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Thursday, July 23, 2026 - Starts at 11am PT | 2pm ET

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Dr. Scott Gerard is the founder and Chief AI Officer at Knowledge Reactor. He holds a recent PhD in Computer Science in Multiagent Systems (a subfield of AI), teaches graduate level AI at NC State University, is a Certified Senior Data Science / Thought Leader / Distinguished Data Scientist, and is a Master Inventor with 66 patents. He has decades of experience in the IT industry at IBM with work spanning AI, ML, AIoT, NLP, data science, research, consulting, software architecture and development, web development, and project and team leadership.

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Overview

Where is AI headed next? And how can you shape that future today?

AI is entering a new phase in 2026. One defined by agentic systems, multimodal intelligence, autonomous workflows, and the convergence of AI with IoT and edge computing. As industries accelerate their digital transformation, organizations are navigating fast-moving innovation alongside rising expectations for governance, security, and responsible deployment.

At the Intelligent Thinking AI Summit on July 23, 2026, experts across AI, IoT, digital transformation, and emerging technologies will explore how these advancements are reshaping industries, redefining productivity, and setting new standards for responsible innovation.

This full-day virtual event features thought-leadership panels, industry keynotes, and interactive Q&A sessions designed to give you practical insights you can apply right away.

Why This

Event

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  • How is AI transforming industries in 2026?
    Organizations are shifting from basic AI tools to agentic systems, multimodal models, and autonomous workflows that streamline operations, accelerate decision-making, and unlock entirely new competitive advantages.
  • Why is the convergence of AI, IoT, and edge computing so important?
    AIoT deployments and edge-powered intelligence enable faster, more secure, and more context-aware automation, especially across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, energy, and smart infrastructure.
  • What’s the strategic impact for leaders, teams, and organizations?
    As capabilities evolve, so do expectations. Responsible AI, governance frameworks, and security-first design have become essential for long-term adoption. In 2026, the organizations that pair innovation with accountability will lead their industries into the next phase of digital transformation.

Stay ahead of the AI, IoT, and digital transformation trends defining 2026.

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Interested in Speaking at One of Our Summits?


We are seeking thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries to share their insights, research, and breakthroughs in the fields of AI, AIoT and Generative AI. Whether you're at the forefront of AI research, applying AI in groundbreaking ways, or have insights into the ethical, social, or technical challenges and opportunities of AI, we want to hear from you.

The Intelligent Thinking AI Summit 2025 has passed; We are now looking for speakers for the Summit of Things taking place October 21-23, 2025.


We look forward to receiving your entries.

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What You'll Learn

  • Agentic & Autonomous AI: How AI agents support multi-step operations, automate workflows, and drive measurable business results
  • AIoT & Connected Intelligence: The power of integrating AI with IoT and edge systems for real-time insights and adaptive automation
  • Multimodal AI in Practice: How text, voice, video, and sensor data come together to fuel smarter applications and decision engines
  • AI Governance & Responsible Deployment: Frameworks that help organizations build transparent, compliant, and trustworthy systems
  • AI-Driven Cybersecurity: Strategies to protect data, infrastructure, and AI systems from evolving threats
  • Industry Transformation: How AI is changing manufacturing, healthcare, energy, supply chain, retail, and more
  • What’s Next in AI: Emerging models, automation trends, and innovations shaping the future of work and technology

Who Should Attend

  • Business and technology leaders shaping their 2026 AI strategy
  • Teams deploying AI, IoT, or edge solutions across operations
  • Executives focused on governance, compliance, or security in AI adoption
  • Innovation, digital transformation, and product leaders integrating AI at scale
  • Researchers, consultants, and investors tracking AI advancement and industry impact

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the Intelligent Thinking AI Summit?
    A free, full-day virtual event featuring leading experts, practitioners, and innovators discussing how AI, AIoT, and emerging intelligent systems are transforming business and technology in 2026.
  • When is the event?
    Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026
    Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM PT | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET
  • Is it free to attend?
    Yes, registration is completely free on Tech Scope Connect. Spots fill quickly, so early registration is recommended.
  • What if I can’t attend live?
    All registered participants receive 30 days of post-event access to session recordings and supplemental resources.

Key Takeaways

  • A clear, action-focused understanding of how AI advances, including agentic systems, multimodal intelligence, and AIoT, deliver real-world business value
  • Practical frameworks for implementing AI responsibly and in alignment with evolving governance and regulatory expectations
  • Expert insights on security, risk management, and long-term AI strategy
  • Future-focused perspectives on emerging AI innovations and how they shape competitive positioning in 2026 and beyond

Imagine a world where AI-powered automation eliminates inefficiencies, where businesses use machine learning to predict trends before they happen, and where responsible AI development ensures ethical considerations keep pace with innovation.

The Intelligent Thinking AI Summit offers attendees an opportunity to think beyond the hype, break down the complexities, and reimagine the possibilities of AI.

Whether you’re a business leader, AI researcher, tech professional, investor, or innovator, this event will equip you with the knowledge, connections, and insights needed to navigate the AI-driven future.

Register now:

Our Speakers

Tiffani Neilson

Chief Marketing Officer

IoT Marketing

Campbell Robertson

Founder

Boxwood Strategy Group Inc.

Johannes Beekman

CEO

IoT Marketing

Sunil David

independent Digital Technology Consultant

Anne Balduzzi

Founding Partner

Accelerate Partners

Scott Gerard

Founder

Knowledge Reactor

Keven Ellison

VP Marketing / AI Architect

AIS

Erik Thomsen

Chief Science Officer

Sensepoint

Yumna Aysen

Success Coach & Motivational Speaker

Your Life Pass

Muhammad Jawwad Paracha

Master Inventor & Global AI Lead

IBM

Agenda

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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Opening Panel- The Next Era of AI: Agentic Intelligence, Autonomous Systems & the Future of Industry

AI is rapidly evolving from standalone tools into intelligent, autonomous systems capable of driving real-time decisions, adaptive workflows, and industry-wide transformation. In this opening panel, leaders across AI, IoT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and digital transformation will explore the technologies and trends shaping the next era of innovation.
From agentic AI and multimodal intelligence to AIoT, edge computing, and responsible deployment, this discussion will examine how organizations are preparing for a future where AI becomes more connected, contextual, and operationally embedded than ever before.
Panelists will share insights on emerging opportunities, implementation challenges, governance priorities, and the strategic decisions business and technology leaders must make today to stay competitive in 2026 and beyond.

Key Takeaways:

  • The technologies driving the next era of AI and autonomous operations
  • What separates AI leaders from organizations still stuck in experimentation
  • How AIoT, edge intelligence, and multimodal AI are accelerating transformation
  • Why governance, security, and responsible deployment are now business-critical
  • How organizations can prepare for AI-first operating models and workforce transformation
  • Strategic priorities leaders should focus on now to remain competitive through 2030

Speakers: Johannes Beekman - IoT Marketing, Tiffani Neilson - IoT Marketing

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12:30 - 1:00 PM PST

Leading in the Age of Agentic AI: The A.C.T. Framework for Responsible Innovation

As AI becomes more autonomous and embedded into operational decision-making, the role of leadership doesn’t shrink - it becomes more essential. While intelligent systems can optimize workflows, only humans can build trust, foster connection, and lead responsibly through transformation.

In this session, Yumna Aysen will explore how organizations can pair technological advancement with conscious, courageous leadership using my A.C.T. framework (Awareness, Courage, and Trust).

Key Takeways:


  • Awareness: Understanding bias, unintended consequences, and the emotional climate within teams during AI adoption
  • Courage: The responsibility to question, pause, and govern autonomous systems thoughtfully
  • Trust: Building transparency, psychological safety, and human connection when implementing AI at scale

Speaker: Yumna Aysen - Capgemini

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1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST

The Governance Illusion: How Shadow AI Exposed the Cracks in Enterprise AI Strategy

Gartner predicts that by 2030, more than 40% of organizations will suffer security and compliance incidents from unauthorized AI tools — and 69% of cybersecurity leaders already suspect their employees are using prohibited AI at work today. Shadow AI has evolved far beyond the Shadow IT problem enterprises thought they understood. It's no longer rogue spreadsheets or unsanctioned SaaS apps — it's employees embedding generative AI into core business decisions, customer interactions, and operational workflows without oversight, auditability, or guardrails.

At the same time, 2026 has become the year AI governance got teeth. The EU AI Act reaches full enforcement in August, the U.S. is seeing a wave of state-level AI legislation from Colorado to California, and global frameworks from South Korea to Canada are creating a compliance patchwork that no single governance playbook can address. Yet most governance frameworks were designed for a world that no longer exists.

In this keynote, Campbell Robertson delivers a candid, data-driven wake-up call for enterprise leaders — and a practical path forward.

Key Takeaways:

  • The governance illusion — why most organizations believe they have AI oversight when their policies cover only a fraction of actual AI usage, and how this blind spot creates compounding risk across data security, IP protection, and regulatory compliance
  • Shadow AI isn't Shadow IT 2.0 — it's worse — how generative AI fundamentally changes the threat model, introducing decision contamination, unvalidated outputs embedded in business processes, and invisible operational dependencies that traditional IT governance cannot detect
  • The 2026 regulatory collision — a clear-eyed breakdown of the global enforcement landscape, including the EU AI Act's full applicability, U.S. state-level mandates, and emerging Asia-Pacific frameworks, and what leaders must do now before the penalties become real
  • From prohibition to enablement — why banning AI tools fails every time, and the five-pillar governance model (Accept, Enable, Assess, Restrict, Eliminate) that balances innovation velocity with enterprise protection
  • Building anticipatory governance — the shift from reactive compliance to proactive risk prediction, including future-state regulatory mapping, automated compliance monitoring, and people-centric design that reduces cognitive burden on your workforce
  • The leadership mandate — what boards and C-suites must understand about AI governance as a strategic enabler, not a cost center, and how to align incentives so that governance accelerates transformation rather than blocking it

Speaker: Campbell Robertson

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1:30 PM - 2:00 PM PST

Stop Adopting AI. Start Inventing It

Adoption gives you access to AI. Invention gives you ownership of it. Muhammad Jawwad Paracha has 25+ patents & publications built from real AI challenges faced across 170+ countries and in this session he shows exactly how it is done. You will leave with a practical framework for spotting, developing, and protecting the AI innovations already hiding inside your organisation.

Speaker: Muhammad Jawwad

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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PST

From Connected Things to Intelligent Action

As IoT evolves into AIoT and ultimately autonomous intelligent systems, organizations are entering a new era of data-driven growth and decision-making. This keynote explores where real business value is emerging between 2025 and 2030, and how companies can harness the combined power of data, edge AI, and scalable platforms to unlock it.

Through high-impact use cases across manufacturing, energy, mobility, and smart infrastructure, we’ll examine what’s working—and what isn’t. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of common pitfalls in AI and IoT initiatives, along with practical strategies to avoid them.

The session concludes with a strategic roadmap for turning AIoT investments into measurable business outcomes, helping organizations move from experimentation to sustained, scalable success.

Key Takeaways

  • Evolution: IoT → AIoT → Autonomous intelligent systems
  • Where real business growth is happening (2025–2030 outlook)
  • Role of data, edge AI, and platforms in scaling value
  • High-impact use cases across manufacturing, energy, mobility, and smart infrastructure
  • Common pitfalls in AI + IoT initiatives (and how to avoid them)
  • Strategic roadmap for organizations to monetize AIoT investments

Speaker: Sunil David

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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PST

Architecting the House of AI: From Pilots to Scalable Process Redesign

Most organizations are currently stuck in "Pilot Purgatory"—a cycle of endless AI experiments that deliver "cool" demos but fail to move the needle on the bottom line. The problem isn't the technology, it’s the foundation.

In this session, Silicon Valley strategist and five-times author Christoph Burkhardt challenges the "tool-first" approach. He argues that AI is not an add-on to your existing business—it is a new lens through which your entire process landscape must be viewed. Using his "House of AI" framework, Christoph will show you how to move from chasing the latest hype to building a structural foundation where strategy, data, and human intelligence converge.

Key Takeaways:

  • Stop Automating Chaos: Why you must redefine your business processes before applying AI, not after.
  • The Architectural Blueprint: A step-by-step framework to transition from isolated pilots to a cohesive AI strategy.
  • Scaling What Matters: How to identify the high-impact areas of your value chain that are actually ready for exponential growth.
  • Don’t just adopt AI architect your future. It’s time to stop playing with tools and start building a business that actually runs on intelligence.

Speaker: Christoph Burkhardt

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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST

The Agent Eats the Org A Field Report from Inside an AI-First Business Transformation

Software ate the world. Now agents are eating the org.

In this session, Keven Ellison, VP of Marketing and Head of the AI Division at AIS, pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to rebuild a 20-year-old business technology company as an AI-first operation. No theory. No hype. Just a field report from inside the transformation.
Keven will walk through the real architecture powering AIS today, including the AI Org Chart, the Chief AI Agent, the MCP orchestration layer, and the growing library of custom agents running daily operations across sales, marketing, service, and content. He will share what worked, what broke, and what he would do differently if he started over tomorrow.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for identifying which roles to agentify first, how to structure accountability between humans and agents, and why the companies still running pilots in 2027 will not survive to see 2028.

Key Takeaways

  • Why agentic AI breaks the traditional org chart and what replaces it
  • The three-layer architecture running an AI-first business in production today
  • How to identify the highest-leverage roles to agentify first, and which to leave alone
  • The human + agent operating model and how accountability actually works when both are on the team
  • The difference between companies building real competitive advantage and those trapped in pilot purgatory

Speakers: Keven Ellison

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