AI REALIZED EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
Considering Private AI
Protection, Price, and Performance
This session explores when running AI within an enterprise-controlled environment makes business sense.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | San Mateo and virtual
8:30 a.m. to noon Pacific | Venue host: Kore.ai
Sponsors:
A closed-door roundtable for executives deciding where their AI should run.
Three considerations.
When does private AI make business sense?
Together, we’ll consider how deploying open models on company infrastructure or in a private cloud can help protect corporate intelligence, manage costs, and meet performance requirements, and what responsibilities come with that control.
The AI Realized executive roundtable series brings together leaders driving AI adoption to candidly share experiences, compare strategies, and work through decisions in a closed-door session with a skilled facilitator.
We’ll compare experiences across enterprise-controlled deployments, hosted open models, and proprietary AI services. Participants will leave with a practical decision framework they can apply to a real workload, including the evidence they need to make the call and the conditions that would prompt them to reconsider.
Protection
What control do enterprises need over proprietary data, business knowledge, and the intelligence accumulated through AI use? What protection do different deployment approaches provide?
Price
How do infrastructure, staffing, integration, maintenance, and ongoing evaluation affect the economics of private AI?
Performance
Where can private AI meet or improve on hosted alternatives in quality, speed, reliability, and business outcomes?
Economic Use Cases
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Ivan Lee
CEO
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Maher Hanafi
SVP of Engineering
BETTERWORKS
Program
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | All times Pacific
After the session, AI Realized will publish an anonymized readout summarizing insights, decision criteria, and lessons learned, an actionable resource you can share with your team.
Who should attend
Enterprise executives who own or shape the decision on which AI models their company runs and where those models run: CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, chief data and AI officers, and VPs and Directors of engineering, infrastructure, data, security, and finance. Each table seats 6 to 8 executives, and seats are reserved for enterprise leaders responsible for this decision.
Supported By
Thank you to our sponsor for supporting this exchange among enterprise AI leaders.
Venue sponsor
Frequently asked questions
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The AI Realized executive roundtable “Considering Private AI: Protection, Price, and Performance” is on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to noon Pacific time in San Mateo, California, with a virtual option over Zoom.
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The AI Realized roundtable “Considering Private AI: Protection, Price, and Performance” is held in San Mateo, California, at a coworking space provided by venue sponsor Kore.ai, with a virtual option over Zoom. The exact location is shared with registrants once their registration is approved.
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Executives can attend the AI Realized roundtable on private AI virtually. Virtual attendees join their table over Zoom, connected to the same conference room as the rest of their group, and the facilitator includes them in the discussion just as they do the in-person attendees.
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The AI Realized roundtable on private AI is for enterprise executives who own or shape decisions about which AI models their company runs and where those models run, including CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, chief data and AI officers, and VPs and Directors of engineering, infrastructure, data, security, and finance. Seats are limited and reserved for enterprise leaders responsible for this decision.
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Executives at the AI Realized roundtable on private AI will discuss when running AI in an enterprise-controlled environment makes business sense, comparing open models deployed on company infrastructure or in a private cloud, hosted open models, and proprietary AI services. The discussion weighs three factors: protection of proprietary data and business knowledge, the full price of running private AI, and performance compared with hosted alternatives.
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An AI Realized executive roundtable seats 6 to 8 executives per table, with several tables discussing the same topic in parallel. After a two-hour facilitated discussion, all tables reconvene to share readouts, followed by networking over lunch.
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Comments at an AI Realized executive roundtable are not attributed to the speaker. AI Realized publishes an anonymized readout summarizing insights, decision criteria, and lessons learned, which attendees can share with their teams.
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Attending the AI Realized roundtable on private AI is free. Seats are limited, and every registration is reviewed and approved.
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AI Realized is a community of 1,500+ executives across 770+ companies leading AI adoption: C-level, VP-level and Director-level in engineering, product, marketing, finance, HR, operations, sales, success and support. Its mission is to help executives realize value from enterprise AI. Like AI adoption itself, the membership is cross-industry and cross-function. AI Realized runs events, a podcast and the AI Realized Now newsletter. Joining is free, and the community is volunteer run.
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Register for the AI Realized roundtable “Considering Private AI: Protection, Price, and Performance” on Luma at https://luma.com/AIR_Oct-execroundtable. Registrations are reviewed, and approved registrants receive the venue location.