Executive Dinner
From Autonomous Workflows to Trusted Ecosystems: Governing the Multi-Vendor Agent Fleet
July 16, 2026 at 5:30 pm | The Capital Grille – Rockefeller Center | New York
Interconnected agents are already revolutionizing IT ops and industry workflows. To scale these real-world patterns securely, enterprises are adopting new operating models that embed observability, auditability, and human-in-the-loop governance, ensuring trust across complex systems while maintaining high-velocity innovation.
A peer-to-peer dinner roundtable
IDC projects G2000 agent use will increase tenfold by 2027, with agentic-driven AI spending reaching $1.3 trillion by 2029, and over 80% of organizations already view AI agents as the new enterprise apps. Yet the path from pilot to production is where value is won or lost. Savvy executives understand that governance, data integrity, and agent-to-agent interoperability are not constraints on AI ROI: they are the operating model that enables it.
IDC, Google Cloud, and ServiceNow will convene a curated group of senior technology leaders to address AI pilot-to-production realities, explore how Gemini, Big Query, and ServiceNow Now Assist are interoperating across IT operations, customer experience, and industry-specific workflows, and discuss how to build the governance foundation that turns agentic AI from a per-tool feature into a trusted, cross-enterprise capability.
What To Expect
Agenda
Google & Servicenow July 16 NY Dinner
One Day Event
Networking Reception
A private reception bringing together senior executives and industry analysts to connect, exchange perspectives, and set context for the evening’s discussion.
Dinner & Discussion
A moderated, off‑the‑record discussion over dinner focused on real‑world execution challenges, emerging industry priorities, and their implications for enterprise leaders.
Event Concludes
The evening concludes with brief closing remarks and informal follow‑up conversations, reinforcing key takeaways and ongoing peer engagement.
Speakers
Stephen Elliot
Stephen Elliot manages multiple programs spanning IT Operations, Enterprise Management, ITSM, Agile and DevOps, Application performance, Virtualization, Multi-Cloud Management and Automation, Log Analytics, Container Management, DaaS, and Software Defined Compute. Mr. Elliot advises Senior IT, Business, and Investment Executives globally in the creation of strategy and operational tactics that drive the execution of Digital Transformation and business growth.
BACKGROUND
Before his current role, Stephen helped build business for IDC’s IT Executive Program, where he advised enterprise IT organizations on DevOps best practices across people, process, and technology strategies and tactics. Prior to IDC, Stephen was Vice President of Strategy for CA Technologies’ Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit, providing direct strategic and tactical support to customers accelerating their path toward the cloud, software-defined datacenters, and Dev/Ops. He also led product management for CA’s VCE partnership, helping customers better understand the business value of converged fabric. Prior to his work at CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at firms including IDC, Gartner, and Forrester, where he advised IT executives and the financial community on IT operations, virtualization, datacenter automation, and network and application management. He also served as a product marketing manager at Inteq, an early provider of SaaS-based network monitoring and service desk capabilities, helping customers understand the business value of the SaaS delivery model.
Partners
Sponsored By
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.