Leaders In AI Summit Los Angeles 2025
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Leaders In AI Summit Los Angeles
9 AM - 6 PM
December 9th-10th
Balboa Bay Resort
Newport Beach, California
Featured Speakers
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Los Angeles 2025 Agenda
Begins at 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Front Desk
Pre-Summit Workshop Hotel Check-In
We recommend checking in at the hotel before 12:30 PM to give yourself time to settle in and get oriented ahead of the day’s programming. While there’s no formal check-in window and we understand travel schedules may vary, early arrival is encouraged to ensure a smooth start.
For any questions regarding your stay or early check-in assistance, please contact The Balboa Bay Resort front desk directly or connect with our team onsite.
Begins at 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Front Desk
Registration & Networking
Upon arrival between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM, please proceed directly to our registration area to check in. Simply provide your name and confirmation details at the welcome desk, where you'll receive your event badge and session materials. Once checked in, you’ll have time to meet fellow attendees and orient yourself before sessions begin promptly at 2:00 PM. Our onsite team will be available throughout the registration window to assist with any questions or special requests.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Main Stage
AI Deployment Workshop – Part 1
Governance in AI Deployment:
Balancing Innovation and Control
In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, establishing clear guardrails is no longer optional—it’s a strategic necessity. This session is designed to empower enterprise stakeholders to accelerate AI deployment while maintaining alignment with business objectives. Through actionable insights, we’ll explore how to design internal governance frameworks that promote transparency, accountability, and cross-functional coordination, ensuring innovation doesn’t outpace control. Attendees will walk away with practical models and non-negotiables (“musts”) for responsible AI deployment that scales with purpose and precision.
What You Will Learn:
- Developing Internal Governance Frameworks:
Learn about building governance structures that support innovation while maintaining strategic control. Understand how to establish internal guidelines and frameworks that empower your teams to innovate responsibly.
- Identifying Gaps in AI Roadmaps:
Discover often-overlooked areas within your organization’s AI strategy. This includes identifying governance gaps that could impact AI initiatives and understanding how to close them effectively.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Examine the importance of involving diverse teams from across your organization in AI projects. Learn how cross-functional governance can help mitigate risks and ensure alignment across departments.
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Session Location
Afternoon Networking Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Main Stage
AI Deployment Workshop - Part 2
The Rise of AI Agents:
When Autonomy Outpaces Oversight
The second half of the workshop opens up to the questions dominating executive and technical conversations today: Are AI agents coming for our jobs? Are they hype or here to stay? Where’s the ROI? In this interactive, Q&A-driven session, we’ll unpack the agent explosion—exploring what these tools can (and can’t) do, what guardrails must be in place to ensure ethical and effective use, and how to determine when deploying an agent makes business sense. This is where theory meets frontline concerns, with clear takeaways on value, risk, and readiness.
What You Will Learn:
- Leveraging Agentic AI for Workflow Automation:
Understand how AI agents can autonomously handle specific tasks, freeing up human resources for more strategic responsibilities. Learn to identify processes that benefit most from agentic automation while maintaining transparency and oversight.
- Identifying Governance Gaps in Agentic Deployments:
Discover potential risks and compliance challenges unique to agentic AI within your organization’s roadmap. Gain insights on how to embed robust governance mechanisms to ensure responsible and accountable AI deployment.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Examine the importance of involving diverse teams—ranging from technical experts to legal and compliance stakeholders—in agentic AI projects. Learn how cross-functional governance can help mitigate risks, enhance innovation, and align objectives across departments.
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Session Location
Roundtable
Executive Roundtable:
Responsible AI: Governance, Ethics, and Safety
As AI technologies continue to evolve, robust data governance and ethical AI practices are more important than ever. This roundtable will delve into the development and implementation of data governance frameworks, privacy and compliance issues, and ethical considerations in AI deployment. Participants will discuss how to ensure AI safety and build public trust through responsible AI usage.
What You Will Learn:
- Developing Internal Governance Frameworks:
Discover how to build governance structures that balance innovation with accountability. Learn to create internal guidelines that empower teams to innovate responsibly while maintaining strategic control.
- Identifying Gaps in AI Roadmaps:
Uncover overlooked areas in your organization's AI roadmap, including potential governance gaps. Gain insights on how to address these challenges to strengthen your AI initiatives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Understand the importance of involving diverse teams in AI projects. Learn how cross-departmental collaboration enhances risk mitigation, aligns objectives, and strengthens governance.
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Main Stage
Present Your executive roundTables Findings
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Session Location
Closing Event
Cocktail RECEPTION
Beverage Menu:
Premium Spirits:
Tito’s Vodka
Balcones Whiskey
Tequila 512
Gosling's Rum
Hendrick’s Gin
Craft Beers:
Karbach Ranch Water
Karbach Love Street
Elegant Wines and Champagne:
Sauvignon Blanc: Kim Crawford
Prosecco: Lunetta
Chardonnay: La Crema
Pinot Noir: Mark West
Cabernet: Columbia Crest - Grand Estates
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
To Be Announced
Intimate Think Tank Dinner - Invite Only
To Be Announced!
Stay tuned as in the coming days we'll be announcing our think tank dinner night 1!
8:30 AM - 9:10 AM
Balboa Bay Resort
Arrivals & REGISTRATION
Start your Leaders In AI Summit experience by checking in at the Leaders in AI Summit. Our VIP Registration Team will greet you in the lobby with your VIP badges. Enjoy artisian coffee, tropical fruit, and pastries while you prepare for an exciting day of insights and exclusive networking.
9:10 AM - 9:15 AM
Main Stage
Opening Remarks
Kick off the summit with opening remarks from Robert Jaggers, CEO of the Institute for AI Transformation, as he introduces the themes and priorities for the day ahead. This brief session will lead into our opening panel, setting the focus for impactful discussions to follow.
9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
Main Stage
Opening Panel
Crafting an Enterprise-Wide AI Strategy:
Overcoming Pilot Failures and Scaling to Production
As AI becomes a cornerstone of innovation, organizations are under pressure to move beyond experimentation and deliver tangible business results. Yet, according to our research, 86% of AI pilot projects fail to scale, leaving senior executives facing challenges such as stalled ROI, resource misalignment, and skills gaps in critical areas like Python development. These failures not only delay progress but often lead to wasted investments, lost jobs, and eroding stakeholder trust in AI’s potential. This session will address the hard truths behind why AI projects falter and explore practical, enterprise-wide strategies to overcome these roadblocks.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- Understand the Root Causes of Pilot Failures:
Learn why most AI projects stall at the pilot stage, including organizational misalignment, unmet ROI expectations, and skills shortages, and discover strategies to address these pain points effectively.
- Develop an effective Enterprise-Wide Framework for Scaling AI:
Gain insights into embedding AI initiatives within business units, fostering ownership, and aligning projects with strategic goals to achieve production-ready success.
- Maximize ROI and Resource Efficiency:
Explore how to optimize limited technical resources, improve AI project alignment with baseline production requirements, and ensure sustainable ROI to justify further AI investments.
Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
Phil Wiser
Chief Technology Officer
Shelby Tallent
Head of AI Governance
9:55 AM - 10:30 AM
Main Stage
Featured Panel
When Imagination Meets Intelligence:
Redefining Experience from studio to Consumer
From content creation to commerce, AI is blurring the boundaries between storytelling, technology, and consumer experience. As industries converge around intelligent systems that connect creativity with computation, enterprises are redefining how ideas move from design to distribution — and from studio to storefront.
This featured panel explores how global brands are harnessing AI to enhance engagement, accelerate production, and create seamless experiences that connect consumers to the stories and products they love.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- The Fusion of Creativity and Commerce:
Discover how AI is redefining storytelling, design, and consumer engagement—bridging the worlds of content creation and retail experience.
- Operationalizing AI Across the Experience Economy:
Understand how leading brands are embedding AI into production, marketing, and customer touchpoints to drive measurable business and brand impact.
- Building Human + Machine Collaboration:
Gain insights into how creative, technical, and commercial teams are co-creating with AI to accelerate personalization, innovation, and growth.
Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
Dipak Prasad
Managing Director
Rick Grandy
Managing Director
Ryan McCollum
VP, Business Strategy & Digital Comm Operations
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Balboa Bay Resort Water Side Balcony
Opening Networking Break
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11:30 AM - 12:05 PM
Main Stage
Featured Panel
Private AI:
Architecting Intelligence You Control
As enterprises move from scattered AI initiatives to unified intelligence strategies, a major shift is underway: organizations want control. Private AI, hybrid architectures, and agentic systems are redefining how data, workloads, and decision-making pipelines operate across the business. This session brings together infrastructure, cloud, and product leaders to break down how enterprises are taking back ownership of their models, reducing dependencies, improving latency, and architecting environments built for real-time intelligence.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- Why Private AI Is Becoming the Long-Term Enterprise Model:
Understand why organizations are shifting toward private AI to gain control over data, workloads, and decision-making pipelines. Learn what has changed in the last 18–24 months — from regulatory pressure to model customization — and why this architecture is becoming the default for enterprise intelligence.
- Structuring Cloud Partnerships Without Becoming Dependent:
Gain clarity on how to partner with cloud providers strategically — leveraging cloud ecosystems without becoming locked into them. Learn how enterprises are balancing cloud, hybrid, and private environments while keeping ownership of their AI roadmap.
- Choosing Where AI Should Actually Run (Cloud, On-Prem, Edge):
Discover the frameworks leaders use to determine the right execution environment for each workload. From low-latency inference to cost optimization to on-prem reuse, learn how placing the model in the right location can dramatically impact performance, compliance, and strategic flexibility.
Leila Emami
VP, Data Architecture
Dennis Duckworth
Director of Product Marketing
Shiva Gurumurthy
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Tin Zaw
Director, Technical Partner Management
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Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
Main Stage
Featured Panel
Agents Everywhere:
Architecting the Next Generation of Business Intelligence
As AI matures from prediction to action, enterprise intelligence is being redefined through the rise of agentic systems — autonomous, reasoning entities that can analyze live data, make decisions, and execute workflows. This session brings together data, infrastructure, and governance leaders to explore what it takes to architect these intelligent ecosystems. Panelists will share how they’re building trust, scalability, and control into the next generation of BI — where agents, not dashboards, become the interface to insight.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- Transforming Core Operations Through AI:
Discover how financial institutions are automating risk analysis, underwriting, customer intelligence, fraud detection, and portfolio management through machine learning and generative AI solutions.
- Scaling AI with Governance and Compliance in Mind:
Simple refinements to AI models can dramatically enhance their strategic value, helping leaders quickly adapt to new opportunities.
- Funding Innovation and Navigating Cost Efficiency:
Optimizing how AI models run in real-time can significantly reduce costs and accelerate decision-making across your enterprise.
Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
Mikko Ollila
VP, Product MGMT
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Stephen "Steffin" Harris
Field Chief Data & AI Officer
12:35 PM - 1:10 PM
Atrium
Lunch Hosted By the
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1:10 PM - 1:55 PM
TABLES 1-8
Executive Roundtable Discussions
Join a focused, high-level conversation with fellow senior leaders during our Executive Roundtable sessions. Each table will feature a distinct theme, giving you the opportunity to dive deep into the topic most relevant to your interests and role. With four roundtable topics to choose from—including AI ROI, Responsible AI, Future-Proofing with AI, and a fourth session available for sponsorship—this is your chance to connect, share, and learn in a collaborative peer environment.
Please select the roundtable topic you’d like to join.
Executive Roundtables Option 1
Agentic AI At Scale:
From Experiments To Enterprise Impact
As enterprises move beyond pilots, the rise of agentic AI requires robust infrastructure, secure governance, and data agility. Leaders are now tasked with turning experimental agents into enterprise-grade systems that deliver measurable value while maintaining trust, oversight, and speed.
Table Numbers: 1, 4,
Discussion Points:
- Scaling the Backbone:
Building infrastructure that supports enterprise-grade AI agents without bottlenecks.
- Enterprise Use Cases:
Identifying where agentic AI is already driving measurable ROI.
- Governance & Identity:
Establishing oversight frameworks for managing non-human AI actors.
- Adoption at Speed:
Strategies to accelerate the path from pilot projects to scaled deployments.
Executive Roundtables Option 2
Hybrid AI Infrastructure:
Balancing Cloud, Edge, And Cost
With AI workloads growing more complex, hybrid infrastructures are emerging as the new standard—blending cloud, data center, and edge deployments. The challenge lies in balancing agility, cost efficiency, and performance while enabling secure and scalable AI at every layer.
Discussion Points:
Table Numbers: 2, 5
- Hybrid as the Default:
Why leaders are moving toward multi-layered AI architectures.
- Performance vs. Cost:
Evaluating trade-offs between cloud, edge, and on-prem deployments.
- Integration Challenges:
Overcoming interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in.
- Securing Distributed Systems:
Extending governance and compliance across hybrid environments.
Executive Roundtables Option 3
Data-To-Decision Workflows:
Turning Business Data Into Action
AI’s true value emerges when data seamlessly translates into decisions. Yet enterprises struggle with fragmented pipelines, governance challenges, and limited visibility across structured and unstructured data. This roundtable explores how leaders are rethinking workflows to drive real-time, data-powered decisions.
Table Numbers: 3, 6,
Discussion Points:
- Unified Data Access:
Breaking down silos with federated and multi-source integration.
- From Raw Data to Insights:
Converting structured and unstructured data into usable intelligence.
- Conversational Interfaces:
Leveraging natural language AI to democratize decision-making.
- Trust and Compliance:
Ensuring security, governance, and accountability in fast-moving workflows.
Executive Roundtables Option 4
Domain-Specific AI:
From Customization To Enterprise Impact
General-purpose AI is no longer enough. Enterprises are now investing in specialized, domain-specific models that deliver precision, compliance, and industry impact. The challenge for leaders is scaling these models beyond tailored pilots into sustainable, enterprise-wide systems that create measurable value.
Table Numbers: 7, 8
Discussion Points:
- Optimized Infrastructure:
Architecting compute environments that support high-performance domain models.
- Industry-Specific Impact:
Highlighting ROI from specialized models in verticals like finance, healthcare, and retail.
- Responsible Deployment:
Applying security, compliance, and governance guardrails to domain AI.
- Scaling with Agility:
Accelerating the journey from custom pilots to enterprise adoption.
1:55 PM - 2:30 PM
Main Stage
Present Your executive roundTables Findings
Up next, each roundtable will share their key takeaways with the full audience. Please designate one representative from your table to go on stage and briefly present your group’s findings and discussion highlights.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Balboa Bay Resort Water Side Balcony
Afternoon Networking Break
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3:30 PM - 4:05 AM
Main Stage
Fireside Chat
From Models to Outcomes:
How AI Factories Redefine Enterprise Value Creation
Enterprises are moving beyond chatbots and pilots and beginning to rethink how real value is created through AI. This session explores how AI factories unify data, compute, simulation, and automation to unlock outcomes across manufacturing, supply chain, energy, infrastructure, and national-scale systems.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- Understanding the AI Factory Model
Learn what an “AI factory” actually is, and why enterprises across industrial, infrastructure, and global sectors are adopting this architecture to generate measurable business outcomes.
- Connecting Siloed Innovation into Enterprise Impact
Explore how organizations can unify fragmented investments in automation, digital twins, robotics, simulation, and data systems into a cohesive, outcome-driven AI strategy.
- What’s Driving the New Wave of Data Center Demand
Gain clarity on the forces accelerating compute and data center expansion in boardrooms today — from new AI workloads to modernization pressures and competitive dynamics.
Bert condensa
Vice President - Enterprise AI Factory
Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
4:05 PM - 4:45 PM
Main Stage
Closing Panel
Navigating The Human Element of AI Transformation
As AI reshapes how organizations operate, the greatest challenges—and opportunities—now sit with people, not technology. This session explores how leaders can reduce fear, build trust, reskill teams, and foster a culture that embraces AI as a tool for empowerment rather than disruption. The conversation focuses on practical, human-driven strategies for guiding teams through transformation with clarity, confidence, and shared purpose.
Key Learning Objectives for the Audience
- Leading Through Change and Uncertainty:
Gain practical approaches for helping teams navigate fear, stigma, and misconceptions around AI—while promoting clarity, confidence, and psychological safety.
- Reskilling and Upskilling for the AI-Enabled Workforce:
Understand how organizations can develop adaptable, future-ready teams by building learning cultures that prioritize continuous skill development and opportunity creation.
- Strengthening Team Culture in Times of Transformation
Explore strategies for fostering trust, transparency, and collaboration across functions as organizations adopt new AI-driven workflows and decision-making processes.
Satu Salminen
AI Transformation Lead - HR
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Andy Wilson
VP, Health Affairs
Moderator
Bruce Monaco
Co-Founder / Head of Research
4:45 PM - 4:50 PM
Main Stage
Closing Remarks
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
Balboa Bay Resort Water Side Balcony
After-Party
Cocktail Hour
Beverage Menu:
Premium Spirits:
Tito’s Vodka
Balcones Whiskey
Tequila 512
Gosling's Rum
Hendrick’s Gin
Craft Beers:
Karbach Ranch Water
Karbach Love Street
Elegant Wines and Champagne:
Sauvignon Blanc: Kim Crawford
Prosecco: Lunetta
Chardonnay: La Crema
Pinot Noir: Mark West
Cabernet: Columbia Crest - Grand Estates
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
TBA
Intimate Think Tank Dinner - Invite Only
AI Without Limits: Scaling Infrastructure for Performance and Trust
Think Tank Dinner Night 1
Agents Everywhere:
Architecting the Next Generation of Business Intelligence
Think Tank Dinner Night 2
AI Without Limits: Scaling Infrastructure for Performance and Trust
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