The 2026 program

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Thursday, Oct 29Keynote & sessions

Thu · 9:00 AMKeynote · Ballroom

Build vs. Buy in the AI Era

Jason Bressler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

AI Influence on Reliable Machine Vision

Michael Koper

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Beginner · Room B

Civic Agents: The Rise Of AI In Modern Public Service

Himanshu Goil

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room E

Driving into the Future: Navigating Emerging Cybersecurity Threats in Autonomous Technology

Hemanth Tadepalli

Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Robotics

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Advanced · Room F

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

Tejas Chopra

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

RAG for Data Engineers: What It Is, Where It Fits, and Why Your Metadata Is the Missing Piece

Varun Joshi Nitesh Khapekar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Your AI Agent Just Ran DELETE Without WHERE. Now What?

Jonathan Stewart

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

A Practical Guide to Running LLMs on Kubernetes

Rohit Mishra

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Accelerating USB Host Verification Using Real USB Devices in a Virtualized Device Modeling Framework

Suchir Gupta

Simulation, Modeling, and Digital Engineering

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Engineering Beyond the "Rule of Eight"

Harsh Ranjan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room E

Fortifying AI: Understanding Prompt Attacks and How to Defend Against Them

Ethan DeMott

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and System Resilience

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

From Standard Work to Scalable Smart Manufacturing: Making Data and AI Work in Assembly Operations

Bryan Bauw

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

Thu · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

Google BigQuery - Heart of Smart Analytics toolset on Google Cloud

Vijaykumar Jangamashetti

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

AI and Digital Transformation in Sepsis Management for Smarter Healthcare Delivery

Swapna Chimanchodkar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Designing Conversational BI: How Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie Unlocks Self-Service Insights

Mou Rakshit

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Advanced · Room A

Medallion Architecture in Regulated Healthcare: A Hands-On Playbook

Raziullah Khan

DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Mission-Critical Code: What NASA’s Power of Ten Can Teach Us

Jonathan "J." Tower

Software Engineering and Architecture

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room E

Probably Secure: What We Misunderstand About AI And Determinism Is Making Us Less Secure

Dwayne McDaniel

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Advanced · Room D

The Invisible Stack: Black-Ops of Modern Enterprise

Robert Gray III

Embedded, Edge, and Real-Time Systems

Thu · 2:30 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room C

5G-Optimized Android System Architecture for Low-Latency Applications

Patel Riddhi

Embedded, Edge, and Real-Time Systems

Thu · 2:30 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room B

AI Agents in Products: A Product Manager’s Guide to Building What Matters

Reshmika Dhandapani

Product, UX, and Digital Experience

Thu · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Building an AI Inference Gateway on Kubernetes: Model Routing, Rate Limiting & Cost Control

Rohit Mishra

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Multi-Agent Without the Bloat: Designing Lean AI Systems on Azure

Carey Payette

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room A

Designing Data Pipelines That Don’t Hate You Six Months Later

Chris Birie

Software Engineering and Architecture

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Future of Agentic AI in Telecom Billing and Revenue Management

Balu Chavan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room D

LEGO + IOT + Azure = fun!

Jim Rieck

Software Engineering and Architecture

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room E

Microsoft’s Approach to Comprehensive Security in the Age of AI

David Giard

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and System Resilience

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Three Lessons from a Woman in Enterprise Architecture

Sarah Wimberley

Software Engineering and Architecture

Friday, Oct 30Sessions

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room E

Adaptive Machine Learning for Real Time Transaction Routing in Distributed Systems

Jayaseelan Shanmugam

DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Building an AI-Ready Finance Lakehouse with dbt, Governed Metrics, and Databricks

Mou Rakshit

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Floors, Not Ceilings: Lessons from 6 Months of AI Enablement at a $10B Company

Adam Broadbent

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

Next Evolution of Advanced Manufacturing with ODIN Digital Solutions

Yanesh Naidoo

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Scaling Enterprise Intelligence with Agentic Orchestration — Beyond the Chatbot

Sriramprabhu Rajendran

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

Semantic Layers: The Missing Foundation for Agentic AI in Enterprise

Sajitha Sritharan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room E

AI Driven Production Planning Using Decision Intelligence in Manufacturing Systems

Madhav Jayesh Kumar Pandya

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Computer Vision on a Smartphone: Lessons from Building Clinical-Grade Movement Tracking

Temidire Adesiji

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Beginner · Room B

LLMs are tools, not solutions: Entity extraction as a computer science problem

Milena F Andy Schmidt

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

Robotic Tracer Gas Sniffing for Leak Localization in EV Battery Packs and Energy Storage Systems

Davy Leboucher

Robotics Systems and Integration

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Beginner · Room F

The AI is ready, but you are the problem. How to finally be ready for a real AI.

Balazs Horvath

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 11:15 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Your AI Reads Entire Files. It Only Needs 6%. Here's How We Fixed It.

Rajkumar Sakthivel

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

AI on the Edge

Jared Rhodes

Embedded, Edge, and Real-Time Systems

Fri · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Building Scalable Multi-Agentic AI Systems: Orchestrating Agents with Event-Driven Approach

Mary Grygleski

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

Civic Agents in Practice: The Next Phase of AI for Government Workflows

Himanshu Goil

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Agentic Loops in the Data Stack: From Pipeline Failure to Auto-Remediation

Varun Joshi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Applying Machine Learning and Network Analytics for Modern Financial Crime Detection

Shivam Tiwari

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room B

Blending Product Thinking with Software Modernization

Brian McKeiver

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room D

Diverge, Converge, Speak Up: The Discipline of Team Creativity

Tom Rodgers

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Advanced · Room C

Don’t Let Your Org Chart Write Bad Code

Luis Fernandez

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room E

Securing Cyber Physical Systems in Municipal Infrastructure Environments

Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and System Resilience

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Building Enterprise-Grade AI Solutions with Oracle Generative AI Service and the Oracle AI Database

Juarez Junior

Software Engineering and Architecture

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room E

Case Study: Designing AI-Augmented Enterprise Investigation Systems

Santosh Vasudevan John Selvaraj Arulappan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room B

Digital Transformation or Digital Chaos? A Practical Guide for Leaders Who Are Done Playing Catch-Up

Matt Russell

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room D

How to get started with collection and storage of industrial data

Grant Pinkos

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room A

Knights, Castles, and Creative Cloud: Rapid Illustration Concepting with AI

Rex Rainey

Product, UX, and Digital Experience

Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room C

Test Smarter with AI: Playwright Automation at Scale on Azure

Randy Pagels

DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering