AI in Action: The Great Re-Platforming of Enterprise Infrastructure- Main Stage Keynote
Enterprise AI is moving from experimentation to production—and infrastructure teams now control whether their companies win or fall behind. We are living in a moment of exponential progress driven by AI, where capabilities accelerate rapidly and traditional planning cycles no longer apply. As agentic systems take on Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations, generative infrastructure designs itself, and governance frameworks mature, a new reality is emerging: AI is driving a workload repatriation wave—as data gravity, IP protection, control, and security concerns force new architectural and operating models. In exponential times, there is no luxury of delay—this keynote sets the stakes for moving fast to AI-enable your enterprise-controlled infrastructure and frames the economic, architectural, and operational shifts that will define the next two days.
Nick Lippis is an authority on corporate computer networking. He has designed some for the largest computer networks in the world. He has advised many Global 2000 firms on network strategy, architecture, equipment, services and implementation including Hughes Aerospace, Barclays Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Eastman Kodak Company, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Liberty Mutual, Schering-Plough, Sprint, WorldCom, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and a wide range of other equipment suppliers and service providers.
Mr. Lippis is uniquely positioned to comment, analyze and observe computer networking industry trends and developments.
