AI X Leadership Summit
A board-ready playbook for AI adoption, governance, risk, and ROI — built by the executives and practitioners who have scaled it in production.
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Co-located with ODSC AI West in the heart of Silicon Valley, the AI X Leadership Summit brings together industry leaders and pioneers at the forefront of applications and innovation from across the country. A full slate of talks, panels, and workshops on watershed technologies like LLMs, Generative AI, and agentic systems — designed to empower you to implement next-gen AI solutions.
A summit built for every AI leader
Tracks and content curated across the disciplines driving enterprise AI forward.
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Build an enterprise AI vision, align leadership teams, and create a practical roadmap for sustainable adoption.
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Top reasons to attend
Leave with a playbook, not notebook scribbles
Frameworks for AI adoption, governance, risk, and ROI you can put in front of your board — drawn from teams actually running AI in production, not pundits.
250 seats means you meet the right 249 people
Heads of AI, CDOs, CTOs, and emerging leaders — curated, seated, and introduced. No badge-scanning crowd.
See what's working before your competitors do
Real deployments, real failures, real recovery playbooks from execs at the frontier — the stuff that never makes the blog posts.
Key AI Topics
The most important Generative AI topics across industries — from strategy and governance to agents and automation.
AI Leadership & Strategy
Build an enterprise AI vision, align leadership teams, prioritize high-value opportunities, and create a practical roadmap for sustainable adoption.
Scaling AI Beyond the Pilot
Move AI initiatives from experimentation to production with executive sponsorship, data readiness, operational integration, and change management.
AI Governance, Risk & Trust
Manage security, compliance, model risk, responsible AI, and the new challenges created by autonomous agents and AI-driven decision-making.
AI ROI & Business Value
Measure the financial and operational impact of AI, evaluate digital labor, prioritize investments, and connect AI initiatives to tangible business outcomes.
AI and the Future of Work
Explore how AI is changing roles, skills, leadership, organizational structures, and human–AI collaboration across the enterprise.
AI for Marketing & Sales
How AI is transforming customer engagement, content, pricing, sales enablement, and revenue operations — while managing hallucinations, inaccurate claims, and brand risk.
AI for Product
Learn from real-world AI product launches, including evaluation failures, customer-facing hallucinations, fallback experiences, legal alignment, and recovery strategies.
AI for Finance
AI-powered forecasting, pricing intelligence, financial planning, risk management, scenario modeling, and the controls needed for responsible financial decision-making.
AI Agents & Automation
How AI agents are reshaping business operations, where autonomous systems create value, and how organizations can deploy them securely and responsibly.
250 seats. Reserve yours.
Join the executives and practitioners shaping enterprise AI at ODSC AI West 2026.
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Featured speakers
A snapshot of the executives and practitioners leading the conversation at AI X.
Host of the Super Data Science Podcast and bestselling author on deep learning and AI.
Leading researcher on the limits of large language models, reasoning, and AI safety.
Pioneer in general-purpose robotics and self-supervised learning at the frontier of embodied AI.
Former Director of Research at Google. Co-author of the definitive AI textbook.
Led GitHub through the Copilot era, shaping how AI transforms software development at scale.
One of the most influential researchers in machine learning, statistics, and decision-making systems.
Former GM of IBM Watson. Board-level voice on Responsible AI and enterprise adoption.
Applied AI and data science leader focused on securing agentic systems in the enterprise.
Shaping how frontier AI economics translate into pricing, packaging, and monetization.
Leads data science and AI infrastructure at Meta, scaling platforms that power AI products globally.
Building the leading community for AI founders, researchers, and investors in Silicon Valley.
Investing at the intersection of AI infrastructure, enterprise adoption, and public markets.
Leads AI product capabilities powering commerce experiences at global scale.
Driving enterprise AI, data, and responsible deployment across financial services.
Investor and long-time analyst tracking how AI reshapes go-to-market, community, and the enterprise.
2x CFO and AI finance expert; ex-Google, ex-BlackRock, ex-EY. Board advisor and qualified financial expert.
Building AI products for real-world ambiguity; founder focused on applied AI in the enterprise.
Leads AI and innovation architecture at UPS, shaping the future of logistics and enterprise operations.
280+ speakers across ODSC AI West
These are a few of the leaders you'll be in the room with. 250 seats — reserve yours before they're gone.
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Full schedule at a glance
Times are subject to change. Day 3: Keep building with the AI practitioners at ODSC AI West (co-located, included with your 3-Day AIX Pass).
Day 1
Tuesday, October 27
AI Leadership Day
- 8:00 AMRegistration Opens
- 9:00 AMAI X Keynote Talks Start
- 10:00 AMCoffee & Networking Break
- 10:30 AMPanel: Leading the AI Enterprise
- 11:20 AMLeadership Talk
- 12:00 PMExecutive Roundtable Discussion
- 1:00 PMLunch & Networking
- 2:00 PMExecutive Roundtable Discussion
- 3:05 PMCoffee & Networking Break
- 3:30 PMPanel: The VC View — Where AI Capital Is Flowing in 2026
- 4:20 PMLeadership Talk
- 5:00 PMAI Social + VIP & Speaker Welcome Networking Reception
More Coming Soon
More talks, panels, and sessions coming soon. Explore the full co-located ODSC AI West schedule.
Day 2
Wednesday, October 28
AI for Work Day
- 8:00 AMRegistration & Breakfast Networking
- 9:00 AMODSC AI Keynotes (co-located)
- 10:30 AMCoffee & Networking Break
- 11:00 AMAI for Work Talks Start
- 12:10 PMExecutive Roundtable Discussion
- 1:00 PMLunch & Networking
- 2:00 PMPanel: Lessons from Failed AI Product Launches
- 3:05 PMCoffee & Networking Break
- 3:30 PMPanel: When GTM AI Promises Too Much
- 4:20 PMAI for Work Talk
- 7:00 PM+AI After Dark
More Coming Soon
More talks, panels, and sessions coming soon. Explore the full co-located ODSC AI West schedule.
Day 3
Thursday, October 29
ODSC AI West — Co-located Day
- 9:00 AMRegistration & Breakfast Networking
- 9:30 AMODSC AI Keynotes
- 11:00 AMCoffee & Networking Break
- 11:30 AMTechnical Talks and Tutorials Start
- 1:00 PMLunch & Networking
- 2:00 PMTechnical Talks and Tutorials Continue
- 2:30 PMStartup Showcase Pitches
- 4:00 PMEvent Wrap Reception
Co-located Experience
Experience the immersive sessions of the co-located ODSC AI West. Browse the full ODSC AI West schedule.
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4 Tracks · 26 Topics · AI X Leadership Summit
Founders, product leaders, executives, transformation owners · 250 seats only · three executive roundtables · included on every pass, Silver and above
AI Leadership
- Enterprise AI Vision
- Leadership Alignment
- AI Adoption Roadmaps
- Executive Sponsorship
- Data Readiness
- Change Management
- Scaling Beyond the Pilot
AI for Work
- Changing Roles & Skills
- Human-AI Collaboration
- Organizational Design
- Agents in Business Operations
- Workforce Enablement
- Leading an AI-Augmented Team
AI Governance, Risk & Trust
- Governance & Compliance
- Model Risk Management
- Responsible AI
- Autonomous Agent Oversight
- Security & Access for Agents
- Audit & Controls
AI ROI & Business Value
- AI ROI Measurement
- Digital Labor Evaluation
- Investment Prioritization
- Customer Engagement & Content
- Sales Enablement & Revenue Ops
- AI Product Launches & Fallbacks
- Forecasting & Pricing Intelligence
Agenda
Curated sessions for AI leaders
A hand-picked program of talks, panels, and roundtables. Additional sessions are being finalized — new speakers announced weekly.
AI X Leadership
Board-level strategy, governance, security, and the capital shaping enterprise AI.
When AI Becomes Digital Labor: How Leaders Should Measure ROI, Risk, and Impact
A pragmatic look at how boards and executives should evaluate AI as digital labor — measuring ROI, risk, and organizational impact at scale.
Don't Let Your Agents Become Autonomous Insiders
How to design agentic systems with security, permissioning, and observability from day one — before autonomy becomes a liability.
Details to be announced.
Details to be announced.
Details to be announced.
The VC View: Where AI Capital Is Flowing in 2026
Leading investors on what's actually getting funded, where valuations are landing, and which enterprise AI bets look defensible in the next cycle.
Leading the AI Enterprise: Strategy, Scale & the Future of Work
A practical discussion on how leaders can scale AI beyond pilots, build AI-first organizations, prepare their workforce, manage risk, and create measurable business value.
Beyond the Pilot — What Breaks at Enterprise Scale and How Leaders Fix It
Moving AI from a successful proof of concept to a durable enterprise capability exposes problems that rarely show up in the demo. In this off-the-record peer discussion, leaders will compare where deployments stall—data, integration, ownership, governance, workforce adoption, economics and operating model—and the decisions that helped them move forward. Come prepared to share one scaling lesson or one AI initiative you are struggling to get into production.
Who Owns the Agent? Governance, Security & Accountability for Autonomous AI
As AI agents move from assistants to systems that can take action, leaders need clear answers on ownership, permissions, oversight, and accountability. This roundtable will bring executives together to discuss how organizations are governing autonomous agents across security, legal, risk, IT, and business teams while still enabling real-world deployment.
AI for Work
How AI is reshaping the functions inside the modern enterprise — from product to finance.
Pricing Intelligence: What Frontier AI Economics Mean for Builders and Buyers
How frontier AI economics are reshaping the way teams price, package, and monetize — and what it means for product, marketing, and finance leaders.
Details to be announced.
Details to be announced.
Lessons from Failed AI Product Launches
A postmortem-style session on rushed launches — inadequate evaluation, missing fallbacks, hallucinations in customer-facing products, product/legal misalignment, and recovery communications.
When GTM AI Promises Too Much: Managing Hallucinations, Pricing Errors, and Brand Risk
How marketing, sales, revenue operations, and enablement teams build approval workflows, claim-review processes, validation layers, pricing constraints, and escalation playbooks to keep AI-assisted go-to-market motions accurate, compliant, and trustworthy.
Roundtable: Proving AI ROI — From Automation to Measurable Business Value
As AI moves from experimentation to operational deployment, leaders are under pressure to prove measurable business value, not just activity. This peer discussion will explore how organizations are evaluating AI investments, measuring productivity and revenue impact, managing risk, and deciding which initiatives deserve continued funding.
ODSC AI West — Co-located Day
3-Day and above pass holders get full access to Day 3 of the co-located ODSC AI West conference: keynotes, breakout sessions, technical talks, hands-on workshops, the AI Expo, the Startup Showcase, and the closing reception.
ODSC AI West Keynotes
Headline keynotes from leading AI researchers and builders on frontier models, agents, and where applied AI is heading next.
Technical Tracks & Breakout Sessions
Deep-dive breakouts across LLMs & agents, machine learning, data engineering, MLOps, and responsible AI — choose your own path across parallel tracks.
Hands-on Workshops & Training
Practical, build-along sessions led by practitioners, so your teams leave with working patterns rather than slides.
AI Expo, Startup Showcase & Wrap Reception
Meet vendors and open-source maintainers in the AI Expo hall, watch startup pitches, and close the week at the event wrap reception.
Details to be announced.
Networking
The room is the product
250 seats. Executives, founders, and AI leaders. Structured moments to actually meet the people shaping enterprise AI — not just watch them from row 20.
Sit-Down Roundtable Lunches
Curated seating with peers tackling the same challenges — not a buffet scramble.
VIP & Speakers Lounge
Exclusive lounge access to meet keynote speakers and fellow executives off the record.
Exclusive Evening Events
Invite-only receptions where the real conversations — and partnerships — happen.
Why partner with AI X?
Put your brand in front of the executives shaping enterprise AI adoption at ODSC AI West 2026.
Executives, CDOs, and heads of AI who own budget and set enterprise AI strategy.
Demo your platform to leaders actively evaluating and buying AI solutions.
Curated, intent-rich conversations instead of badge scans and cold lists.
Align your brand with the leaders defining responsible, production-grade AI.
Connect with VCs, founders, and enterprise buyers across the AI ecosystem.
From expo presence to keynote, roundtable, and hosted-networking packages.
Request the West sponsorship brochure and a member of the team will follow up.
250 seats. Reserve yours.
Join the executives and practitioners shaping enterprise AI at ODSC AI West 2026.
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