff Ellin
Katherine Tuluzova
Hanna Abdel Hamid
Become a Speaker
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Our speaker lineup for the AI Practitioner Summit is now complete!
A big thank you to everyone who applied, reached out, or expressed interest in joining us as a speaker. We truly appreciate the enthusiasm and the incredible response.
We’re excited about the lineup we’ve put together and look forward to sharing more with you soon!
Paper Submission
August 10, 2026
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Notification of Acceptance
August 17, 2026
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Brand Visibility
Prominent placement throughout the event, on all materials, and on the event website.
Speaking Opportunities
Panel participation and speaking slots available at select sponsorship tiers.
Networking Access
Connect with key players and decision-makers in AI over lunch and at the evening happy hour.
Bring Your Circle
Reserved seats for your team and guests, bring the colleagues and clients you want in the room
Post-Event Insights
Attendee engagement summary and event insights delivered after the summit.
Lead Generation
Walk away with meaningful connections, meet potential clients, collaborators, and partners in one room.
AI Practitioner Summit
Bringing together the people building AI and the decision-makers turning it into business impact.
September 17
Convene, 810 7th Ave,Floor 23 New York, NY 10019When
SINGLE-DAY CONFERENCEIN-PERSON EVENT
Format
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