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VB Transform 2026

Orchestrating AI Autonomy

July 14-15, 2026
Hotel Nia, Menlo Park

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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.

Enterprises have moved beyond chatbots and are now building complex, multi-step agentic AI processes that run for hours or days to handle end-to-end business functions. But with that comes the need for agentic AI orchestration, LLM observability, agentic context layers, inference and AI infrastructure, and agentic AI security guardrails VB Transform 2026 is where it all comes together.

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.

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One core mission: Agentic orchestration.
Five strategic pillars.

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Enterprise Agentic Orchestration

Moving beyond single-task bots to multi-agent systems that reason, plan, and execute.

Orchestration Stack
Agent-to-Agent Protocols
Conductor Model Selection
Multi-Agent Coordination
02

Agentic Context Layers and Data Pipelines

Your orchestration layer is only as good as what's underneath it. Most enterprise data isn't ready.

Vectorized Knowledge Bases
Data Readiness
Context Window Management
03

Agentic Ops and Evals

This block covers how to turn observability metrics into active feedback loops for self-healing and evolution.

Real-time feedback loops
Automated recovery strategies
LLM-as-a-Judge
04

Inference Platforms & Compute Optimization

Autonomy is expensive. We explore tokenomics.

Reducing tokens-per-second costs
Vertical integration
GPU vs. ASIC
05

Agentic AI Security & Identity

When agents take actions, who is responsible when there’s a data leak?

Runtime policies
Prompt injection defense
Data governance
Identity and access management
Managing non-human identities

VB Speakers

Meet the visionaries and builders taking the stage in 2026.

Anirban Kundu

Anirban Kundu

Chief Technology Officer,Instacart

Anirban Kundu

Chief Technology Officer,Instacart

Oversees Instacart’s technology vision and engineering execution. Before joining Instacart, Kundu led Uber Delivery's Engineering team. Prior to that, Kundu was responsible for Product and Engineering at Postmates and served as CTO of Evernote. Kundu has extensive experience as a developer, having built Yahoo's mail delivery and anti-spam engines, its HTTP Edge router, and its early ML classifiers. At Shazam, he led the core recognition systems team, developed early versions of video recognition technology, and spearheaded on-device and GPU-based recognition capabilities.
Engineering
BS Computer Science, UC San Diego
Pedro Franceschi

Pedro Franceschi

CEO,Brex

Pedro Franceschi

CEO,Brex

At 13, Franceschi became the first person to jailbreak the iPhone 3G in Brazil. By 15, he co-founded payments company Pagar.me, scaling it to 100 employees and $1.5B in transactions in three years. After selling Pagar.me, he enrolled at Stanford and entered Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch alongside Dubugras — where Brex was born. Today the platform powers financial operations for 35,000+ companies worldwide and has been recognized by CNBC's Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Fast Company, and TIME100.
Agentic commerce
Arnab Bose

Arnab Bose

Chief Product Officer,Asana

Arnab Bose

Chief Product Officer,Asana

Leads the company's product strategy and innovation with a focus on advancing AI capabilities and expanding the platform's enterprise functionality. Has more than two decades of experience building large-scale enterprise platforms, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Okta. He previously held product leadership roles at Salesforce and Microsoft.
AI product strategy
BS Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Greg Ulrich

Greg Ulrich

Chief AI & Data Officer,Mastercard

Greg Ulrich

Chief AI & Data Officer,Mastercard

Leads the enterprise-wide strategy for integrating AI and data across the business, including the Mastercard AI and Data Governance project, an initiative designed to ensure the ethical and effective integration of AI tech across the global organization. Also oversees the commercialization of new apps. Has served as the company’s EVP of Corporate Strategy and M&A.
AI integration
Data governance
MBA, Wharton School
BS Economics, Duke University

2026 Sponsors

Rubrik
Atlassian
Coviva
SAP
Celigo
Pendo
Red Hat
Vijil
LangChain
FusionAuth

Networking Opportunities.

AI Infrastructure Breakfast

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

Expert Roundtables

Join VentureBeat editors and industry insiders for deep discussions on overcoming challenges, scaling and securing agentic AI deployments.

Networking Luncheon

Networking Luncheon

Connect with like-minded peers to discuss your current projects, exchange fresh ideas, and build new professional relationships.

Networking Breaks

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

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.

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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 →