October 2nd, 2025 (Thursday)
Getting “AI Ready” with Help from Industry Leaders. Learn how to turn AI into ROI by mastering the hardware, security, and data management of your AI infrastructure. Learn directly from leading enterprise AI, infrastructure, and innovation leaders at Emerj’s inaugural Next AI Infra Summit.
Registration is FREE for all:
For over 6 years Emerj has connected with enterprise AI and infrastructure leaders through our publishing and popular AI in Business Podcast with over 6,000,000 lifetime downloads.
This year, as AI begins to define the business landscape across industries – Emerj is bringing together the brightest minds from the Emerj rolodex, and the sharpest AI and infrastructure leaders to share their best-practices for turning AI capabilities and infra into real business value.
The Next AI Infra Summit brings together enterprise leaders to share strategies for building, securing, and scaling AI infrastructure. The agenda is organized into focused panels pulling apart challenges and solutions in hardware, security, compliance, data strategy, deployment, and scaling for enterprise AI adoptions. Speakers include Google, NVIDIA, IBM, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Takeda executives.
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM - 4:00 AM
Panelists & Speakers Bios
IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for watsonx, IBM Research AI.
CTO of Takeda
Head of Analytics & Insights at Google
Former Head of AI, HSB
Head of AI, Raytheon
Chief Practice Officer, Fractal AI
Head of Machine Learning, Slack
COO of Markets and Security Services, North America, City
Senior Director, Applied AI Research, Comcast
General Manager of AI, Microsoft
Engineering CTO AI Product Development, Genpact
General Partner at Polaris Partners
Global Head of AI & Analytics, Cognizant
Learning & Preception Research Lead, NVIDIA
Learn more about our keynote speakers and panel discussion speakers.
Ranjan Sinha – IBM Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer, watsonx, IBM Research AI.
This keynote will provide a deep dive into agentic AI systems, scalable enterprise AI frameworks, and the future of AI hardware.
Ranjan will discuss how enterprises can move beyond ad hoc AI projects by developing intelligent, scalable infrastructures that streamline generative AI workflows and enhance operational efficiency. He’ll highlight the critical role of intelligent storage, robust feedback loops between research and production, and the importance of governance in AI readiness.
Additionally, he’ll share insights on cutting-edge advancements in AI hardware, including neuromorphic chips, quantum computing, and next-generation processor architectures, offering a roadmap for enterprises looking to stay ahead in an era of accelerated AI innovation.
Leo Barella CTO of Takeda.
This keynote will provide a deep dive into agentic AI systems, scalable enterprise AI frameworks, and the future of AI hardware.
Ranjan will discuss how enterprises can move beyond ad hoc AI projects by developing intelligent, scalable infrastructures that streamline generative AI workflows and enhance operational efficiency. He’ll highlight the critical role of intelligent storage, robust feedback loops between research and production, and the importance of governance in AI readiness.
Additionally, he’ll share insights on cutting-edge advancements in AI hardware, including neuromorphic chips, quantum computing, and next-generation processor architectures, offering a roadmap for enterprises looking to stay ahead in an era of accelerated AI innovation.
Jiaxi Zhu Head of Analytics & Insights at Google
This keynote will provide a deep dive into agentic AI systems, scalable enterprise AI frameworks, and the future of AI hardware.
Ranjan will discuss how enterprises can move beyond ad hoc AI projects by developing intelligent, scalable infrastructures that streamline generative AI workflows and enhance operational efficiency. He’ll highlight the critical role of intelligent storage, robust feedback loops between research and production, and the importance of governance in AI readiness.
Additionally, he’ll share insights on cutting-edge advancements in AI hardware, including neuromorphic chips, quantum computing, and next-generation processor architectures, offering a roadmap for enterprises looking to stay ahead in an era of accelerated AI innovation.
Emerj AI Research
October 2, 2025 (Thursday)
9am - 4:00pm
Virtual event
Registration is free to attend the inaugural Next AI Infra Summit. Simply click here to register.
If you’d like to apply to be a panelist or speaker, submit your participant request here.
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This event is designed for AI, Infrastructure, and IT enterprise leadership. Panelists, speakers and attendees will be joining us from large
Enterprise AI / infra leaders: This event was created specifically for you, with speakers and topics designed to help you learn best practices of building an enterprise AI “capability layer” at scale – from leaders just like you at the world’s largest organizations.
Enterprise IT leaders: If you’re involved in strategy around AI, data governance/platforms, or compute hardware within the enterprise, you’ll benefit greatly from this event.
