Leading the Future of Technology in Palo Alto
The CxO Institute West Coast US brings together over 100 senior C-Suite and IT executives from the heart of the Bay Area for a day focused on strategic insights and building high-value connections. As an exclusive, invitation-only event, it equips leaders with the knowledge and peer network needed to accelerate innovation and propel productivity.
The agenda will delve into critical topics like leveraging data for business impact, advanced cybersecurity strategies, and fostering a culture of technology leadership. Through a dynamic format of Keynotes, Panel Discussions, and Interactive Boardrooms, the program is designed to provide practical takeaways and a trusted network to help lead your organization’s next phase of growth.
Agenda
08:00 - 08:45
Registration & Networking Breakfast
08:45 - 09:35
Opening Keynote Panel Discussion
CxO
The New IT Playbook – The State of IT and What’s Next for Business Transformation
Exploring how technology, disruption, and leadership are reshaping the enterprise landscape.
- Where does the IT industry stand today?
- Which technologies are truly redefining the modern enterprise?
- The evolving risk landscape: data, AI, and security challenges keeping CXOs awake at night
- How technology leaders are shaping the next era of business transformation
Gopal Renganathan
Sr. Director Data & Analytics
Real Estate Anywhere
Saker Ghani
Chief Digital Officer
Citrin Cooperman
Geeta Pyne
Senior Managing Director and Chief Architect
TIAA
Neeta Mhatre
VP Asia Commercial OPs & China Strategy
Intuitive
Rohit Jain
Chief Information Officer
Harvard Business School
09:40 - 10:20
Data
Dashboards Disrupted: Why AI is the New BI
In the AI era, every organization on the planet is thinking about how to take advantage of this transformative technology before their competitors do. Those who adapt quickly will have the advantage. Nowhere is this more important than the tools we use to make important business decisions. For decades, we have operated on an old model: Build pipelines. Centralize your data. Deliver insight through Business Intelligence (BI) tools and dashboards. That model defined an era. But expectations are changing. As AI increases the pace of innovation in every industry, business leaders don’t want to dig for answers in static dashboards. They want immediate, trusted answers and the ability to act on those insights quickly. The old BI model of tickets, reports, and waiting for results just can’t keep up with the pace of change in today’s business environment. In this talk, Justin Borgman explores what creates those step functions in AI maturity inside large enterprises. Why do some organizations remain stuck optimizing dashboards and isolated copilots, while others unlock enterprise-wide AI adoption and production-scale impact. Drawing on real-world experience across highly regulated and complex global enterprises, Justin will outline the structural shifts that accelerate AI readiness, including:
- Flexible foundations that evolve with rapidly changing AI technologies
- Hybrid and federated data access that remove friction between teams and systems
- Model-agnostic architectures that preserve optionality as the AI landscape evolves
- Governance and business context embedded by design, not bolted on later
Justin Borgman
Chairman & CEO
Starburst Data
10:25 - 11:05
AI
The Agentic Enterprise: Lessons from the Frontier
Generative AI, from LLMs to Agents, is solving some of our hardest problems and creating new value streams - while also failing in catastrophic ways. Most efforts are not moving past the pilot stage because the same autonomy and access that makes agents so promising also makes them more challenging to govern, and capable of failing in ways that are difficult to predict and expensive to reverse. In this session, WSO2 and AWS share the practical implications and solutions for navigating this journey through the different stages of adoption, from integrating LLMs into your applications to building and operating autonomous agents at scale. What is new, what is different, and how supporting Agentic and Generative AI impacts and evolves your digital infrastructure. This is a pragmatic session for executives who need to move beyond the hype and establish foundations that balance the autonomy of AI with the non-negotiable requirements of enterprise security and reliability
Dr. Rania Khalaf
Chief AI Officer
WS02
Anila Joshi
Leader for strategic accounts and Senior Manager of Applied Science
AWS
AI
Trusted Data. Delivered Anywhere: An Operating Model for Modern Enterprises
Innovation demands speed—but rapid DevOps and AI initiatives often collide with data security, privacy, and compliance risks. As non-production environments become a growing attack surface, IT and security leaders must rethink how data is delivered across development, testing, and analytics workflows. This session explores how forward-thinking organizations are embracing secure data automation to eliminate friction, reduce exposure, and accelerate innovation. We’ll examine how policy-driven data delivery—integrated into DevOps and AI pipelines—can drive agility without sacrificing control.
Nick Suwyn
Presales Manager
Delphix
Security
AI, Automation, and Cyber Risk: What Leaders Must Understand Now
As AI and automation reshape workflows, they introduce new classes of cyber risk—from data integrity and model abuse to governance gaps. This session provides a clear introduction to AI-enabled cyber risk and the steps leaders must take to adopt AI responsibly and securely.
- How AI changes the cybersecurity threat landscape
- Risks unique to data, models, and automation pipelines
- AI governance: ownership, accountability, and ethics
- Practical guardrails for secure AI adoption
Bob Fabien Zinga
Information Warfare Commanding Officer
US Navy
11:10 - 11:50
AI
Beyond the Hype: Making AI Real in the Enterprise
- Building an AI Centre of Excellence in reality
- Where to start, what to prioritise, and how to deliver value - fast
- Balancing innovation, governance, and trust in the AI-driven enterprise
Kanika Saraiya Havelia
Senior Director, Finance & AI
Paypal
Strategy
Driving Enterprise Velocity: Low-Code Platforms Powered by Agentic AI
- Understand how agentic AI elevates low-code from faster delivery to autonomous, outcome-driven enterprise execution
- Learn how to modernise core systems with embedded AI while maintaining enterprise security, resilience and control
- Gain a practical perspective on achieving measurable productivity, innovation and ROI with governed AI platforms
Amit Bhutani
Corporate Vice President – Intelligent Business Automation
Persistent Systems
Data
Designing Defensible, Interoperable Data Foundations for AI in Healthcare
This boardroom roundtable will explore how the life sciences and healthcare industry can build AI‑ready data foundations that are defensible by design, interoperable across clinical and operational systems and governed for trust, compliance and scale. Hosted by EPAM in partnership with Microsoft in a small, peer‑driven discussion format, payor, provider, pharma and health tech participants will share real‑world challenges and approaches related to standardizing data, connecting fragmented systems (EHR, claims, imaging, labs), and establishing governance models that ground copilots/agents in real workflows. The session will focus on practical decision points healthcare leaders face today when preparing their data environments to support advanced analytics and AI‑driven transformation.
Ajay Patel
Managing Principal, Data Analytics
EPAM
11:55 - 12:35
CxO
AI Colleagues—Transforming the Back Office with Enterprise-wide Agentic AI
See why companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Sony, and MongoDB trust AI Colleagues to transform IT, HR, Finance/Procurement. In this session, watch AI Colleagues in action—employees talk with them just like human teammates to get answers, complete tasks, and execute backoffice workflows across ServiceNow, SAP, Workday, Oracle, UKG and more.
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What are AI colleagues? See them in action
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What back office functions (IT, HR, Finance, Procurement) are best performed by AI colleagues?
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What savings companies can expect from deploying AI colleagues?
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What are the common challenges companies face when implementing AI colleagues for the back office?
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Why not develop these in-house, using “free tools”?
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Why not just commission the AI agents on offer from the various system-of-record providers?
Adit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO
Leena AI
12:35 - 13:25
Networking Lunch
13:25 - 14:05
AI
Shaping the Future of Business with Trusted AI
In a world where AI’s promise often outpaces its reality, the latest C-level research reveals a profound shift in how leaders perceive and trust these emerging technologies, and how they can be deployed for effective return on investment. As AI agents become integral part of enterprise software, join Ian McCallum for this thought-provoking keynote to hear how we can shape a future, together, where technology is built to serve as a trusted advisor.
Ian McCallum
AI Solution Advisor
SAP
14:10 - 14:50
AI
From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: AI Agents in Regulated Environments
- How to deploy AI agents safely, compliantly, and with the right level of human oversight
- Designing, evaluating, and scaling an AI agent platform that works across the organisation#
- What it takes to sustain AI agents as regulations, models, and business needs evolve
- Defining and measuring ROI for AI agents without overpromising or under-delivering
Dhanshri More
AVP - AI
Molina Healthcare
Data
The Agentic Enterprise Starts With Your Data: How Leaders Unlock the Knowledge Trapped in Documents, Emails, and Files
- Most companies are sitting on their most valuable data — and their AI can’t access it
- The real reason AI projects fail to deliver executive-level impact
- What the shift to agentic AI means for your data strategy — and how to get ready
- A practical starting point for executives ready to move from AI experimentation to AI that works
Chris Maddock
Head of Product & Engineering
Unstructured
Security
From No to Go: Data Security for the AI-Driven Enterprise
In environments defined by SaaS sprawl, growing non-human identities, and the rise of generative and agentic AI, legacy Data Loss Prevention tools simply can’t keep up. We need a new approach to data security that shifts us from “no” and “slow” to “go.” Join this session to discuss how to:
- Scale data security through AI-native discovery and classification
- Move beyond classification to cross-platform enforcement that actually reduces risk
- Turn data protection into a business advantage by securely enabling AI projects
Sean Cordero
Chief AI Security Officer
Cyera
14:55 - 15:35
AI
Seeing the Unseen: How AI Observability Is Redefining Control in the Autonomous Enterprise
- How modern enterprises are evolving toward autonomy, and why traditional monitoring tools can’t keep up
- What “AI observability” really means in the context of mission-critical operations
- How New Relic enables deep, real-time insights across distributed, AI-powered environments
- Detecting anomalies, system state drift, and performance degradation before they impact customers
- Practical steps to implement AI observability and build confidence in autonomous decision-making systems
Camden Swita
Head of AI & ML Innovation
New Relic
Data
From Data Silos to Intelligent Enterprise Analytics: Breaking the Integration Paralysis
Most large enterprises manage 900+ applications across their technology portfolio, creating information silos that fundamentally limit organizational intelligence. While executives recognize this challenge, many remain paralyzed by the scale and complexity of integration, ETL efforts. This discussion explores how AI can serve as the "universal connector" - not requiring wholesale system replacement, but creating an intelligent overlay that bridges disparate data sources. We'll discuss how to move from analysis paralysis to progressive value creation through AI-powered data unification and insights. Key Discussion Points:
- How do you make your data AI ready?
- What are the most effective architectural patterns and technologies (e.g., data fabric, data mesh, modernized data warehousing) for breaking down existing data silos?
- What frameworks and technologies have been most useful for ETL, data prep - what is the ‘analytics and data stack’ for AI?
- AI as semantic bridge vs. traditional ETL approaches
- Measuring business impact beyond technical metrics - Cultivating Data Literacy and Cross-Functional Collaboration for AI Success
Brad Gyger
Chief Customer Officer
MindsDB
15:40 - 16:20
AI
“AI Colleagues” for the Back Office - How to Architect, Securely Deploy, and Govern Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
A comprehensive, open agentic AI architecture can empower CIOs to accelerate enterprise-wide AI adoption. Agentic AI technologies are poised to streamline workflows, ensure access control and governance, and minimize hallucinations—to deliver on the promise of agentic AI. In this session, you’ll explore how to:
- Define the architectural approach behind a unified agentic AI layer
- Abstract complexity, drive efficiencies, and accelerate time to business outcomes
- Enforce access control and governance
Adit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO
Leena AI
Data
Your AI Doesn't Know Your Business. Your Data Analysts Do. Your AI Journey Depends on Redefining Their Role
- Why most AI analytics pilots never reach production — and why the root cause is the absence of encoded business context, not a technology gapThe four layers of enterprise context AI cannot generate on its own — data, business, historical, and presentational — and what it takes to build them
- What AI Context Engineers actually do — a concrete walkthrough from translating executive intent into AI-ready knowledge through validation and ongoing governance
- From reactive to proactive — how always-on Proactive AI Agents that monitor metrics, detect anomalies, and deliver root-cause analysis are only as good as the context layer humans build beneath them
- The career inflection point — why 87% of data analysts say their role is more strategic than ever, and how the AI Context Engineer role transforms institutional knowledge from a side effect of good analytics work into the most critical function in the AI stack
Kapil Chhabra
CPO and Cofounder
Wisdom AI
16:25 - 17:00
Closing Keynote Panel Discussion
CxO
From Vision to Roadmap - Building the Next 6-Month IT Strategy for Data, AI & Security
- Turning IT vision into a focused 6-month roadmap that drives measurable outcomes
- Prioritising what matters: Converting AI, data, and security goals into actionable initiatives
- Building resilient, adaptable strategies in a fast-moving digital landscape
Gopal Renganathan
Sr. Director Data & Analytics
Real Estate Anywhere
Bob Fabien Zinga
Information Warfare Commanding Officer
US Navy
Tristian Cormier
Chief Information Officer / Director, Information Systems Division
San Joaquin County
Kevin Haas
Chief Technology Officer
Veracyte
17:00 - 18:00
Closing Drinks Reception
Event Chair
Gopal Renganathan
Sr. Director Data & Analytics
Real Estate Anywhere
Gopal Renganathan is a AI & Data leader with 20+ years of experience in developing and executing technology and data strategy including architecture, governance, monetization, analytics and AI/ML with expertise in product portfolio management and agile delivery for fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises in multiple verticals.
Gopal is currently the Senior Director for the biggest real estate tech company (multibillion dollar annual revenue) where he is working to create big data and AI/ML solutions to augment the intelligence of brokers, agents, and franchises.
Event Speakers
Gopal Renganathan
Sr. Director Data & Analytics
Real Estate Anywhere
Gopal Renganathan is a AI & Data leader with 20+ years of experience in developing and executing technology and data strategy including architecture, governance, monetization, analytics and AI/ML with expertise in product portfolio management and agile delivery for fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises in multiple verticals.
Saker Ghani
Chief Digital Officer
Citrin Cooperman
Saker Ghani is Citrin Cooperman's Chief Digital Officer, the executive changemaker leading the firm’s enterprise hub for AI, innovation, transformation, automation, and digital mandates. In this role, Saker integrates cross-functional domains and teams to shape and execute a unified digital strategy and AI vision, embedding advanced technologies into the fabric of the firm’s service delivery and business operations. He partners with executive leadership to anticipate change and harness both emerging and strategic opportunities, integrating digital as a core driver of innovation, competitive advantage, business planning, growth, and operational excellence.
Geeta Pyne
Senior Managing Director and Chief Architect
TIAA
Highly experienced Chief Architect and Engineering Leader with about 30 years of industry experience. Proven track record of leading digital transformations with next generation architecture strategies to deliver innovative capabilities that drive profitable business outcomes and accelerates SaaS business. A Data Strategy & Enterprise Architecture expert who has built global high-performance teams, leading to significant improvements in efficiency, cost savings, and new revenue generation. She started her career as a research scientist developing algorithms for Satellite Image Processing and takes pride in holding IP in India’s first parallel computer PARAM and Image Processing system ISROVISION.
Neeta Mhatre
VP Asia Commercial OPs & China Strategy
Intuitive
Neeta is an accomplished medical industry leader with over twenty five years of global experience in diverse organizations from startups to large corporations. She joined Intuitive Surgical in Feb 2015 to create the Program Management Office as a brand new function (Product Operations & Digital PMO). Most recently she took up the responsibility to manage the Strategy & Operations for China at Intuitive. Her current responsibility also includes managing Asia Commercial Operations, which is one of the fastest growing regions. Neeta was with Siemens for 12 years & had various leadership roles, from Business Head South Asia Cluster based out of India to Chief Information Officer within the Siemens Ultrasound Leadership Team based out of California. She was responsible for Product Management, Portfolio & Strategy for Siemens Ultrasound worldwide and started a PMO as well.
Rohit Jain
Chief Information Officer
Harvard Business School
Justin Borgman
Chairman & CEO
Starburst Data
Justin Borgman is a subject matter expert in Big data and analytics. Before founding Starburst, he was Vice President and GM at Teradata (NYSE: TDC), overseeing the company’s portfolio of Hadoop products. Justin joined Teradata in 2014 through the acquisition of his company Hadapt where he was co-founder and CEO. Hadapt created “SQL on Hadoop” turning Hadoop from a file system to an analytic database accessible by any BI tool. Justin founded Starburst in 2017 to give analysts the freedom to analyze diverse data sets anywhere without compromising on performance.
Dr. Rania Khalaf
Chief AI Officer
WS02
Dr. Rania Khalaf is the Chief AI Officer and GM of AI at WSO2, where she spearheads the company’s transition to an AI-native platform. With deep expertise spanning research, product development, and C-suite leadership, she specializes in translating complex AI and cloud capabilities into scalable enterprise value. Before WSO2, she was CIDO at Inari, building data and AI platforms to advance gene discovery. During her extensive tenure at IBM Research as Director of AI Engineering and a Distinguished Scientist, she brought foundational AI, automation, and cloud-native innovations to market. An MIT and University of Stuttgart alumna, Dr. Khalaf holds 8 patents and is a frequent speaker at leading institutions like MIT, Harvard, and Yale. She actively advises on responsible AI and governance, serving on the Massachusetts AI Strategic Task Force and the Museum of Science Boston Board of Advisors.
Anila Joshi
Leader for strategic accounts and Senior Manager of Applied Science
AWS
Anila Joshi, Leader for strategic accounts and Senior Manager of Applied Science at the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, where she spearheads transformative initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. With over a decade of distinguished experience in AI solution development, Anila has established herself as a visionary leader in the rapidly evolving generative AI landscape. In her pivotal role at AWS, Anila drives customer success by guiding organizations through the complete lifecycle of generative AI adoption—from initial ideation and strategic planning to secure implementation and deployment. She collaborates closely with enterprise customers to identify high-impact use cases, architect robust AI solutions, and navigate the complexities of integrating cutting-edge generative AI technologies into existing business frameworks driving tangible outcomes. Anila's expertise spans the full spectrum of AI applications, with particular depth in machine learning, natural language processing, and emerging generative AI technologies. Her work focuses on pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI while maintaining the highest standards of security, scalability, and performance that enterprises demand. As a thought leader in the field, Anila is passionate about democratizing AI innovation and helping organizations unlock new possibilities through AWS's comprehensive suite of AI and machine learning services. Her collaborative approach and deep technical acumen have made her an invaluable partner to customers seeking to harness the transformative power of generative AI to drive business growth and operational excellence. Prior to her current role, Anila built extensive experience across various AI domains, consistently delivering solutions that bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and practical, scalable business applications. She holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and the other in predictive analytics, from Northwestern University.
Nick Suwyn
Presales Manager
Delphix
Bob Fabien Zinga
Information Warfare Commanding Officer
US Navy
Bob Fabien Zinga is a trusted cybersecurity executive, U.S. Navy Information Warfare commander, and nationally recognized leadership voice who bridges the worlds of defense, technology, and the boardroom. With more than 21 years of military service and senior executive experience as a Chief Information Security Officer and virtual CISO, Bob has led cyber operations, protected critical missions, and advised organizations navigating risk, resilience, and rapid change. A dynamic keynote speaker and podcast host of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Bob is known for blending real-world cyber threats, servant leadership, emotional intelligence, and emerging technologies—especially AI—into practical, inspiring lessons. His talks challenge leaders to move beyond compliance toward trust, accountability, and decisive action. Bob speaks to executives, military leaders, and technologists worldwide, delivering clear, compelling insights that turn complexity into confidence and strategy into results.
Kanika Saraiya Havelia
Senior Director, Finance & AI
Paypal
Amit Bhutani
Corporate Vice President – Intelligent Business Automation
Persistent Systems
Amit Bhutani is Corporate Vice President – Intelligent Business Automation at Persistent Systems. With more than 20 years of leadership across automation, cloud, and enterprise software, Amit has led large-scale transformation initiatives at organizations including Workato, Automation Anywhere, Software AG, and HCL Tech, and served as a Board Member for DeepEdge, SaaSMonk.io, and Parasail.ai. His work focuses on helping enterprises operationalize AI in regulated, complex environments without sacrificing governance, security, or resilience.
Ajay Patel
Managing Principal, Data Analytics
EPAM
Adit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO
Leena AI
Recently a “Forbes 30 under 30”, Adit is a visionary entrepreneur and AI expert with rich experience leveraging AI to transform employee experience at Coca Cola, Nestle, Estee Lauder and Assurant.
Ian McCallum
AI Solution Advisor
SAP
Dhanshri More
AVP - AI
Molina Healthcare
I am an Associate Vice President at Molina Healthcare, where I focus on building an enterprise AI platform designed for strong AI governance, complaince, auditing, and faster, responsible AI adoption across the organization. Previously, I served as a Principal AI Architect in Microsoft’s AI Global Black Belt team, working closely with go-to-market, product, and field teams to drive enterprise AI adoption across multiple industries.
Chris Maddock
Head of Product & Engineering
Unstructured
Camden Swita
Head of AI & ML Innovation
New Relic
Camden Swita is Head of AI & ML at New Relic, where he leads the development of New Relic AI, change tracking, and lookout capabilities. In this role, he builds generative AI tools and agentic systems that help DevOps and product teams make sense of complex telemetry data. Camden’s goal is to unlock the value of observability and automation for everyone by building tools that improve reliability, speed up development, and support smarter decision-making across the software lifecycle.
Brad Gyger
Chief Customer Officer
MindsDB
I am a developer, turned salesperson, turned GTM leader. I’ve built teams in support of global-impact outcomes, serving technical users & buyers with technical solutions. I understand how capabilities translate into business value & outcomes, building high-performing teams around this foundational contruct. I’m looking for go-to-market executive leadership roles that allow me the opportunity to build strategies, teams, relationships, processes and programs with a direct impact on customer and company outcomes.
Kapil Chhabra
CPO and Cofounder
Wisdom AI
I am a product leader, founder, investor, and advisor with 20 years of experience in building and launching innovative B2B data products. I have a passion for solving complex and impactful problems with cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights. Currently, I am co-founding a stealth startup where we have created the next generation of AI-enabled data analytics products for enterprises. Previously, I led the Cloud Data business at Rubrik, Inc., where I grew the ARR to over $400M and launched multiple zero-to-one products in SaaS, Cloud, and Database verticals. Before that, I was a senior product manager for Kinesis at AWS, focusing on streaming data analytics and machine learning. I have also launched and scaled several award-winning data analytics products at Akamai Technologies, including Media Analytics and QoS Monitor. In addition, I invest in and advise early-stage startups that have a compelling vision and a strong team in the domains of AI, Cloud, and Data.
Tristian Cormier
Chief Information Officer / Director, Information Systems Division
San Joaquin County
Tristian Cormier is one of California’s most respected public-sector CIOs and a recognized voice in ethical, people-centered innovation. As the Director and Chief Information Officer for San Joaquin County, he leads a countywide technology organization serving approximately 826,000 residents, guiding cybersecurity, digital services, enterprise modernization and data-driven transformation with a focus on trust, clarity and operational excellence. Before joining San Joaquin County, Tristian served as Chief Information Officer for the California Secretary of State, where he led modernization across election-critical platforms, business transparency systems and statewide public-access services.
Kevin Haas
Chief Technology Officer
Veracyte
Kevin Haas, Chief Technology Officer, leads the development of Myriad's precision medicine platform to improve the patient/provider experience through digital engagement, harnessing genetic data, and fueling breakthrough products to advance health and well-being for millions. He has expertise in successful applications of large scale bioinformatics and AI technologies applied to diverse problems of genetics. Dr. Haas received a B.S. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of California-Berkeley, where he worked on molecular simulation and machine learning to study protein dynamics from single molecule fluoresce. He has co-authored 21 peer reviewed publications and 14 patent applications.
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