AGENDA
What We'll Explore
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Breakfast
​Welcome: Harnessing AI for Transformative Value
Paul Baier and John Sviokla will discuss key lessons from 2024, share predictions for 2025 and 2026 based on GAI Insights' research, and there will be a brief message from our platinum and gold sponsors.
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Paul Baier
GAI Insights
​Co-Founder
Fireside Chat: View from a Board Member and CEO of a Publicly Traded Company
WEX is a multi-billion-dollar global payments firm. Paul will discuss how an HBS professor and board member views GenAI, and how a CEO drives transformational GenAI change while managing the expectations of investors, the board, and other stakeholders.
Melissa Smith
CEO
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Shikar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor
Paul Baier
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Panel Moderator
10 Predictions for AI
Ulrike leads a team at one of the largest investment banks in the world and will share top trends and implications they see from GenAI/AI. Will value creation move beyond chip and foundational models sold by cloud providers?
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS
Chief Investment Officer for Global Equities
Making it Real: GenAI Could Transform Your Business with our Proven WINS Framework
The WINS framework was featured in the September 2023 HBR. This session reveals why firms heavily invested in creating or enhancing words, images, numbers, and sounds are poised for significant disruption—and opportunity. See how this framework can be used for assessing urgency and opportunity at the industry, company and job level.
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Prompt Example from Adam and Two AI Startup Pitches Sway AI and Thoughtly
Adam Rappaport
Data#3 and GAI Insights
AI Solution Architect & Analyst
Break
Coffee Break: Time to Recharge Your Circuits
Driving Change at Scale and Ensuring Competitive Advantage
What are the leadership issues when moving from GenAI prototype, to pilot, to production, to portfolio in a large enterprise. How are impactful project chosen? What techniques successfully accomplish executive and organizational alignment and execution?
Sandeep Sacheti
Wolters Kluwer
Former EVP CIO
Andy Fanning
Cigna
Former AI Leader
Paul Baier
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Panel Moderator
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Lessons from AI Leaders
Top leaders share how they have achieved AI-driven success and lessons from their GenAI systems in production. John and Bill will each present for ten minutes and then John Sviokla will moderate a 10 minute discussion of implications and lessons for the audience.
John Spottiswood
Jerry
Chief Operating & Data Officer
Bill Fandrich
Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO
​Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Panel Moderator
Prompt Example from Adam and Two AI Startup Pitches The Institute for Experiential AI and Geminus AI
Adam Rappaport
Data#3 and GAI Insights
AI Solution Architect & Analyst
Lunch
Refuel & Recharge: Nourish Your Mind and Machine
Break-Out Sessions
Building Tomorrow: The AI-Driven Healthcare Provider
12:55 PM
Jose Pedro Almeida
Intelligence Ventures
Chief AI Strategist
AI Trends in Life Sciences and Medical Devices
Badri Raghavan
ResMed
VP of AI & M
Matt Lewis
LLMental
Founder and CEO
1:15 PM
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Remaking a 160 Year Old, World Leading Healthcare Organization
1:35 PM
Thomas Kingsley
UCLA
Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics
What to expect from AI in Healthcare in 2025
Ryan Vega, M.D.
Vantiq
Chief Medical Officer
Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Verus Advisory
CEO
1:55 PM
Saurabha Bhatnagar
HMS
Chief Health Officer
Insights from Recent Forbes Research
Janett Haas
Forbes
SVP, Forbes Research and Insights
Ross Gagnon
Forbes
Executive Director of Research
2:15 PM
Break
The View From Key Suppliers: What Are the Emerging Best Practices and Top 2 Trends for 2025
A moderated panel from leading providers. What can we expect in 2025? Which is better - closed or open source? How soon will small models be ready for enterprise deployment?
Yasmina Benkhoui
NVIDIA
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, & Ecosystem Lead
Pankaj Dugar
AI21
SVP & GM North America
Andy Roberts
Microsoft
Data Platform & AI Architect
Paul Baier
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Panel Moderator
Fireside Chat: How to "Own Your Edge"
Inflection AI is a leading fontier model and is helping firms own their own intelligence. Enterprises have demanding control over vital knowledge and assets to ensure a competitive advantage in this age of AI. How Should Companies Think About This?
Ted Shelton
Inflection AI
COO
Markus Flierl
Intel Cloud Services
Corporate Vice President
Innovation from the GenAI Frontlines
Generative AI is unlocking limitless possibilities for innovation. In this session, Sri Elaprolu, Director and Global Head of the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, will share lessons learned from the last year on the frontlines with the Generative AI Innovation Center that have helped hundreds of businesses to build and scale generative AI applications.
Sri Elaprolu
Director
​Generative AI Innovation Center at Amazon Web Services
Turning Enterprise Data into a Strategic Asset
Igor will share an overview of how they help companies drive value from their data in a trusted, safe, and proven way with GenAI.
Igor Jablokov
Pryon
CEO
Where is AI Technolgy Going? Where will most value be created?
Ramesh will share where he is seeing the top 5 mega AI trends that executives and investors need to be aware of the next 2 years and the biggest areas of value creation
Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab
Associate Director
Promise or Peril? Investing in the AI Wave from a VC Perspective.
​VC are at the cutting edge of evaluating GenAI/AI technologies and are making massive bets. What are the leading trends they are seeing and are excited about?
Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
Founder and Managing Partner
Chip Hazard
Flybridge Capital Partners
Scott Kirsner
InnoLead
CEO
General Partner and Co-Founder
1 Prompt Example - Adam Rappaport
2 AI Startups: Oblio and Jaxon AI
Adam Rappaport
Data#3 and GAI Insights
AI Solution Architect & Analyst
Trends, Implications, and Questions from the Day
John Sviokla reviews the day and then Ted Shelton, from Inflection AI, introduces the reception.
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Ted Shelton
Inflection AI
COO