Constellation's AI Forum September 2026

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

Your co-hosts, Dr. David Bray, Mark Minevich, Michael Ni, and R "Ray" Wang, will welcome the pioneers, practitioners, and 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!

Join us in welcoming the newest class of AI150

Agents being trusted to scale need business meaning, operational state, policy, permissions and context. Explore what data, AI, and IT leaders are donig with their emerging enterprise architectures and what choices they can make today to drive trusted AI execution.

AI can increasingly recommend, decide, and act—but that doesn't mean every decision should be automated. Explore how leaders determine which decisions can be moved to autonomous decisioning, where humans remain essential, and how organizations balance speed, economics, risk, and trust.

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

As AI moves from recommendations toward actions, responsibility becomes less clear. Explore how the Boards/C-suite should divide ownership of AI outcomes, risk and governance.

This year's managers will be the last to manage only humans, needing to span managing people, agents, and automation together. Explore the implications for roles, accountability, skills and organizational design.

What happens when customers delegate discovery, evaluation, negotiation, and buying to AI? How do companies need to rethink experience, loyalty, and commerce?

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

AI has become an issue of national competitiveness, infrastructure and sovereignty. Explore what geopolitical competition means for enterprise technology strategy, risk and control.

A fast look at what happens to application, modernization, technical debt, and IT economics when AI can understand and rewrite legacy software dramatically faster.

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

Healthcare and pharma are becoming proving grounds for high-stakes AI, revealing what every enterprise can learn about balancing automation, human judgment, trust, and measurable outcomes as AI moves from advising to acting.

AI is changing more than content creation. It is reshaping production, personalization, distribution, audience management, and the economics of entertainment. Leading entertainment CIOs share where AI is creating real value today and where the hype is ahead of the studio reality.

Explore why the combination of physical AI, operations, measurable outcomes, and rich operational data may be turning industrial enterprises into one of AI's clearest proving grounds for ROI.

Explore how AI is connecting demand, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, and supply decisions into increasingly autonomous commerce balanced by decisions on where you still need to insert humans to decide, monitor, and/or intervene.

Data-rich, decision-intensive, and relentlessly measurable, financial services has fast become the proving ground for assigning explicit decision rights to AI ... and showing every industry how to balance autonomy, human judgment, risk and competitive advantage.

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