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Enterprise AI Summit - Charlotte

Two days with the leaders shipping AI in production. The Enterprise AI Summit comes to Charlotte, NC - October 7–8, 2026 at the Carolina Theatre. Hosted by Gene Kim.

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37Speakers
6Sponsors
26Sessions
28Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Enterprise, in alphabetical order.

Aaron Searle
Andrew Stellman
O’Reilly author and AI educator
Angelo Rivera
Art Smalley
President · Author · Art of Lean
Christina Yakomin
Senior Manager – Resiliency Testing Suite · Vanguard
Dustin Warner
Director of Software Engineering · NRC Health
Dylan Sykes
Senior Vice President, Business Rules Engineering & Decision Management Platform Product · Mastercard
Elisabeth Hendrickson
CEO/Founder · Curious Duck Digital Laboratory
Fernando Cornago
Gene Kim
James Wickett
CEO & Co-Founder · DryRun Security
Jean-Gabriel Doyon
Senior Backend Engineer · GitLab
Jeff Gallimore
Excella
Jeremy Eder
Distinguished Engineer · Red Hat
Jeremy Kooistra
Senior Director Website Software Engineering · Hilton
Jitesh Ghai
CEO · Hyland
Joe Beutler
Head of Solutions Engineering, Strategics · OpenAI
John Rauser
Senior Director, Software Engineering · Cisco Security
Jondavid "JD" Black
CIDO Chief Engineer · Northrop Grumman
Justin McCarthy
Founder and CEO · Diffusion AI
Kenny Slater
Staff Information Security Analyst · Rise8
Kevan Mordan
Delivery Lead · Rise8

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Coder
Digital.ai
GitLab
Lucid
Plandek
XALT

Agenda

Selected from 26 sessions.

  • Thu 10:05am-10:30am

    Minutes Matter: Fielding Edge AI for Personnel Recovery in 6 Weeks

  • Thu 10:30am-10:55am

    Tapabrata "Topo" Pal

  • Thu 11:25am-11:50am

    Our Journey to Agentification

  • Thu 11:50am-12:15pm

    Session with Philipp Göllner & Gene Kim

  • Thu 12:15pm-12:40pm

    Inspect the House, Not the Neighborhood: What Actually Makes an AI Model Risky

  • Thu 2:10pm-2:35pm

    Now What?

  • Thu 2:35pm-3:00pm

    James Wickett

  • Thu 3:00pm-3:25pm

    It's a Feature, Not a Bug: Making Sure Code You Didn't Write Does What You Meant

  • Thu 3:55pm-4:20pm

    AI-Driven Organizational Value

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 28 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

28 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
22Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Coder·GitLab·XALT

Speakers by seniority

51% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite924%
  • VP-level411%
  • Director / Head of616%
  • Manager / Lead411%
  • Engineer · IC25%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles1130%

Of 37 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1CoderSponsor1
2GitLabSponsor1
3XALTSponsor1
4Digital.aiSponsor-
5LucidSponsor-
6PlandekSponsor-
7Arkana Laboratories2
8Hilton2
9Mastercard2
10Rise82
11Thrive Market2
12Art of Lean1
13Assisted by AI1
14CircleCI1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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