Connect with Experts at the Forefront of Agentic AI

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Brian is a skilled business and technology leader with decades of experience in telecommunications, specializing in AI, 5G, 6G, and emerging technology strategy. During his career at Verizon, he led initiatives in automation, network security, and wireless innovation, applying AI to drive performance and scale.  

  • Direct experience evaluating and rolling out AI agentic solutions in the telecom and technology sector, particularly in areas like network operations, customer service automation, and capital planning. 
  • Experienced in advising enterprises on integrating generative AI and agentic systems into contact centers to automate workflows, improving agent productivity, and delivering more personalized customer experiences 
  • Can provide a detailed cross-industry overview of AI disruption and its trajectory focusing on analyzing how AI is reshaping productivity, cost structures, and value creation across sectors  

Dafydd is a seasoned CIO with executive-level experience leading global technology transformations across retail, consumer electronics, and service industries. He has a proven track record in deploying large-scale digital commerce, cloud transformations, and enterprise architecture strategies while building agile, high-performing technology teams that drive business performance, operational efficiency, and enhanced customer experiences. 

  • Can discuss agentic AI roll out and deployment, transformational value, effects on job structure, departments, and AI readiness within existing infrastructure 
  • Experience buying and building agentic solutions 
  • Can speak to common adoption/consumption challenges faced when buying agentic AI products 

Jared helped scale Palantir Technologies, from roughly 25 enterprise customers to more than 500, working directly across platforms including Foundry, Gotham, Apollo, and AIP. He has hands-on exposure to how modern C2, ISR, and operational AI platforms are evaluated, adopted, and scaled inside complex institutions. 

  • Extensive experience deploying enterprise-grade AI systems across top global biopharma organizations to accelerate discovery, manufacturing, and commercialization workflows 
  • Direct experience supporting the design of agentic workflows with human-in-the-loop controls, integrating agents with third-party systems and data sources, and driving user adoption and repeat usage 
  • Well versed in methods for measuring operational and financial impact, and scaling agentic AI platforms across multiple teams and geographies 
  • Can provide an overview of strategies that help overcome challenges and drive agentic AI adoption 

Linda is an independent strategic advisor and public speaker specializing in AI strategy, organizational transformation, and responsible technology adoption. Previously heading AI strategy at H&M Group, she established the company’s Responsible AI program and spearheaded enterprise-wide initiatives in Digital Ethics and Generative AI. She operates at the intersection of strategic foresight, ethical governance, and technological implementation. 

  • Can provide analysis of types of retailers and ecosystem players that are likely to benefit most or at a disadvantage as agentic retail scales 
  • Highly knowledgeable of impacts consumer use of agentic AI has on retailers 
  • Can speak to the evolving role of agentic commerce in retail, including outlook, and operational impact 

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Workforce Experts

Transition your team from execution to orchestration by redesigning job roles into high-impact “hybrid labor” models. These specialists upskill your workforce to become expert supervisors of autonomous agents, ensuring longterm organizational reinvention..

Data Governance Experts

Secure your competitive edge by building data architectures that enforce real-time quality and prevent autonomous “hallucinations”. They implement dynamic access controls to eliminate siloes while protecting sensitive customer information from cybersecurity risks.

AI Legal Specialists

Safeguard your organization by establishing clear guardrails for autonomous liability and contractual authority. These experts ensure your agents navigate complex global compliance standards to prevent legally binding errors or biased outputs.

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Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.