AI in Production: A $1B Founder, Enterprise Agents, and Computer Vision
AI is moving fast. The gap between experimenting with tools and building real systems is growing every month.
This event brings together a 6x CEO who took a company to a $1 billion IPO, an enterprise builder designing agentic AI workflows at a Fortune 20 company, and an engineer deploying computer vision in industrial supply chains. They will share what they are seeing, building, and betting on right now.
Whether you are a founder, engineer, student, or executive, and whether you are deep in AI or just starting to explore what it means for your career, you will walk away with a concrete understanding of how AI is being applied in production today and where it is going next.
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🎤 Keynote: From $1B IPO to AI
Cleve Adams
Managing Partner, Trestles Group Inc. | Professor, Pepperdine University | Forbes Top 50 Non-Technical Founder
Cleve co-founded Websense (now Forcepoint), the first cybersecurity unicorn, and scaled it to a $1 billion IPO. He has led five VC/PE-backed companies, completed two IPOs and four acquisitions, and built organizations from pre-revenue to over $5 billion. He is a Forbes CEO Council member and serves on the Pepperdine Board of Advisors.
Cleve will share what he looks for when evaluating AI companies as an investor and operator, what separates the ones that scale from the ones that stall, and where he sees real opportunity right now.
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🧠 Building Agentic AI Inside the Enterprise
Marcelo Lewin
Principal Agentic Builder, The Cigna Group | Founder, iBuildWith.ai
Marcelo has 30+ years of experience shipping software and now focuses on helping teams adapt to building with AI.
In this session, he will cover how domain experts must evolve beyond knowledge alone and start building AI-powered solutions. He will share how non-engineers can begin creating with AI and what it takes to stay relevant as AI reshapes work in the enterprise.
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👁️ Computer Vision in the Real World
Kevin Kwan-Loo
Senior Computer Vision Engineer, BXB Digital, A Brambles Company
Kevin builds computer vision and machine learning systems at BXB Digital, the technology arm of Brambles, a global supply chain company. His work applies AI to physical-world logistics problems at industrial scale.
Kevin will present what it takes to get AI models working in production environments where the conditions are messy, the data is imperfect, and the stakes are operational.
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🗓 Event Schedule
6:00 – 6:30 PM Networking and arrivals
6:30 – 7:30 PM Speaker sessions
7:30 – 8:00 PM Networking