Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders
Building the Trillion Dollar Industries of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit for senior leaders, we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations. These organizations will, in turn, accelerate industry-scale transformation and the development of new industries.
Connect and learn about:
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The Future of AI Agent Technology
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards and protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation & contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI detection of problems and opportunities
- Human+AI problem-solving, org. alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Building Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsys, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We have also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Organizations will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders Building the Trillion Dollar Industries of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit for senior leaders, we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations. These organizations will, in turn, accelerate industry-scale transformation and the development of new industries.
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The Future of AI Agent Technology
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards & protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation and contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI problem/opportunity detection
- Human+AI problem-solving
- AI-asststed organizational alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsis, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI agents is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Firms will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett Borden
CEO
Clarion AI Partners
Bennett B. Borden is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technological, and policy implications of artificial intelligence. As a Big Law partner, Bennett focused on helping clients use the power of AI to drive strategic outcomes and improve business operations. His major generative AI and Fortune 500 clients trusted Bennett to guide their astonishing journeys with this transformative technology.
With his special blend of professional disciplines and insight, Bennett has made significant contributions to the field of AI governance and algorithmic bias testing. Bennett’s AI governance strategy and implementation clients span multiple industries — technology, insurance, financial services, labor and employment, manufacturing, retail, health, and life sciences industries.
Bennett also has long standing connections to public service and public policy. From his days in US Intelligence, to recent roles in developing federal and state artificial intelligence policy and legislation, Bennett remains fascinated with how electronic information reflects human thought, choice, and conduct.
Bennett holds a MsC in Business Analytics from NYC Stern School of Business, and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.
Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.
Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Agenda
A detailed schedule will be available soon..
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
7:30 AM: Registration and Networking
Kick off the day with a continental breakfast while connecting with fellow delegates.
9:00 AM: Sessions
10:40 AM: Coffee and Networking
Connect with fellow delegates.
11:00 AM: Sessions
12:30 PM: Lunch and Networking
Join your fellow delegates for an energizing lunch and network with industry leaders, innovators, and peers.
1:30 PM: Sessions
3:00 PM: Coffee and Networking
Shake off the afternoon slump with a caffeine boost and connect with delegates and speakers.
3:30 PM: Sessions
5:30 PM: Evening Social
Mingle with fellow delegates and speakers in a lively atmosphere as you unwind with an open bar and delicious refreshments. This is your chance to strengthen relationships, share ideas, and enjoy engaging conversations in a casual setting.
8:00 PM Close
Thursday, November 6, 2025
7:30 AM: Coffee and continental breakfast
Join fellow delegates over a warm cup of coffee and a delicious continental breakfast as you prepare for another day of insightful discussions and networking.
9:00 AM: Sessions
10:40 AM: Coffee and Networking
Recharge with a refreshing cup of coffee and take advantage of this mid-morning break to connect with fellow delegates.
11:00 AM: Sessions
12:30 PM: Lunch and Networking
Ejnjoy a delicious lunch and connect with fellow delegates and speakers.
1:30 PM: AI Transformation Workshop (Optional)
5:00 PM: Close
Early Bird Registration
Summit Participation
Join us at the SRI Conference Center in Menlo Park and explore how AI Agents will transform organizations and help us build the trillion dollar industries of the future
- Access to all speaker and panel sessions
- Access to networking activities incl. evening social
- Opportunity to join private community of leaders building the future
- Connect with industry leaders and technology experts
- Limited Availability (curated gathering of no more than 200 executives)
- Extremely high quality audience where most could be speakers themselves
- No media, no fluff, just learning with fellow leaders
$1100
$1650 SAVE 33%
Summit Participation +
AI Transformation Workshop
Access to all Summit Sessions and Participants
In addition:
- Participation in executive-level workshop to work hands-on on your company’s AI transformation strategy
- The workshop will be facilitated by the Founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, Frode Odegard
- Be prepared to dive into key areas such as vision, culture, governance, goal-setting, risk management, workforce transformation, change management, and leadership.
- A select group of faculty from the Summit will be available to assist you hands-on with your biggest challenges
- Limited Seating: Workshop only available to 50 participants
$1400
$2200 SAVE 36%
Early Bird pricing available for a limited time only.
About the Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
About the Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
Premier Partner
Speaking and Sponsorships
Our Summits attract Global 2000 executives, as well as Investors and Founders. A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or a domain expert, and you are interested in speaking, please email [email protected].
Media Partner
Premier Partner
Speaking and Sponsorships
Our Summits attract Global 2000 executives, as well as Investors and Founders. A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or a domain expert, and you are interested in speaking, please email [email protected].
Media Partner