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Where the research starts the conversation

If you haven't been to a VentureBeat event, expect something different. Each session starts with proprietary research from our community of expert AI practitioners. A VentureBeat journalist then challenges leading experts to explain the data with real-world experience, and then the floor opens to you. Come ready to share, and to ask the hard technical questions.

The Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit.

This 1-day AI summit is a closed-door, in-person event for enterprise IT leaders. On October 28 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco, 200 senior leaders will meet to talk candidly about running agentic AI in production.

In one focused day, the summit covers the full agentic AI stack. It opens with a VentureBeat research briefing on how enterprises are scaling agentic AI, then moves through four layers of the stack: agentic workload orchestration, memory and context infrastructure, inference economics and emerging AI factory architectures. You'll hear what's working in production today from technology leaders at T-Mobile, the San Francisco 49ers, Microsoft, Uber, Box, Cisco, WEKA and Artificial Analysis, and you'll join a hands-on technical workshop on AI runtime governance presented by OneTrust.

Never been to a VB event? It's not what you're used to.

If you haven't been to a VentureBeat event, set aside what you expect from a tech conference. You won't sit through a run of keynotes and dry vendor pitches. You'll be part of a conversation built on evidence.

The numbers first.

Every session opens with new proprietary research fielded from VentureBeat's community of expert AI practitioners: the people deploying, scaling and running AI inside the enterprise.

Then the people who live them.

Then a VentureBeat journalist takes over and interrogates the data. They press leading practitioners on what the numbers really mean, where the findings match their own experience and where they don't.

Then it's your turn.

Attendees are invited to share their own experiences, push back, or explore deeper on what they've heard. The people in the room are hands-on technical leaders, so the questions go deep: architecture, cost, tooling, what broke and how they fixed it.

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Agenda

Sessions are subject to change.

October 28, 2026

9:00 AM | Registration & Networking
10:00 AM | Welcome & VentureBeat Research Briefing
Opening findings from VentureBeat's research on how enterprises are scaling agentic AI.
10:10 AM | Agentic Workload Orchestration Sessions
Agents can act, but can your infrastructure keep up to ensure they act in concert and deliver ROI?
Featuring: Jeff Simon, CIO, T-Mobile, Monica Bajaj, SVP of Engineering, Okta, Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer, WEKA, Sudhanshu Bist, VP of Engineering, Upwork
11:30 AM | Networking Lunch + Technical Workshop: AI Runtime Governance, presented by OneTrust
12:45 PM | Memory & Context Infrastructure Sessions
Smarter agents need more memory and better context. The best teams will engineer agents to use less memory and provide optimal context.
Featuring: Anjul Bhambhri, SVP, Engineering, Adobe, Ben Kus, CTO, Box, Vijoy Pandey, SVP & GM, Outshift by Cisco

1:50 PM | Inference Economics Sessions
Every AI agent has a cost. How do you optimize it and make It worth running at enterprise scale?
Featuring: Micah Hill-Smith, Co-founder, Artificial Analysis · Uday Madishetty, Distinguished Engineer, Uber · Panel presented by WEKA
2:55 PM | Networking Break
3:20 PM | Emerging AI Factory Architectures Sessions
The AI factory behind the agent: Building for what comes next.
Featuring: Reynold D’Sa, Corporate Vice President, Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering, Microsoft, Chris Kasten, Chief Architect, Intuit
4:25 PM | Closing Remarks
4:30 PM | Closing Reception

Featured Speakers

Hear from the leaders running agentic AI in production.

Jeff Simon

CIO,T-Mobile

Jeff Simon

CIO,T-Mobile

Monica Bajaj

SVP of Engineering,Okta

Monica Bajaj

SVP of Engineering,Okta

Monica Bajaj is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience building high-impact products and scaling global engineering organizations. Currently the SVP of Auth0 Engineering at Okta, she leads the development of a developer-first, secure identity platform that handles billions of monthly logins. A strategic leader in AI and Security, Monica previously held engineering leadership roles at NetApp, Cisco, and Workday, driving enterprise-grade excellence and operational efficiency. Beyond her corporate role, Monica is a respected advisor and thought leader, serving on boards including SheTO and the Berkeley SkyDeck Advisory Board. An alumna of IIT Mumbai and SGSITS Indore, she is a frequent speaker on product-led growth and a dedicated STEM advocate, focused on cultivating the next generation of technical leaders.

Ben Kus

CTO,Box

Ben Kus

CTO,Box

Sudhanshu Bist

Vice President of Platform Infrastructure Engineering, Upwork

Sudhanshu Bist

Vice President of Platform Infrastructure Engineering, Upwork

Sudhanshu Bist is Vice President of Platform Infrastructure Engineering at Upwork, where he leads the organization behind the company's cloud, AI, and data platforms. His teams operate the platform foundations that Upwork runs on, from cloud and Kubernetes through software delivery and reliability to the inference and agent infrastructure behind its production AI, and govern what that infrastructure costs to run. With eighteen years in enterprise infrastructure, he has spent the last decade rebuilding Upwork's infrastructure as the company moved from web scale traffic to production AI. Sudhanshu joined Upwork in 2015 and has led its infrastructure through successive stages, including the migration from on premises data centers to the cloud and the identity and compliance work behind the company's transition to public company operating standards.

Your first VB event won't feel like a conference.

You'll leave with more than talking points. You'll know what's trending across the industry and why. You’ll know what’s actually working in production, from the people making it work. You’ll make strong connections with people who want to share in your success.

The Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit is a closed-door, in-person event for enterprise IT leaders. On October 28 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco, 200 senior leaders will meet to talk candidly about running agentic AI in production.

Apply Now