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April 6-9, 2026
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
APRIL 7
1:30 - 3:40 PM
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Mayfield Pitch Competition

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Concurrent Sessions

You may enjoy these other sessions happening at the same time.

Main1:55 PM - 2:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Brigitte Truong
Brigitte TruongRALLY
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Main2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
How WRITER Won the Fortune 500
May Habib
May HabibWRITER
Natasha Mascarenhas
Natasha MascarenhasBloomberg
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Main3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
How AI Will Rewrite the Creative Process
Ghazi Shami
Ghazi ShamiEMPIRE
Harvey Mason Jr.
Harvey Mason Jr.The Recording Academy
Clare Duffy
Clare DuffyCNN
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Main3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
What Makes a Founder Stand Out in the AI Gold Rush
Sangeen Zeb
Sangeen ZebGV
Sara Ittelson
Sara IttelsonAccel
Hans Tung
Hans TungNotable Capital
Kate Clark
Kate ClarkThe Wall Street Journal
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Builders1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Getting Agents into Production for Real Governed Work
Sponsored by Retool
Retool
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Builders1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
From Idea to Agent - How Vercel is the full-stack platform for building and deploying AI agents.
Sponsored by Vercel
Vercel
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Builders2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
The Control Plane for Autonomous AI
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Builders2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Agentic Infrastructure Needs Agentic Observability
Sponsored by groundcover
groundcover
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Builders2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Context is all you need: Building a context engine
Sponsored by Redis
Redis
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Builders3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
The Future Internet – From IP Addressing to Agent Driven Data Paths
Sponsored by Graphiant
Graphiant
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Customer Engine1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
Startup Energy, Snap Scale: AI as a Force Multiplier
Saral Jain
Saral JainSnap Inc.
Harry McCracken
Harry McCrackenFast Company
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Customer Engine2:20 PM - 2:25 PM
Opening Remarks
Mary Brennan
Mary BrennanAlpha St8 Consulting
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Customer Engine2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
Can AI Protect the Enterprise from Itself?
Charles Carmakal
Charles CarmakalMandiant
Wendi Whitmore
Wendi WhitmorePalo Alto Networks
Adam Meyers
Adam MeyersCrowdstrike
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Customer Engine2:50 PM - 3:15 PM
When AI Joins the Team
Brian Peterson
Brian PetersonDialpad
Jennifer Smith
Jennifer SmithScribe
Tim Shi
Tim ShiCresta
Emil Protalinski
Emil ProtalinskiTechmeme and EPro Strategies
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Customer Engine3:15 PM - 3:40 PM
Turning Customer Conversations into Action
Dylan Fox
Dylan FoxAssemblyAI
Priya Vijayarajendran
Priya VijayarajendranASAPP
Arun Chandra
Arun ChandraNICE
Andrew Tan
Andrew TanTLDR AI
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Control Room1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Driving Long-Term Impact in an AI Economy
Winston Weinberg
Winston WeinbergHarvey
Kris Fredrickson
Kris FredricksonVerified Capital
Shirin Ghaffary
Shirin GhaffaryBloomberg
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Control Room1:55 PM - 2:20 PM
The AI Compliance Flywheel in Regulated Finance
Kathy Kay
Kathy KayPrincipal Financial Group
Lara Shackelford
Lara ShackelfordiCapital Network
Jennifer Tescher
Jennifer TescherFinancial Health Network
Patrick Kulp
Patrick KulpMorning Brew
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Control Room2:20 PM - 2:45 PM
Building Global Financial Infrastructure from the Ground Up
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach
Rakefet Russak-AminoachTeam8
Juan Pablo Ortega
Juan Pablo OrtegaYuno
Laura Spiekerman
Laura SpiekermanAlloy
Madison Mills
Madison MillsAxios
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Control Room2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Hyperscaling Trust in the Next Generation of Fintech
Shivani Siroya
Shivani SiroyaTala
Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-VolkovaForbes
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Control Room3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
What AI Is Really Changing in Finance
Prem Natarajan
Prem NatarajanCapital One
Reece Rogers
Reece RogersWIRED
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Control Room3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
AI, Traceability, and the New Frontier of Financial Crime
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan LevinChainalysis
Brett Gibson
Brett GibsonInitialized Capital
Lucinda Shen
Lucinda ShenAxios
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Main12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Attendee Lunch
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Main12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
AI growth strategies in Europe – Business Location Switzerland Lunch Event
Sponsored by Business Location Switzerland
Business Location Switzerland
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Builders12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Devrev Inc. Sponsored Lunch
Sponsored by DevRev
DevRev
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Builders1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CTO Leadership Series Lunch
Sponsored by WEKA
WEKA
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Main2:15 PM - 2:55 PM
Q&A with Eric Newcomer, Founder at Newcomer
Eric Newcomer
Eric NewcomerNewcomer
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Customer Engine2:15 PM - 2:55 PM
Q&A with Hans Tung, Managing Partner at Noteable Capital
Hans Tung
Hans TungNotable Capital
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Builders2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Technology Peer [X]Change: As AI Reshapes the Stack, What Are We Actually Securing?
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Builders3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Roundtable | Inside the Incumbent Mindset on AI: A Playbook for Startups That Want to Matter
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach
Rakefet Russak-AminoachTeam8
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Customer Engine2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Roundtable | Measuring What Matters: Enterprise Metrics for Agentic Systems
Priya Vijayarajendran
Priya VijayarajendranASAPP
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Customer Engine2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Roundtable | Rejection is hot
Renate Nyborg
Renate NyborgMeeno
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Customer Engine2:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Roundtable | Becoming AI Native: How AI is Driving Innovation and Optimizing Workflows
George Arison
George ArisonGrindr
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Customer Engine3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Customer Experience Peer [X]Change: AI Without Design Is Just Faster Dysfunction: The CX and EX Conversation Nobody Is Having.
Sponsored by Amdocs Studios
Amdocs Studios
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Control Room1:15 PM - 1:55 PM
Roundtable | From Institution to Intelligence
Mark Howard
Mark HowardTIME
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Control Room2:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Roundtable | Next generation military technology - autonomous systems, AI, drones
Nand Mulchandani
Nand MulchandaniStanford
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Ecosystem1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Roundtable | Inside Microsoft’s Roadmap: Where the Next Startup Opportunities Will Emerge
Fatima Kardar
Fatima KardarMicrosoft
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Ecosystem2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Roundtable | Green Shoots + Innovation in Open Source AI
Mark Surman
Mark SurmanMozilla
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Ecosystem3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Roundtable | Where ServiceNow Is Building Next: The Startup Opportunities Ahead
Amit Zavery
Amit ZaveryServiceNow
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Builders1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Monetizing AI: A Playbook for Growth at the Speed of Innovation
Sponsored by Metronome
Metronome
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Builders2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
AI-Native by Design
Sponsored by AWS
AWS
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Builders2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Adopting AI within Streaming Architectures
Sponsored by Redpanda
Redpanda
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Builders3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Decart Masterclass
Sponsored by Decart
Decart
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Customer Engine3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Operationalizing AI at Scale: A Leadership Playbook for AI-First Enterprises​
Sponsored by Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere
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Control Room3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
1mind Masterclass
Sponsored by 1mind
1mind
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Ecosystem2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
The RFT Playbook: Faster Feedback, Better Models
Sponsored by Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI
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