Constellation's AI Forum | September 2025

September 30, 2025
Sponsorship Closed
Thursday, March 19
Registration Check-In and Breakfast
7:00am - 8:00am, Sept 30

Time for a hot beverage, some light breakfast, and some human centric networking!  Get registered and ready to go
 

Welcome and Blast Off!
8:00am - 8:20am, Sept 30

Your co-hosts Mark Minevich, Dr. David Bray, and R "Ray" Wang will welcome the pioneers, practitioners, policy shapers to the AI Forum. 


 

Hosts

Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Mark Minevich
Global AI Leader
Principal Analyst and Founder
Market Maker 1:1 Fireside Chat with Boomi's Chris Hallenbeck
8:20am - 8:40am, Sept 30

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Chris Hallenbeck
SVP and GM of AI & Platform
Constellation's AI 150 Induction Ceremony
8:40am - 9:00am, Sept 30

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. 

Hosts

Mark Minevich
Global AI Leader
Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Elias Eldayrie
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Mukund Gopalan
Global Chief Data Officer
Krista Kinnard
Deputy Chief AI Officer
Anoop Narang
Head of Digital Workplace & Ai Solutions
Arvind Thinagarajan
Vice President, Head of Enterprise Data Science & Analytics
Manish Limaye
Chief Data Officer
Nicolai Wadstrom
Partner, Co-Head of Ares Venture Capital and AI Innovation Groups
Executive Exchange: Who Should Lead AI? Let's Ask The AI150
9:00am - 9:20am, Sept 30

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.  

Hosts

Vice President and Principal Analyst
Tracey Cesen
Founder & CEO
Manish Limaye
Chief Data Officer
CR Talk: A Conversation With The Father of Google Gemini
9:20am - 9:40am, Sept 30

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Peter Danenberg
Senior Software Engineer
Brain Trust: Here Come the AI Exponentials
9:40am - 10:00am, Sept 30

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. 

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Founder
Cosmic Conversations: Pragmatic Use Cases in AI
10:00am - 10:30am, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Vice President and Principal Analyst
Mukund Gopalan
Global Chief Data Officer
Krista Kinnard
Deputy Chief AI Officer
Solar Flare Break
10:30am - 10:50am, Sept 30

Grab a bite to eat, chat with a friend, and come back ready for more!

The Brain Trust: Powering the Age of AI - The Data Center Revolution
10:50am - 11:10am, Sept 30

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. 

Hosts

Mark Minevich
Global AI Leader
Cosmic Conversations: Build vs. Buy: The Economics of Custom AI Solutions in the Enterprise
11:10am - 11:30am, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Chief Distiller, Board Advisor
Tracey Cesen
Founder & CEO
Jeff Frazier
Operating Partner/Private Equity
The Brain Trust: Beyond Replacement: Redefining Human Work in the Age of AI
11:30am - 11:50am, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Vice President and Principal Analyst
Co-Founder and CAO
Jonathan Feldman
Chief Information Officer
Neil Gomes
System SVP for Digital and Human Experiences
The Brain Trust: Harness the Power of AI and Agentic AI
11:50am - 12:10pm, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Chief Distiller, Board Advisor
Professor of the Practice, Partner, Chairman
Michael Bachman
Head of Research
Denise Holt
Founder and CEO
The Brain Trust: The Future of Authenticity and Decentralized AI
12:10pm - 12:30pm, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Maria Roat
Federal Deputy CIO
Power Lunch
12:30pm - 1:30pm, Sept 30
Lunch

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.

The Brain Trust: Real Tales of AI for Good
1:30pm - 1:50pm, Sept 30

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Vice President, Customer Delight & Operations
Ron Guerrier
Chief Technology Officer
Executive Exchange: What Happens When AI Systems Go Haywire
1:50pm - 2:10pm, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Dana Hudson
Founder and CEO
Anthony Scriffignano
Distinguished Fellow
Trent Teyema
President and Founder
The Brain Trust: AI In Action - The CIO View
2:10pm - 2:30pm, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Vice President and Principal Analyst
Scott Gnau
Vice President of Data Platforms
Nicolai Wadstrom
Partner, Co-Head of Ares Venture Capital and AI Innovation Groups
Visionaries: Trustworthy Physical AI - The Road to Autonomous Systems
2:30pm - 2:50pm, Sept 30

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.

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Jags Kandasamy
Co-Founder & CEO
The Brain Trust: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare Delivery
2:50pm - 3:10pm, Sept 30

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Scott Gnau
Vice President of Data Platforms
Anand Iyer
Chief AI Officer
Johnny Wu
EVP and Chief Clinical Officer
Visionaries: The State of AI Policy
3:10pm - 3:30pm, Sept 30

Hosts

Principal Analyst and Founder
Julia Glidden
Board Chair
Mark Minevich
Global AI Leader
Brain Trust: Humanity's Mission and Purpose in an Age of AI
3:30pm - 3:50pm - Sept 30

Hosts

Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Principal Analyst and Founder
Teresa Carlson
President
Final Thoughts and Wrap-up
3:50pm - 4:00pm, Sept 30

Your co-hosts Mark Minevich, Dr. David Bray, and R "Ray" Wang will wrap up the event with final thoughts and lessons learned. 

Hosts

Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Mark Minevich
Global AI Leader
Principal Analyst and Founder
Happy Hour
4:00pm - 5:30pm, Sept 30

Join us on the patio as we grab drinks, catch up on the day, and finish that one thought. 

Cosmic Feast: VIP Dinner For Speakers, Sponsors, and Special Guests
5:30pm - 8:00pm, Sept 30

Invite only special dinner planned. You'll know if you are on the list. Secret details and locations on a need to know basis.