AI & Machine Learning

GAI World 2026

Name: GAI World 2026
Start: 2026-09-28
End: 2026-09-29
Location: Boston

GAI World is an enterprise Generative AI conference where executives, AI leaders, and investors share real-world use cases and deployment strategies for AI in production.

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50Speakers

31Sponsors

59On the bill · sessions

63Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at GAI, in alphabetical order.

Abhijith Mandya

Senior Data Science Manager · Wayfair

Alden Do Rosio

CEO · CustomGPT

Ankaj Mohindroo

Head of AI Research · GAI Insights

Anthony Hill

CEO and Founder · Adaptix Corp

Apeksha Patel

Medical Director - Solid Tumors · Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Ashish Bhatia

Director, Product Management · Audible

Badri Raghavan

Former VP AI and ML · GAI Insights

Bill Fandrich

EVP and CIO · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Chris McKay

CEO · Maginative

Christopher Boone

Group VP of Life Sciences · Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)

David Edelman

Executive Advisor and Fellow · Harvard Business School

Gamiel Gran

Chief Commercial Officer · Mayfield Fund

Heather Staples

EVP Operations and Technology & CIO · Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ

Ian Robertson

Director · American Securities

Jeffery Rayport

Professor · Harvard Business School

John Sviokla

Co-Founder · GAI Insights

John Werner

MIT Fellow and Founder · Imagination in Action

Jonathan Issacson

CEO · Gemline

Karen Stroup

SVP Digital · WEX

Kevin O'Brien

CEO · Invoice Cloud

Lena Smart

Former CISO for MongoDB, Board Memeber and Advisor · American Society for AI

Liz Vanzura

Co-Founder · GAI Insights

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Agenda

Selected from 59 sessions on the bill.

10:00am - 10:20am
Implementing Sovereign AI or Own Your Own Intelligence (OYOI)
General Session
1:00pm - 1:25pm
Claude 101 (Model Selector, Prompts, Custom Instructions)
Hands-On Workshop
1:00pm - 1:25pm
Driving Economic Return From AI
AI Case Study
1:00pm - 1:25pm
Optimizing Brand Awareness in the Age of AI
AI Case Study
1:00pm - 1:55pm
Vendor Product Demo
Vendors
10:20am - 10:30am
How I use Claude to Create Powerpoints
Claude Training
10:30am - 11:05am
Networking Break
General Session
11:05am - 11:10am
How I use Claude with Excel
Claude Training
11:10am - 11:40am
CIO Priorities for AI in 2027
General Session

Intermission

Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 63 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

63 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

27Sponsoringsponsor only

33Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Seekr·CustomGPT·Quantum Gears

Speakers by seniority

72% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite2040%
Founder / Owner510%
VP-level612%
Director / Head of510%
Manager / Lead12%
Product12%
Engineer · IC36%
Advisor / Investor36%
Other roles612%

Of 50 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

01GAI Insights8V
02SeekrSp·S2V
03CustomGPTSp·E1V
04Harvard Business School4V
05Quantum GearsSp·S1V
06AI Press RoomSp·M
07AWSSp·W
08Bronze Sponsor 1Sp·B
09CASTSp·S
10DDN Data IntelSp·S
11FreshworksSp·S
12Gold Sponsor 1Sp·G
13Gold Sponsor 2Sp·G
14Gold Sponsor 3Sp·G

Sponsors by tier

gold4

13% of 31

silver2

6% of 31

bronze2

6% of 31

GAI World 2026

Implementing Sovereign AI or Own Your Own Intelligence (OYOI)

Claude 101 (Model Selector, Prompts, Custom Instructions)

Driving Economic Return From AI

Optimizing Brand Awareness in the Age of AI

Vendor Product Demo

How I use Claude to Create Powerpoints

Networking Break

How I use Claude with Excel

CIO Priorities for AI in 2027

63 companies. three are betting more than once.