

Build vs Buy AI: CIO Dinner
Join Sarthak Jain, CEO of Trail, and fellow CIOs and technology leaders from across the Twin Cities at Mr. Paul’s Supper Club in Edina.
Most enterprise IT teams now have their first AI agents in production. The next decision is harder: what to build in-house, what to buy, and what to leave alone. Models change every few months, and the business rules your teams depend on rarely fit cleanly into a prompt.
We’ll spend the evening on that question over dinner. Expect a lightly moderated, casual conversation about where building has paid off and where it stalled, what you’d keep in-house no matter what, and how you protect your investment when the underlying model changes.
The group is small on purpose, so everyone gets a real say. There are no presentations, and what’s said at the table stays there.