AI Symposium III, Boulder CO

Spring 2026 Confirmed Participants

Banking & Finance

Goldman Sachs (Partner, and former Chief Investment Officer)

MUFG - largest Asian bank outside of China (determining participants)

Western Union (Director, Strategic Initiatives)

CBIZ (Managing Director)

Charles Schwab (Director Risk Products and AI)

Hanna Gray - venture investor (Founding Partner)

Retail, Wholesale & Consumer Brands

TOMS (CEO)

JD Sports + Finish Line (SVP, Board Director)

Estée Lauder Companies (former Global CIO, SVP)

Jockey (EVP International, CCO + SVP of Global Ops)

Shoe Carnival + Dollar Tree Stores + XCCommerce (Board Director)

Crecera Brands - Sportsman's Guide, The Golf Warehouse, Salt Strong, etc. (CTIO + Board Director)

RBGlobal - (NYSE: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles globally (Director of Product & Design)

ROFDA - association with grocery members representing $60 billion in revenues (President & CEO)

L'Oreal (Chairman of German market; former CEO of Global Skincare)

Target (ML/Data)

Food Market Institute (VP, Industry Relations)

DSG Supply - distributor of products for the electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, communications, utility, automation, and waterworks industries (Chief of Product & Technology, VP West District)

Leveret - direct-to-consumer clothing (CMO)

Nike (former Global VP of Stores)

The Stow Company - manufacturer of custom home organization solutions including closets, garages (IT Director, Sr Applications Developer)

Signet Jewelers - 2,600 stores; brands: KAY Jewelers, Zales, Jared and more (Board Director, Chair of Nomination and Governance Committee)

Food Marketing Association, FMI - (VP)

Jenson USA (VP of Marketing & eCommerce, VP of CRO)

Rainbow Shops (Chief Digital Officer)

Dimension 6 - licensing partner to NIKE (Head of Strategy)

Lucky Jeans (former CEO), ModCloth (former CEO), Urban Outfitters (former SVP of Strategy)

Outdoor Cap Company (CMTO, Director of IT)

Noa Brands (CFO, VP Finance)

Government, Education & Research

NOAA Center for AI (Director)

NOAA National Weather Service (Chief Architect)

University of Colorado (Professor, Computer Science & Robotics)

A2I2 Applied AI Institute (Post Doc, Senior Reseach Fellow)

Futurum Group / Signal65 (Analyst, VP - Datacenter AI & IT)

University of Denver (Executive Director AI Technologies and Strategic Operations)

National Laboratory of the Rockies (Center Director of Computational Science, Research Collaboration Partnerships)

USDA (IT Strategy Planning Lead)

Technology and Management Solutions (CEO, former State CIO, entrepreneur, innovation catalyst)

Colorado Chamber of Commerce (Executive Vice President)

MIT Media Lab (board member), former Google X Moonshots (CEO of Robotics)

Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IAAIR) (board member), former Google X Moonshots (CEO of Robotics)

Guild Education (Chief of Staff)

Agriculture & Emerging Markets

Cox Farms (AVP of Digital Products)

World Food Bank (Chairman, CEO)

Dominant Success (CEO)

Technology

Adobe (GM, Digital Strategy for Retail and CPG)

Flexential (CISO + Director of Data and AI)

Equinix (Head of Marketplace Product Management)

IBM Cloud (Sales Leader – West)

AWS (head of product - AI Batch)

iBotta (SVP Engineering, Data, Operations)

Yext (VP Product Management)

Intel (GM, Americas Technology Leadership & Platform ISVs Team)

CBRE (Vice President, Network Advisory Services)

Iterate.ai (CTAIO, cofounder + Ph.D. Swarm Computing)

Arrow Electronics (AI Lead + Digital Engineering Manager)

Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Director of AI + PHD)

HAUZ AI, Inc. (Founder, CTO)

Next Ai (Founder)

Stack Infrastructure (Head of AI & Data Strategy), former VISA AI

Bonfire Infrastructure Group - dedicated to eradicate digital inequity through the power of superior broadband planning, engineering, construction, and fiber operations (CEO)

Reel Axis (COO)

NVIDIA (Senior Director of AI Strategy and Developer Relations)

Dell (Global GM Healthcare, Life Sciences & Payer Verticals)

NetApp (GM, Partner Sales Global Ecosystem)

Cybersecurity

Rigor.ai - AI-age Cybersecurity (Founding Member, GM of Digital Strategy for Retail and CPG)

PMsquare (Cyber & Cloud Security Specialist)

Legal

Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP (Of Counsel / AI Attorney)

Faith

Flatirons Community Church (Lead Pastor, Executive Pastor, CFO, Director of Technology R&D, Digital Communications Director)

Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) - represents 25,000 schools (Senior Director)

ATLA - the world's most comprehensive digital database of academic literature covering theology, biblical studies, world religions, and church history (Product Manager, Head of Technical Content)

Healthcare & Heath

Boston Scientific (determining participants)

Arizona Center for Cancer Care - 150 MDs (Physician + Owner)

Envision Health (Director AI & Automation)

Willow Sports AI (CEO)

Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System (determining participants)

OneCred (CEO, President + CTO)

Atrius Health (Internal Medicine Physician and Clinical Informaticist), Harvard Medical School (Research, AI)

Energy

BPX Energy - British Petroleum (CTO, Head of AI Innovation & Strategy)

Space

Sierra Space - (VP, IT)

United Launch Alliance (Operations Software Development Leader)

Quantum

Quantum Ready Solutions (CEO, PhD)

Atom Computing (Chief Product Officer)

Flari Tech (CEO, PhD)

Telecommunications, Advertising, & Media

EchoStar (Dish, Boost) (SVP, Head of Network Evolution, VP)

Comcast (former CIO)

PBS 12 (Executive Producer - The Business of Colorado)

Meet The People (Head of AI)

Hello Tomorrow (CEO, Host)

Stadium Tech Report (Editor)

retailmediaIQ - Publications: Mass Market Retailer + Chain Drug Review (CEO, President)

CenturyLink/Lumen/Synch (Former executive - CIO level)

Transportation & Logistics

PITT OHIO - a major transportation and logistics company, 3,400 employees, operates fleet of 1,000 tractors and 2,300 trailers, (VP Operations)

Strategy & Advisory

Boston Consulting Group (Senior Advisor to BCG), board director, AARP

Bain & Company (Senior Advisor to Bain)

Propeller (VP + VP)

Slalom (GM)

Accenture (Engineering Consulting Senior Manager)

Valtech - global digital agency and business transformation firm, 7,500 professionals, 50 offices in 20 countries, (CEO Americas)

Think Blue - strategy for grocery and CPG (CEO + CRO); former VP of Wakefern, former Chief Customer Officer & SVP from General Mills; CPGguys Podcast

Enterprise Infrastructure, Systems Integration, Public Sector Tech Strategy, Dev

NTT DATA (COO/CTO + SVP)

Insight Enterprises (Managing Director)

Litmus 7 (VP of AI Strategy)

Istonish (CEO)

Terralogic (CEO + VP)