Presidio 

“A practical roadmap for implementing AI securely, strategically, and at scale“ 

Speaker: Paula Cipollone | Chief Transformation Officer, Presidio 

Room: Monte Carlo, 11:00 AM –11:30 AM 

Many organizations have been tasked with “doing AI,” but few have a clear roadmap for deploying it securely, governing its use, and delivering measurable business value. In this roundtable session, Presidio’s Chief Transformation Officer, Paula Cipollone, shares how we’re enabling AI across our own business: from strategy and technology selection to governance, knowledge worker user adoption, and enterprise-wide rollout. Learn the lessons we’ve gained, the mistakes we avoided, and the best practices you can apply in your own organization. 

Best For: IT Decision Makers (C-suite VPs, and IT Directors) responsible for AI strategy, digital transformation, technology, innovation, and business operations who are leading or sponsoring enterprise AI initiatives. 

Presidio 

“Hybrid AI – Building a Sandbox“ 

Speaker: Jake Fernandez | Senior Solutions Architect, Presidio 

Room: Milan, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 

Walk through a practical approach for organizations looking to build their own Hybrid AI platform rather than surrendering business context to third-party AI service providers. From clarifying strategy and identifying the right business problem to solve, through building a flexible sandbox environment, to scaling AI operations across the enterprise. Learn how Presidio translated business requirements into a layered architecture spanning applications, an Enterprise AI Operating System, and the underlying infrastructure with its PATH reference architecture. 

Best for: IT Directors, Managers, Architects, Engineers, and technical practitioners who are evaluating, implementing, securing, or managing AI and emerging technologies within their organizations. 

Presidio 

“Intelligent Ops in the Field: How Presidio Fuses AI and Automation to Run the Network“ 

Speaker: Brian Wisler | Vice President, Modern Networks, Presidio 

Room: Ming, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 

A walkthrough of how AI is reshaping the workflow of Network Engineers. Intelligent OPS allows the marriage of AI and Automation to identify and automate repeatable solutions at enterprise scale. 

Best for: IT Directors, Managers, Architects, Network Engineers, and technical practitioners who are evaluating, implementing, securing, or managing AI and emerging technologies within their organizations. 

Presidio 

“Securing AI: Beyond Controls, Into Governance“ 

Speaker: Justin Tibbs | Vice President, Cyber Security Practice, Presidio 

Room: Manchester, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 

Most AI security programs stop at technical controls, guardrails, access management, and monitoring. But real governance goes further. This talk looks at what it takes to build a complete AI security program: one that covers technical controls, financial oversight, and governance together, so organizations can scale AI with confidence instead of finding out too late where the risk actually lived. 

Best for: IT and cybersecurity professionals who are moving beyond traditional security controls and are responsible for connecting AI security, risk, governance, and financial oversight across the organization. 

Presidio 

“Vision to Execution: Modernizing Lifecycle Management“ 

Speaker: Kevin Corace | Senior Vice President, Software and Services Lifecycle 

Room: Madrid, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 

Learn how many customers are leveraging Presidio Advisor to modernize their contract and asset lifecycle as we highlight real client examples that show the power of combining data, automation, and insights to solve real world customer challenges. 

Best for: IT leaders and practitioners responsible for managing technology assets, contracts, and lifecycle operations who are looking to modernize manual processes, improve visibility, and leverage data and automation to drive greater efficiency. 

Presidio 

“AI Tokenomics: Turning AI Consumption into Business Value” 

Speaker: Whitney Overturf | Consultant, AI Strategy & Customer Innovation 

Room: Monet, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 

AI adoption is accelerating, and most organizations still struggle to understand costs of AI investments and delivery. Please join this session to explore a practical framework for AI Tokenomics. We are assisting organizations track, govern, and optimize AI consumption across users, applications, and agents. From establishing usage visibility and cost accountability to aligning AI spend with business outcomes, learn how Presidio helps enterprises create a sustainable operating model for scaling AI while maximizing value, controlling risk, and enabling innovation. 

Best for: IT and AI infrastructure leaders responsible for building, deploying, and scaling AI workloads from initial concepts into production environments. 

Cisco 

“Cisco’s Approach to AgenticOps: Orchestrating Intelligence in Cloud Control and AI Canvas” 

Speaker: Chuck Duffy | Cisco Distinguished Engineer 

Room: Ming, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 

Agentic Ops is the evolution of IT and security operations, shifting from manual, fragmented tasks, to goal-oriented orchestration. By deploying intelligent agents that perceive, reason, and act, organizations can finally unify ITOps and SOC teams into a single, cohesive workflow. Hear how Cisco is providing a unified fabric that integrates deep observability and security intelligence thereby bridging the gap between silos, ensuring teams operate from a single source of truth rather than disparate consoles. 

Best for: IT and security leaders looking to unify operations, improve visibility, and leverage agentic AI to automate and orchestrate workflows across their technology environment. 

Microsoft 

“AI in the Flow of Human Ambition: How Leading Organizations Are Building Their Next Competitive Advantage“ 

Presenter: Coming Soon 

Room: Milan, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 

AI is rapidly becoming a core business capability, transforming how organizations innovate, make decisions, engage customers, and scale operations. In this session, we’ll explore the four strategic conversations shaping the next era of business transformation: AI in the Flow of Human Ambition, Ubiquitous Innovation, Amplify Your Intelligence, and Establish a Trusted and Secure Platform for AI. 

Learn how leading organizations are using AI, agents, organizational intelligence, and trusted platforms to unlock growth, accelerate innovation, and build enduring competitive advantage in an increasingly agentic world. 

Best for: Business and IT leaders responsible for driving AI strategy, innovation, and digital transformation who want to understand how organizations are turning AI into a scalable, trusted source of competitive advantage. 

Fortinet 

“Securing Critical Infrastructure in a Connected World” 

Presenter: Coming Soon 

Room: Manchester, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 

As industrial organizations adopt new digital tools and technologies, their security challenges grow more complex. This session sets the stage with an overview of the realities and risks present when applying cybersecurity strategies to the people, process, and technology supporting critical infrastructure — and why it’s becoming a boardroom priority. 

Best for: IT, cybersecurity, and operational technology leaders responsible for protecting critical infrastructure and managing cybersecurity risk across increasingly connected environments. 

Everpure 

“Turning AI Ambition into Business Impact“ 

Presenter: Coming Soon 

Room: Madrid, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 

Join Everpure as we explore how organizations can move beyond AI experimentation to deliver measurable business value through secure, scalable, and adaptable AI infrastructure. 

Learn how the right data foundation can accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, governance, and data sovereignty. 

Key Takeaways: 

Unlock the business benefits and agility enabled by AI. 

Reduce time to value by accelerating AI initiatives. 

Confidently deploy production AI with built-in security and adaptability. 

Maintain data sovereignty by keeping sensitive data out of AI training while still enabling AI innovation. 

Best for: IT, data, and AI leaders focused on building the infrastructure, data foundation, and governance needed to scale AI from experimentation into secure, production-ready environments. 

VMware by Broadcom 

“Beyond VCF 9.1 Deployment: Practical Strategies for Extracting The Maximum Value from VCF 9.1” 

Speaker: Kevin Brady | Office of the CTO, Ambassador Broadcom 

Room: Monte Carlo, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM 

Are you truly getting your money’s worth from your investment in your VCF private cloud infrastructure, or have you deployed just a minimal footprint? In this session we will dive into the components that will help you to maximize the value of your VCF investment, covering topics such as: 

NVMe Memory Tiering 

vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 

Private AI Services 

Providing a true cloud experience with VCF Automation 

Key customer takeaways – Learn how you can use your existing investment in VCF to reduce hardware costs by up to 40%, reduce container complexity and software expenses, unlock additional workflows with Private AI services, and develop a true private cloud operating experience. 

Best for: IT infrastructure leaders and practitioners responsible for private cloud environments who want to maximize the value of their VCF 9.1 investment and move beyond basic deployment to a more automated, efficient, and cloud-like operating model. 

AWS 

“From Investment to Impact: Accelerate your business outcomes and realize faster ROI through Partner Led Customer Success” 

Presenter: Coming Soon 

Room: Ming, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 

Join AWS and Presidio for an exciting session on AWS Business Value Realization (BVR) motion. BVR is a partner led, post-sale, structured engagement that helps customers turn their AWS investments into measurable business results — cost savings, productivity gains, and revenue growth tracked against their own KPIs. BVR complements Presidio’s AI Lighthouse offering. 

This session will delve into the key customer benefits of BVR including: 

Value Realization Plan — A tailored roadmap that ties technology investments to prioritized business use cases and measurable outcomes 

Strategic Advisory & Support — Dedicated resources for enablement, change management, milestone tracking, and validation of technical readiness, security, & compliance requirements 

Continuous Innovation — Governance frameworks that continue to drive momentum after initial deployment of AWS services 

Coverage – Key AWS service domains including Amazon Quick, Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, Amazon Connect Customer, and Amazon CloudWatch with domain specific technology and business adoption metrics 

Industry & Domain Intelligence – Market benchmarks and best practices for your industry with proven reference architectures and value drivers matched to your workload patterns 

The session will focus on AI success stories from recent customer engagements: 

AI-Powered Patient Engagement using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Quick leading to 25%+ faster development times 

Agentic AI Call Center with Amazon Connect and Contact Lens resulting in 26% faster average call handling time 

AI-Driven Software Development with Amazon Q Developer and Kiro driving 30%+ productivity boost across engineering teams and $700K net savings in year one 

Best for: IT and business leaders focused on maximizing the business value of cloud and AI investments, with an emphasis on measurable outcomes, adoption, productivity, and ROI. 

Palo Alto Networks 

“Agentic AI Security Operations with Cortex” 

Presenter: Coming Soon 

Room: Milan, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 

Join this 30-minute session to explore how Agentic AI is accelerating the journey from traditional, rule-based SOCs to autonomous, AI-driven security operations. You’ll see how modern security teams can reduce manual effort, improve detection and response, secure the AI attack surface, and maximize the value of their existing security investments. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to: 

Secure the expanding Agentic AI attack surface, including AI applications, agents, and MCP servers. 

Replace legacy correlation rules with AI-led detection and automated investigations. 

Enable real-time prevention and continuous remediation across endpoints. 

Transform your existing security stack into an autonomous, AI-powered SOC. 

Best for: Whether you’re a SOC analyst, security engineer, security architect, or security leader, you’ll leave with practical insights into building the next generation of AI-powered security operations. 

F5 

“Securing the Future: Defense-in-Depth in a Post-Mythos World” 

Speaker: Corey Marshall | Sr Solutions Architect – Security & AI, F5 

Room: Manchester: 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 

We are entering an era where AI models such as Mythos are simultaneously accelerating innovation and democratizing sophisticated cyberattacks. The cost, complexity, and expertise required to launch attacks have dropped dramatically, while the volume and speed of emerging vulnerabilities continue to outpace traditional patching cycles. In the age of frontier AI, speed itself becomes a critical security control. Organizations that can identify, adapt, and respond fastest will be the ones best positioned to stay ahead of evolving threats. 

Audience: TBD 

HPE 

“AI Gets Real: From Internal Innovation to Enterprise Impact“ 

Speaker: Malcolm Ferguson, Distinguished Technologist | HPE 

Room: Madrid, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 

Learn how HPE applies AI across its IT organization—and delivers AI solutions for its top global customers. 

Best for: IT and business leaders looking to move AI beyond experimentation and understand how organizations are applying AI at scale to drive measurable enterprise impact. 

Dell 

“From AI Factory to Inference at Scale“ 

Speaker: Allen Clingerman, Partner AI Officer, Global Channels | Dell 

Room: Monte Carlo, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 

A concise look at how Dell’s AI Factory and layered AI architecture help customers move from idea to production faster, with Delland Presidio simplifying the path to inference scale. 

AI Factory construct: the validated base for AI infrastructure. 

Dell AI ecosystem: partners and platforms that help complete the stack. 

Dell + Presidio: a simpler path to inference scale. 

Operational focus: repeatable deployment, speed, and scale. 

Best for: IT and AI infrastructure leaders responsible for building, deploying, and scaling AI workloads from initial concepts into production environments.