Navigating the GenAI Revolution: Proven Strategies for Successful Enterprise Deployment of GenAI Applications
In the era of accelerated AI advancements, many enterprises face complex challenges and critical decisions when deploying Generative AI applications at scale. This panel brings together industry pioneers and IT leaders who have successfully integrated GenAI solutions within their organizations, aligning them with existing infrastructure and achieving measurable outcomes. Participants will gain actionable insights into overcoming barriers like scalability, compliance, talent shortages, and cost-effectiveness. Panelists will share strategies to navigate the technical, ethical, and operational hurdles inherent to GenAI, empowering organizations to maximize the transformative potential of AI while maintaining trust and security in their deployments.
Charlene O’Hanlon is an award-winning journalist and content professional serving the technology sector for more than 20 years as director, executive editor and managing editor for numerous technology-focused sites. As VP and Managing Editor at Activate Marketing Services, she leads a team of writers and editors who create client-focused content for marketing programs in the B2B tech sector. In her former position as Chief Operating Officer at Techstrong Group, Charlene led the direction and management of Techstrong Learning and Techstrong Live! webinars and events divisions. Charlene also served as co-host and anchor of the Techstrong TV streaming broadcast.
Charlene is co-author of “The Lifecycle of Fashion Technology” and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. In her spare time, she is an avid drummer and is working toward achieving a Level 4 Diploma in Wines from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET).
Junhong Liu is the Network Automation Architect at Citi, where he oversees the architecture, technology, and innovation of emerging technologies. His key areas of interest include network automation, network segmentation, policy-as-code, and integrating AI into network systems.
Before joining Citi, Junhong held various technology and leadership roles at Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco, including positions in development, architecture, and open source package owner.
Junhong holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in China.
Christopher Moretti has been an executive leader with Evernorth Health Services (formerly Cigna) since October, 2015 and is currently responsible for all infrastructure engineering Leading the Global Engineering & Infrastructure Services. In this role, Chris provides executive leadership over the teams that deliver Cigna’s voice & data networks, security engineering, contact center, database, compute, storage, information management, mainframe, cloud & devops.
Previous to Cigna, Chris spent 14 years at General Electric and its subsidiaries in various executive leadership roles supporting its insurance, consumer and commercial banking businesses. While at GE, Chris attended and graduated many of their prestigious management training classes including AIMC and EIMP. Most recently, Christopher was Managing Director of Global Networks for J.P. Morgan Chase & Company based in midtown Manhattan.
Chris started his career in IT performing many different hands on technical roles in client/server, network and security for various sized firms in the greater New York market including a period where he consulted for Greenwich Technology Partners.
Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and currently resides in Shelton, CT with his wife and 3 sons.
