Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders
Building the Trillion Dollar Industries of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit for senior leaders, we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations. These organizations will, in turn, accelerate industry-scale transformation and the development of new industries.
Connect and learn about:
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The Future of AI Agent Technology
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards and protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation & contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI detection of problems and opportunities
- Human+AI problem-solving, org. alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Building Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsys, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We have also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Organizations will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders Building the Trillion Dollar Industries of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit for senior leaders, we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations. These organizations will, in turn, accelerate industry-scale transformation and the development of new industries.
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The Future of AI Agent Technology
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards & protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation and contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI problem/opportunity detection
- Human+AI problem-solving
- AI-asststed organizational alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsis, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI agents is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Firms will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rikovitch is responsible for driving MARA’s product vision forward, at the intersection of energy, AI, and computation. He brings deep expertise in product management, machine learning, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics, industrial automation, and autonomous systems.
Most recently, Nir served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere Company, where he co-founded the autonomy unit and led the product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems, unlocking more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.
Nir holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technion, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, with a focus on Autonomous Systems.
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.
Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
Fmr. National Security Council
Col. David Vernal (Ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
fmr. National Security Council
David Vernal is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in intelligence and cyber operations. He participated in electronic warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the counter-terror fight in Iraq and Syria, the growth of cyber operations, supporting nuclear planning and command-and-control at U.S. Strategic Command, and managing policy deliberations as part of the National Security Council staff. His final active-duty assignment was as Director of Intelligence for Sixteenth Air Force, the service’s information warfare headquarters.
Currently a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is studying the applications of Large Language Models for national security applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a master’s in Taiwan Studies from National Chengchi University, where he studied as a Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar.
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon is a trailblazing CEO and the visionary founder of 5 Dynamics, a company dedicated to transforming workplace dynamics through innovative AI-driven solutions. Under her leadership, 5 Dynamics has launched Simpli5, an AI-powered platform that enhances leadership and collaboration by fostering high-performance cultures, improving team alignment, and driving execution. Trusted by global leaders, including executives at LinkedIn, IDEO, Roche Genentech, and Harvard, Simpli5 is revolutionizing how organizations optimize processes and enhance teamwork.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company. In his 8 years at Hitachi he has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
(Bio coming soon)
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rikovitch is responsible for driving MARA’s product vision forward, at the intersection of energy, AI, and computation. He brings deep expertise in product management, machine learning, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics, industrial automation, and autonomous systems.
Most recently, Nir served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere Company, where he co-founded the autonomy unit and led the product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems, unlocking more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.
Nir holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technion, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, with a focus on Autonomous Systems.
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.
Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
Fmr. National Security Council
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
fmr. National Security Council
David Vernal is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in intelligence and cyber operations. He participated in electronic warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the counter-terror fight in Iraq and Syria, the growth of cyber operations, supporting nuclear planning and command-and-control at U.S. Strategic Command, and managing policy deliberations as part of the National Security Council staff. His final active-duty assignment was as Director of Intelligence for Sixteenth Air Force, the service’s information warfare headquarters.
Currently a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is studying the applications of Large Language Models for national security applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a master’s in Taiwan Studies from National Chengchi University, where he studied as a Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar.
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon is a trailblazing CEO and the visionary founder of 5 Dynamics, a company dedicated to transforming workplace dynamics through innovative AI-driven solutions. Under her leadership, 5 Dynamics has launched Simpli5, an AI-powered platform that enhances leadership and collaboration by fostering high-performance cultures, improving team alignment, and driving execution. Trusted by global leaders, including executives at LinkedIn, IDEO, Roche Genentech, and Harvard, Simpli5 is revolutionizing how organizations optimize processes and enhance teamwork.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company. In his 8 years at Hitachi he has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
(Bio coming soon)
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rikovitch is responsible for driving MARA’s product vision forward, at the intersection of energy, AI, and computation. He brings deep expertise in product management, machine learning, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics, industrial automation, and autonomous systems.
Most recently, Nir served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere Company, where he co-founded the autonomy unit and led the product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems, unlocking more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.
Nir holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technion, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, with a focus on Autonomous Systems.
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.
Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
Fmr. National Security Council
Col. David Vernal (Ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
fmr. National Security Council
David Vernal is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in intelligence and cyber operations. He participated in electronic warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the counter-terror fight in Iraq and Syria, the growth of cyber operations, supporting nuclear planning and command-and-control at U.S. Strategic Command, and managing policy deliberations as part of the National Security Council staff. His final active-duty assignment was as Director of Intelligence for Sixteenth Air Force, the service’s information warfare headquarters.
Currently a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is studying the applications of Large Language Models for national security applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a master’s in Taiwan Studies from National Chengchi University, where he studied as a Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar.
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon is a trailblazing CEO and the visionary founder of 5 Dynamics, a company dedicated to transforming workplace dynamics through innovative AI-driven solutions. Under her leadership, 5 Dynamics has launched Simpli5, an AI-powered platform that enhances leadership and collaboration by fostering high-performance cultures, improving team alignment, and driving execution. Trusted by global leaders, including executives at LinkedIn, IDEO, Roche Genentech, and Harvard, Simpli5 is revolutionizing how organizations optimize processes and enhance teamwork.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company. In his 8 years at Hitachi he has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
(Bio coming soon)
Agenda
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
7:30 AM: Registration and Networking (Lobby)
Kick off the day with a continental breakfast while connecting with fellow delegates. It’s the perfect chance to meet industry leaders, share ideas, and set the tone for a productive summit.
9:00 AM: Welcoming Remarks (Auditorium)
Our host for the Summit, SRI, has been a pioneer in AI since the 1960s, playing a pivotal role in shaping the field. SRI developed the world’s first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason, the “great-grandfather” of self-driving cars and military drones. SRI’s contributions extend to core AI technologies like speech recognition (which powered Siri) and breakthroughs in planning, reasoning, and machine learning.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President
Commercialization
SRI
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
9:10 AM: Opening Keynote: The Journey to Autonomous Organizations (Auditorium)
In this keynote we will discuss how technology has impacted the evolution of organizations, and how decentralization and AI are changing our expectations for what’s possible and desirable.
Post-Industrial Organizations will be focused on the creation of knowledge, and AI Agents will increasingly be involved not just in making knowledge work more productive. but in coordination of work performed by networks of humans and AIs. Soon we will see organizations that are not just self-managing, but also proactively evolving. This is not the end of human work, it’s a better foundation for it. Organizations should serve us, not the other way around.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
9:35 AM: Panel: AI Transformation: Experiences, Trends, and the Future (Auditorium)
Most large enterprises are undergoing some type of Ai transformation. In this session we will examine the impact AI is having on organizations and whole industries. We will discuss successes and failures, the biggest challenges encountered, and key trends that are emerging. We will also look into the future and discuss what we might be looking at a few years down the road.
Michael Costigan
Vice President
Salesforce Futures
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.
Dr. Zafer Sahingluo
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
10:30 AM: Coffee and Networking (Lobby)
Connect with fellow delegates.
10:50 AM: Panel: The Future of AI Agent Technology (Auditorium)
In the last three years we have seen an explosive development in AI agent capailities and usage. Industry standards for interoperability and best practices for managing risk and reliabilty are emerging. There are still many technical challenges to be addressed, and tremendous potential for the near future. In this session we will discuss what’s in store for the rest of this decade and beyond. How will the agent tech stack evolve as AI agents become networked and are embedded everywhere and in everything?
Session Chair:
Stefan Petzov
VP of Innovation
Swisscom Silicon
Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product
Outshift by Cisco
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
(Bio coming soon)
11:45 AM: Panel: Organizational Intelligence and Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises (Auditorium)
As organizations grow large, they slow down due to increased coordinatio overhead. They become more risk averse and conservative. Organizational silos inhibit knowledge sharing and the structure is difficult to update. This makes it harder for the organization to learn and implement new capabiliies. In this session we will discuss how AI Agents will help overcome these challenges, and how even large organizations can become fast learners that can quickly reconfigure as necessary.
More Speakers TBA
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company. In his 8 years at Hitachi he has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
11:45 AM: Panel: AI First: Building AI Ventures (Innovation Center)
New firms today can employ AI from the start to implement a surprising amount of autonomy in lead generation, conversion, support, product development, and other functions. We will dicuss what pioneering founders are doing in building AI-First startups, the challenges they face, and what may be possible in the near future.
Speakers TBA
12:40 PM: Lunch and Networking (Dining Room)
Fuel up and forge connections! Join your fellow delegates for an energizing lunch and the chance to network with industry leaders, innovators, and peers. This is the perfect opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate on future ventures, and expand your network in a relaxed setting.
1:30 PM: Panel – The New Workforce: Humans and AI Agents (Innovation Center)
As enterprises transform, they will need a different workforce, a mix of AI agents and humans. How do we manage this transition? This is a task filled with uncertainties, contradictions, and uncomfortable compromises.
CHROs are investing to upskill, but they are also implementing staff reductions. Organizations are flattening as they lay off managers, but they also need managers who can execute transformation projects. The competition for much-needed AI talent is tough, and executives in traditional firms have an AI literacy disadvantage. Leaders are likely underestimating the impact of AI in their industries, but overestimating their capacity for rapid change. In this session we will explore these challenges and look for solutions together.
Speakers TBA
1:30 PM: Panel: The Global Agent Economy (Auditorium)
We are witnessing the rise of AI agents capable of autonomously discovering products and services, negotiating terms, and executing transactions—all at unprecedented speed and scale. These AI agents are poised to become active participants in the global economy.
Within the next decade, it is likely that the vast majority of transactions will take place between AI agents. This shift will reshape supply chains, reduce coordination costs, accelerate growth, and challenge traditional firms as the primary units of economic organization. The implications for infrastructure, governance, and competition are profound.
Speakers TBA
2:20 PM: Panel: Autonomous Customer Acquisition and Support (Innovation Center)
AI agents are rapidly transforming the way companies attract, convert, and serve customers. They now prospect leads, personalize outreach at scale, negotiate terms, and resolve complex support issues in real time. But how effective are these systems in practice?
This session explores the state of autonomous customer acquisition and support today, examines what’s working (and what’s not), and looks ahead to the next wave of innovation: multi-agent systems that coordinate across the entire customer journey, hyper-personalized interactions powered by real-time data, and agents seamlessly integrated into CRM and enterprise platforms.
Speakers TBA
2:20 PM: Panel: AI-Powered Strategy and Tactics, in Business and Warfare (Auditorium)
Strategy began with warfare in the Bronze Age and emerged as a field in business in the 1960s thanks to Igor Ansoff. Key aspects of strategy include keeping track of resources and capabilities, coping with uncertainthy, managing against goals, generating and updating plans, and communicating with other parties. This is precisely what AI agents do. We will discuss the application of AI agents to strategy and tactics, the art of arranging resources based on situational challenges and opportunities. We will explore how this works in firms as well as in warfare, with drone warfare as a recent example.
Col. David Vernal (Ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
fmr. National Security Council
David Vernal is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in intelligence and cyber operations. He participated in electronic warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the counter-terror fight in Iraq and Syria, the growth of cyber operations, supporting nuclear planning and command-and-control at U.S. Strategic Command, and managing policy deliberations as part of the National Security Council staff. His final active-duty assignment was as Director of Intelligence for Sixteenth Air Force, the service’s information warfare headquarters.
Currently a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is studying the applications of Large Language Models for national security applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a master’s in Taiwan Studies from National Chengchi University, where he studied as a Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar.
3:10 PM: Coffee and Networking (Lobby)
Shake off the afternoon slump with a caffeine boost and energizing conversations. Connect with fellow attendees to recharge your mind, exchange ideas, explore collaboration opportunities, and build new relationships.
3:30 PM: Panel: Transformation Readiness, Governance, and Risks (Auditorium)
In this session we will dive into common challenges with AI transformations. We know that a large percentage of transformations get bogged down going form pilot projects to production. There are legimitate concerns about customer, financial, regulatory, and brand risks when something goes wrong. Many organizations also find themselves ill-prepared for anything but the most cosmetic changes. How can they find a path to success before it’s too late and they overtaken by faster-moving competitors?
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
4:20 PM: Panel: Developing Transformational Leaders (Auditorium)
Post-Industrial leaders must to cope with increasing uncertainty, decentralization, rapid change, and the infusion of computing (especially AI) in all aspects of work. In this session we will discuss the necessary capabilities of transformational leaders, and how to develop the next generation of leaders.
Session Chair:
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.
Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.
Karen Gordon
CEO
Simpli5
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon is a trailblazing CEO and the visionary founder of 5 Dynamics, a company dedicated to transforming workplace dynamics through innovative AI-driven solutions. Under her leadership, 5 Dynamics has launched Simpli5, an AI-powered platform that enhances leadership and collaboration by fostering high-performance cultures, improving team alignment, and driving execution. Trusted by global leaders, including executives at LinkedIn, IDEO, Roche Genentech, and Harvard, Simpli5 is revolutionizing how organizations optimize processes and enhance teamwork.
5:00 PM: Evening Social: Agents at Night! (Lobby)
Join us for an unforgettable evening of connection and relaxation! Mingle with fellow delegates and speakers in a lively atmosphere as you unwind with an open bar and delicious refreshments. This is your chance to strengthen relationships, share ideas, and enjoy engaging conversations in a casual setting. Let loose and celebrate the day’s insights while forging new connections that could spark future collaborations!
7:00 PM Close
Thursday, November 6, 2025
7:30 AM: Coffee and continental breakfast (Lobby)
Join fellow delegates over a warm cup of coffee and a delicious continental breakfast as you prepare for another day of insightful discussions and networking. This is the perfect opportunity to share thoughts from day one, exchange ideas, and build connections that will enhance your experience throughout the summit. Let’s set the tone for an inspiring day ahead!
9:00 AM: Welcome (Auditorium)
Welcoming to Day 2!
Speaker TBA
9:10 AM: Panel: Autonomous Innovation and Product Development (Innovation Center)
AI Agents are making a signficant contribution in product development, increasing the productivty of designers and engineers and making new solutions possible that would otherwise not be considered. In this session we will discuss the latest progress and the path forward to fully autonomous product development.
Panelists TBA
10:30 AM: Coffee and Networking
Recharge with a refreshing cup of coffee and take advantage of this mid-morning break to connect with fellow delegates. Share insights from the sessions, discuss emerging ideas, and build relationships.
10:45 AM: Autonomous Operations and Infrastructure (Location TBA)
Autonomous Organizations must manage a combination of deterministic and non-deterministic work, with and without humans in the loop. In addition to IT infrastructure, they may also operate physical infrastructure, both inside the organization and externally. In this session we will examine what is technologically possible already, and what’s coming next.
Additional speakers TBA.
Nir Rikovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rikovitch is responsible for driving MARA’s product vision forward, at the intersection of energy, AI, and computation. He brings deep expertise in product management, machine learning, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics, industrial automation, and autonomous systems.
Most recently, Nir served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere Company, where he co-founded the autonomy unit and led the product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems, unlocking more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.
Nir holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technion, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, with a focus on Autonomous Systems.
11:45 AM: Closing Panel: Beyond Autonomous Organizations: Industry Transformation (Auditorium)
As organizations become more autonomous, they will evolve faster, and so will the industries they are engaged in. What industries will be most affected and what are the greatest opportunities for value creation?
Additional speakers TBA.
Session Chair:
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
12:30 PM: Lunch and Networking (Dining Room)
As we continue into the second day, join us for a delicious lunch and connect with fellow delegates and speakers. This is your chance to engage in dynamic conversations, exchange ideas, and forge valuable relationships in a vibrant setting. Fuel up and prepare for an inspiring afternoon ahead!
2:00 PM: Workshop: AI Transformation Workshop (Innovation Center)
In this workshop we will walk through major elements of AI transformations, with participants discussing problems and solutions. The major aim is to find ways to accelerate progress. Selected speakers from the Summit will be available to help participants work through issues.
We will discuss and work on:
– Assessing Threats and Opportunites in your industry(ies)
– Assessing your Resources and Capabilities
– Envisioning where you need to be to win
– Organizational Structure
– Leadership and Culture
– Workforce transformation
– Governance for the Transformation Effort
– Risks: Privacy, Safety, Security
– Selecting Tranaformation Projects
– Crossing the Pilot to Production Boundary
Facillitator:
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product
Outshift by Cisco
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahingluo
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
5:00 PM Close
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The Post-Industrial Institute always brings together a uniquely sophisticated ensemble of senior leaders and industry experts. It has been my pleasure to present our research and experiences at Hitachi on more than one occasion.
I always learn a lot from the rich discussions. It’s all substance, all day.
Attending events by the Post‑Industrial Institute has been an incredibly valuable experience. The community brings together thoughtful, forward-looking leaders exploring the frontier of AI agents and the emerging AI-driven economy.
I leave each gathering with fresh insights, meaningful connections, and a deeper understanding of how autonomous systems are reshaping the future of enterprise and work.
I had the great pleasure of attending and speaking at the Post-Industrial Summit in 2024. Unlike other conferences, where you get a lot of vague ideas, I walked away with tangible ideas and insights that I could put into action.
“The Post-Industrial Institute delivers terrific content that is timely. In a world that moves far faster than ever, they help us to slow down and think deeply about impact of technology on organizations and humanity.”
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Chetan Gupta
Global Head of AI Research
Hitachi
The Post-Industrial Institute always brings together a uniquely sophisticated ensemble of senior leaders and industry experts. It has been my pleasure to present our research and experiences at Hitachi on more than one occasion.
I always learn a lot from the rich discussions. It’s all substance, all day.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom
Attending events by the Post‑Industrial Institute has been an incredibly valuable experience. The community brings together thoughtful, forward-looking leaders exploring the frontier of AI agents and the emerging AI-driven economy.
I leave each gathering with fresh insights, meaningful connections, and a deeper understanding of how autonomous systems are reshaping the future of enterprise and work.
Kelley Steven-Waiss
Chief Transformation Officer
ServiceNow
I had the great pleasure of attending and speaking at the Post-Industrial Summit in 2024. Unlike other conferences, where you get a lot of vague ideas, I walked away with tangible ideas and insights that I could put into action.
Summer Anderson
Chief People Officer
MARA
“The Post-Industrial Institute delivers terrific content that is timely. In a world that moves far faster than ever, they help us to slow down and think deeply about impact of technology on organizations and humanity.”
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Summit Participation
Join us at the SRI Conference Center in Menlo Park and explore how AI Agents will transform organizations and help us build the trillion dollar industries of the future
- Access to all speaker and panel sessions
- Access to networking activities incl. evening social
- Opportunity to join private community of leaders building the future
- Connect with industry leaders and technology experts
- Limited Availability (curated gathering of no more than 200 executives)
- Extremely high quality audience where most could be speakers themselves
- No media, no fluff, just learning with fellow leaders
$1100
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AI Transformation Workshop
Access to all Summit Sessions and Participants
In addition:
- Participation in executive-level workshop to work hands-on on your company’s AI transformation strategy
- The workshop will be facilitated by the Founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, Frode Odegard
- Be prepared to dive into key areas such as vision, culture, governance, goal-setting, risk management, workforce transformation, change management, and leadership.
- A select group of faculty from the Summit will be available to assist you hands-on with your biggest challenges
- Limited Seating: Workshop only available to 50 participants
$1400
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About the Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
About the Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
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Enterprise Sponsors
Media Partner
Speaking and Sponsorships
Our Summits attract Global 2000 executives, as well as Investors and Founders. A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or a domain expert, and you are interested in speaking, please email [email protected].
Premier Partner
Enterprise Sponsors
Media Partner
Speaking and Sponsorships
Our Summits attract Global 2000 executives, as well as Investors and Founders. A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or a domain expert, and you are interested in speaking, please email [email protected].