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 Partner)

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 (SVP + EVP 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 + determining attendees)

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

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

Target (ML/Data person paying her own way)

Ulta Beauty (CDO determining attendees)

Food Market Institute (VP)

DSG Supply - 100% employee-owned wholesale distributor of products for the electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, communications, utility, automation, and waterworks industries (Chief of Product & Technology)

Government & Research

NOAA Center for AI (Director)

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

Covert

Agriculture

Cox Farms (AVP of Digital Products)

USDA (IT Strategy Planning Lead)

World Food Bank (Chairman, CEO)

Technology

Adobe (GM, Digital Strategy for Retail and CPG)

Flexential (CISO + Director of Data and AI)

Equinix (three leaders)

AWS (head of product - AI Batch)

iBotta (SVP Engineering, Data, Operations)

Intel

NetApp (Principal WW AI Solutions GTM Lead)

Arrow Electronics (AI Lead + Digital Engineering Manager)

Healthcare

Boston Scientific

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

Energy

BPX - British Petroleum (CTO + VP of AI and Strategic Initiatives)

Space

Sierra Space - (VP, IT)

Quantum

Quantum Rings

Quantum Ready Solutions (CEO, PhD)

Flair (CEO, PhD)

Consulting, SI & Innovation

BCG (advisor to BCG, retail and CPG; board director AARP)

Propeller (VP + VP)

Dominant Success Brazil - serving the third world, globally, with Private AI (CEO)

Blue Sky - advisor to grocers, CPGs, Coke (CEO)

NTT DATA (COO/CTO + SVP)

Telecommunications & Media

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

PBS 12 (CEO)

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