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Mar 23, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 12:00 PM EDT	Building Agents with Granite	BJ Hargrave	Workshop	—
Mar 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT	History Is Written in The Training Data	Erica Rooney	Deep Thoughts	Fletcher Hall
Mar 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT	Let Your Net...Work	Sarah Finnerty	Deep Thoughts	Fletcher Hall
Mar 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT	Next-Level AI: How Infrastructure Engineers Unlock True Enterprise Value	Briana Faulk	Deep Thoughts	Fletcher Hall
Mar 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT	The Context Economy: Getting More Bang for Your Token	Craig McLuckie	Deep Thoughts	Fletcher Hall
Mar 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT	Who Gets the Upgrade? AI, Access, and the Next Economy	Anjanette Miller	Deep Thoughts	Fletcher Hall
Mar 23, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM 4:45 PM EDT	Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI	Igor Jablokov & Mark Hinkle	Keynote	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM 8:45 AM EDT	Agents Don't Ship Themselves	Darko Mesaros	Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM 8:45 AM EDT	How the Oldest Principle in Engineering Will Reshape AI	Luis Lastras	Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM 8:45 AM EDT	What Agents Can Really Do	whurley	Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM 8:45 AM EDT	When AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine Intelligence	whurley	Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM 8:45 AM EDT	Who Does the Algorithm Save: Preserving Humanity with AI in Healthcare	Yassah Reed	Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	Enterprise AI, Right-Sized: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Deserve Serious Attention	Don Shin	AI in the Enterprise	Junior Ballroom A
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	Leadership Decisions in Nonprofit AI Adoption	Julia Carpenter	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	Looking Ahead: Navigating AI and Your Career	Taylor Desseyn	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	Meet Your Developers Where They Are	Chris Tankersley	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	No GPUs? No Problem! Training ML Models Without Expensive Hardware	Suha Mokalla	AI Builders	Junior Ballrooms B & C
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	The Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA Lift	James Kaplan	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT	Vibe Coding in Action: Transforming Coding Practices for the Future	Justin Jeffress	AI Engineers	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	AI at the Speed of Trust	Greg Boone	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	Building Multi-MCP Workflows with a Virtual MCP Server	Dan Barr	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	Designing an AI & Automation Portfolio That Puts People First: Lessons from Duke University	Brian Moynihan	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	Intelligent Data Pipelines	Vijayakumar Gurusamy Raju	AI Engineers	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: A Domain Expert's Upskilling Journey	Pam Didner	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	The Leap from AI-Assisted to Agentic Driven Development	Justin Chau	AI Builders	Junior Ballrooms B & C
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT	The Reality of AI No One Is Talking About	Ankit Dheendsa	AI in the Enterprise	Junior Ballroom A
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	Agentic Productivity: Beyond the 'Lines of Code' Trap	Ben Ilegbodu	AI in the Enterprise	Junior Ballroom A
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	AI Partnerships Are Cloud Partnerships (For Now)	David Winter	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	AI-Driven Disaster Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems	Akshay Pratinav & Sahil Sabharwal	AI Engineers	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	Beyond the AI Hype: Building Durable Agentic AI Applications	Achin Gupta & Divya Mahajan	AI Builders	Junior Ballrooms B & C
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	How (AI) Stuff Works – Understanding the Key Parts of AI Simply and Quickly	Brent Laster	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	I, Agent: Identity-First Security for the Autonomous Future	Aydrian Howard	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM 12:00 PM EDT	Sustainable AI	Jennifer McFarland	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Build Production-Ready, Agentic AI Systems Using the Open Source Strands Agents SDK	Jonathan Vogel & Saurabh (Rob) Dahal	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Building AI Champions: How Executive Fluency and Ground-Level Expertise Create Lasting AI Capability	Boz Vitanova	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Community Impact Focus @ NPower	Sarah Chick	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Community is Infrastructure in the Age of AI	Dena Guvetis	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Human in the Loop: Comedy for AI Builders	Evan Wimpey	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM 1:00 PM EDT	I Don't Know, The AI Said So Isn't Going to Cut It. Here's How to Build Auditable AI Agents Using Context Graphs.	Nyah Macklin	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Open Source Meets AI — Navigating Increased Patent Litigation Vulnerabilities	Keith Bergelt	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models	Taylor Smith	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	The Future of AI and Durham	Mayor Leonardo Williams	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM 1:00 PM EDT	WTF AI	Chisa Pennix-Brown	Deep Thoughts	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	AI Memory Is Broken And How I Tried To Fix It	Chris Dabatos	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows	Tanvi Tyagi	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	Building with Mistral: Open, Powerful, and Ready to Scale	Aaron Delp	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	Building Your AI Factory: From Strategy to Outcomes in 30 Days	Marc Sirkin	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI	Mary Grygleski	AI Engineers	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	Moving from LLM Gateways to a Single Agent Origin	Adrian Cole	AI Builders	Junior Ballrooms B & C
Mar 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 2:30 PM EDT	To RAG or Not to RAG?	Owen Chen	AI in the Enterprise	Junior Ballroom A
Mar 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:15 PM EDT	Adopting AI-Augmented Knowledge Work	Clayton Chancey	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:15 PM EDT	Coding Agents Are Here: How Non-Coders Can Build with AI	Craig Jellick	AI Engineers	Grand Ballroom 3
Mar 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:15 PM EDT	From Prototype to Production: Secure and Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI Systems	Anya Derbakova	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:15 PM EDT	Is the Future Forked?	Micaela Eller	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3:15 PM EDT	The Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It's a Leadership Evolution	Victoria Vojnovich	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live	Matt Hamann & Rachel Orrino & Robert Thelen	Case Study/Demo	Fletcher Hall
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews	Calvin Hendryx-Parker	AI Governance, Security & Compliance	Junior Ballroom D
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models	Taylor Smith	AI in the Enterprise	Junior Ballroom A
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Truth Before Inference: Fixing 'Stupid Data' Before Delivering Enterprise Fail	Joe Onisick	AI Users	Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Typed Python + LLMs: Building Safer, More Accurate AI-Driven Software	Abby Mitchell	AI Builders	Junior Ballrooms B & C
Mar 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM 4:00 PM EDT	Why the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It's Authority	John Willis	AI Executives	Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT	AI's Impact on the Startup Ecosystem	Chris Heivly	Closing Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT	The Era of Infinite Leverage	Erkang Zheng	Closing Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Mar 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT	When Intelligence Gets Cheap: The Next Great Leadership Test	Ben Heller	Closing Keynote	Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3