Unleashing the Power of AI in Enterprise Infrastructure and Applications


May 28-29, 2025
Hyatt Regency Dallas @Reunion Tower

Hosted by The ONUG Board

James Beeson
Acting Chief Information Security Officer
Sean Finnerty
Associate Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure Technology
Phil Tee
Chairman & CEO
John Chambers
Chairman Emeritus
Founder & CEO
Kevin Deierling
Senior Vice President, Networking
Celia Merzbacher
Executive Director
Christopher Moretti
Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation
Disleve Kanku
AI & Data Engineer
Harish Kashyap
Founder & CEO
AI Instructor
Chalan Aras
SVP and GM, Acceleration
Brad Haas
Vice President of Professional Services
Darrin Thomason
Vice President - Customer Engineering
Mark Rushing
Managing Director - Head of Security Operations and Threat Management Technology
Eric Powers
Director, Citi Tech Fellow, Head of High Perf Arch Infra, STAC Fellow
Ritesh Agrawal
VP, Product Management
Aidan Walden
Global Director of Public Cloud Architecture and Engineering
Matthew Schwen
Associate Director of Network Automation Engineering
Denis Mandich
Co-Founder & CTO

The Future of the AI-Driven Enterprise is NOW

Empowering the Future: Wiring Business for the AI Era

Hear from Nick Lippis, Co-founder and Co-chair of ONUG and the AI Networking Summit, as he discusses how the large enterprise will bridge the gap between today’s IT infrastructure and the transformative potential of AI. Join us at the AI Networking Summit for a deep dive into the latest strategies for creating simplified, secure, and AI-ready corporate infrastructures. Discover how AI can elevate performance, security, and scalability across enterprise operations. Explore the advent of AI-enabled systems for optimized business processes and the impact of AI on customer experience. Secure your spot to learn, network, and lead in the AI era.

Key AI Networking Summit Topics

AI Networking Summit Co-Chairs

Nick Lippis
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
Phil Tee
Chairman & CEO
Tony Farinacci
Managing Director, CTO, CISO, Distinguished Architect
CTO
Neil Anderson
VP, Cloud, Infrastructure, and AI Solutions

AI Networking Summit Speakers

James Beeson
Acting Chief Information Security Officer
John Chambers
Chairman Emeritus
Founder & CEO
Sean Finnerty
Associate Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure Technology
Kevin Deierling
Senior Vice President, Networking
Brian Gilbert
Chief Technical Advisor and Vice President
Celia Merzbacher
Executive Director
Ray Mota
CEO and Principal Analyst
Eric Hanselman
Chief Analyst
Phil Tee
Chairman & CEO
Haripriya Jagannathan
Senior Vice President
Harish Kashyap
Founder & CEO
AI Instructor
Denis Mandich
Co-Founder & CTO
Mark Rushing
Managing Director - Head of Security Operations and Threat Management Technology
Eric Powers
Director, Citi Tech Fellow, Head of High Perf Arch Infra, STAC Fellow
Darrin Thomason
Vice President - Customer Engineering
AI Networking Summit Dallas, 2025

JOIN US in Dallas!

Your pass includes LIVE access to:

  • All AI Networking Summit Sessions including:  Thought Leadership Keynotes, Main Stage and Panel sessions
  • Invitation-only sessions led by AI Networking Council Members
  • Over 40 Tools, Technologies and Techniques Presentations from leading vendors
  • Professional Development Workshops – Included with Paid Single and IT Team Pass
  • Digital Transformation Showcase – Meet with more than 40 IT Suppliers
  • All meals, refreshments and networking reception on Day 1
  • Networking opportunities and Events
  • Access to all post-event archived sessions
  • Welcome Gift upon arrival

** Team Passes, The Exhibit Hall Pass and the Workshop Add-On Passes are valid for Enterprise IT attendees only, not vendor

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Featured Sessions

Enterprise leaders on building, securing and operating AI at global scale.

Executive Panel

AI at Global Scale: How FedEx is Driving Innovation with Trust, Security, and Control

FedEx operates one of the world’s most complex, real-time logistics and digital networks—moving millions of packages daily while transmitting petabytes of data across its systems. To operate at this scale, FedEx has embedded AI across its business, from its Surround® platform, which uses machine learning to monitor shipments in real time, to predictive analytics that anticipate delays, optimize routes, and proactivel...

Gene Sun

Gene Sun

CVP & CISO, FedEx

Arvind Rajagopalan

Arvind Rajagopalan

VP - Data & AI, FedEx

Nick Lippis

Nick Lippis

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, ONUG

Keynote

AI-Autonomous Cyber Operations: The Strategic Inflection Point for Post-Quantum Resilience

Recent reporting suggests that Frontier AI systems are moving from assistive tools to autonomous operators capable of conducting end-to-end offensive cyber operations in hours rather than weeks. By reasoning, planning, and adapting without direct instruction, these systems can discover zero-day vulnerabilities, chain exploits, and compress defenders’ decision cycles beyond the pace of human-led security operations.

John Buselli

John Buselli

Global Offering Manager – IBM Quantum Safe Research, IBM Security Research

Rajeev Sharma

Rajeev Sharma

Chief Security Architect, The Vanguard Group

Keynote

Autonomous Infrastructure: The Operating Model AI Is Forcing on All of Us – Main Stage Keynote

Frontier AI models have broken the industry's release cadence. What used to arrive quarterly now lands monthly — sometimes weekly — as AI systems surface vulnerabilities and generate fixes faster than any enterprise change process was ever designed to absorb. Most organizations are responding by working harder inside a model built for a slower world: longer maintenance windows, bigger patch backlogs, more risk accept...

Tom Gillis

Tom Gillis

SVP and CTO, Cisco

Executive Panel

From Operator to Orchestrator: The Summer of Patch Hell and the Sprint to Autonomous Lifecycle Management

Before this summer, infrastructure operations ran on a philosophy decades in the making: qualify a design, test it rigorously, deploy it — and then change it as little as possible. Availability versus change was a balance every operator knew how to strike. The Summer of Mythos destroyed that balance. When AI systems began surfacing critical, exploitable vulnerabilities across the entire installed base — wave after wa...

James Walker

James Walker

Chief Administrative Officer, DXC

Tsvi Gal

Tsvi Gal

CTO and Head of Enterprise Technology Services (Infrastructure), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Christopher Moretti

Christopher Moretti

Vice President - Global Technology & Cloud Transformation, Evernorth, Health Services

Hear from the AI Networking Summit Co- Chairs, Andy Brown and Phil Tee

Andy Brown, CEO of Sand Hill East and Phil Tee, EVP and Head of AI Innovation at Zscaler, discuss how AI is impacting infrastructure for compute and the design of networks and security to support applications. These two AI Networking Summit Co-chair’s will lead discussions around the evolving tools and best practices for accelerating the adoption of AI to deliver value for your organization. Join us in New York to help fast-track your enterprise IT AI journey. Register Today

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