Tech Titans Roundtable: Shaping the AI-Driven Future
Participation Exclusively by Special Invitation
You have been invited to join an exclusive group of Fortune 500 C-level executives for a highly selective, non-commercial, quarterly roundtable discussion held in Silicon Valley, New York, and Zurich. The Tech Titans Roundtable, operating under Chatham House Rules, brings together the brightest minds in AI implementation and adoption from top-tier global organizations to address the most significant technology-led shift in human history.
With AI platforms from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI gaining Ph.D.-level expertise and poised to disrupt industries, there lies an exponential opportunity to reimagine the future of work, organizations, and the world. The Tech Titans Roundtable provides a safe harbor to connect with other leaders facing similar circumstances at the crossroads of strategy, disruption, and opportunity.
Locations & Upcoming Dates
Monday, September 8, 2025
Zurich, Switzerland
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
New York, New York
Friday, September 12, 2025
San Francisco, California
Calendar
JANUARY
Monday, January 26, 2026 – Zurich, Switzerland
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 – New York, New York
Monday, January 30, 2026 – San Francisco, California
APRIL
Monday, April 20, 2026 – San Francisco, California
Monday, April 27, 2026 – Zurich, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 – New York, New York
JULY
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 – San Francisco, California
Monday, July 13, 2026 – Zurich, Switzerland
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 – New York, New York
Agenda
Each event will follow the same format and the agenda, observing local times in Zurich, New York and San Francisco:
4:00 pm Introductions & Networking Reception
4:30 pm AI Roundtable
6:30 pm Dinner & Executive Session
8:00 pm Adjourn
Delegation
Our distinguished Tech Titans Roundtable participants include C-Suite representatives from global firms including:
Venkat Achanta
EVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Trans Union
Raji Arasu
EVP, Chief Technology Officer, Autodesk
Shankar Arumugavelu
EVP & President VGS, Verizon
Marco Baumgartner
Head of IT & Head of Branch Switzerland, Allianz
Dr. Lisa Bechtold, Ph.D.
Head of AI Governance, Zurich Insurance
Scott Bennett
CIO, Lear Corporation
Kathrin Braunwarth
Head of Data, Technology & Innovation, AXA Insurance
Allegra Driscoll
CTO & EVP, Bread Financial
Todd Goodyear
Managing Director & CIO, Bank of America
Vivek Gurumurthy
CIO, Verizon
Archana Jain
CTO, Zurich Insurance
Arnie Katz
Chief Product & Technology Officer, GoFundMe, Inc.
Ryan Kean
Chief Information Officer, Total Quality Logistics
Jeremy King
Former CTO, Pinterest
Rashmi Kumar
SVP & Global CIO, Medtronic
Andy Nallappan
President & COO, Cloud Software Group
Lakshman Nathan
EVP & CIO, Paramount Global
Earl Newsome
CIO, Cummins Inc.
Vasco Nunes
MD, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure, Swiss Re
Hasmukh Ranjan
SVP & CIO, Advanced Micro Devices
Fahim Siddiqui
Former EVP & CIO, Home Depot
Eric Smith
SVP, Chief Digital Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System
Dr. Jeffrey Welser, Ph.D.
COO, IBM Research; VP, Exploratory Science & University Collaborations, IBM
To Be Announced
Title, Company
Preparatory Materials & Knowledge Base
In this section, you can access preparatory materials, session videos, and presentations from prior AI-focused sessions.
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Technology Management Series – Module 6
Transforming Business with Advanced Information Technology
May 16, 2025
Lecture & Workshop “Advanced IT Powered by Generative AI Techniques”
- Dr. Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Richard Hodgson Fellow, Harvard Business School
Exercise: Creating a Custom AI Agent for Cybersecurity Incident Updates
Presentation: Building an AI Agent for Cyber Security Incident Reports
Article: Keep your AI Projects on Track
Case Study: Building an AI Factory at Procter & Gamble
Case Study: Moderna: Democratizing Artificial Intelligence
Case Study: JPMorganChase: Leadership in the Age of Gen AI
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Technology Management Series – Module 5
Transforming Business with Advanced Information Technology
February 21, 2025
Lecture & Workshop “Advanced IT Powered by Generative AI Techniques”
- Dr. Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Richard Hodgson Fellow, Harvard Business School
Presentation: CTO Forum: Building Customer GPTs
Case Study: Please read Building an AI Agent Evaluator
Document: Please read Example GPTs
Document: Please read Requirements for GPT Creators
Document: Please read GPT Risk Matrix
2025 Additional Resources
- Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
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Technology Management Series – Module 4
Strategy: Leading with AI
October 17, 2024
Lecture & Workshop “Creating a New AI-First Company”
- Dr. Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Richard Hodgson Fellow, Harvard Business School
Presentation: Gen AI Experiential Workshop
Workshop Exercise: Creating an AI-First Company
Dataset: Special Workshop Dataset
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Technology Management Series – Module 4
“Rising Above the Gathering AI Storm”
October 15, 2024
- Dr. Dr. Andrew Ng, Board of Director, Amazon.com; Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Founder & CEO of Landing AI; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
- Dr. Andrew McAfee, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy; Principal Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Panel Moderator
- Dr. Sebastian Thrun, CEO, Stealth AI Startup; Co-Founder and Chairman, Udacity; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
- Fiona Tan, Chief Technology Officer, Wayfair, Inc.
- Ting Cai, Chief AI and Data Officer, Rakuten Group, Inc.
- Dr. Daniel Rock, Ph.D., Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, WorkHelix; Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: Putting AI to Work
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Technology Management Series – Module 3
Strategy: Leading with AI
August 8, 2024
- Dr. Karim Lakhani, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Presentation: VideaHealth
Overview: Preparatory Instructions
Please prepare for this module segment by downloading a copy of and reading “Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World” by Karim Lakhani & Marco Iansiti
Case Study: Please read VideaHealth (621021-PDF-ENG)
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Technology Management Series – Module 2
Strategy: Leading with AI
May 17, 2024
- Dr. Karim Lakhani, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Presentation: Moderna
Overview: Preparatory Instructions
Please prepare for this module segment by downloading a copy of “Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World” by Karim Lakhani & Marco Iansiti
Case Study: Please read Moderna (A) (621032-PDF-ENG)
Recommended article: At Moderna OpenAIs GPTs Are Changing Almost Everything
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Technology Management Series – Module 1
Strategy: Leading with AI
April 11, 2024
- Dr. Karim Lakhani, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Overview: Preparatory Instructions
Please prepare for this module segment by downloading a copy of “Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World” by Karim Lakhani & Marco Iansiti and reading the first chapter
Case Study: Please download a copy of Ant Financial (A) (617060-PDF-ENG)
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Six Series II: Module 6 – Rethink Generative AI
August 7 & 8, 2023
The AI Awakening: Implications for Business and the Economy
- Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson, Ph.D., Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence: A Perspective Off the Beaten Paths
- Dr. Stuart J. Russell, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
From Internet Governance to AI Governance
- Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, JD, MPA, George Bemis Professor of International Law; Vice Dean for Library & Information Resources, Harvard University
Competing in the Age of AI
- Dr. Karim Lakhani, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Generative AI – The Geek Way
- Dr. Andrew McAfee, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy; Principal Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson’s presentation: The AI Awakening
Dr. Karim Lakhani’s presentation: Competing in the Age of AI
Dr. Andrew McAfee’s presentation: What Kinds of Companies will Succeed with Generative AI?
Article: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT4
Article: What is Generative AI
Article: What Every CEO Should Know About Generative AI
Article: Exploring Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
Article: Sea Change in Software Development: Economic and Productivity Analysis of the AI-Powered Developer Lifecycle
Article: The Economic Potential of Generative AI: the Next Productivity Frontier
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Six Series II: Module 5 – Rethink Robotics
Robotics Integration with LLM(AI) and Cloud
May 5, 2023
- Dr. Ken Goldberg, Ph.D., William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair of Engineering; Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley