Julie Elmore
SVP of Technology
Inspire BrandsALIGN AI Executive Summit
ALIGN Chicago
ALIGN comes to Chicago. One day with the senior data and AI executives of the region’s largest enterprises: executive panels, roundtables and a networking reception.
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125+
Director+ enterprise data and AI executives
8
ALIGN cities across the U.S. in 2027
7/10
community members are decision-makers
1
day in Chicago, Wednesday, July 14
Inspire Brands
Shashank Kadetotad
Sr. Global Director of Enterprise Data Science and AI
Mars
Anqi Zou
SVP, Head of Fair & Responsible Banking Analytics
Truist
Nasim Khoshkhou
SVP, Analytics and Data
Synchrony
Rachna Narem
Executive Vice President
Omnicom
Srini Masanam
Global Head of Data Quality & Governance
Citi
Kelly O’Brien
VP of Product Strategy, Commercial Card
JPMorgan Chase
Felipe Archilla
Director, Digital Workplace Analytics
Coca-Cola
Jyoti Mohapatra
General Manager, Data & AI Architecture
Delta Air Lines
Joshua Ainsley
Senior Director, Head of Data Science
New Balance
Faizan Javed
Sr. Director, Data Science & Engineering
Kaiser Permanente
Sreeja Kaimal
Senior Director, Enterprise Data and Machine Learning
Capital One
Claire Dulaney Willet
Global Executive Director of Data & Analytics
Condé Nast
Srijani Dey
Senior Director, Strategic Programs
BlackRock
Ravikanth Gadicherla
Director, Analytics
Mondelez International
Isaac Wagner
Vice President, Analytics and Insights
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vida Williams
Chief Data Officer
Sergey Fogelson
VP, Head of Data Science
TelevisaUnivisionAn executive summit, close to home.
ALIGN Chicago brings together executives from the region’s largest enterprises and leading-edge solution and service providers. Sessions are built for peers: candid executive panels, focused presentations and invitation-only roundtables where leaders benchmark what is working.
- Connect with enterprise data and AI executives in Chicago
- Learn how to scale and govern AI responsibly
- Benchmark with peers at roundtables and dinners
Highlights
An executive day, start to finish.
Intimate, invite-only networking
Network with senior decision-makers in an intimate, invite-only format.
Founder presentations
Presentations from the founders of leading-edge AI solutions.
Fortune 500 panels
Panel discussions among Fortune 500 AI and data executives.
Executive roundtables
Small-group roundtables where leaders compare notes on what is working.
Invite-only executive dinners
Private dinners for senior leaders the evening of the summit.
Matchmaking & 1:1 meetings
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings with the right people.
Exhibitor hall
An exhibitor hall of leading-edge AI solutions and services.
In the room
Moments from 2026.
2027 theme
Enterprise AI at Scale
Every 2027 AI Connect program is built around one question: what it takes to run AI across the enterprise. These are the topics on the agenda.
- Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Orchestration
- Context Engineering & Agent Memory
- AI Observability & Evaluation
- RAG, Vector Search & Knowledge Graphs
- AI-Ready Data & Semantic Layers
- Real-Time Data & Enterprise AI Integration
- LLMOps & AI Engineering
- AI-Native Software Development & Coding Agents
- AI Infrastructure & Inference Optimization
- AI FinOps & ROI
- AI Governance, Security & Guardrails
- Sovereign AI & Private AI
- Multimodal AI & Voice Agents
- Decision Intelligence & Predictive Analytics
How to attend
Two ways in.
Registration for ALIGN Chicago opens soon.
Past sponsors
In good company.
Sponsors and partners from recent ALIGN summits.
mistral
Teradata
Turgon
Promptql
Revefi
Elder Research
NetApp
Skyflow
Analytic Vizion
SnapLogic
OneTrust
IBM
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