Teqfocus Presents: East Bay CXO Oct 2025 Meetup "The CTO/CIO Playbook for Agentic Platforms: From Infra to Intelligent Products"
The CTO/CIO Playbook for Agentic Platforms: From Infra to Intelligent Products
Connect. Exchange. Elevate.
An initiative by Teqfocus
Join fellow CXOs, VPs, and tech decision-makers from the East Bay for an exclusive, peer-driven conversation:
Explore how data leaders are shifting from strategy design to intelligent, AI-driven execution—what’s working, what’s changing, and what’s next.
📅 Date: Oct 30th, 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
This meetup is part of the East Bay CXO Community—a Teqfocus-led initiative to foster trusted relationships, real conversations, and collective innovation in the Bay Area tech leadership circle.
This isn’t your typical meetup—it’s an energizing space to swap ideas, share experiences, and grow your network.
Over evening snacks and drinks, enjoy a bold, no-fluff panel with senior IT execs diving into one of today’s biggest tech challenges.
Host: Jas Kaur
CTO, Teqfocus | AI & Data Strategist | Host, TeqTalk Podcast
Jas leads AI‑driven transformation strategies at Teqfocus and hosts the TeqTalk podcast. With experience at IBM, Aviva, and Sainsbury’s, she blends technical depth with business insight and brings bold ideas and real‑world AI stories to enterprise conversations.
👥 Speakers
Moderator: Andy Singh
Founder & CEO, Teqfocus | Data & AI Strategist
Andy Singh is the Founder & CEO of Teqfocus, a global Salesforce Summit and AWS partner specializing in AI, data, and cloud transformation. A recognized strategist, he helps CXOs embed AI into enterprise ecosystems to deliver measurable outcomes.
At the October panel, “The CTO/CIO Playbook for Agentic Platforms: From Infra to Intelligent Products,” Andy will guide the discussion while sharing his own perspective on building agentic enterprises at scale.
Speaker: Bhawna Singh
CTO, Customer Identity at Okta | Former CTO, Glassdoor
Bhawna is a veteran technology leader with two decades of experience scaling global platforms and leading large‑scale transformations. At Okta, she oversees innovation and reliability for one of the world’s largest identity platforms, securing billions of logins each month. She previously scaled Glassdoor to 100 million monthly users and continues to advise AI and security startups on building secure, inclusive technology ecosystems.
Speaker: Cecil Newton
CIO & Information Security Officer, Central California Alliance for Health | Former IT Leader, San Francisco Health Plan & Charles Schwab
With over two decades in healthcare and financial services, Cecil leads IT strategy and security at Central California Alliance for Health. He previously drove systems modernization and infrastructure transformation at San Francisco Health Plan, Montclair Technology, and Charles Schwab, bringing deep expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, and governance to complex organizations.
Speaker: Parag Kulkarni
SVP, Corporate Engineering, ServiceTitan | Former CTO, Simpplr
Parag has more than 25 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations for global SaaS platforms. He currently heads enterprise engineering at ServiceTitan and previously built an AI‑powered employee experience platform at Simpplr that earned recognition from Gartner and Forrester. Earlier, he scaled engineering from a startup to a 250‑person global team at Nutanix and is known for applying AI/ML innovation to drive efficiency and customer impact in enterprise SaaS.
Agenda:
5:00 PM – Check-in & Networking
Grab a drink, meet fellow tech leaders, and settle in
🔹 5:30 PM – Welcome Remarks
Kickoff by Jas Kaur
Overview of the meetup series and today’s theme
🔹 5:45 PM – Panel Discussion
A candid conversation on "The CTO Playbook for Agentic Platforms: From Infra to Intelligent Products"
🔹 6:30 PM – Open Networking + Drinks & Snacks
Continue the conversation over light snacks and drinks
Exchange ideas, contacts, and next steps in a relaxed setting
No slides. Just real talk.
Reserve your seat now—space is intentionally limited to keep the conversation intimate. And yes, we’ve got food and drinks covered. We look forward to having you at the table.
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Glimpse from past meetups:
East Bay CXO Summit
A community for IT leaders. Built on conversations and powered by connections.
An initiative by Teqfocus
The East Bay CXO Summit is a monthly gathering of senior IT and tech leaders who believe real innovation begins with honest, peer-driven conversations.
Designed to be informal, insightful, and highly interactive, each meetup offers open networking, great food, and candid discussion—no slides, no fluff, just shared experiences and bold ideas.
More than an event, it’s the foundation of a trusted community—fostering collaboration, connection, and continuous leadership growth across East Bay’s technology ecosystem.
Join us at the table. Connect, contribute, and be part of shaping the region’s most trusted CXO network.
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About Teqfocus Consulting LLC:
Teqfocus is a strategic IT services and consulting partner that bridges the gap between technology promises and real business outcomes.
Specializing in Data, AI, and Applications, we help enterprises turn strategy into execution—accelerating transformation through cloud platforms, intelligent automation, data engineering, and modern application development.
Beyond delivery, we’re committed to building communities and sharing insight. Through the East Bay CXO Community and our flagship podcast TeqTalk, we bring senior leaders together to explore what’s next and how to get there.
At Teqfocus, we don’t just implement tech—we enable outcomes that matter.