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Fall 2025 Cross-Industry AI Symposium
FALL 2025
AI Symposium II Boulder, Colorado October 14, 2025
Private, peer-to-peer sharing -- what's working, what's not
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What makes this event different?
Participants represent each layer of the GenAI tech stack
This second AI Symposium — IterateOn: Boulder — is all about action (just like the first Symposium in Silicon Valley). After hearing from top AI leaders, you’ll dive into real-world successes, tackle industry challenges, and leave with insights you can immediately apply.
With executives from retail, finance, telecom, and beyond—plus experts across the AI stack—we break down silos to drive real innovation. This isn’t just another event; it’s where strategy meets execution.
Attendees from IterateOn Silicon Valley, Spring 2025
October 2025 Agenda
The second IterateOn Cross-Industry AI Symposium is dedicated to peer-to-peer information sharing, all about AI. It’s designed to spark insights, accelerate action, and build connections across industries.
The Symposium includes:
- Quick-hitting Trend Talks to stretch your thinking
- Rapid-fire demos of AI solutions that are already successfully driving results
- Networking, conversations, cocktails, and food
This is the first in a continuing series of invite-only Symposiums, shaped by and for the participants.
OPtional Pre-Event
Oct 13th
Explore Colorado’s quantum frontier—where Nobel minds, AI innovation, and startup energy converge in the Rockies.
1:30pm — 5:00pm
Quantum + AI Tour: Field Trip into the Future
Location: Boulder & Broomfield
Arriving Early? Join Us for a Quantum Innovation Tour
If you're coming to Boulder a half-day early, don’t miss our exclusive tour of America’s most concentrated quantum innovation cluster—Boulder and Colorado's Front Range.
Boulder is the nation's quantum hub, home to a rare fusion of Nobel-level science, pioneering startups, and federal labs. CU Boulder anchors the ecosystem with cutting-edge research in quantum computing and sensing, supported by national institutes and a new wave of venture-backed companies.
Let’s pause on this: Five Nobel Laureates—four in physics—call CU Boulder home. That level of intellectual firepower is almost unheard of, especially in a frontier field like quantum.
Colorado is also a top-tier tech economy, with the third-highest concentration of tech workers per capita in the U.S. Boulder’s startup scene is powered by organizations like Techstars and companies such as Zayo and Level 3. Innovation runs deep here.
And it’s beautiful, too. Mid-September to mid-October is peak Boulder—golden aspens, cool air, and the Flatirons glowing against crystal clear blue skies. Chautauqua trails, outdoor festivals, and a thriving farmers’ market make it the perfect long weekend destination.
On our tour, we plan visit a few leading quantum startups and labs that are pioneering the convergence of quantum computing and AI. Potential stops include:
- Atom Computing – $100M+ investment into cold atom quantum hardware
- Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta) – Leaders in quantum networking and sensing
- Quantinuum – Born from Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum
- Oxford Ionics – Newly expanded to Boulder from the UK
- CU Boulder Quantum Labs – Home to four Nobel Laureates and deep NIST collaboration
Topics:
- How AI and quantum will intersect over the next 3–5 year
- What’s real (and what’s hype) in Quantum Machine Learning (QML)
- Recent breakthroughs and timelines for scaled quantum
- How policy and public funding are shaping Colorado’s quantum corridor
This is a rare peek inside a globally important science and tech ecosystem.
Let us know by replying to quantum@iterate.ai if you'd like to join the tour—so we can get a headcount reserve your spot. The final agenda for this peek into Quantum will be completed mid-summer.
5:00pm — 7:30pm
Welcome Reception
Location: Redgarden Lower Terrace, St Julien Hotel & Spa
Enjoy light fare, mountain air, and meaningful conversations.
6:15pm — 6:30pm
Spotlight Talk: Why Quantum Needs AI—And Why Colorado Is Leading Both
A brief keynote connecting the dots between state-backed quantum investment, AI acceleration, and Colorado's unique innovation ecosystem.
"If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near."
— Jack Welch
A Full Day of Events
Oct 14th
Discover how enterprises are rewiring for AI—from agentic systems and robotaxis to GenAI demos and IP strategy, all in one high-impact day.
7:30am — 8:10am
Continental Breakfast
Location: Ballroom Pre-Function, St Julien Hotel & Spa
8:10am — 8:15am
Welcome
Jon Nordmark (co-founder and CEO, Iterate.ai)
8:15am — 9:30am
Trend Talks: Rewiring the Enterprise for AI
Five lightning talks (15 minutes each) that reshape how we think about architecture, autonomy, IP, and innovation.
- Private AI & Infrastructure That Remembers and Thinks (Autonomously)
Speaker: Brian Sathianathan spent six years in Apple’s elite Secret Products Group, became an iPhone patent holder, and is now CTDO at Iterate.ai.
How can organizations safeguard proprietary information and build AI systems that remember, learn, and reason like humans do?
This session explores how enterprise AI infrastructure with memory is unlocking the next wave of intelligent, autonomous agents. Brian will share why memory is the missing piece that turns AI from a static tool into a dynamic partner—one that grows smarter over time, connects context, and adapts to your business’s real-world complexity.
He’ll present a few practical use cases showing how low-friction, deeply integrated AI systems—rooted in secure, private memory—can become a transformative layer across all operations.
Learn how autonomous AI agents with built-in memory and reasoning will work independently to solve tasks, support teams, and give your organization a competitive edge—without compromising trust or data security.
- Agentic AI + Robotaxis: The Rise of Autonomous Systems
Speaker: Nikolaus Correll, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He's a global authority on robotics and autonomous systems, with courtesy appointments in Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering as well as Aerospace Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from EPFL (Switzerland), completed postdoctoral work at MIT’s CSAIL under Daniela Rus, and authored the open-source textbook Introduction to Autonomous Robots, used worldwide. His research spans swarm robotics, soft and humanoid robots, and multi-agent coordination, and his lab focuses on how machines sense, adapt, and act in real-world environments.
Robotaxis are just the tip of the autonomy iceberg. In this talk, Correll will explore how GenAI is unlocking new capabilities in humanoids and autonomous agents—systems that not only drive cars but also make decisions, collaborate in real-time, and act on behalf of people and enterprises. Drawing on recent results from his lab, he’ll show how Agentic AI is poised to reshape labor, mobility, and the boundaries between machines and human roles.
- Swarms of Agents: From Sequential Automation to Collective Intelligence
Speaker: John Selvadurai, Ph.D., MBA and VP of R&D at Iterate.ai. John’s doctorate focused on Swarm Computing — the intersection of AI, IoT, and Big Data — and his Ph.D. thesis explored how autonomous vehicles can compute 40% faster by tapping into remote edge devices. Today, he drives cutting-edge AI research and patent development at Iterate.ai.
The next leap in AI isn’t about bigger models—it’s about better coordination. John explores how enterprises are deploying swarms of AI agents that work in parallel, adapt to change, and solve problems collectively. This model mirrors natural systems—and may hold the key to unlocking scalable intelligence.
- Companies as Living, Learning Organisms
Speaker: Chris Byrne, Former VP Legal, IP & Venture Partner, Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) , based in Silicon Valley, reporting to Samsung’s President and Chief Strategy Officer
Explore how adaptive enterprises are beginning to behave more like organisms than machines—ingesting institutional knowledge, evolving in real time, and learning from every interaction. This talk delves into the organizational architectures, memory systems, and cultural shifts needed to build continuously learning companies.
- The Role of Startups in an AI Economy Dominated by Big Tech
Speaker: Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder + CEO of the Founder Institute — the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, active in 200+ cities across 100 countries. He’s helped launch 7,500+ companies that have raised $1.85B+, writes for TechCrunch, and advises Oxford Entrepreneurs and the USC Incubator.
In a landscape increasingly shaped by trillion-dollar platforms, where do startups fit in? The speaker will make the case that agility, boldness, and domain depth still win—and outlines how early-stage founders can carve out value in the age of scale.
9:30am — 10:30am
Morning Demos: Practical GenAI in Action (Part 1)
We curate the most compelling, relevant, and imagination-sparking demos from across industries. Final selections may change as we spotlight the innovations most likely to inspire action and cross-pollination.
- Social Media GPT Assistant
Automating multi-platform content strategy, creation, and engagement using GenAI. - Internal Intranet GenAI
Turning company knowledge into a conversational asset—searchable, shareable, smart. - AI-Generated RFPs
Automating complex response documents in minutes, not days. - TBD
Stay tuned for a surprise use case from the cutting edge.
10:30am — 10:45am
Break
"Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed, processed, broken down, and analyzed for it to have value."
— Clive Humby, British mathematician and architect of the Tesco Clubcard, 2006
10:45am — 11:15am
Morning Demos: Practical GenAI in Action (Part 2)
- Guild – Product Navigator GPT
Guiding users through complex product catalogs with AI-powered assistance. - AI for Factory Diagnostics
Real-time detection, triage, and resolution using AI in industrial environments.
11:15am — 11:30pm
Big Tech Talk #1
Coming Soon
11:30am — 11:45am
Big Tech Talk #2
Coming Soon
11:45am — 12:00pm
Big Tech Talk #3
Coming Soon
12:00pm — 12:45pm
Lunch Buffet
Location: Ballroom Pre-Function, St Julien Hotel & Spa
"Every company is going to become an AI company. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of how quickly."
— Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud
12:45pm — 2:15pm
Afternoon Demos: GenAI in Action (Part 3)
Expect a dynamic mix of use cases chosen to spark insight, surface patterns, and provoke new ideas. The lineup may evolve to reflect the most timely breakthroughs and unexpected opportunities.
- Oil Field Agentic AI
Operating without power or cloud access—AI at the true edge. - Police Car LLMs
Real-time field decision support for law enforcement. - Student Copilots in Emerging Economies
How lightweight copilots are scaling education where infrastructure is limited. - No-Code Agent Building
Democratizing AI by enabling anyone to deploy intelligent agents. - Automated Coding, Orchestration & Enterprise Architecting
End-to-end development with AI handling code, logic, and structure. - How Mass Storage Becomes Storytelling
Turning terabytes of raw data into contextual narratives. - Camera-Driven Task Creation
From footage to action: AI that creates workflows in stores, docks, factories, and restaurants.
2:15pm — 3:00pm
Panel: Company Readiness in the AI Era and Protecting IP in an AI World
How do you scale AI across an organization—and then protect what you’ve built? Traditional IP strategies weren’t designed for a world where AI models generate, remix, and evolve outputs in real time. In this session, Chris will outline how companies can rethink IP frameworks to match the speed and fluidity of GenAI innovation.
We’ll also explore what separates successful enterprise AI programs from stalled experiments—unpacking the cultural, technical, and strategic factors that determine whether companies scale or stumble in the age of AI.
Moderator: (TBD)
Panelists:
- Chris Byrne – Former VP Legal, IP & Venture Partner, Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) , based in Silicon Valley, reporting to Samsung’s President and Chief Strategy Officer
- TBD
- Brian Sathianathan – (co-founder and CDTO, Iterate.ai; Brian is a patent holder on the first iPhone who now has 7 AI patents granted, 8 pending and at least 10 more in the works)
- Elaine Boltz – Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group, Board Member at AARP, former COO of Crocs CDO, and president of TJX Digital)
- TBD
3:00pm — 5:00pm
Networking Reception
Location: T-Zero Lounge, St Julien Hotel & Spa
Conclude the day with drinks and networking in the T-Zero Lounge, fostering connections and discussions sparked throughout the symposium.
IterateOn!
"This isn’t about replacing humans. It’s about expanding what humans can do—amplifying creativity, insight, and decision-making."
— Fei-Fei Li, Professor at Stanford, Co-Director of Stanford HAI
Stay at the Heart of Boulder’s Action
The AI Symposium will be held at the St Julien Hotel & Spa—Boulder’s premier destination for luxury, location, and local charm. Make the most of your experience by staying onsite. A limited number of rooms are available at a special group rate of $209 per night, so we encourage you to book early before they’re gone. Rooms can be reserved starting the week of June 2.
For those flying in or visiting from out of town, it doesn’t get more convenient—or more Boulder. The St Julien is just one block from the iconic Pearl Street Mall, a pedestrian promenade lined with over 200 shops, galleries, and restaurants. Known for its vibrant street performers, public art, and mountain-town energy, Pearl Street offers a walkable, immersive slice of Boulder’s progressive and outdoor-loving culture.
Step out of your room and into the soul of the city.
Unbeatable Location: Nature + Culture at Your Door
St Julien sits at the crossroads of everything Boulder. In addition to Pearl Street, you’ll find:
- Boulder Creek Path and hiking trails just across the street
- Stunning views of the Flatiron Mountains from many rooms
- Complimentary cruiser bikes to explore the city like a local
Nationally Recognized for Excellence
St Julien Hotel & Spa is one of Colorado’s most celebrated hotels, earning awards that place it in elite company:
- Forbes Four-Star Award Winner — a distinction held by fewer than 15% of hotels evaluated worldwide
- AAA Four Diamond Rating — awarded to just 6% of hotels assessed by AAA across North America
- Frequently featured in Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and U.S. News & World Report as a top Colorado destination
St Julien Hotel & Spa
900 Walnut St. Boulder, CO. 80302
Special group rates will be available in June. We'll notify you if you're on the Waitlist.
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