Chief AI Officer Summit Boston 2026

About Chief AI Officer Summit Boston 2026

Senior technology leaders are the target at Chief AI Officer Summit Boston, held on October 29, 2026 at The Westin Boston Seaport, 425 Summer Street, Massachusetts, United States. AI Accelerator Institute organizes four summits under one roof: Chief AI Officer, CISO, Generative AI and Agentic AI.

Of 33 speakers listed, Sarah Bird (Chief Product Officer, Responsible AI, Microsoft), Christie Mealo (Chief AI Officer, Medical Knowledge Group) and Derya Isler (VP, AI Applications, Salesforce) are among those named. Among 20 sessions, one covers sensitivity-aware LLM routing and another the CEO and CISO standoff over productivity and security risk. Director, VP and C-level titles are the intended audience.

Location

425 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Venue: The Westin Boston Seaport

Agenda

Thursday, October 29

• 08:00–09:00 · Networking & Exhibition - Registration & welcome breakfast
• 09:00–09:30 · Welcome to Chief AI Officer Summit
• 09:00–09:30 · The next frontier of AI is trust — Sarah Bird
• 09:30–10:00 · Don't route what you can't redact: Sensitivity-aware LLM routing — Christopher Nuland
• 10:00–10:30 · Bad data, bad agents: Why autonomy breaks without a trusted data layer — Aaditya Bhat
• 10:30–11:00 · Networking & Exhibition - Coffee break
• 11:00–12:00 · Your model isn't the moat: what actually protects AI products in 2026 — Christie Mealo
• 11:00–12:00 · When business IT moves faster than security can govern — Arpita Bhowmick
• 11:00–12:00 · Breakout roundtable | One control plane for every agent — Jax Painter
• 11:30–12:00 · The CEO vs CISO standoff - how to bridge the gap between AI productivity and security risk — Oren Michels
• 12:00–12:30 · The 'confidently wrong' is holding AI transformation back - what can we do to fix it in practice? — Sandip Devarkonda
• 12:00–12:30 · Cybersecurity strategies for resilient, AI-driven enterprises
• 12:30–13:00 · Panel | From deployment to value: What enterprise AI adoption actually requires
• 12:30–13:00 · Panel | Securing the AI stack: Hardening models, agents, and data pipelines
• 13:00–14:00 · Networking & Exhibition - Lunch break
• 14:00–14:30 · Turning AI strategy into measurable impact — Shridhar Pathak
• 14:00–14:30 · Breakout workshop | Scaling rule engines with agentic AI — Kushal Patel
• 15:00–15:30 · Panel | Building AI systems that work at scale
• 15:30–16:00 · Networking & Exhibition - Coffee break
• 16:00–16:30 · Panel | Trust, autonomy, and risk: Setting the boundaries for AI agents

Tracks & topics

• Chief AI Officer Summit
• CISO Summit
• Generative AI Summit
• Agentic AI Summit

Audience

• Director
• VP
• C-Level AI/Technology titles

Speakers

• Sarah Bird
  Chief Product Officer, Responsible AI, Microsoft
• Manajit Barman
  Chief Data Officer, United States Air Force
• Christie Mealo
  Chief AI Officer, Medical Knowledge Group
• Ravi Ravichandran
  VP, Chief Technology Officer, Intelligence & Security, BAE Systems
• Derya Isler
  VP, AI Applications, Salesforce
• Aman Bhandari
  SVP, Chief Analytics & AI Officer, SCAN (Senior Care Action Network)
• Arpita Bhowmick
  Head of Commercial & Patient Services IT, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
• Rob Drew
  Chief Information Officer, Head of IT, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
• Jonathan Mulieri
  SVP, AI Lifecycle Management, OmniTrust
• Christopher Nuland
  Principal Engineer, AI Inference Technical Marketing, Red Hat
• Aaditya Bhat
  Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
• Jax Painter
  Senior Director, Business Strategy & Product Marketing - Okta for AI Agents, Okta
• Oren Michels
  Co-Founder & CEO, Barndoor.ai
• Sandip Devarkonda
  Director, Forward Deployed Engineering, PromptQL
• Vikram Ahuja
  Chief Architect, AI Financial Services, Deluxe
• Eric Lamy
  VP, AI & Data Product, TKO Group Holdings
• AJ Debole
  Chief Information Security Officer, Field
• Divya Singh
  VP, Senior IT Audit Officer
• Randall Jackson
  Chief Information Security Officer, Income Research + Management
• Shridhar Pathak
  Senior Director, AI & Data, Moderna
• Kushal Patel
  Senior Machine Learning Engineer, John Hancock
• Vik Scoggins
  Head of Product, AI Platform, Coinbase
• Manish Babel
  VP, Technology, Applied AI & GenAI Engineering, State Street
• Rohit Arora
  Senior Director, Data Privacy & AI Governance, SharkNinja

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