The AI Leadership Summit

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM ET

Breakfast and Registration

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM ET

Opening Remarks: Grounding in The Conference Board Insights

09:20 AM - 09:40 AM ET

AI Leadership Fireside Chat: Leading Xerox Through Transformation

Xerox CEO Steve Bandrowczak joins The Conference Board for a revealing conversation about how one of the most iconic companies in American business is navigating digital transformation and evolving in the AI age. From reimagining legacy systems, assessing ROI, and embracing AI-driven solutions, this session will explore what it takes to lead advanced enterprise systems-wide innovation at scale.

Steve Bandrowczak, CEO, Xerox

09:45 AM - 10:15 AM ET

Insights from Knowledge Partner: KPMG

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM ET

The Art of Agility - 10 Steps Every Organization Can Take Today

In a post-AI age, large organizations must master scale and speed. Sheila Jordan will share Honeywell's approach to building organizational agility while embracing GenAI evolution, demonstrating how strategic governance can drive innovation, productivity, and growth simultaneously. Through real-world use cases and concrete results, she'll showcase how AI becomes a powerful revenue generator. Attendees will leave with 10 actionable strategies to unleash agility within their own organizations, regardless of size or complexity.

Sheila Jordan, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM ET

Charting Your AI Journey: Part One - Laying the Foundation

Join Sudeep Kesh, Managing Director, Innovation and Disruptive Technology of S&P Global Ratings, for a dynamic and interactive workshop designed to equip leaders with the tools, considerations, and relevant risks to develop their own, personalized strategic AI roadmaps. In this first session, participants will engage in facilitated discussions on foundational AI issues, including innovation and ideation, implementation and operations, and risk management and governance considerations. Through collaborative exercises and discussions, each leader will begin drafting a customized AI action plan aligned with their organization’s goals and challenges. This session sets the groundwork for deeper reflection and refinement on day two.

Sudeep Kesh, Managing Director and Analytical Lead-Innovation and Disruptive Technology, S&P Global Ratings

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Morning Networking Break

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM ET

Measuring ROI on AI Investments - What Are the Metrics to the Madness?

In this session enterprise leaders will share quantifiable frameworks for measuring artificial intelligence ROI beyond theoretical promises. Discover how forward-thinking organizations are tracking both direct metrics and indirect indicators to create compelling business cases that can satisfy even the most skeptical naysayers You’ll take away actionable strategies for communicating strategic funding approaches that balance short-term spending with long-term value creation from leaders that have successfully secured continued investment in enterprise AI initiatives.

Sarah Youngwood, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Nasdaq

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM ET

Scaling AI For Real Returns

As AI investments increase, the pressure to show meaningful impact grows with them. Companies that move beyond early wins are reallocating resources, aligning teams more deliberately, and building systems to track outcomes that matter. The goal is not just expansion but integration that changes how decisions get made and how work gets done. Attendees will leave with practical examples of what successful scaling looks like and a clearer sense of where to focus their efforts next.

Susannah Greenberg, Chief Information Officer, L'Oreal Americas

Nick Beaudoin, Director, AI, Caltech

12:20 PM - 12:30 PM ET

AI in Action

12:30 PM - 01:45 PM ET

General Lunch

12:30 PM - 01:45 PM ET

VIP Lunch & Learn (Registration Required): Navigating AI’s Biggest Tradeoffs–What Boards Are Really Asking Toda

Over a private, off-the-record lunch, veteran board director and technology advisor Virginia Gambale will join The Conference Board’s Diana Scott to unpack the tradeoffs board directors are faced with as they are confronted with the unprecedented pace of change required to keep up with AI today. These are the conversations happening outside of public statements and strategy documents. Attendees will hear the hard questions being asked at the highest levels, as corporate leaders weigh innovation against risk to determine when to move forward and when to hold back. The conversation will offer clarity and foresight for anyone responsible for guiding AI strategy in a time of rapid change.

Virginia Gambale, Chair of the Board Nutanix, Technology Leader, Investor and Board Director, Nutanix

Diana Scott, US Human Capital Center Leader, The Conference Board

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM ET

A1 | Best Practices for Engineering a Resilient Supply Chain with AI

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM ET

A2 | How Market Leaders Are Transforming Customer Experience with AI

02:20 PM - 02:50 PM ET

B1 | Next Generation AI for Executive Strategic Growth Decisions

AI is good at a lot of things - like creating novel content, streamlining creative processes, and automating tasks. But it still can’t answer the most important question that a C-suite leader faces today: what should we do next? In this session, Miro Dimitrov, CEO of Growth Protocol and a Fortune 500 CTO, will share how neuro-symbolic AI is helping leaders transform their early AI experiments into executable growth strategies by turning data into confident, causal decisions that scale and create value.

Miro Dimitrov, Head of Protocol, Growth Protocol

02:20 PM - 02:50 PM ET

B2 | From Lab to Launch: Inside The R&D Engines Redefining AI-Accelerated Innovation

02:50 PM - 03:15 PM ET

Afternoon Networking Break

03:15 PM - 03:25 PM ET

Check In: Grounding in The Conference Board Insights & AI Sentiment Wall Check-In

Redesigning work for AI.

Matt Rosenbaum, Principal Researcher, Human Capital, The Conference Board

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM ET

PANEL: Rethinking Work in The Age of AI: From Skills to Talent Strategy

AI is not just automating tasks, it's fundamentally changing how work gets done, who does it, and where value is created across the enterprise. This panel brings together transformation leaders, product innovators, and HR strategists to explore how leading enterprises are using skill- and task-level intelligence and AI impact modeling to power new approaches to strategic workforce planning. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn how to identify and eliminate role and task fragmentation, align talent strategy with business needs and AI automation, build visibility that empowers both executives and functional leaders, and move from reactive workforce change to proactive org design.

Mikaël Wornoo, Co-Founder and President, TechWolf

Susan Youngblood, Advisory Board Member, US Human Capital Center, The Conference Board

04:15 PM - 04:40 PM ET

The Corporation of the Future: How AI Will Tear Up the Org Design Rulebook

The continued rise of AI is enabling companies to think bigger and create entirely new rulebooks for organizational structure. Building agile and resilient businesses of the future is now within our grasp as humans and technology work side by side to generate business value. Instead of automating existing processes, what if we could eliminate or redesign them entirely? As business leaders are challenged to wade through the hype and identify the most practical AI strategies, this session will explore the "what if?" questions and offer strategic, actionable guidance for executives on where to start as they build their own corporations of the future.

Hoyoung Pak, Global Co-Leader, AI & Data Practice Group, Partner & Managing Director, AlixPartners

04:45 PM - 05:00 PM ET

Innovative Strategies for Leveraging Generative AI Agents

05:05 PM - 05:20 PM ET

Innovative Strategies for Leveraging Generative AI Agents

Ben Moskowitz, Vice President, Innovation Lab at Consumer Reports, will demonstrate how Consumer Reports has been experimenting with and integrating AI into its innovation pipeline. You’ll get an up-close look at AskCR, an AI-powered advisor that gives its users targeted access to Consumer Reports’ enormous arsenal of trusted research and product data. He will share insight into how this independent nonprofit evolved to embrace AI and how it plans to integrate tech further into its future.

Benjamin Moskowitz, Vice President, Innovation, Consumer Reports

05:20 PM - 05:30 PM ET

Day One Recap and Day Two Preview

05:30 PM - 06:30 PM ET

Networking Reception