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AGENDA

What We'll Explore

Registration Opens

7:30 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM

Welcome: Harnessing AI for Transformative Value

9:00 AM

Paul Baier and John Sviokla will discuss key lessons from 2024, share predictions for 2025 and 2026 based on GAI Insights' research, and there will be a brief message from our platinum and gold sponsors.

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Paul Baier

John Sviokla 

GAI Insights

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

Co-Founder

Fireside Chat: View from a Board Member and CEO of a Publicly Traded Company

9:15 AM

WEX is a multi-billion-dollar global payments firm. Paul will discuss how an HBS professor and board member views GenAI, and how a CEO drives transformational GenAI change while managing the expectations of investors, the board, and other stakeholders.

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Shikar Ghosh

Paul Baier

Melissa Smith

Harvard Business School

GAI Insights

CEO

Professor

Co-Founder

WEX (NYSE: WEX)

Panel Moderator

10 Predictions for AI

9:40 AM

Ulrike leads a team at one of the largest investment banks in the world and will share top trends and implications they see from GenAI/AI. Will value creation move beyond chip and foundational models sold by cloud providers?

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi

UBS

Chief Investment Officer for Global Equities

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Making it Real: GenAI Could Transform Your Business with our Proven WINS Framework

10:00 AM

The WINS framework was featured in the September 2023 HBR. This session reveals why firms heavily invested in creating or enhancing words, images, numbers, and sounds are poised for significant disruption—and opportunity. See how this framework can be used for assessing urgency and opportunity at the industry, company and job level.

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John Sviokla 

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

Adam Rappaport

Prompt Example from Adam and Two AI Startup Pitches Sway AI and Thoughtly

10:10 AM

Adam Rappaport

Adam Rappaport

Data#3 and GAI Insights

AI Solution Architect

& Analyst

Break

10:20 AM

Coffee Break: Time to Recharge Your Circuits

Driving Change at Scale and Ensuring Competitive Advantage

10:50 AM

What are the leadership issues when moving from GenAI prototype, to pilot, to production, to portfolio in a large enterprise. How are impactful project chosen?  What techniques successfully accomplish executive and organizational alignment and execution?

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Andy Fanning

Cigna

Former AI Leader

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Sandeep Sacheti

Wolters Kluwer

Former EVP CIO

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Paul Baier

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

Panel Moderator

Lessons from AI Leaders

11:15 AM

Top leaders share how they have achieved AI-driven success and lessons from their GenAI systems in production. John and Bill will each present for ten minutes and then John Sviokla will moderate a 10 minute discussion of implications and lessons for the audience.

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Bill Fandrich

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations

John Sviokla 

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

Panel Moderator

Rizwan Mallal

Quantum Gears

COO

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John Spottiswood

Jerry

Chief Operating

& Data Officer

11:45 AM

Prompt Example from Adam and Two AI Startup Pitches The Institute for Experiential AI and Geminus AI

Adam Rappaport

Adam Rappaport

Data#3 and GAI Insights

AI Solution Architect

& Analyst

Lunch

11:55 AM

Refuel & Recharge: Nourish Your Mind and Machine

Break-Out Sessions

12:55 PM

12:55 PM

Building Tomorrow: The AI-Driven Healthcare Provider

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Jose Pedro Almeida

Intelligence Ventures

Chief AI Strategist

1:15 PM

AI Trends in Life Sciences and Medical Devices

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Badri Raghavan

ResMed

VP of AI & M

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Matt Lewis

LLMental

Founder and CEO

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John Sviokla 

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

1:35 PM

Remaking a 160 Year Old, World Leading Healthcare Organization

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Thomas Kingsley

UCLA

Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics

1:55 PM

What to expect from AI in Healthcare in 2025

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Ryan Vega, M.D.

Vantiq

Chief Medical Officer

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Toby Eduardo Redshaw

Verus Advisory

CEO

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Saurabha Bhatnagar

HMS

Chief Health Officer

2:15 PM

Insights from Recent Forbes Research

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Janett Haas

Forbes

SVP, Forbes Research and Insights

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Ross Gagnon

Forbes

Executive Director of Research

Break

2:35 PM

The View From Key Suppliers: What Are the Emerging Best Practices and Top 2 Trends for 2025

3:05 PM

A moderated panel from leading providers. What can we expect in 2025? Which is better - closed or open source? How soon will small models be ready for enterprise deployment?

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Yasmina Benkhoui

Pankaj Dugar

Paul Baier

NVIDIA

AI21

GAI Insights

              SVP & GM                North America

Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, & Ecosystem Lead

Co-Founder

Panel Moderator

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Andy Roberts

Microsoft

Data Platform & AI Architect

Fireside Chat: How to "Own Your Edge"

3:35 PM

Inflection AI is a leading fontier model and is helping firms own their own intelligence. Enterprises have demanding control over vital knowledge and assets to ensure a competitive advantage in this age of AI. How Should Companies Think About This?

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Ted Shelton

Inflection AI

COO

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Markus Flierl

Intel Cloud Services

Corporate Vice President

Innovation from the GenAI Frontlines

3:50 PM

Generative AI is unlocking limitless possibilities for innovation. In this session, Sri Elaprolu, Director and Global Head of the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, will share lessons learned from the last year on the frontlines with the Generative AI Innovation Center that have helped hundreds of businesses to build and scale generative AI applications.

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Sri Elaprolu

Director

Generative AI Innovation Center at Amazon Web Services

Turning Enterprise Data into a Strategic Asset

4:00 PM

Igor will share an overview of how they help companies drive value from their data in a trusted, safe, and proven way with GenAI.

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Igor Jablokov

Pryon

CEO

Where is AI Technolgy Going? Where will most value be created?

4:15 PM

Ramesh will share where he is seeing the top 5 mega AI trends that executives and investors need to be aware of the next 2 years and the biggest areas of value creation

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Ramesh Raskar

MIT Media Lab

Associate Director

Promise or Peril? Investing in the AI Wave from a VC Perspective.

4:25 PM 

VC are at the cutting edge of evaluating GenAI/AI technologies and are making massive bets. What are the leading trends they are seeing and are excited about?

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Rudina Seseri 

Chip Hazard

Scott Kirsner

Glasswing Ventures

Flybridge Capital Partners

InnoLead

Founder and Managing Partner

General Partner and Co-Founder 

CEO

4:50 PM

1 Prompt Example - Adam Rappaport
2 AI Startups: Oblio and Jaxon AI

Adam Rappaport

Adam Rappaport

Data#3 and GAI Insights

AI Solution Architect

& Analyst

Trends, Implications, and Questions from the Day

5:00 PM

John Sviokla reviews the day and then Ted Shelton, from Inflection AI, introduces the reception.

John Sviokla

GAI Insights

Co-Founder

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Ted Shelton

Inflection AI

COO

5:10 PM to 6:30 PM

Reception

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Scheduled Dinners or Dinner on Your Own

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