From Black Box to Glass Box: Governing Agentic AI - Hosted by Broadcom 

AI is advancing rapidly, but separating meaningful progress from hype requires looking at the data. This opening interview with Vanessa Parli of Stanford HAI will draw on the AI Index to examine what the latest evidence tells us about the state of AI, from adoption and investment to model performance, costs and the global competitive landscape. The conversation will ground the next two days of discussion in the data shaping where AI is today and where it may be headed.

Vanessa Parli, Managing Director of Programs and External Engagement, Stanford HAI

Richelle Carey, Host, Reuters Events

As gains in productivity become a commodity, the real competitive advantage will be dictated by how you evolve your relationships to your customers. This conversation looks at what that evolution actually looks like inside the organizations pulling ahead — not faster tools, but closer decisions, sharper instincts, and teams built to act the moment customers needs them to. The question isn't who has the best AI. It's who rebuilt roles, decision-making, and the way the whole organization moves together fast enough to keep up.

Jess Jarvis, Principal, ZS

Most AI initiatives never make it past the pilot stage. This executive panel goes inside the organizations that broke the cycle — revealing how they aligned technology, governance, talent, and incentives to move AI into production at scale. Walk away with concrete lessons on what to double down on, what to shut down, and how to turn early experiments into repeatable enterprise impact. 

Nikhil Sudan, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Charles Schwab
Dave Duvall, CIO, Warner Bros
Linda Ray, CIO, AbbVie

Ganesh Jayaramakrishnan, EVP & CIO - UnitedHealthcare Commercial , UnitedHealthcare Commercial

Moderator: Shreyas Murthi, Principal, ZS

Enterprise AI has a blind spot: it can process any amount of data, but it can't reason about the physical world. Customers, assets, risk, and growth don't live in a spreadsheet — they live somewhere. When AI ignores that, decisions look correct on paper and fail in the field. This conversation looks at what it takes to close that blind spot — and why doing so is the difference between AI that reports on the business and AI that can act on it.

Brian Cross, Corporate Director, Esri

As AI moves from experimentation to infrastructure, trust becomes the constraint that decides who scales and who stalls. A financial-infrastructure view on what governance actually looks like once AI is no longer experimental.

Leigh-Ann Russell, CIO & Global Head of Engineering, BNY
Moderator: Matt Lease, Professor and Co-Founder, UT Austin Good Systems

As AI becomes central to enterprise strategy, leadership — not technology — is now the primary constraint on scale. This session examines how senior leaders are clarifying ownership, funding, and accountability for AI, and how decisive executive mandates are replacing fragmented sponsorship across the C-suite.

Allen Bates, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Personal Care North America, Unilever
Jena Holtberg-Benge, Chief Digital & Information Officer, AGCO

Sriram Thiagarajan, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Ancestry

Moderator: Kyle Langworthy, Partner and Head of AI, ML & Data Practise, Riviera Partners

Get the governance architecture that makes enterprise scale AI viable, from policy as code to real time oversight and walk away with a blueprint that accelerates deployment while keeping your board, legal and security teams aligned.

Chintan Mehta, CIO, Wells Fargo
Kevin Westley, AD CTO, Boeing
Christopher Sestito, CEO & Co-Founder, HiddenLayer
Svetlana Matt, Director Public Policy, DISH
Moderator: Caleb Max, President, NAIA

AI is changing how organizations create value, but it's also changing how they consume it. As enterprises scale AI adoption, tokens are emerging as a new unit of economic measurement, directly linking usage, cost, and business outcomes.

This session explores the rise of AI tokenomics and what it means for executive decision-makers. From budgeting and governance to workforce productivity and ROI, leaders must understand how token consumption impacts operating models, investment strategies, and competitive advantage. The organizations that master the economics of AI will be best positioned to scale innovation while maintaining financial discipline.

Swami Chandrasekaran, Head of AI and Data Labs, KPMG

Tony Sauerhoff DIR Executive Director and State of Texas Chief Information Officer 
Moderator: Vanessa O’Connell,  Editorial Events Editor, Reuters

This Interview is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles

Buying the tool was the easy part — the harder challenge is building a workforce that actually knows how to use it. This fireside chat looks at how Principal made AI literacy a company-wide priority in 2025, upskilling over 90% of its 20,000 employees, and what's next as that foundation turns into lasting adoption.  

Rajesh Arora, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Principal Financial Group  
Moderator: Richelle Carey, Host of Momentum AI Austin, Reuters Events  

Last year, the big questions were around what could be put in an LLM and how to get people prompting safely. Things have now changed. Fast.

Join Section's Head of AI, Michael Domanic for a deep dive on the subjects you'll need a strategic answer to next. He'll tackle questions like:

· Do you have an AI strategy, or just a bunch of AI projects?
· Are your people more capable with AI, or just a bit more productive?
· It's been 12+ months now - where is the ROI?

You'll leave with a framework for the questions your board is asking

Michael Dominic, Head of AI, Section

Hosts:
Caleb Max, President, NAIA
Jeff McMillian, CEO, McMillian AI
David Charles, Vice President, Citi Bank
Simba Khadder, Director, Software Engineering, Redis
Nick Resse, Adjunct Instructor, Center for Global Affairs, NYU

A practical session showing real inhouse tooling stacks, deployment patterns, and the practitioner workflow nobody glamorises.  

John Almasan, Chief AI, Data & Infrastructure Officer, Banner Health
Usman Khan, SVP Ventures, ADP
Anuraag Gutgutia, Co-founder, TrueFoundry
Sean Harrison, Chief AI Officer, Acentra Health
Moderator: Aisha Tahirkheli, Principal, AI & Digital Innovation, KPMG

At the innovation stage, discover the emerging AI companies driving the next wave of innovation in enterprise AI. Five carefully startups will pitch live to a panel of judges and an audience of senior technology, data and transformation leaders. See the latest agile moving innovators present their solutions and discover who will be crowned the startup winner.

AI investment is accelerating. Compute costs are compounding. Agents execute continuously and file no status updates. Most enterprises know they are spending on AI — but not where it's going, and not whether it's moving the right strategy forward. That's not a visibility problem. It's a decision problem. That gap is where strategic drift compounds. What the next generation of SPM tools needs to deliver — and what organizational decision-making looks like when strategy and execution are finally in the same loop.

Kevin Nanney, Chief Product Officer, Tempo Software

Focus on the AI use cases that are already paying off, including customer engagement, supply chain optimisation, and frontline productivity. Invest in the initiatives that genuinely move revenue, margins, and efficiency right now.

Anthony Moisant, CIO & Chief Security Officer, Indeed
Bala Vaidyanathan, Senior Vice President of Data & AI, FedEx
Abhijit Dasgupta, SVP Global Demand Digital, Data & Analytics, Mars Snacking | CDIO, Mars Retail Group

Moderator: Eva Chalioti PhD, Senior Lecturer in Economics II, Yale University

As AI drives unprecedented demand for power, data centers, and computing capacity, Asher Genoot of Hut 8 and John Bash of the Texas Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council explore whether America can build the infrastructure, develop the policies, and earn the public trust needed to lead the next era of AI.

Asher Genoot, Chief Executive Officer, Hut 8

John Bash, Member, Texas Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council; Former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas

Moderator: Jody Godoy, Antitrust Correspondent, Reuters

This Interview is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles

Kristine Lee, Chief Transformation Officer, The Permanente Medical Group  
Aisha Tahirkheli, Principal - AI & Digital Innovation, KPMG  
Sherri Greenberg, Assistant Dean for State and Local Government Engagement; Professor of Practice; Fellow of Max Sherman Chair in State and Local Government  
Moderator: Christina Lessa, Founder, Blueprints for Arts and Policy  

A thought-provoking perspective on what it takes to move an entire organization through AI-driven change — where resistance actually comes from, and what leadership has to do differently than it did five years ago.

Tandra Perkins, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Administrative Officer, Phillips 66

Moderator: Arathy Somasekhar, U.S. Energy Correspondent, Reuters

This Interview is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles

Most organisations are accelerating AI adoption without rethinking the workflows, controls and decision points that underpin them. This session explores how leaders are redesigning core processes, governance models and human oversight mechanisms to build AI-enabled workflows that are scalable, accountable and trusted.

Michael Friedlander, CIO, Americas, Magnum Ice Cream
Suzanna Fowler, AVP, National Operations, AT&T

Mike Pell, Chief Envisioneer, Envisioner, Inc.
Moderator: Bo Young Lee, CEO, AI4ALL

Most AI investment in customer experience has gone into automation customers barely notice — faster routing, more self-service, shorter tickets. Far less has gone into the AI that actually grows the relationship: turning a support call into a renewal, an upsell, or a saved account. Latané Conant argues that's the bigger opportunity most enterprises are sitting on and underusing. This conversation tests that claim — where the growth actually sits inside customer conversations today, what's stopping most companies from capturing it, and whether closing that gap is a CX initiative or a commercial bet most boards haven't sized yet.

Latané Conant, CMO, Parloa

Moderator: Richelle Carey, Host, Reuters Momentum AI

Every AI initiative competes for capital, compute and talent. Learn how leading enterprises are balancing innovation with cost control, managing the rising expense of models and infrastructure, and building operating models that turn AI investment into long-term business impact.

Travis Nixon, Chief Data & AI Officer, Dollar General
Braden Holstege, Vice President - Enterprise AI, Mercor

Erin Boyd, Chief Digital & Strategy Officer, AES

Moderator – Jeff McMillan, CEO, McMillanAI

Hosts:
Nick Resse, Adjunct Instructor, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
Bo Young Lee, CEO, AI4ALL

Caleb Max, President, NAIA

Most enterprises are focused on solving the obvious levers — governance, technology, talent, incentives — and are still watching AI initiatives stall before they scale. Kabir Nagrecha argues the real constraint is what he calls wisdom: the undocumented, company-specific knowledge inside legacy systems that no frontier model starts with, and the one variable that decides whether AI advantage compounds or resets with every new project.

Kabir Nagrecha, Co-founder and CEO, Tessera Labs

Moderator: Richelle Carey, Host, Reuters Events

In a live broadcast interview, Reuters Global Defense Editor Joe Brock speaks with Joe Lonsdale, Founder and Managing Partner of 8VC and Co-Founder of Palantir Technologies, about the AI race, national competitiveness, defense applications of AI, infrastructure investment and the technology's implications for future conflict. 

Joe Lonsdale, Founder and Managing Partner, 8VC; Co-Founder, Palantir Technologies 
Moderator: Joe Brock, Global Defense Editor, Reuters 

This session is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Trust Principles.

In a live broadcast interview, Reuters Tech Policy Correspondent Jody Godoy speaks with Ferguson, who leads the U.S. agency responsible for antitrust enforcement and consumer protection, about competition in AI markets, merger scrutiny, platform power and the regulation of emerging technologies. 

Andrew Ferguson, Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission 
Moderator: Jody Godoy, Tech Policy Correspondent, Reuters 
 
This session is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Trust Principles.  

Ion Stoica, Professor of Computer Science Division at University of California, Berkeley, Co-Founder of Databricks and Arena

Paul Andre Huet, Chairman & CEO, Americas Gold and Silver (TSX: USA) (NYSE: USAS)
Moderator: Erin Boyd, Chief Digital & Strategy Officer, AES