The SMB AI Growth Advantage: How Business Leaders Are Using AI to Drive Revenue, Efficiency, and Smarter Decisions
Hosted by : AI Ally Works (Parul Saini and Cecil Plummer)
While larger companies are still navigating complexity and slower decision-making, SMBs have the advantage of speed, focus, and adaptability.
Join AI Ally Works (AAW) for a curated afternoon designed for SMB founders and business leaders ready to move beyond AI curiosity into real business growth.
Together, we’ll explore how AI is creating leverage across growth, customer acquisition, faster delivery, retention, margins, and operational efficiency.
This a practical, operator-led conversation on how SMBs can use AI to compete bigger, faster, and smarter.
1:00–3:00pm - Summit Programming
Keynote: AI and the Future of Work
Panel: Business Leaders in Action
Presentation and Case Studies: Architecting the AI-Augmented Business
Panel: The Buyer Perspective with Procurement Leaders
Working Session: Build Your AI Growth Map
Happy Hour: Growth Conversations Continue
Speakers:
Dan Turchin is the CEO and Co-founder of PeopleReign, an AI platform focused on employee service automation. He is also the host of AI and the Future of Work, where he explores how AI is reshaping work, leadership, and the human side of technology. Dan brings deep experience across enterprise AI, product strategy, and the future of work, with prior leadership roles at companies including ServiceNow, BigPanda, AccelOps, and Astound.
Kumud Kokal is Chief Information Officer at Kiteworks and a senior technology executive with deep experience across cybersecurity, enterprise IT, business systems, and digital transformation. He has held technology leadership roles at Farmers Business Network, Stitch Fix, Airbnb, and Intuit, where he led global teams through scale, modernization, automation, and business-critical platform transformation. Kumud also serves as a board leader and advisor in the technology community, including with the Society for Information Management.
Linda Chuan is VP & Chief Procurement Officer at Box. As Chief Value Officer, Linda is a strategic executive known to trail blaze innovative thinking, while delivering operational & process redesigns, and impactful, real results. She has a public accounting background (KPMG), with a 6-Sigma foundation (GE Capital), and is experienced with organizations large and small (GE Capital, Gap Inc., PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Yahoo!, Salesforce, Thomson Reuters & Box) during various phases of growth, right sizing, a pandemic, and yes, even through an AI revolution.
Justin Sullivan is Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Procurement Officer for Supply Chain Management (SCM) at the University of California, San Francisco, the leading university exclusively focused on health. SCM provides strategic technology and services support for procurement, payments and logistics in support of education, research, patient care and public service. His career includes federal government service at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, with FreeMarkets and Ariba in the early wave of procurement technology adoption, and as a procurement leader in Higher Education.
Geeta Pyne is Senior Managing Director and Chief Architect at TIAA, where she leads enterprise architecture and technology transformation. With more than 25 years of experience across architecture, data, platforms, and digital transformation, Geeta has helped organizations modernize complex systems, build scalable technology foundations, and translate strategy into execution. She is also a speaker, mentor, and advisor focused on AI-led transformation and the future of enterprise technology.