May 4–5, 2026New York Hilton Midtown
Conference
Schedule
Two days of sessions across three themes — Enterprises, Engineering, and Industries — plus a specialized Web Discovery track.
7:30 AM–9:00 AM
3rd Floor
3rd Floor
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:00 AM–9:10 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
Opening Remarks: A Welcome to What's Next
Ariel ShulmanChief Product Officer, Bright Data
Simon ChanGeneral Partner, FirsthandVC
9:10 AM–9:30 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
A Journey to Agentify Software Infrastructure
Ameet TalwalkarChief Scientist, Datadog
9:30 AM–9:50 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
From Experimentation to Impact: Scaling Agentic AI Across the Enterprise
Arvind JainFounder and CEO, Glean
Jai DasHostCo-founder, President, and Partner, Sapphire Ventures
9:50 AM–10:10 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
Building Recurring, Governed And Embedded Enterprise Workflows
Joe MouraCo-Founder & CEO, CrewAI
10:10 AM–10:30 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
The Trust Paradox: How agents Can Break Through to Create Enterprise Value (or Competitive Advantage)
Raghu MalpaniChief Product and Technology Officer, UiPath
Tim SandersHostChief Innovation Officer, G2
10:30 AM–10:35 AM
Grand Ballroom
General
Welcome Remarks by Fetch.ai
Humayun SheikhFounder and CEO, Fetch.ai
10:35 AM–11:00 AM
3rd Floor
3rd Floor
MORNING BREAK — Powered by Bright Data
11:00 AM–11:20 AM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
AI in US Government Adoption - What’s Real and Scaling
Chad TetreaultChief Technology Office AI and Governance, Zscaler
Irina DenisenkoHostCEO, Knox Systems, Inc.
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
What Agents Want: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Retrieval Systems
Chang SheCEO, LanceDB
Mercury
Agentic Industries
How Brands Can Compete and Win in Agentic Commerce
Masha SharmaVP Merchant Experience, Groupon
Michael SinowayCEO, Lucidworks
Ray GradyHostFounder, B2B Advisor
11:20 AM–11:40 AM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
C-Suite's Perspective: How to Build Reliable Agentic AI in Enterprises
Ali AlkhafajiCEO, Apply Digital
David TreatGlobal Chief Technology Officer, Pearson
Sharon GoldmanHostAI reporter, Fortune
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
The Agent OS Stack: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How Startups and Enterprises Are Using It
Kathy KamDirector of Engineering for Kiro, AWS
Kyle LuiHostGeneral Partner, Bling Capital
Qingyun WuCEO, AG2ai
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Agentic Commerce - Driving Revenue Growth in 2026
Igor FaletskiHostCo-founder & CEO, Superpilot
Jenna Flateman PosnerCEO, Chief Digital Agency
Richard CoheneVP Growth, Lightspeed Commerce
Sonja SierraDirector of Marketing, The Skin Center
11:40 AM–12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
AI, Revenue, and Reality: How Fortune 500s Work With Startups That Ship
Deepak ShrivastavaHostCEO, Sunrise AI
Robin ChiangChief Growth Officer, OpenTable
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Bottlenecks of AI Agent Engineering Workflow
Karun AppapoguHead of AI Technologies Architecture - CAI, Vanguard
Rama Krishna Raju SamantapudiSr. Staff AI/ML Architect, ServiceNow
Zhou YuHostCo-Founder, Arklex.ai
Mercury
Agentic Industries
AI Agents and the Future of Commerce
Felipe RomanoAI Product Leader, PayPal
12:00 PM–2:00 PM
Agentic Halls (3rd and 4th Floors)
Agentic Halls (3rd and 4th Floors)
AGENTIC HALL EXPO & LUNCH — Powered by Bright Data
2:00 PM–2:05 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Agentic Enterprises Remarks by super{set}
Peter DayGeneral Partner, super{set}
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Agentic Engineering Remarks by Genesis Computing
Matt GlickmanCo-Founder, CEO, Genesis Computing
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Agentic Industries Remarks by Chargebee
Prittam BaganiVP, Product Management, Chargebee
2:05 PM–2:25 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Agentic Identity and Security
Alex BoveeCo-founder and CEO, C1
Atul TulshibagwaleHostSenior Director, Continuous Identity Strategy, CrowdStrike
Peter YaredFounder and CEO, AgentCloak by InCountry
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Below the Waterline: The Hidden Engineering That Decides Agentic AI ROI
Venky VeeraraghavanChief Product Officer, DataRobot
Mercury
Agentic Industries
How CIOs Spend Evolves in a World Where AI Can Rebuild Any SaaS Product
Ethan DingHostCEO, TextQL
Rob WisniewskiCTO - Credit and Insurance, Blackstone
2:25 PM–2:45 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Agentic Data Plane
Alexander GallegoCEO, Redpanda Data
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
The Hidden Infrastructure Required to Scale AI Coding Agents
Derrick ChoiCodex Deployment Engineering Lead, OpenAI
Phoebe LiuHostReporter, Forbes
Tom MoorHead of Engineering, Linear
Tomas ReimersCPO and Co-founder, Graphite (Acq by Cursor)
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Lessons Learned: Overcoming Challenges to Scaling Agents for Generative AI Products
Anju KambadurHostHead of AI Engineering, Bloomberg
Gillian ChinGlobal Head of Data Artificial Intelligence, Bloomberg
Michele FranceschiniHead of AI Engineering - Conversational Agents, Bloomberg
2:45 PM–3:05 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Preparing for the Gross Retention Apocalypse: Accelerating Customer Value to Protect Enterprise Value
Bridget Shea Chief Customer Officer, 1mind
Cassie YoungHostGeneral Partner, Primary Venture Partners
Tom RonenVP of Customer Success, Harvey
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Building open infrastructure for the agentic era
Saahil JainCTO, You.com
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Building Tech Agent Enabled Services
Vrushali PaunikarChief Product Officer, Carta
3:05 PM–3:30 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Building Enterprise AI Agents — What Actually Works
Bryan TsaoChief Product Officer, Jasper
Daniel VassilevCo-Founder and Co-CEO, Relevance AI
David ShimCo-Founder and CEO, Read AI
Scott KeaneHostOperating Partner, Invictus Growth Partners
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Who Signed That? The Imminent Rogue Agent Identity Crisis
Eric SkinnerVP Strategy, TrendAI
Kaushik GhoshHostStaff Software Engineer, Intuit
Omer CohenCSO, Descope
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Building Trust in AI Agents for Regulated Industries
Ankit AryaHead of AI, Inscope
Sarah HoffmanHostDirector of AI Thought Leadership, AlphaSense
Shipali JangraDirector- Global Digital Product Management, American Express
3:30 PM–4:00 PM
3rd Floor
3rd Floor
AFTERNOON BREAK — With thanks to JFrog
4:00 PM–4:20 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Money Movement for AI Agents: New financial Rails & The Role of Stablecoin
Jim NguyenCo-Founder & CEO, InFlow
Nuwan BandaraHostHead of Technology, Fintech & Capital Markets, Amazon Web Services
Sean NevilleCEO and Co-Founder, Catena Labs
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
AX: Succeeding When Agents Are Your Users
Sean RobertsVP, Applied AI, Netlify
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Building the Physical World in the Age of AI
Apoorv AgarwalHostCEO, [Stealth Mode]
Jeffrey NormanVice President Low Carbon Ammonia, Air Products
4:20 PM–4:40 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
Measuring & Evaluating Agentic AI
Atin SanyalCo-founder, CPO, Galileo
Eve PsaltiSr. Engineering Director, Microsoft
Jyoti Kunal ShahDirector of GenAI Applications Development, ADP
Sarmad QadriHostSoftware Engineer, Meta
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
The Smallest Unit of Enterprise AI That Scales
Asaf BordGenAI Product Leader, [A Fortune 500 Company]
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Your Next Operations Hire Doesn't Sleep
Dylan MunroCOO + Co-Founder, Spot & Tango
Matt StearnsChief Technology Officer, FABco LLC
Stephen SharrVP Procurement & Logistics, Footprint
Tom PetitHostCo-founder, Didero
4:40 PM–5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom
Agentic Enterprises
How to Make AI Actually Work: The Hard Part is not the Agent
Dan BalaceanuCo-Founder, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Druid AI
Rachyl JonesHostTech reporter, Semafor
Vatsal ModiData Science Manager, DraftKings
Trianon Ballroom
Agentic Engineering
Faster, Safer, Scalable: Building Robust Evals & Guardrails with Synthetic Data and SLMs
Ilan KadarCo-Founder & CEO, Plurai
Mercury
Agentic Industries
Scaling AI in Manufacturing: A Multi-Agent Framework for Industrial Process Optimization
Deepak TuragaChief Technology Officer, Oden Technologies