Agenda is Live
Two days. Five pillars. One mission: Orchestrating AI Autonomy.
Day 1 July 14
- Agentic Orchestration
The engineer's multiplier: How Instacart uses agentic AI to eliminate toil, elevate teams and slash costs
Anirban ("AK") Kundu, CTO, Instacart
Sam Witteveen, CoFounder, Red Dragon AI
- Agentic Ops & Evals
Closing the capability-reliability gap: Inside Amazon’s framework for engineering trustworthy agents
Bryan Silverthorn, Director, AGI Autonomy, Amazon
Michael Nunez, Editorial Director, VentureBeat
- Inference and AI Infrastructure
How GM is re-architecting its agentic system for breakthrough engineering velocity
Rashed Haq, VP of Autonomous Vehicles, General Motors
Carl Franzen, Executive Editor, VentureBeat
Day 2 July 15
- Agentic Orchestration
One interface, four modes: Inside the hybrid orchestration architecture powering Intuit’s system of intelligence
Nhung Ho, VP of AI, Intuit
Sam Witteveen, CoFounder, Red Dragon AI
- Agentic Coding
Enterprise software in the age of agentic coding
Emilie Schario,Co-Founder, Kilo Code
Jared Go, Distinguished engineer, AI and Cloud, Symbotic
Amol Jain, Head of Product Engineering, Replit
Sam Witteveen, CoFounder, Red Dragon AI
- Agentic Security
Inside Project Glasswing and Mythos: Securing the agentic future today
Rajat Taneja,President, Technology, Visa
Louis Columbus,AI Security Writer, VentureBeat
News & Updates
The latest announcements, speaker news, and insights leading up to VB Transform
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
Ben Dickson
AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
Taryn Plumb
Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets
Ben Dickson
Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Louis Columbus
At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well
Carl Franzen
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Taryn Plumb
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn't the models — it's everything built around them
Taryn Plumb
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Louis Columbus
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Intensive days of blueprints, research reveals, and closed-door roundtables
600+
Technology decision-makers building the next wave of AI in one place
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Building Blocks of the modern agentic stack, dissected live with exclusive data
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Vendor pitches. Zero fluff. Independent analysis only
The Pilot Era is Over.
The Agentic AI Era is Here.
The One Question
That Matters
How do we orchestrate autonomy at scale?
Two days. The people actually building this. No panels rehashing the basics, just the hard conversations happening at the frontier of agentic AI, from the teams who are already there.
One core mission: Agentic orchestration.
Five strategic pillars.
Enterprise Agentic Orchestration
Moving beyond single-task bots to multi-agent systems that reason, plan, and execute.
Agentic Context Layers and Data Pipelines
Your orchestration layer is only as good as what's underneath it. Most enterprise data isn't ready.
Agentic Ops and Evals
This block covers how to turn observability metrics into active feedback loops for self-healing and evolution.
Inference Platforms & Compute Optimization
Autonomy is expensive. We explore tokenomics.
Agentic AI Security & Identity
When agents take actions, who is responsible when there’s a data leak?
Anirban Kundu
Chief Technology Officer,Instacart
Anirban Kundu
Chief Technology Officer,Instacart
Pedro Franceschi
CEO,Brex
Pedro Franceschi
CEO,Brex
Arnab Bose
Chief Product Officer,Asana
Arnab Bose
Chief Product Officer,Asana
Greg Ulrich
Chief AI & Data Officer,Mastercard
Greg Ulrich
Chief AI & Data Officer,Mastercard
2026 Sponsors
Networking Opportunities.
AI Infrastructure Breakfast
Start your day with networking and a panel discussion that promises to deliver candid insights on the right and wrong architectural decisions for agentic AI.
Expert Roundtables
Join VentureBeat editors and industry insiders for deep discussions on overcoming challenges, scaling and securing agentic AI deployments.
Networking Luncheon
Connect with like-minded peers to discuss your current projects, exchange fresh ideas, and build new professional relationships.
Networking Breaks
Take advantage of a schedule built around your professional growth, kicking off with a mid-morning break that offers dedicated time to expand your professional circle.
Cocktail Reception
Cap off a day of high-value sessions at our closing reception where you’ll unpack the day's biggest takeaways with key industry leaders and turn fresh insights into powerful professional partnerships.
Why Sponsor
VB Transform 2026
Lead the conversation shaping the future of connected, intelligent enterprise systems.
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Orchestrating AI autonomy
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FAQ
Q1: Who attends VB Transform?
Builders, not tourists. Product leaders, infrastructure engineers, data & AI engineers from companies like Walmart, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and OpenAI.
Q2: Is this just another AI hype fest?
Hard no. Zero vendor pitches, zero buzzwords. Every session is built around a real problem, with real people solving it.
Q3: What will I actually walk away with?
A clearer picture of how agentic AI leaders are tackling the same problems keeping you up at night.
Q4: What do the two days look like?
Main stage sessions with agentic AI leaders, closed-door roundtables where people say what they actually think, over six hours of networking and workshops, and enough breathing room to have the conversations you came for.
Q5: How do I convince my company to send me?
We've made it easy. Visit our Get Your Boss to Say Yes page for a pre-written email template and the ROI arguments your manager needs to approve the trip.
Q6: How do I register for VB Transform?
Join the event on July 14-15, Hotel Nia, Menlo Park. Register here →