Executive Event

Journey to Generative AI

September 18, 2024 - Chicago, IL
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Visionaries

Bradley Rosenberg Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation
Brad Rosenberg

Director of Data Management

Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation

Jay Divine AWS
Jay Divine

Senior Partner Development Specialist - AI/ML

AWS

Philip Chen
Philip Chen

SVP

Associated Bank

Phil Mazenett Weights & Biases
Phil Mazenett

Head of Enterprise Solutions

Weights & Biases

Custom Speaker

Phil brings a decade of experience in leveraging machine learning and data solutions from industry leaders such as W&B, Domino, OctoAI, Gantry, and Alation to help clients of all sizes tackle their model building use cases. Before transitioning to the tech sector, he held several roles at major Financial Services firms (JPMorgan, Citi, Nomura, Santander) and prominent Advertising agencies (DDB, Ogilvy)
Dmitry Moiseev Cambium Networks
Dmitry Moiseev

Sr Director of Engineering

Cambium Networks

Nirmal Ranganathan RackSpace
Nirmal Ranganathan

VP and Distinguished Architect

RackSpace

Custom Speaker

Nirmal Ranganathan is the VP and Distinguished Architect at Rackspace and is responsible for AI Engineering, technology strategy, and roadmap for Rackspace's FAIR solutions portfolio. Nirmal leads FAIR (Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace), a practice dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions across industries. Nirmal has worked with data over the past 2 decades, solving distributed systems challenges dealing with large volumes of data, being a customer advocate and helping customers solve their data challenges. Nirmal consults with customers around large-scale databases, data processing, data analytics and data warehousing in the cloud, providing solutions for innovative use cases across industries leveraging AI and Machine Learning.
Yolanda Mekala AWS
Yolanda Mekala

Partner Development Lead - AWS for Data

AWS

Kelli Such AWS
Kelli Such

Americas Data Strategy Leader

AWS

Custom Speaker

Kelli leads the Americas Data Strategy team working with AWS customers to transform their businesses using data, analytics and machine learning. Kelli is a seasoned leader with over 30 years of data and analytics experience across a wide variety of functions including supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and contact center management where she used insights to drive improved customer experiences, revenue, and cost productivity outcomes. Kelli's experience also includes creating analytics programs from establishing strategy, building stakeholder alignment, creating and enabling teams down to project execution and support. Given she has spent considerable time in industry CPG roles along with software start-up positions, Kelli intimately understands the challenges facing customers from a people, process, and technology perspective and actively partners with them to unlock business value and sustain momentum.
Kathy Pirogova
Kathy Pirogova

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All times Central Time

8:30 AM-9:10 AM

Welcome & Registration

8:30 AM-1:30 PM

Executive Event

abstract
9:10 AM-9:20 AM

Opening Remarks

9:20 AM-9:40 AM

Generative AI Adoption Trends and Key Use Cases in Financial Services

Achieving success with generative AI requires a modern data strategy focused on aligning mindset, people/process, and technology. Customers will learn key elements of an effective data strategy, including a customer-centric mindset, empowered teams, and a scalable data architecture enabled by cloud services like AWS Bedrock and other AWS generative AI offerings to fuel secure and governed generative AI applications. By building these foundational capabilities, organizations can harness the power of generative AI to create business value.

Jay Divine AWS
Jay Divine

Senior Partner Development Specialist - AI/ML

AWS

9:40 AM-10:00 AM

Data as your Differentiator

Generative AI is generic and commodity unless you can integrate data about your business and customers, and that requires a modern data strategy. While technology is a critical component, learn what else comprises a modern data strategy and hear best practices for getting started on your journey today.

Yolanda Mekala AWS
Yolanda Mekala

Partner Development Lead - AWS for Data

AWS

10:15 AM-10:30 AM

Networking Break

10:30 AM-11:00 AM

Innovation Showcase

Phil Mazenett Weights & Biases
Phil Mazenett

Head of Enterprise Solutions

Weights & Biases

Phil brings a decade of experience in leveraging machine learning and data solutions from industry leaders such as W&B, Domino, OctoAI, Gantry, and Alation to help clients of all sizes tackle their model building use cases. Before transitioning to the tech sector, he held several roles at major Financial Services firms (JPMorgan, Citi, Nomura, Santander) and prominent Advertising agencies (DDB, Ogilvy)
Nirmal Ranganathan RackSpace
Nirmal Ranganathan

VP and Distinguished Architect

RackSpace

Nirmal Ranganathan is the VP and Distinguished Architect at Rackspace and is responsible for AI Engineering, technology strategy, and roadmap for Rackspace's FAIR solutions portfolio. Nirmal leads FAIR (Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace), a practice dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions across industries. Nirmal has worked with data over the past 2 decades, solving distributed systems challenges dealing with large volumes of data, being a customer advocate and helping customers solve their data challenges. Nirmal consults with customers around large-scale databases, data processing, data analytics and data warehousing in the cloud, providing solutions for innovative use cases across industries leveraging AI and Machine Learning.
11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Navigating the Generative AI Landscape

Let's explore the transformative potential of Generative AI, guided by insights from cloud experts and industry leaders. We'll delve into real-world examples of AI innovations, strategies for C-level executives to integrate AI successfully, and best practices for enhancing customer experiences and driving business growth. Our discussion will also cover the most anticipated advancements in Generative AI over the next 12-24 months and their potential impact on businesses. Additionally, we'll address the ethical and regulatory considerations surrounding AI use, and examine the build vs. buy decisions executives face when choosing AI solutions.

Chair
Yolanda Mekala AWS
Yolanda Mekala

Partner Development Lead - AWS for Data

AWS

Panelists
Jay Divine AWS
Jay Divine

Senior Partner Development Specialist - AI/ML

AWS

Phil Mazenett Weights & Biases
Phil Mazenett

Head of Enterprise Solutions

Weights & Biases

Phil brings a decade of experience in leveraging machine learning and data solutions from industry leaders such as W&B, Domino, OctoAI, Gantry, and Alation to help clients of all sizes tackle their model building use cases. Before transitioning to the tech sector, he held several roles at major Financial Services firms (JPMorgan, Citi, Nomura, Santander) and prominent Advertising agencies (DDB, Ogilvy)
Nirmal Ranganathan RackSpace
Nirmal Ranganathan

VP and Distinguished Architect

RackSpace

Nirmal Ranganathan is the VP and Distinguished Architect at Rackspace and is responsible for AI Engineering, technology strategy, and roadmap for Rackspace's FAIR solutions portfolio. Nirmal leads FAIR (Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace), a practice dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions across industries. Nirmal has worked with data over the past 2 decades, solving distributed systems challenges dealing with large volumes of data, being a customer advocate and helping customers solve their data challenges. Nirmal consults with customers around large-scale databases, data processing, data analytics and data warehousing in the cloud, providing solutions for innovative use cases across industries leveraging AI and Machine Learning.
11:45 AM-12:00 PM

Networking Break

12:00 PM-12:10 PM

Starting Your Generative AI Journey

Phil Mazenett Weights & Biases
Phil Mazenett

Head of Enterprise Solutions

Weights & Biases

Phil brings a decade of experience in leveraging machine learning and data solutions from industry leaders such as W&B, Domino, OctoAI, Gantry, and Alation to help clients of all sizes tackle their model building use cases. Before transitioning to the tech sector, he held several roles at major Financial Services firms (JPMorgan, Citi, Nomura, Santander) and prominent Advertising agencies (DDB, Ogilvy)
Nirmal Ranganathan RackSpace
Nirmal Ranganathan

VP and Distinguished Architect

RackSpace

Nirmal Ranganathan is the VP and Distinguished Architect at Rackspace and is responsible for AI Engineering, technology strategy, and roadmap for Rackspace's FAIR solutions portfolio. Nirmal leads FAIR (Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace), a practice dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions across industries. Nirmal has worked with data over the past 2 decades, solving distributed systems challenges dealing with large volumes of data, being a customer advocate and helping customers solve their data challenges. Nirmal consults with customers around large-scale databases, data processing, data analytics and data warehousing in the cloud, providing solutions for innovative use cases across industries leveraging AI and Machine Learning.
12:10 PM-1:10 PM

Executive Roundtable Lunch

1:10 PM-1:30 PM

Closing Remarks & Networking

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Attended the C-Vision International CISO Dinner last night and to sum it up in one word, "Wow!" Incredibly well moderated discussion and investigation into different viewpoints. I appreciate the openness of all the attendees to share their unique experiences and perspectives. I learned a lot, had a ton of fun, and look forward to further events like this!

Tory Knapp

Director of Strategic Accounts, IL Enterprise

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Recently updated my "event vendors I will NEVER work with again" list, DM me if you're interested in the names and stories. On the other hand, I want to recommend Nelson Soares and C-Vision International who are true partners to our success, and I really enjoy working with. Happy to also share the great list of vendors we liked, as there are many of them, and we've recently had the pleasure of joining wonderful events, which we immediately renewed.

Lior Yaari

CEO and Co-founder

Martin

The day was awesome and the evening exceeded my wildest expectations. I've never been to a dinner like that where a table with 12 CIOs/CISOs was focused exclusively on Netskope. Just fantastic.
Thank you for including me!
I look forward to the next time we have the opportunity to meet

Martin tePoele

Regional Sales Manager

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I had the pleasure of joining the C-Vision International, Nordics CISO Council Roundtable with a wonderful group of cyber executives. We had a wonderful, insightful conversation and the whole experience was enjoyable. I made great new contacts and reconnected with existing contacts on really important topics that matter to CISO’s and all in cybersecurity. I’d highly recommend joining in any C-Vision event.

Connie McIntosh

Head of Security Assurance & Head of Solution Security

Maarten Ectors

Intimate, immersive experiences provided by a group of individuals always available to support our needs. Fantastic organization and very high-level executives. The promise was delivered!

Maarten Ectors

Chief Innovation Officer

Bjorn Watne

C-vision's events combine relevant topics with a suitable audience. I found great value at my last attendance, and would definitely consider upcoming events.

Bjørn R. Watne

SVP & CISO

Larry Whiteside

A group very focused in bringing diversity to the discussion table

Larry Whiteside Jr.

CISO

Jeff Vinson 1

I love the engaging format of the councils. Very high level discussions and never a sales pitch. The C-Vision staff members are amazing.

Jeffrey Vinson

SVP CISO

Allison Miller

A very warm welcome and interesting speakers. I was very pleased to be among such a dynamic group.

Allison Miller

CISO

Paige Adams

The process was very well organized by C-Vision. Perfect organization, honest and authentic speakers of high level.

Paige Adams

Group CISO