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BOARDROOM 1 The FinOps & GAAP Dilemma: OpEx, Token Burn, and Capitalizing AI Traditional SaaS was a fixed cost; AI token burn is a volatile utility. CIOs are blowing through their annual budgets in months. Furthermore, finance departments are clashing with IT over GAAP accounting rules: Can agentic development, token consumption, and cloud storage be capitalized as R&D (CapEx), or is it strictly OpEx? Moderator: Abhilash Shanmugan, Head of Digital IT, Global Marketing & Aviation, Philips 66
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BOARDROOM 2 Who Owns Your Machine Identities? Governing Non-Human Identity by Design AI agents, API keys, and service accounts now outnumber employees in most enterprises, and many can move money, change records, or reach customer data with no named owner behind them. A growing share of breaches start with exactly these forgotten credentials, and agents raise the stakes because they act on someone's authority and make their own decisions. We'll discuss how to build ownership into the design before an identity is created, how to hold agents to the same controls as people, and what your board needs to see to know this risk is governed. Moderator: Sugato Bose, Former Chief Architect, Medline
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BOARDROOM 3 The Mid-Market & SLED Innovation Squeeze: Buying Off-the-Shelf vs. Budget Gridlock Mid-market enterprises and SLED (State, Local, Ed) agencies face a dual threat: they cannot afford to build custom LLMs or massive data lakes, yet their rigid procurement laws and fixed-line-item budgets cannot legally process modern, usage-based consumption pricing. In this closed-door boardroom, leaders will unpack how to "hack" bureaucratic gridlock for hyper-productivity. When a standard software procurement cycle takes nine months, IT leaders must ruthlessly evaluate the new "Build vs. Buy" calculation: leveraging Enterprise Service Management (ESM), low-code platforms, and internal Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to build solutions faster than the state can procure them. Moderator: Kane Tomlin, CIO, Mississippi Department of Health
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BOARDROOM 4 The "Human-in-the-Loop" Liability: Ethics, Legal Risks, and Accountability If an employee uses an AI agent to draft a legal brief, medical diagnosis, or financial report and the AI hallucinates, who is legally liable? A discussion on establishing "Trust Engineering," enforcing strict HR termination policies for unchecked AI work, and preparing for future global AI compliance certifications. Moderator: Nathan Kimpel, Senior Vice President, Technology, Sentral
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BOARDROOM 5 The Death of the Transformation Office: Bringing "Vibe Coding" into the Light Traditional PMOs and heavy-handed "Transformation Offices" are officially too slow for the AI era. By the time a Business Analyst schedules a meeting to gather requirements, an impatient business user could have already solved their problem using an LLM. Rather than fighting Shadow IT or choking innovation with rigid intake forms, progressive tech leaders are dismantling traditional intake queues in favor of radical "Digital Enablement." Instead of playing gatekeeper, IT hands out cloud licenses, encourages business units to "vibe code" their own solutions, and steps in on the back end to wrap enterprise-grade security, data governance, and cloud framing around the wins. In this candid, closed-door conversation, technology executives will compare playbooks on pulling Shadow AI into the light, shifting IT from a department of "no" to an enterprise-grade enabler, and managing the cultural shift required across traditional IT development teams. Moderator: Ian Catolico, CIO, Qualfon
