AI Thought Leadership Summit & Dinner - SILICON VALLEY 2025
Atomicwork, in collaboration with Global CIO Circle, Okta Ventures, Tray.ai, a few startups, and several enterprises, is bringing this event to you. We are going to focus beyond surface-level conversations to explore the deeper purpose, mission, and vision of entrepreneurship, the problems and solutions being addressed, and building a global enterprise. Senior CxOs of multinational organizations - who lead large teams and navigate complex challenges - will share their wisdom, insights, and lessons learned working with AI. In doing so, they provide founders and executives with guidance, perspective, and practical advice to help accelerate growth and achieve 10x outcomes.
150+ CxOs, VCs, and Founders from the Bay Area, India, and the rest of the world will be in attendance.
Join us to immerse yourself in panel discussions led by experts and engaging workshop(s).
Agenda:
December 8th - 1:00 PM - 6:30 PM.
Registration & Networking - 30 Minutes
Startup Pitches - 30 Minutes
CIO Panel - 2:00 PM PST (30 Minutes)
Brought to you by Atomicwork: Participating organizations Asana, Box, Dodge & Cox, and Zuora
Enterprise AI: Context is King. As enterprises accelerate AI deployment, the winners will be those who master context. This panel unpacks how contextual understanding, rigorous data curation, and continuous quality assurance will determine success.
CTO Panel - 2:35 PM PST (30 Minutes)
Brought to you by Tray.ai. Participating organizations: DocuSign, Rubrik, Nutanix, & Okta
Building and Securing Products for Enterprises in the AI Era: From architecture to deployment, enterprise product development in the AI era demands a new playbook. This accomplished CTO panel discusses what’s changed, what remains constant, and how they’re navigating the challenges, opportunities, and questions that come from leading an engineering team in this transformative time.
Moderator
Bhawna Singh, CTO, Auth0 / Okta
Panelists:
Founders Panel - 3:10 PM PST (30 Minutes)
Brought to you by Atomicwork. Participating organizations: Ampup.ai, DevRev.ai, Omni, Atomicwork
Building a Startup in the AI Era: From idea to scale, building a company in the age of AI brings both unprecedented opportunity and new complexity. This panel brings together repeat founders to explore what sets this time, "the AI era," apart: the challenges, breakthroughs, hard-earned lessons, and the pressing questions shaping the future of entrepreneurship.
Moderator
Lenin Gali, CBO & Founding Team, Atomicwork
Panelists:
Amit Prakash, Co-Founder & CEO, Ampup.ai
Vijay Rayapati, Co-Founder & CEO, Atomicwork
Colin Zima, Co-Founder & CEO, Omni
Manoj Agarwal, Co-Founder & President, DevRev
AI Infused Conversation: 3:40 - 4:25 PM PST
A discussion on -
Context & Training - Lack of it and how you see its impact on AI adoption. Training AI on data sets, testing accuracy as it scales.
Securing AI - Securing AI Agents. Bring the speaker's perspective on what is ahead and how organizations can embrace agent sprawl.
Training AI, Governing and Compliance - Balancing the good and bad of AI and dealing with its impact.
Quantum & AI - How do they come together, and how do organizations need to prepare for the next decade with these two transformational technologies?
Impact on Society, Culture, and the Global Economy - Speakers discuss the impact of AI & Quantum over the next 10 years.
Moderator
Vijay Rayapati, Co-Founder, CEO, Atomicwork
Panelists:
Aaron Levie, CEO, Box
Parag Agrawal, Founder, CEO Parallel.ai (ex-CEO Twitter)
Coffee Break - 4:25 - 4:40 PM
Startup Pitches - 4:40 - 5:00 PM
A Bold Startup Move - 5:00 - 5:25 PM
Conversation with category-defining startup founders
Moderator
Karthik Chakkarapani, SVP & CIO, Zuora
Panelists:
Ashutosh Garg, Co-Founder & CEO, Viven.ai
Shiv Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO, Singulr.ai
Krishna Namasivayam, Founder & CEO, Featurely.ai
Pritish Gupta, Co-Founder, Trupeer.ai
Securing AI Agents - Workshop - 5:30 PM PST (30 Minutes)
Brought to you by Okta Ventures. In partnership with Straiker & Thunai.
Securing the AI Agents: Why identity matters more than ever, the growing challenge of AI agent sprawl, the risks of security breaches, non-governance, and the concerns keeping executives up at night.
Startup Exhibits - 6:00 - 7:00 PM
ATOMICWORK - HOLIDAY PARTY- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
PARTNERS