AI Summit
AI Summit 2026 | Hands-on AI Agents Workshops, Expert Panels & CxO Roundtable , Toronto 22 Sep 2026
Join AI engineers, data leaders, and CTOs in Toronto for a hands-on evening on agentic AI in production: building AI agents, agentic memory, and workflow automation from sales pipelines to DevOps.
It has been almost 4 years since AI took center stage, and the very nature of AI has changed. The conversation has moved from AGI talk and job-loss fear-mongering to real business use cases: AI agents and coding agents running in most companies. Last year was about building models on Hugging Face and tuning or inferencing on GPUs. This year, it's all about the agentic approach to automating workflows.
What to expect:
Live workshops where you will not only build but also ship: AI Agents in Production (lessons from real deployments) and Agentic Memory (how persistent context changes what AI systems can do)
Expert panel: What Worked, What Didn't — leaders compare notes on real enterprise AI rollouts
Invite-only CxO Executive Roundtable: Interesting use-cases on Databricks in 2026
Networking mixer with the Toronto AI community
Schedule
4:30 PM: Pre-Meetup - Round table [Invite only] - Interesting use-cases on Databricks in 2026
5:15 PM. Doors open, registration, and networking over light snacks
5:45 PM. Welcome and opening remarks
6:00 PM. Workshop 1: AI Agents in Production, lessons from real deployments
6:25 PM. Workshop 2: Agentic Memory, how persistent context changes what AI systems can do
6:45 PM. Panel: What Worked, What Didn't. Leaders compare notes on real AI rollouts
7:30 PM. Community Mixer
8:00 PM. Wrap
Speaker Lineup
Rina Taddie, Air Canada 🔹 Director of Global Sales
Shobhit Khandelwal, Shyftlabs 🔹 Founder & CEO
Ezequiel (Eze) Lanza, Intel 🔹 Sr. Developer Advocate
Vincent Fortier , Databricks 🔹 Manager Field Engg
Chandan Kumar 🔹 beCloudReady 🔹 Founder
Shobhit Khandelwal
Founder & CEO of ShyftLabs, building Continuum, an enterprise AI platform for agent orchestration, memory, and multi-model routing. Also founder of Carter, a privacy-first AdTech platform, an advisor to Minoan, and a Forbes Technology Council member
Rina Taddie
Rina Taddie is Director of Global Sales Corporate Optimization at Air Canada, where he leads the 5-year digital roadmap for the corporate sales ecosystem. With 25+ years across sales, CRM, product, and business transformation, his work spans enterprise Salesforce transformation, global sales process re-engineering, and complex airline partnerships. She is currently focused on applied AI, exploring how AI agents, copilots, and automation can redesign how teams sell, serve, and decide, while keeping human leadership at the center.
Ezequiel Lanza
Eze is working on cutting-edge multi-agentic systems with VLM (Vision-Language Models). He will showcase a multi-agent demo and dive into frameworks like beeai, ACP, and A2A, while also exploring multimodal optimization with Hugging Face (HF). His talk will highlight practical approaches to combining text and vision models for powerful new AI workflows.
Vincent Fortier
Vincent Fortier leads Field Engineering for Databricks in Canada’s public sector, helping organizations turn AI and data platform strategy into production execution.
His work sits at the intersection of leadership, customer strategy, and technical delivery across AI, governance, and enterprise data platforms in complex, high-accountability environments.
What to Expect
Real use cases, not vendor pitches. Direct access to people running these systems today. A room full of peers facing the same decisions you are.
Details
Light snacks and refreshments provided Seats are limited, register early Photos below are from our past sessions, and yes, it really does look like that
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