Agentic Harness
Think Outside the Model
Speakers
General Partner,
NFX
CEO & Founder,
1mind, 6sense
Founding Partner,
Floodgate
Head of AI,
ClickUp
CRO,
Zoom
CRO, Vanta
CRO,
ZoomInfo
CMO,
Parloa
Analyst & Advisor,
chiefmartec
Partner, Foundation
Capital
Co-founder & CEO,
Zapier
COO,
Box
Co-Founder & CEO,
Tribe AI
Founder & CEO,
Paid, Outreach
SVP Strategy, Marketing Cloud, Salesforce
CMO,
Salesloft
VP of Field Engineering, Vercel
Founder & CEO,
Amoeba AI
Co-Founder & CEO,
Docket
CEO & Co-Founder,
Aligned
Founder & CEO,
Metadata
Chief AI & Innovation Officer, Gen
CMO,
Freshworks
Chief Strategy Officer,
Sandler
Co-Founder and Evangelist,
TrustGraph
Co-Founder/CEO,
Rox
Head of Data Privacy & AI Governance, Outreach
Founder & CEO,
RevSure AI
Co-Founder & CMO,
SlateCX
AI GTM Expert, Former VP, Analyst, Gartner
Co-Founder & CEO,
iCustomer
CMO,
Savo
CRO,
XBOW
CMO,
6sense
Co-Founder & CEO,
Read AI
CEO Coach, Categorynauts, Founding CEO, Influitive & Eloqua
CGO,
Workato
Analyst & Advisor,
chiefmartec
Partner,
Pear VC
Co Founder & CEO,
Leena AI
CMO, ECI Software
Solutions
Facilitator, Force Management, Ex- CMO, IBM, Managing Director, B2B Tracks and MBA Professor, UGA
Managing Partner, Overlook Ventures
CEO & Co-Founder,
Mutiny
Research & Thought
Leadership, 6sense
Chief Information Security Officer, Vivun
GTM,
1mind
AI Business Transformation Strategist,
Ex- AWS, Google, Oracle Executive
CEO & Co-Founder,
Swan AI
Partner, Thomson Reuters Ventures
CRO,
Personio
VP, TEM & Mobility Management, Calero
Partner, CEO Coaching International, 3X CEO, Board Member and Advisor
Partner, Scale
Venture Partners
Principal Sales Engineer, Team Lead, Salesloft
Chief Security Officer,
Cloudflare
Principal,
Insight Partners
Co-Founder & CTO,
Avina
Co-Founder & CTO,
Dialpad
Agenda
Kihn
Scherwin
Allouche
Kahlow
Jain
Rezaei
Bar-Joseph
Charles
Mukherjee
Charles
Foster
Srinivasan
Roth
Case
Rajadurai
Lacor
Geddes
Marrs
Dumas
Aga
Durraze
Shannon
Nocerino
Medina
Park
Conant
Scherwin
Currier
Singh Dhingra
Xu
Wootton
Totten
Organ
Durraze
Shim
Nottebohm
Pillai
Organ
Mallik
Bourzikas
Brown
Wood
Davis
Pillai
Brinker
Cunningham
Maples, Jr
Aga
Rice Nelson
Durraze
Yadav
Peterson
Buckley
Hack
Napieralski
Gupta
Marrs
Wizbowski
Dumas
Pratt Ehrbar
Darling
Hopping
Dormani
Kabir
Kaufmann
Sheff
Estreich
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An executive network where GTM leaders, CXOs, VCs, and analysts operationalize innovation, exchange emerging frameworks, and explore the architectures shaping the agentic enterprise.
AI Summit Highlights
Amanda Kahlow (CEO & Founder, 1mind):
Managing AI as Workforce: Control, Accountability, and Governance
Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures):
AI Disruption of GTM Motions
Kimberly Storin (CMO, Zoom):
AI-Led Customer Experience 2026
James Currier (NFX):
Agentic Network Effects and Defensibility
Pat Casey (CTO & EVP of DevOps, ServiceNow):
AI Platforms and the Future of Enterprise Architecture
Mark Roberge (Stage 2 Capital, Harvard Business School): AI-Native GTM and the New Science of Scaling
Carilu Dietrich (CMO, Hypergrowth Advisor, Lovable, 1Password, Miro, Sprout Social): Agentic Marketing OS: Designing the Live Loop
Conor Grennan (Chief AI Architect, NYU Stern):
Closing the Enterprise AI Adoption Gap
Parth Patil (Applied AI & Agent Systems, Office of Reid Hoffman): Coding Agents and the Rise of AI-Built Software
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The BDR/SDR of the future will require a much higher skill level than they do now;
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