Post-Industrial Institute

Post‑Industrial Summit 2026: Autonomous Organizations

Agenda

Time Location Session
7:30 AM
Registration and Networking
Kick off the day with a continental breakfast while connecting with fellow delegates. It’s the perfect chance to meet industry leaders, share ideas, and set the tone for a productive summit.
9:00 AMAuditorium Auditorium
Welcoming Remarks
Our host for the Summit, SRI, has been a pioneer in AI since the 1960s, playing a pivotal role in shaping the field. SRI developed the world’s first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason, the “great-grandfather” of self-driving cars and military drones. SRI’s contributions extend to core AI technologies like speech recognition (which powered Siri) and breakthroughs in planning, reasoning, and machine learning.
Lawrence Lee
Senior Director, Strategic Development, SRI
9:10 AMAuditorium Auditorium
Opening Keynote: The Journey to Autonomous Organizations
In this keynote we will discuss how technology has impacted the evolution of organizations, and how decentralization and AI are changing our expectations for what’s possible and desirable. Post-Industrial Organizations will be focused on the creation of knowledge, and AI Agents will increasingly be involved not just in making knowledge work more productive. but in coordination of work performed by networks of humans and AIs. Soon we will see organizations that are not just self-managing, but also proactively evolving. This is not the end of human work, it’s a better foundation for it. Organizations should serve us, not the other way around.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
9:35 AMAuditorium Auditorium
AI Transformation: Experiences, Trends, and the Future
In this session we will examine how AI is transforming organizations and entire industries. We will analyze successes and failures, explore the biggest challenges encountered, and highlight key emerging trends. We will also project a few years ahead: What will organizations look like—and can leaders transform them quickly enough?
Subha Shetty
Session Chair
Fractional Chief Product Officer
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
Bonnie Chatterjee
Global Head of Solution Architecture, OpenAI
10:30 AM
Coffee and Networking
Connect with fellow delegates.
10:50 AMAuditorium Auditorium
The Future of AI Agent Technology
In the last three years we have seen an explosive development in AI agent capailities and usage. Industry standards for interoperability and best practices for managing risk and reliabilty are emerging. There are still many technical challenges to be addressed, and tremendous potential for the near future. In this session we will discuss what’s in store for the rest of this decade and beyond. How will the agent tech stack evolve as AI agents become networked and are embedded everywhere and in everything?
Stefan Petzov
Session Chair
VP of Innovation, Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Kence Anderson
CEO, AMESA
Rama Akkiraju
VP, Enterprise AI, NVIDIA
11:45 AMAuditorium Auditorium
Organizational Intelligence, Context Graphs, and Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
As organizations grow large, they slow down due to increased coordination overhead. They also become more risk averse and conservative. Organizational silos inhibit knowledge sharing, and it becomes harder for the organization to learn and implement new capabilities.In this session we will discuss how AI Agents will help overcome these challenges. Context Graphs have emerged as an important mechanism for agents to capture both explicit and tacit knowledge, improve judgement, and share knowledge.  We will explore how even large organizations can become fast learners that can quickly reconfigure as necessary.
Vishakha Gupta
Session Chair
Founder and CEO, ApertureData Inc.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL), Hitachi America
Ltd.
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO, Wayfound
Prukalpa Sankar
Founder and Co-CEO, Atlan
12:40 PM
Lunch and Networking
Fuel up and forge connections! Join your fellow delegates for an energizing lunch and the chance to network with industry leaders, innovators, and peers. This is the perfect opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate on future ventures, and expand your network in a relaxed setting.
1:30 PMAuditorium Auditorium
The New Workforce: Humans and AI Agents
As enterprises become increasingly autonomous, their workforce will be a mix of AI agents and humans. This transition is happening quickly as agents become increasingly capable, bringing significant productivity gains. It also brings new contradictions. Organizations are flattening as they lay off managers, but they also need managers with the capacity to execute transformation projects. The competition for much-needed AI talent is tough, and executives in traditional firms have an AI literacy disadvantage. Leaders are underestimating the impact of AI in their industries, and overestimating their capacity for rapid change. In this session we will explore these challenges and look for solutions together.
Sejal Daswani
Session Chair
Chief People Officer, Deputy
Andrew Lee
VP, Open Innovation, Samsung SDS
Karthick Iyer
Vice President, Systems Software, NVIDIA
Dr. Alireza Boloorchi
CEO and Founder, Catch Up AI CS Adjunct Professor, OSU
2:20 PMAuditorium Auditorium
Autonomous Customer Acquisition and Support
AI agents are rapidly transforming the way companies attract, convert, and serve customers. They now prospect leads, personalize outreach at scale, negotiate terms, and resolve complex support issues in real time. But how effective are these systems in practice? This session explores the state of autonomous customer acquisition and support today, examines what’s working (and what’s not), and looks ahead to the next wave of innovation: multi-agent systems that coordinate across the entire customer journey, hyper-personalized interactions powered by real-time data, and agents seamlessly integrated into CRM and enterprise platforms.
Preethy Padmanabhan
Session Chair
CMO and EIR, Emergent Ventures
Shubha Govil
Chief Product Officer, SauceLabs
Manjeet Singh
Senior Director, AI Product, Salesforce
3:10 PM
Coffee and Networking
Shake off the afternoon slump with a caffeine boost and energizing conversations. Connect with fellow attendees to recharge your mind, exchange ideas, explore collaboration opportunities, and build new relationships.
3:30 PMAuditorium Auditorium
Transformation Readiness, Governance, and Risks
In this session we will dive into common challenges with AI transformations. We know that a large percentage of transformations get bogged down going form pilot projects to production. There are legimitate concerns about customer, financial, regulatory, and brand risks when something goes wrong. Many organizations also find themselves ill-prepared for anything but the most cosmetic changes. How can they find a path to success before it’s too late and they overtaken by faster-moving competitors?
Aaron Rieke
Session Chair
Senior Partner, Clarion AI Partners
Peter Henry
CTO & Co-Founder, Ushur
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO, Wayfound
Aaron Fulkerson
CEO, Opaque Systems
4:20 PMAuditorium Auditorium
Effective Transformational Leadership
In the post-industrial transition, AI is accelerating change at a pace unseen in human history. The opportunity for prosperity and human flourishing is unprecedented, while organizations that fail to adapt will quickly become obsolete. Leaders must execute radical transformations in an environment full of social, political, and technical uncertainty. In this session, we will explore the personal journey leaders must undertake. What mindsets, skill sets, behaviors, and relationships are needed to succeed? What assumptions must be left behind, and how can leaders build a clear vision of the future? Join us for a lively and thought-provoking discussion.
Anu Parthasarathy
Session Chair
Chief Executive Officer, AnuPartha
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Karen Gordon
CEO, 5 Dynamics
Dr. Masa K. Maeda
Author Transformer of Leaders
5:00 PMAuditorium Auditorium
Building the Post-Industrial Community
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Mansoor Khan
Head of Strategy and Growth, Post-Industrial Institute
5:15 PM
Evening Social
Join us for an unforgettable evening of connection and relaxation! 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. Let loose and celebrate the day’s insights while forging new connections that could spark future collaborations!
7:00 PM
Close
Time Location Session
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. This is the perfect opportunity to share thoughts from day one, exchange ideas, and build connections that will enhance your experience throughout the summit. Let’s set the tone for an inspiring day ahead!
9:00 AMAuditorium Auditorium
Welcome and Day 1 Highlights
9:20 AMAuditorium Auditorium
AI First: Autonomous Innovation and Product/Venture Development
AI Agents are making a big impact on product development, increasing productivity and making new solutions possible that would otherwise not be considered. In this session we will discuss the latest progress and the path forward to fully autonomous product and venture development.
Stefan Petzov
Session Chair
VP of Innovation, Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Savannah Kunovsky
Managing Director, Emerging Technology, IDEO
Animesh Koratana
CEO, PlayerZero
Rahul Ramkumar
Founding Chief Product Officer, Rocket
Subhash Kodnad
SVP of Engineering, Palo Alto Networks
10:30 AM
Coffee and Networking
Recharge with a refreshing cup of coffee and take advantage of this mid-morning break to connect with fellow delegates. Share insights from the sessions, discuss emerging ideas, and build relationships.
10:50 AMAuditorium Auditorium
Autonomous Operations and Infrastructure
Autonomous Organizations must manage a combination of deterministic and non-deterministic work, with and without humans in the loop. In addition to IT infrastructure, they may also operate physical infrastructure, both inside the organization and externally. In this session we will examine what is technologically possible already, and what’s coming next.
Michael Dolbec
Session Chair
Managing Partner, Momenta Ventures
Nir Rikovitch
Chief Product Officer, MARA
Parisa Naseralavi
Chief Operating Officer, XOPS
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
VP of Automation, Serve Robotics
Akash Gupta
Chief Executive Officer, GreyOrange
12:00 PMAuditorium Auditorium
The Global Agent Economy
We are witnessing the rise of AI agents capable of autonomously discovering products and services, negotiating terms, and executing transactions—all at unprecedented speed and scale. These AI agents are poised to become active participants in the global economy. Within the next decade, it is likely that the vast majority of transactions will take place between AI agents. This shift will reshape supply chains, reduce coordination costs, accelerate growth, and challenge traditional firms as the primary units of economic organization. The implications for infrastructure, governance, and competition are profound.
Sriraman Sabesan
Session Chair
CEO, Ephanti Inc.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Johnathan McGowan
CEO, PayOS
12:40 PM
Lunch and Networking
As we move into the second day, join us for a delightful lunch and connect with fellow delegates and speakers. Enjoy lively conversations, share insights, and build meaningful connections in a relaxed setting. This lunch also marks the closing of the day’s main program, so take the opportunity to reflect, exchange ideas, and end on an inspiring note.
1:30 PMAuditorium Auditorium
AI-Powered Strategy and Tactics, in Business and Warfare
Strategy began with warfare in the Bronze Age and emerged as a field in business in the 1960s thanks to Igor Ansoff. Key aspects of strategy include keeping track of resources and capabilities, coping with uncertainthy, managing against goals, generating and updating plans, and communicating with other parties. This is precisely what AI agents do. We will discuss the application of AI agents to strategy and tactics, the art of arranging resources based on situational challenges and opportunities. We will explore how this works in firms as well as in warfare, with drone warfare as a recent example.
Col. David Vernal (Ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB, Fmr. National Security Council
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Klaus Wehage
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Global Copilot
2:30 PMAuditorium Auditorium
Closing Panel: Beyond Autonomous Organizations: Industry
Transformation
As organizations become more autonomous, they will evolve faster, and so will the industries they are engaged in. What industries will be most affected and what are the greatest opportunities for value creation?
Frode Odegard
Session Chair
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Philip Rathle
CTO, Neo4J
Nir Rikovitch
Chief Product Officer, MARA
3:30 PMAuditorium
Summit Conclusion
4:00 PMSpecial
Workshop
Special
Workshop
Accelerating AI Transformation
In this workshop we will walk through major elements of AI transformations, with participants discussing problems and solutions. The major aim is to find ways to accelerate progress. Selected speakers from the Summit will be available to help participants work through issues. We will discuss and work on: Assessing Threats and Opportunities in your industry; Assessing your Resources and Capabilities; Envisioning where you need to be to win; Organizational Structure; Leadership and Culture; Workforce transformation; Governance for the Transformation Effort; Risks: Privacy, Safety, Security; Selecting Transformation Projects; Crossing the Pilot to Production Boundary.
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Subha Shetty
Fractional Chief Product Officer
6:00 PM
Close

Registration

Summit Day Pass

Connect with peers and industry experts, explore in depth how AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations

$875

 

✓ Access to sessions on Day 1 OR Day 2
✓ Join a community of Post-Industrial leaders
✓ Connect with industry leaders and experts
✓ No fluff, just learning with fellow leaders

Summit Participation

Connect with peers and industry experts, explore in depth how AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations

$1,600

 

✓ Access to all speaker and panel sessions
✓ Access to networking activities
✓ Join a community of Post-Industrial leaders
✓ Connect with industry leaders and experts
✓ No fluff, just learning with fellow leaders

Summit + AI Acceleration Workshop

Access to all Summit Sessions and Participants, plus:

$2,200

 

✓ Hands-on executive-level workshop
✓ Solutions for accelerating AI Transformation
✓ Facilitated by PII Founder, Frode Odegard
✓ Get help with your biggest challenges
✓ Workshop only available to 30 participants

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