AI Realized Spring 2025

The enterprise AI deployment summit

UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco

An exclusive one-day in-person event for enterprise executives.

  • 500+ Enterprise Executives

  • 35+ Speakers

  • 20+ Sponsors and Partners

Sessions

Gain strategic insights and network with peers tackling AI deployment. Explore Fortune 2000 use cases, learn strategies from experienced practitioners, and gather input for strategic planning.

Previous Speakers

Leaders from Fortune 2000 companies with hands-on experience deploying AI in enterprise businesses, sharing real-world results and lessons learned.

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Sessions

Gain strategic insights and network with peers facing similar AI deployment challenges. Recruit key talent to your teams. Share your experiences and learn from others' successes and setbacks.

 
 

Agenda 

8:00 AM Registration & Networking


9:00 AM Keynote

Paul Baier CEO, GAI Insights
Driving Company Value with GenAI & "Own Your Own Intelligence


9:40 AM AI Production Use Cases

Bank of America, Awais Bajwa, Head of Data & AI Banking,
Boosting Developer Productivity with AI in Financial Services


10:00 AM BREAK


10:20 AM AI Production Use Cases, Continued

Github, Chris Butler, Staff Production Operations Manager
Building Multi-agent, Sociotechnical Systems at GitHub
Tubi,
Blake Bassett, VP of Product 
AI-powered search to viewers something to watch faster

Stanford Health, Nikesh Kotecha, Head of Data Science
Operationalizing AI in Healthcare

Betterworks, Maher Hanafi, VP Engineering

GenAI in HR Tech: From PoC to Production


12:00 noon Lunch and Networking


1:00 PM Keynote

Steve Jones, EVP Data Driven Business and GenAI 


1:30 PM M&E Panel:
Overcoming Challenges when Managing and Deploying AI in M&E Supply Chain & Production

Allan McLennan, Founder and President, PADEM Media Group, Moderator

Megan Mauck, SVP Media Operations, NBCUniversal

Brian Lakamp, Lakamp Media, former EVP Media Supply Chain at Paramount

Blake Basset, VP, Product, Tubi


2:20 PM Security Panel:
Overcoming Security Challenges when Deploying AI to Production

Shana Simmons, Chief Legal Officer, Zendesk, Moderator

Jake Martens, SVP & CISO, Aristocrat, Moderator

Liz O’Sullivan, CEO & Co-Founder, Vera AI

Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO & Co-Founder, Operant AI


2:50 PM BREAK


3:10 PM Data Panel:
Overcoming Data Challenges when Deploying AI to Production

Randy Friedman, CCO, Cognizer AI, Moderator

Matt Maccaux, Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud

Nikesh Kotecha, Head of Data Science, Stanford Health

Maher Hanafi, VP Engineering, Betterworks

Kris Bondi, CEO and Co-Founder of Mimoto AI


3:45 PM Ops Panel:
Overcoming Operations and Infrastructure Challenges when Deploying AI to Production

Hanlin Fang, AI & SaaS Product Executive, Airbnb, Moderator

Ivan Lee, CEO, Founder, Datasaur.ai

Erin Yang, VP and Chief Technologist, Workday Ventures

Ping Wu, CEO, Cresta

Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA


4:15 PM Organization Panel:
Overcoming Organizational and Management Challenges when Deploying AI to Production

Mandy Elliott, Director of AI and Data, Experience Engineering, Red Hat, Moderator

Kenn So, Director, Corporate Development & Strategy, Smartsheet

Matthew Swanson, Founder, Managing Partner, SVSG

Isar Meitis, CEO, Multiplai.ai

Lana Dubinskiy, Frational Chief AI Officer & Strategic Consultant and Co-Founder, Women and AI


4:45 PM Keynote

Jeremiah Owyang, GP, Blitzscaling Ventures:
Plot Your Path: The Road to an Agentic Enterprise: Integrating Copilots; AI Assistants; and AI Agents


5:20 PM Strategic Planning 2025: Technology

Ted Shelton, COO, Inflection AI, Moderator

Steve Jones, EVP Data Driven Business and GenAI 

Nikesh Kotecha, Head of Data Science, Stanford Health

Awais Bajwa, Head of Data & AI Banking, Bank of America

Monte Gibbs, Chief Product Officer, AI/ML Architect


Ted Shelton, COO, Inflection AI, Moderator

Tolga Kurtoglu, CTO, Lenovo

Paul Vinogradov, Principal at Deloitte Consulting

Jake Martens, SVP and CISO, Aristocrat

Paul Baier, CEO, GAI Insights

5:50 PM Strategic Planning 2025: Business


6:20 Closing remarks


6:30 Networking Reception


7:30 After-Party, Harmonic Brewing


Previous Sponsors and Partners

  • Inflection AI logo with green wave design.
  • GAI Insights
  • Plotly logo with colorful dots and bars
  • Knapsack
  • Logo of AppSOC AI with a stylized orange infinity symbol within a shield and the text "AppSOC AI" in purple and orange.
  • SwiftSecurity
  • Data Power Ventures logo with blue geometric design
  • CustomGPT.ai logo featuring a stylized brain icon in purple with circuitry design, alongside the text 'CustomGPT.ai' in purple font.
  • UCSF logo in dark blue letters
  • "IGNITE" text in bold, black font with a red dot as the letter 'i', enclosed in a black-bordered rectangle.
  • VSN logo with text "Vibe Stream Network" beneath it.
  • Adesso Associates logo featuring stylized "A" symbol and company name.
  • Yorkseed
  • Tola Capital logo with red text on a white background.
  • Logo featuring the letters 'TC' in white and the number '9' in red on a dark blue background.
  • Logo of Moreland Associates with gray and blue geometric design on the left.
  • Logo with geometric design and text "The MRD Group."