Constellation's AI Forum | September 2025
Time for a hot beverage, some light breakfast, and some human centric networking! Get registered and ready to go
Your co-hosts Mark Minevich, Dr. David Bray, and R "Ray" Wang will welcome the pioneers, practitioners, policy shapers to the AI Forum.
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Constellation Research's Artificial Intelligence 150 (AI150) is an elite list of the top global executives leading AI transformation efforts across their organization and industry. With the boom of Generative AI, automation, and machine learning playing a pivotal role in accelerating digital transformation across all industries, these leaders embody the characteristics and knowledge needed to push the AI agenda further to drive organizational change.
The AI150 are the top pioneers, practitioners, and policy shapers who are inspiring others to accelerate AI transformation and address the key business and technology issues of this generation. Each leader listed on the AI150 demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how the world is responding to artificial intelligence and how new technologies can be leveraged for future innovation. The selected executives enjoy substantive benefits and a private VIP invitation for membership to the Constellation Executive Network.
This is the session where we recognize the Class of 2025 AI. Please congratulate them at this recognition ceremony.
Want to nominate an executive disrupting their group, organization, industry or category? Email [email protected] with the name, title and what makes this person extraordinary to be considered to the list. Please note executives can't be named to the list more than once in a consecutive year.
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With artificial intelligence (AI) projects all the rage, organizations must make a strategic determination to create a new CxO role, at least at a functional level if not at a title level. This decision should not be made lightly, however. Although the chief AI officer (CAIO) role is critical to an organization’s success, the level of collaboration across business, IT, finance and operations, HR, and legal risk and compliance requires an unprecedented level of cooperation and orchestration. Boards will also want to consider AI at the same level as cybersecurity.
Learn what it takes to bring AI projects to life from a centralized, federated, and decentralized point of view from the AI150 alumni.
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Legacy companies are thinking at the wrong scale. Whatever gains expected from digital transformation will be blown to shreds by AI Exponentials at a logarithmic scale not seen since the advent of the internet. While at first this may sound like more AI hyperbole, the early indications for organizations who begin their journey as AI Natives by design show a tremendous advantage versus the AI Enabled who have to reduce their legacy technology, cultural, and financial debt.
In three years, Constellation expects the first $1 billion services company to be staffed by 1000 FTEs. A 100 person software company will take out a $100 billion ARR company in the next three years. The first single person $1B ARR company will arrive within five years. Companies that are driving millions of ARR with few employees dominate the new landscape. With AI intelligence doubling every 7 months, the pace of innovation has never been faster. Let's learn from the AI Exponentials and understand how they are ruling the world.
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The rubber meets the road as organizations from from POC's to real AI projects. After the past years of experimentation, learn what's really working in AI projects from leaders willing to share lessons learned, best practices, and on the ground advice. The conversation will move into the audience as we learn from the best experts in the room - your peers.
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Grab a bite to eat, chat with a friend, and come back ready for more!
The Age of AI requires massive compute. Data centers run on chips, energy, and data. The future will be defined by the innovations in advanced AI computing and data center design. Find out what's next for these computing advancements.
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This panel cuts through vendor hype to deliver the unvarnished economic truth about the most consequential decision facing enterprise AI adoption. Experience a masterclass in AI investment strategy as industry veterans perform a brutally honest cost-benefit analysis of custom AI development versus off-the-shelf solutions that often promise more than they deliver. Gain insider knowledge on how AI-native architecture impacts long-term maintenance costs and performance. potentially saving your organization millions in hidden technical debt. This session delivers actionable intelligence for executives making bet-the-company decisions on AI implementation.
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It's time to demolish the outdated thinking about AI and jobs. This is the last generation of managers to only manage humans. Let's take a look at how visionary organizations are completely reimagining work itself. Witness how leading companies are designing revolutionary human-AI partnerships that are rendering traditional job descriptions and career ladders obsolete. Get an exclusive preview of emerging organizational models that are creating entirely new categories of human work. roles that couldn't exist without AI augmentation.
This forward-looking session is essential for executives and HR leaders who need to prepare their organizations and workforces for a future where the question isn't whether AI will replace jobs, but how AI will transform them.
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Successful AI projects blend data strategy, outcomes-based approaches, and cultural transformation to achieve success in AI. The goal of Agentic AI is decision automation and intelligence. Organizations that thrive understand that the outcome is not more automation but identifying where and when to insert a human. As the last generation of humans to only manage humans, these organizations build a cultural DNA that achieves machine scale with human ingenuity. Hear from the leaders successfully driving AI in the boardroom and in the executive suite.
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The proliferation and mass adoption of artificial intelligence has only increased the prevalence of deepfakes. In a world where reality can be easily manipulated and distoreted, uncover the strategies to combat deep fakes and gain an understanding of how to authoritate authenticity at the source. Learn why its importable to be portable across all AI Systems.
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Join us for lunch at the Rooftop Terrace, overlooking the Washington Monument with views of the golf course and
tennis courts. We'll have time to reflect, share more ideas, and catch up with someone you've wanted to connect with.
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If we do not design our enterprise's security and safeguards well, AI will become our biggest insider threat. Learn what it takes to ensure systems will be protected and dynamically upgraded as conditions change.
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Successful AI projects requires a concerted data strategy, strong leadership, employee centric approaches, and technology that meets business objectives. Learn from this esteemed panel on what use cases are being deployed and what success looks like and how to fail fast and learn quicker.
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The road to autonomy is here. Physical Agentic AI systems (robots, drones, vessels) will make their own decisions. These systems must have enough data to achieve a level of precision that stakeholders can trust. In fact, the data sets required for training require a scaling of time. Learn how simulation, training, and run time systems can accelerate the development of these systems.
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Your co-hosts Mark Minevich, Dr. David Bray, and R "Ray" Wang will wrap up the event with final thoughts and lessons learned.
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Join us on the patio as we grab drinks, catch up on the day, and finish that one thought.
Invite only special dinner planned. You'll know if you are on the list. Secret details and locations on a need to know basis.