AGENDA
AI Networking Summit NYC – Fall 2025
3:00 pm
Hosted by Andy Brown, CEO & Founder of Sand Hill East and held under Chatham House Rules, this closed-door roundtable brings together a select group of senior IT executives—CIOs, CTOs, Managing Directors, and Global Heads of Infrastructure—to explore a transformative shift: as Agentic AI takes root, the traditional enterprise software ecosystem will be upended.
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3:00 pm
Join us from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for an exclusive Executive Roundtable tailored for pharmaceutical and medical IT executives. This private, vendor-free, and peer-only session, part of the AI Networking Summit, will focus on how AI can drive innovation, optimize operations, and address industry-specific challenges.
Guided by Chatham House Rules with no recordings permitted, this session provides a unique forum to discuss practical strategies, overcome pressing challenges, and explore transformative opportunities presented by AI.
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CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
3:00 pm
Join us from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for an exclusive Executive Roundtable tailored for IT Executives across all industries. This private, vendor-free, and peer-only session, part of the AI Networking Summit, will focus on how AI can drive innovation, optimize operations, and address industry-specific challenges.
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3:00 pm
Join us from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for an exclusive Executive Roundtable tailored for IT Executives from the financial industry. This private, vendor-free, and peer-only session, part of the AI Networking Summit, will focus on how AI can drive innovation, optimize operations, and address industry-specific challenges.
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8:15 am
Join our Emcees John and Jeremy to hear all about the upcoming keynotes and sessions that will explore how to unleash the power of AI in enterprise infrastructure and applications. Get ready for 2 full days of thought leadership from industry leaders across a wide range of major industries. Learn More
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8:30 am
As we stand at the dawn of the Agentic AI era, the future of enterprise IT is being rewritten in real-time. From the reimagining of network operations and infrastructure to the automation of security and the reinvention of the software ecosystem, Agentic AI will transform every layer of digital business. In this keynote, we’ll explore the tectonic shifts driving this transformation — why AI isn’t just augmenting workflows but fundamentally redesigning them through intelligent, autonomous agents. We’ll set the stage for the insights, architectures, and... Learn More
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9:00 am
Berta Rodriguez-Hervas, Pfizer’s Chief AI & Analytics Officer, brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic clarity to the challenge of enterprise-wide AI adoption. Drawing from leadership roles at Pfizer, Stellantis, NVIDIA, and Tesla, she will share how agentic AI systems, grounded in governance and human intent, are transforming everything from drug discovery to infrastructure. This keynote offers a masterclass in scaling AI with purpose—where measurable outcomes, ethical guardrails, and real-world impact converge. Learn More
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9:35 am
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10:10 am
All industries are embracing AI. This keynote address will address problems and solutions in the rapid acceleration of new technologies. Learn More
10:45 am
Zscaler CEO, Chairman, and Founder Jay Chaudhry talks cybersecurity from AI to ZT in efficient digital transformation. Learn More
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11:15 am
1:25 pm
As a leader in next-level innovation, Riverbed explains how redefining AIOps and observability will deliver a new standard for full visibility. Learn More
2:00 pm
Coty, a global cosmetics and fragrance leader with over 20,000 employees across 46 countries, prioritizes a mature observability practice which drives a resilient network experience for both internal teams and its worldwide customer base.
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2:00 pm
ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges. Suppliers have been challenged by ONUG to present solutions that help the enterprise overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. These are interactive sessions, bring your questions and speak... Learn More
2:30 pm
ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges. Suppliers have been challenged by ONUG to present solutions that help the enterprise overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. These are interactive sessions, bring your questions and speak... Learn More
2:35 pm
Exploring how AI-driven Security Operations Centers can proactively detect, analyze, and respond to threats with minimal human intervention. This panel will highlight early examples of Agentic SoCs (as envisioned in ONUG’s Security & Governance pillar) and discuss the challenges of trusting AI to handle cybersecurity in real time. Attendees will learn what’s feasible today in terms of AI-based threat hunting, incident response orchestration, and security policy automation, as well as how to govern these agentic security tools to avoid false positives or adversarial manipulation. Learn More
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3:05 pm
As organizations shift towards autonomous, agent-driven architectures, the proliferation of independent AI agents fundamentally alters the cybersecurity landscape. This panel session explores how the rise of Agentic AI amplifies and reshapes enterprise security threats, moving beyond traditional perimeter defenses to dynamic, real-time protection strategies. Industry-leading experts will discuss critical challenges such as maintaining Zero Trust architectures when autonomous agents dynamically reconfigure networks, ensuring continuous compliance and governance, and preventing adversarial manipulation of AI-driven decision-making. Learn More
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3:30 pm
ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges. Suppliers have been challenged by ONUG to present solutions that help the enterprise overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. These are interactive sessions, bring your questions and speak... Learn More
3:35 pm
As AI workloads explode across enterprises, networks designed for small, random, short-lived flows are being overwhelmed by the reality of modern AI traffic — massive, synchronized, long-lived flows that saturate links and expose the fragility of static architectures. Recent data shows that AI traffic is not just heavier, but fundamentally different: predominantly multicast or all-to-all, hypersensitive to latency, and able to turn traditional switch oversubscription and ECMP balancing into bottlenecks. This panel will examine why the industry’s traditional best-effort, entropy-dependent designs can’t support AI’s unforgiving... Learn More
4:15 pm
As we look toward 2030, enterprise networking is evolving toward fully autonomous data exchange, driven by intelligent, context-aware Agentic AI controllers. This forward-looking panel will explore how self-learning networks will integrate seamlessly with cloud infrastructure and quantum computing, reshaping the foundations of IT architectures and operations. Expert CTOs and Chief IT Architects will discuss strategic imperatives for organizations preparing to embrace this new era of adaptive infrastructure, highlighting the critical technological innovations, governance frameworks, and skills development required to lead in the next decade of... Learn More
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5:00 pm
Celebrate a successful first day of the AI Networking Summit with the Best in Show Award ceremony, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, lively music, and great conversations! The Best in Show awards recognize standout products that are easily deployable in large-scale enterprise IT environments and deliver tangible business value. Leading industry analysts and ONUG Board Members will judge entries based on the following criteria: ⇒ Innovation – Breakthrough technologies, designs and implementations. ⇒ Differentiation: Products and solutions with unique value propositions. ⇒ Business Value: ROI realized in... Learn More
8:30 am
Join our Emcees John and Jeremy to hear all about the upcoming keynotes and sessions that will explore how to unleash the power of AI in enterprise infrastructure and applications. Get ready for Day 2 of thought leadership from industry leaders across a wide range of major industries. Learn More
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9:00 am
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10:10 am
Over 80% of enterprise AI initiatives fail to move beyond pilots, and only a rare 4% deliver meaningful ROI. This provocative panel confronts the hard truth behind AI project failures: misaligned goals, siloed teams, poor data quality, and a lack of governance and scalable infrastructure. But there is a path forward. Panelists will share firsthand how they’ve broken through the AI failure cycle by aligning AI with business outcomes, building agentic architectures, and embedding adaptive governance. Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to... Learn More
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11:00 am
Enterprises are rapidly investing in AI, but moving from hype to real, scalable results means overcoming the hidden obstacles that derail projects. This session brings together practitioners who are “turning the wrenches” — tackling challenges like power and cooling constraints, permission-to-operate barriers, data center capacity, and the shift from Infiniband to Ethernet. Join this candid conversation to hear practical lessons learned from real deployments, how leaders are solving regulatory and operational roadblocks, and what it really takes to make AI work at scale in complex,... Learn More
2:00 pm
The rapid integration of AI technologies is fundamentally reshaping career pathways in tech, especially by automating entry-level and foundational roles historically critical for skill development and upward mobility. This panel brings together industry leaders and workforce strategists to discuss the impact of removing these traditional “bottom rungs” and explores innovative strategies for nurturing talent from early career stages through executive leadership. Panelists will address critical questions around mentoring, reskilling, equitable career progression, and redefining roles to ensure both individuals and organizations can thrive in the... Learn More
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2:00 pm
ONUG Triple T presentations provide you with a unique opportunity to view Tools, Technologies and Techniques that map to solutions that enable trusted Infrastructure to drive business value in today’s Enterprise. From real-world NetDevOps to automating and securing multi-cloud deployments, you will find answers to your unique requirements and challenges. Suppliers have been challenged by ONUG to present solutions that help the enterprise overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. These are interactive sessions, bring your questions and speak... Learn More
2:35 pm
In this session, experts will discuss ONUG’s “Agentic AI Overlay” concept for creating adaptive networks. The panel will explore how intent-based and policy-driven architectures enable networks that “sense and respond” to changing conditions without waiting for human input. Topics include using AI to dynamically optimize routing and provisioning (for example, intelligent NaaS), and ensuring network policies remain aligned to business intent. Speakers will highlight how embracing agentic overlays allows networks to reconfigure on the fly for fluctuating AI workloads – delivering agility and performance while... Learn More
3:05 pm
This forward-looking panel examines the evolution of traditional operations centers into AI-driven Agentic Operations Centers (AOCs). Panelists (including NOC/SOC leaders and AI ops specialists) will share how AI is being used today for predictive alerting and automated remediation, and envision next-generation centers where intelligent agents perform most monitoring and troubleshooting tasks. Discussion will cover blending NOC and SOC workflows, training staff to supervise AI workflows, and establishing reliability when machines make split-second decisions. Emphasis is on how enterprises can implement controlled-autonomy: letting AI handle routine... Learn More
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3:35 pm
The rise of autonomous, AI-driven networks introduces unprecedented opportunities—but also significant security risks, compliance challenges, and governance complexities. In this critical panel, leading security experts and CISOs will discuss practical strategies to mitigate threats unique to Agentic AI deployments, from ensuring transparency and auditability in AI decision-making to implementing robust Zero Trust and continuous verification frameworks. Panelists will share best practices and actionable insights for maintaining rigorous oversight and governance in adaptive networks, ensuring enterprises can safely embrace the full potential of controlled autonomy. Learn More
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CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
5:00 pm
It’s always a rockin’ party with great food, drinks and the Summit band – Bring you instrument and join in the fun! Learn More