If Software Ate the World, AI Is Eating Software: The End of the Enterprise Software Era? – IT Executive Roundtable
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. Custom-built, AI-driven agents promise to replace rigid, monolithic platforms and SaaS offerings, reshaping how businesses operate at their core. This candid, vendor-free discussion will examine what comes next as AI is poised to rewrite the rules of enterprise software.
Andy Brown currently serves as CEO of Sand Hill East, LLC, which provides strategic management, advice and marketing services to emerging companies. Mr. Brown is also a member of the boards of directors of Guidewire inc. a public traded company in the PNC insurance business, Zscaler, Inc., a publicly traded company providing cloud security services, Pure Storage, Inc., a publicly traded software-defined data storage solutions company, Digital Asset, a company providing solutions in the DeFi and Digital Ledger workflow world, Moogsoft, a next generation AI-Operations company, Skyhive, a company providing Digital Reskilling & Education.
He is also CEO and co-owner of Biz Tectonics LLC, a privately held consulting company. From September 2010 to October 2013, Mr. Brown served as Group Chief Technology Officer of UBS, an investment bank. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served in a variety of executive management and leadership roles at a variety of leading banking companies including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. Mr. Brown holds a BSc Honors Degree in Chemical Physics from University College London.
