TechEquity Ai Summit 2026: Talks + AI Agent Workshops

The TechEquity Ai Summit is a four-day hybrid event that brings together over 2,000 AI leaders, founders, educators, and community members across sectors, including enterprise, healthcare, workforce, education, marketing, creative, and more.

This session is part of the TechEquity Ai Flagship Event, combining strategic insights and real-world use cases from industry leaders, alongside technical workshops and live demos.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

• Tuesday, 11/03/26 - Enterprise AI & Transformation
• AI in Enterprise, AI in Marketing & Creative

Wednesday, 11/04/26 - Data, Agentic AI & Open Source
AI in Enterprise, AI in Infrastructure

Thursday, 11/05/26 - AI for Workforce & Enterprise
AI in Enterprise, AI in Workforce Transformation, AI in Education, AI in Nonprofits

Friday, 11/06/26 - AI in Healthcare
AI in Diagnosis and Imaging, Surgery and Robotics, Drug Discovery, Patient Monitoring, Clinical Decision Support, Mental Health, Safety and Equity

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SPEAKERS HIGHLIGHTS

👉View Day 1 Sessions👈

Tuesday, 11/03/26 - Enterprise AI & Transformation

• Gopi Kallayil - Chief Business Strategist at Google
• Ran Hu - Director of Strategic Business Development at Nvidia
• Krishnan Parasuraman - VP, Head of Global Field CTO Office at Snowflake
• Aaron Luber - Director at Google Labs
• Andy Parsons - Global Head of Content Authenticity at Adobe
• Kathi Vidal - Partner at Winston & Strawn, Former Director at USPTO
• Matthew Thomas Miller - Of Counsel at Winston Taylor
• Xuyang Zhu - Partner at Winston Taylor
• Donald Freyberger -  Senior Program Manager at Sidekick Platform
• Brendon Hale, Ph.D. - Chief Science and Product Officer

at Sidekick Platform

• Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D. Director of Medical Virtual Reality at USC Institute for Creative Technologies
• Sneha Ghosh - EVP Data NAMER at Monks
• Sam Lewis - SVP Creative & Media at DEPT
• Ali Payani - Founder & CEO at Payani AI
• Ben Relles - Founder at Make Believe
• Richie Bachala, Senior Manager of Applied Engineering at Snowflake
• Dave Doan - Senior Delivery Manager at Snowflake
• Abhijeet Joshi - Senior Technical Program Manager at Nvidia

👉View Day 2 Sessions👈

Wednesday, 11/04/26 - Data, Agentic AI & Open Source

• Amjad Shaikh - VP, Platform and AI Experiences at ServiceNow
• Stephen Chin - VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j
• Jeff Bellinghausen - CTO at Sidekick Platform
• Okhtay Azarmanesh - Principal AI/ML Architect, Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake
• Harsha Reddy, Senior Engineering Leader at Doordash
• George Fraser - CEO at Fivetran
• Ivan Lee - Founder & CEO at Datasaur
• Ashish Shubham - Engineering Fellow / VP at ThoughtSpot
• Shiva Mogili - Director of Product Management at Fivetran + dbt Labs
• Ken Robinson - Sales Engineer at Island
• Dave Nielsen - Director of Community at AI Alliance

👉View Day 3 Sessions👈

Thursday, 11/05/26 - AI for Workforce & Enterprise

• Martin Gonzalez - Head of Organizational AI Research at Google DeepMind
• Stacy Robnett - Head of Org Design & Ecosystem Strategy at Lightspeed Venture
• Sowmya Kannan - Director, Education and Workforce Development, AI Alliance Co-Chair at IBM
• Sanjmeet Abrol - AI Strategy &

Engineering Leader at IBM

• Karthik Yogeshwar - GenAI Workforce Planning and Vendor Strategy - Program Manager at Meta
• Charu Adesnik - Executive Director at Cisco Foundation
• Vineeth Kalluru - Senior Solutions Architect - Generative AI at Nvidia
• Kunal Patil - ML Engineer at Glean
• Nicholas Abram - Global Account Manager at Minimax
• Christopher Camp - Surgeon at Mayo Clinic
• Ally Kaiser - Head of Product at NeuRealities
• Tess Gilman Posner - Board Member at AI4ALL, Rounder & CEO at Resonance
• Oana Ignat - Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University
• Kolento Hou - Co-founder & CEO at Emergences Labs
• Adam Kirsh CEO at Kirsh Industrial AI
• Chris Meek, Ed.D., MPA, MBA - Co-Founder & Chairman at SoldierStrong
• John Coleman - State Adjutant/Quartermaster at Department of Florida Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Manisha Gupta - Former VP, Products, AI/ML Analytics on People Intelligence at Oracle, Founder at WearVedic
• Kellen Casebeer - Chief Growth Officer at Symbolic.ai
• Doug Skinner - Founder and CEO at Intentional Management LLC

👉View Day 4 Sessions👈

Friday, 11/06/26 - AI in Healthcare

• Walter Greenleaf, PhD - Researcher & Innovations Director at Stanford Medical Mixed Reality Center, Stanford University
• Daniel Kraft, Founder & Chair at NextMed Health
• Kabir Kasargod - Healthcare Lead at Qualcomm
• Susan Kirsh MD MPH - Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Health at The Department of Veterans Affairs
• Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke - Vice Chair, Practice Transformation, Department of Nursing at Mayo Clinic
• Emily Ashby - Product Partnerships Director at Snowflake
• Dan Donovan - Head of AI at NeuRealities
• Brendon Hale, Ph.D., - Chief Science and Product Officer at Sidekick Platform
• Sara Czaja, Ph.D. - Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medecine
• Beth Rogozinski - CEO at Oncoustics
• Michael Aratow - Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer at Elipsis Health
• Jim Cavuoto - Editor and Publisher at Neurotech Reports
• Nanea Reeves - Co-Founder & CEO at TRIPP
• Mylea Charvat, Ph.D. - Fractional C-Suite Leadership, Advisor, Board Member at Syntara Lifesciences Advisors
• Amy Peck - Founder & CEO at EndeavorXR, Venture Board, Harvard HealthLab Accelerator at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Member of AI Governance Alliance at World Economic Forum
• David Eagleman - Adjunct Professor at Stanford University
• Emily Ashby - Partnerships Director at Snowflakes
• Max Lu, PhD. - Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aevius
• Alaa Yousef - Staff GenAI Scientist at Cotiviti

More speakers to be announced.

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SESSION HIGHLIGHTS

Tuesday, 11/03/26 - Enterprise AI & Transformation

• [Panel] From Chips to Strategy: How AI Becomes Business Value 🌟 by Gopi Kallayil/ Google, Ran Hu, moderated by Abhijeet Joshi
• [Keynote] Bring Your Own Model: The Case for Open Weights & Open Choice ❄️ by Richie Bachala
• [Panel] Systematic Development of an AI Platform within a Large Organization by Donald Freyberger/Sidekick Platform, Brendon Hale, Ph.D./Sidekick Platform, Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D./USC Institute for Creative Technologies
• [Parallel Sessions]

• [Workshop] Snowflake Platform Training by Dave Doan
• [Workshop] AI Agent Workshop Series by Dave Nielsen/AI Alliance

Wednesday, 11/04/26 - Data, Agentic AI & Open Source

• [Keynote] The Agent Remembers What the Enterprise Records: Four-Tier Agentic Memory Architecture 🧠 by Amjad Shaikh
• [Fireside Chat] Open Data, Intelligent Platform: A Conversation on AI at Petabyte Scale⚡by Harsha Reddy, moderated by Richie Bachala
• [Fireside Chat] From Closed Models to NVIDIA Nemotron: Building and Operating Sidekick Platform on AWS  by Jeff Bellinghausen/Sidekick Platform, moderated by Abhijeet Joshi
• [Parallel Sessions]

• [Workshop] From Sprawl to Control: A Hands-On Guide to Snowflake AI Gateway by Okhtay Azarmanesh
• [Hackathon] Company Brain Hackathon 👨💻by Dave Nielsen/AI Alliance

Thursday, 11/05/26 - AI for Workforce & Enterprise

• [Panel] AI for Workforce: Redesigning Teams, Skills, and Outcomes🌟 by Stacy Robnett/Lightspeed Venture, [Sowmya Ka