Constellation's AI Forum 2026

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

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, Michael Ni, and R "Ray" Wang will welcome the pioneers, practitioners, policy shapers to the AI Forum. Catch the latest trends and insights in this fast moving market and don't forget to take the latest AI survey!

As AI moves from assisting work to influencing decisions, the real disruption isn’t just automating decisions, it’s how organizations redefine roles, authority, and accountability. This session explores how leading enterprises are redesigning teams, old/new sets of responsibilities, incentives, and spans of control as decision-making increasingly shifts from humans alone to human-AI systems.

As AI systems influence real-time decisions across the enterprise, the question is no longer who owns AI, but who is accountable when it acts. CAIOs and CDOs must now work in lockstep with COOs and CROs to embed governance, risk controls, and operational discipline into AI-driven processes. This session explores how leadership structures are evolving as AI becomes mission-critical infrastructure.

Constellation's 5 Levels of Maturity to AI range from

1. Augmentation
2. Acceleration
3. Automation
4. Agentic
5. Autonomous

Learn what's required for humans to stay in the loop and determine when autonomy helps and where it becomes reckless. Move from theory to practice on when organizations should place guardrails, kill switches and overrides in AI systems.

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

Time to separate the marketing hype from operating reality. As models move from foundational to frontier to commodity, learn how pioneers future proof their architectures. In this build versus buy versus compose calculus, context engineering may emerge as a competitive advantage. What solutions are delivering ROI and actually working. Learn how the top organizations make platform decisions with exponential impact.

National models, data sovereignty, and geopolitical realities converge as the world balances the thirst for power and the demand for compute. Discover where data centers are headed in 2026 and beyond.

Join us for lunch on the Quad patio. We'll have time to reflect, share more ideas, and catch up with someone you've wanted to connect with.

As AI agents begin researching products, negotiating terms, and initiating transactions on behalf of customers, the traditional model of human-centered engagement is rapidly shifting. This session explores how organizations must redesign experience, pricing, trust, and decision logic for a world where brands increasingly interact not just with people, but with their autonomous digital representatives.

Artificial intelligence marks an exponential shift unlike any prior technology era. As organizations rethink how work gets done, traditional staffing pyramids are giving way to smaller, high-leverage teams powered by digital labor. With a few deep experts and AI-driven tools, enterprises can now build and scale solutions in weeks—not years—often outperforming far larger legacy organizations.

As services become productized and product teams adopt service models, legacy firms struggle to adapt without an AI-first mindset. In contrast, AI-native organizations operate with a greater span of control through decision automation, pairing human judgment with digital labor to achieve step-change gains in speed, efficiency, and performance.

Learn who these firms are and what they bring to the table for their clients as AI is used to deliver on exponential scale and infinite possibilities.

Come share your favorite use cases as this interactive salon turns to the audience to hear what's working and what's not.

The New AI control plane requires right-time context and dynamic governance. A confluence of data, semantics, process, and decisions will decide what offers are served up, what actions are suggested, and how decisions are made. Hear what these advanced pioneers are doing to achieve decision velocity.

Many enterprise AI initiatives stall at insights and pilots, while domain-specific AI in industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain is already delivering production-scale outcomes. This panel will dive into how vertical AI solutions succeed by embedding domain context, decision logic, and operational constraints directly into workflows and closing the loop between insight, action, and measurable results.

Deploying AI safely requires more than policy frameworks. It demands operational security and real-world guardrails. This session examines how leading enterprises are categorizing AI risks, implementing core security controls, and enabling teams to move from experimentation to production without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk.

As AI investment shifts from broader bets and experimentation to infrastructure, capital is increasingly concentrating around new and durable moats, new flywheels, and what gains from AI, while retreating from feature-level wrappers and undifferentiated model plays. This session decodes what those capital signals mean for CIOs, transformation leaders, and capital allocators making platform bets that must still hold up three years from now.

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

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.