Speakers

24 July 2026
583 Park Avenue, New York

Meet the Visionaries: Esteemed Speakers at MachineCon 2026

Enlightening Insights from Global Leaders in AI & Data Science

We are in the process of finalizing the speakers for 2026, please check back this space again.

Our Speakers

Carlos Aguilar

Head of Product at Hex

Ryan Niedzialek

VP of Strategy & Operations at Retool

Arthy Krishnamurthy

Senior Director, Americas Business Transformation Lead at Dataiku

Chris Lawless

Field CTO at Fivetran + dbt Labs

Wayne Grigsby

Lead Customer Engineer at Prefect

Ankur Varma

CEO and Co-founder at Turgon

Shekar Ramanathan

Executive Director - Digital Transformation at Atlantic Health System

Trish Bousfield

Global Chief Information Officer at Hikma Pharmaceuticals

Michael Moore

Senior Director, Strategy & Innovation, Neo4j, Inc. Field CTO

Joe Murphy

Principal Architect, Acceldata

Vikas Sachdeva

Chief Information Officer at HealthDrive Corporation

Andrew Helgeson

Sr. Manager, ISV & Platform Data Cloud Product Partners at Snowflake

Jon Hazzard

Sr. Manager DCP, Apps and Collaboration DCP Partners at Snowflake

Chris Slovak

Global Field CTO at Unframe

Sharon M

Chief Data Analytics Officer at CECOM Army Software & Innovation Center (ASIC)

Remy Thellier

Sr. Manager, AI/ML Partner Ecosystem at Snowflake

Vikram (Vik) Chauhan

VP of Data at Pacers Sports & Entertainment

Diego de Aragão

SVP, Balance Sheet Executive Decision Support, Data Analytics & AI at Citi

Gregory Ryslik

Chief Technology Officer at Stellarus

Roger H.K

Vice President, AI Transformation, Governance & Data Science at Lowe's

Kiran Kodali

Head of R&D Data Governance at BeOne Medicines

Alaa Moussawi

Chief Data Scientist at New York City Council

Nik Acheson

Chief Data + AI Officer at Monte Carlo

Sukai Crook

Chief Information Officer at Honeywell

Stanislav Rosenberg

Global Director of Advanced Analytics at Mars

Sudip Chakraborty

Principal and Head of AI and Gen AI, Axtria

Asif Ghatala

Vice President & Business Unit Head at Tiger Analytics

Krishna Gade

Founder and CEO at Fiddler AI

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Conference Agenda: Conversations That Shape the Future

From scaling GenAI to redefining the CDO’s role and navigating AI regulation — explore the most urgent, unscripted discussions happening in the enterprise AI ecosystem.

GenAI Meets the Enterprise: Beyond the MVP Trap

Everyone’s building GenAI prototypes—but how many are scaling? This session explores how top enterprises are moving past flashy demos to create real, enterprise-grade deployments with measurable ROI.

The CDO Dilemma: Ownership, Outcomes, and Org Design

As data becomes everyone’s business, where does the Chief Data Officer really sit? A bold conversation on evolving mandates, power struggles with IT, and designing org structures that actually deliver value.

AI Regulation & Reality: Walking the Tightrope

From executive orders to global frameworks, AI policy is catching up fast. Hear from leaders navigating compliance, data sovereignty, and responsible AI—without slowing down innovation.

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