AI & Data Summit San Francisco
Unlocking the Power of Data and AI
Building Intelligence that Creates Real Value
The IDC AI and Data Summit is the premier event for senior technology and business executives driving artificial intelligence and data strategies across the region. Designed for CDOs, Heads of Data, and AI and innovation leaders, this full-day event delivers high-impact insights and actionable strategies focused on organizations’ top priorities: scaling AI adoption, ensuring data quality and governance, and navigating complex digital regulation and readiness.
IDC’s analysts and industry experts will guide you on how to build future-ready data architectures, operationalize AI responsibly, and drive measurable business impact. Through keynote sessions, panels, and collaborative discussions, this event provides Europe’s leaders with the tools and frameworks to transform AI and data into a foundation for innovation, resilience, and growth.
Expert Perspectives
Hear from global thought leaders, visionary CIOs, and celebrity speakers redefining technology, leadership, and innovation across the region.
Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
Alessandro Perilli | IDC
Vice President, Enterprise AI Strategies
Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro Perilli is a Vice President leading the Agentic AI Platforms and Strategies research program. Alessandro’s core research coverage includes emerging AI technologies, global AI market trends, the state of enterprise AI, and sovereign AI.
Most recently, Alessandro founded Unstable Reality, an AI R&D lab in London, where he worked as Chief of Research, developing synthetic media generation solutions for creative studios, ad agencies, and large end-user organizations.
Among other projects, Alessandro published a weekly newsletter dedicated to tracking how AI is reshaping jobs, workforce productivity, and business operations.
Previously, Alessandro served as a senior leader at Red Hat, focused on business and product strategy. Across roles, Alessandro has also worked as an advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies, helping IT decision makers translate emerging technology shifts into actionable and risk-informed strategies.
Throughout his career, Alessandro has often delivered keynotes at industry and vendor events, focusing on the state of the union and emerging trends in cybersecurity, virtualization, and cloud computing.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:10 am
Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
As organizations accelerate investment in AI and data-driven transformation, many face a readiness gap: while 89% have revamped their data strategies to support Generative AI, only 26% have deployed these solutions at scale, and a mere 12% feel their infrastructure is ready for autonomous AI workflows. Further, the growth of unstructured data (projected at ~22% CAGR) underscores that quality and context across all data types is now mission critical.
These challenges demand that leaders transform data into a trusted strategic asset while embedding ethics, transparency, and resilience into AI initiatives.
2026 Prediction
By 2027, organizations that adopt tools and processes for AI evaluation and monitoring will have the confidence to deploy AI applications twice as fast as those that don’t.
Our Partners
Dell Technologies | Nvidia
Dell Technologies and NVIDIA can help you leverage AI to drive innovation and achieve your business goals. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is the industry’s first and only end-to-end enterprise AI solution, designed to speed AI adoption by delivering integrated Dell and NVIDIA capabilities to accelerate your AI-powered use cases, integrate your data and workflows, and enable you to design your own AI journey for repeatable, scalable outcomes.
Syncari
Syncari Agentic MDM™ is a unified, multi-domain master data platform that eliminates data drift across systems, domains, and architectures in real time. Powered by patented multi-directional sync, Syncari writes trusted data back to source systems as it changes, unifying master and transactional data enterprise-wide for operations, governance, and AI. With low-code deployment and fast time to value, Syncari delivers a consistent, governed foundation for automation and AI initiatives built on trusted 360° data.
Strategy
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) provides the governed data foundation required for enterprise AI to scale. Our universal semantic layer, Strategy Mosaic, creates a single source of truth across Databricks, Snowflake, and major cloud providers. ensuring every AI agent and analyst works from the same approved metrics with role-based access enforced at query time. The Result: AI projects that clear security review and reach production, lower cloud costs by eliminating redundant queries, and data the Board can trust. Trusted by Visa, Pfizer, Fannie Mae, and hundreds of global enterprises.
SAP
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
BlueCat Networks
We’re helping organizations build the Intelligent Network of the Future!
The outside world is changing, fast: more users, devices, and regions; soaring customer expectations; exploding cloud complexity; and rapidly evolving threats.
But your network is standing still. The core services connecting data centers, cloud, and branch networks make that change feel painful—manual, error-prone, high-risk, and hard to fix.
The faster you can adapt core services to meet new requirements, the faster your business can accelerate.
BlueCat provides a unified Intelligent NetOps suite making discovery, provisioning, intelligence, observability, automation and security easier, faster, and more thorough, streamlining complexity for a resilient, performant network that gets ahead of change.
BlueCat is known for helping organizations unify their DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) for unparalleled visibility and control.
Glean
Glean is the Work AI platform that connects to and understands your company’s data, so employees can find answers, generate content, and automate work in one place. Built by former Google search engineers, Glean brings together enterprise search, an AI assistant, agents, and a system of context that works across the tools teams already use. Glean helps organizations reduce time spent searching for information, speed onboarding, improve support, and enable employees to work more effectively with AI.
Enterprise use of AI is undergoing a rapid shift, marked not only by significant advances in generative, agentic, and composite AI technologies but also by a recalibration of how enterprises are approaching AI technology implementation for business value.
Sovereignty and control over AI infrastructure are becoming strategic priorities, especially in response to geopolitical and regulatory pressures. The rise of AI factories and AI-native businesses signals a future where automation, agility, and data-driven decision-making redefine operational efficiency and competitive advantage.
Venue
Address: 40 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Convene 100 Stockton is located in the heart of San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood.
Convene 100 Stockton (Union Square)
The location celebrates the city’s illustrious weather phenomenon “Karl, the Fog”” with an etherial statement light fixture as well as reflective art and decor. The design is reminiscent of the surrounding landmarked architecture and coastal contemporary elements, including dramatic natural light, stonework, warm woods, and lush greenery. Convene 100 Stockton provides a white box space allowing for client and event branding opportunities, in-house catering with customization options and dining private to each event, in-room A/V technology supported by an on-site team, and dedicated hospitality resources.
The location is conveniently adjacent to several paid parking garages and is easily accessible via public transportation.
Knowledge Hub
FutureScape 2026: Unlocking innovation beyond productivity
Agentic AI is redefining value creation beyond efficiency, reshaping business models, industry boundaries, and competitive advantage.
AI-mediated buying journeys: How buyers decide who’s worth their time
As AI agents reshape B2B discovery, buyers filter vendors by proof, fit, and trust. Learn what signals actually move deals forward in AI-mediated journeys
Agentic AI is critical infrastructure
Agentic AI is becoming critical infrastructure. Learn why delegating authority to AI systems changes enterprise risk and what CIOs and CISOs must govern.
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