Enterprise AI Summit 2026

Why Your Team Should Be at the Enterprise AI Summit

A guide for making the case to your manager — with the data, the speakers, the ROI, and a ready-to-send email template.

April 9-10, 2026 San Jose, CA Hosted by IT Revolution

The ROI

What Your Team Will Bring Back

Your team is already making decisions about AI — how to adopt it, how to restructure around it, how to measure whether it's working. The risk isn't attending a conference. The risk is making those decisions without hearing from the people who've already made them.

For the executive summary: Two days. 20+ practitioner speakers from 12+ organizations. Zero vendor pitches. Your team walks away with:

  1. Reduced decision risk — benchmark your AI strategy against teams who've already made the same trade-offs
  2. Faster delivery — skip the 6-12 months of trial and error by learning what actually worked (and what didn't)
  3. Upskilled, retained talent — your best people get sharper and stay engaged
  4. Unbiased signal — no sponsored talks, no product demos, no pay-to-play slots

The hard questions your peers are already answering:

  1. What should teams look like when two people do the work of eight?
  2. How do you trust and secure services built at AI speed?
  3. What does code review look like when coding agents write the majority of code?
  4. How does all this affect hiring and the role of junior developers?
  5. How are you modernizing legacy code bases that have been neglected for decades?
  6. How do you measure dev productivity when the old metrics no longer apply?
  7. What are your new bottlenecks, and how are you eliminating them?

Attendees leave with concrete answers — not theory, not vendor pitches — from practitioners who are doing this work right now at OpenAI, Amazon, Disney, Fidelity, the U.S. Navy, and more.

Most AI conferences sell what might be possible. This one covers what's actually working — and what isn't — in production right now. 58% of surveyed tech leaders said Technical Deep Dives are their #1 requested format.

"Whether you're a CTO who just vibe-coded your first app or a staff engineer managing a fleet of agents, this is your community."

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Experience Reports

This Is Actually Happening

Every talk is a real experience report from a real team. Here's a preview:

If these claims seem preposterous and worthy of ridicule, this conference is not for you. But if you sense the ground is shifting — this is where the people who are actually doing it will tell you how.

Survey Data

You're Not Alone

We surveyed 53 technology leaders who wanted to attend our last conference but didn't make it.

89% said "Yes" or "Maybe" when asked if they were considering attending the next one. They want to be there. They just need help making the case.

The #1 barrier? Budget constraints (66%). Not lack of interest. Not scheduling. Budget.

And when we asked what would help them get approval:

If your boss needs convincing, so does everyone else's. This page is here to help you both make the case.

Social Proof

Who's Already in the Room

20+ speakers from organizations spanning frontier AI labs, financial services, healthcare, defense, media & entertainment, agriculture, and more. This is not a Silicon Valley echo chamber.

Companies represented:
OpenAI Amazon Disney Netflix Fidelity Investments Vanguard Cisco John Deere U.S. Navy NRC Health Westpac NZ Sigma Defense
Select speakers:
Kent Beck
Inventor of Extreme Programming & JUnit
Joe Beutler
Head of Solutions Engineering, Strategics — OpenAI
Jason Cox
Executive Director, Global SRE — Disney
Steve Yegge
Co-author of "Vibe Coding," Author of Gas Town agent swarm
Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal
VP of Architecture — Fidelity Investments
CDR Collin Fox
Chief Strategy Officer — U.S. Naval Surface Forces, TF Hopper (AI/ML)
Dr. Erik Meijer
Designer of C#, LINQ, Hack — Leibniz Labs
Amy Willard
Global IT Director, Enterprise Core Platforms — John Deere

Full speaker list and schedule: enterpriseaisummit2026.sched.com

Conference Format

What Two Days Look Like

Two days of curated content — no vendor pitches, no product demos, no pay-to-play speaker slots. Every session is an experience report from a real team, or the best subject matter experts who are shaping this industry.

Experience Reports
Real stories from technology leaders using AI and vibe coding in production. What worked, what broke, what they learned.
Expert Knowledge
Talks and panels on team structure, code review, security, productivity, hiring, and operating at AI speed.
Frontier AI Labs
Demos of emerging tools and workflows that teams are shipping with today.
Leadership Strategies
How to restructure teams, adopt new tools, and upskill your organization without blowing everything up.
Networking Time
Structured time to meet peers solving the same problems you are. Plus an industry party on Day 1.
"The many years that I attended in person were the times I most grew professionally."
— Past attendee, pre-event survey
"This is still one of my favorite conferences."
— Past attendee, pre-event survey

Pricing

The Investment

Individual
$1,500
per person
Full 2-day access
All sessions & workshops
Industry party
Peer networking
Best Value
Team 4-Pack
$5,500
$1,375 per person
Everything in Individual
Save $500 vs. 4 individual tickets
Send your whole team
Group (5+)
Custom
contact for pricing
Volume discounts
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The math:

$1,500 for 2 days of peer learning from practitioners at OpenAI, Amazon, Disney, Fidelity, the U.S. Navy, and 15+ other organizations.

vs. 6-12 months of trial and error implementing AI transformation without the playbooks, the peer benchmarks, or the network.

Sending a team? The 4-pack saves $500 and lets your team divide-and-conquer across parallel tracks — then debrief with a shared playbook.

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From Your Peers

What Past Attendees Say

NPS Score: 78 (world-class — Apple is ~72, Netflix ~68) | 83% would recommend | 61% said "exceeded expectations"
Such a high-quality conference, with concrete and actionable content. Also very friendly!
— 2025 Attendee, NPS 10/10
As a first-time attendee, I was skeptical of the shift from DevOps to GenAI. I was humbled by the conference which challenged many of my assumptions and preconceived notions.
— 2025 Attendee, NPS 10/10
A gathering of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet sharing openly to help you in your situation.
— 2025 Attendee, NPS 10/10
My leadership reserves most conference travel to leadership from the main office... but I have paid my own way a few times now because this conference is so valuable.
— Darryl Brown, OTH Studios
ETLS was energizing and helped recharge me for another year of pushing for change.
— Marc Eastburn, Progressive Insurance
Participation in this conference helps me achieve my goals and objectives within my organization.
— Sarah Miller, Collins Aerospace
Thank you, because your work has made my work better.
— 2025 Attendee, NPS 10/10

One-word descriptions from attendees: Mind-blowing. Inspiring. Energizing. Cerebral. Catalyzing. Reorienting.

Accountability

What You'll Deliver After

Your manager wants to know this won't disappear into a pile of business cards and a lanyard in a drawer. Fair. Here's what you commit to:

Within 2 weeks: - Present the 3-5 most relevant sessions to the team - Name the specific practices you saw that apply to what you're working on right now

Within 30 days: - Start implementing at least one thing you learned - Share how companies like yours are approaching the same problems (you'll have first-hand comparisons)

Within 60 days: - Report back on what changed - Recommend whether to send more people next year

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April 9-10, 2026 · San Jose, CA · $1,500 individual / $5,500 team 4-pack

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