Agentic Transformation: Lessons, Landmines & Breakthroughs
Join us for a panel featuring AI leaders shaping the agentic frontier. You’ll meet fellow practitioners, learn best practices, and connect over happy hour with others driving the future of agentic systems.
Agenda
Kickoff and welcome remarks by Satya Nitta (CEO Emergence)
AI leaders panel (no slides): Hear from industry leaders in AI system integration, oil & gas, and pharmaceuticals as they discuss the technical and non-technical challenges to agentic adoption, identifying first use cases, demonstrating ROI, and practical insights from real-world implementations. No vendor pitches!
Moderator: Rob Hutter, Founder & Managing Partner at Learn Capital. Rob invests in and advises AI and edtech ventures, and serves on the boards of companies like Coursera, Udemy, Brilliant, Feeling Great, Superintelligent, and Brainly
Panelists:
Salil Punalekar, Head of Healthcare, Shift Technology. Salil has incubated & scaled global tech and SaaS businesses, including incubating Cognizant’s healthcare business, scaling it to $1BN, and building a BPaaS platform business to over $4B. He has collaborated with several Fortune 500 companies, helping them realize their technology and operations transformation vision for more than two decades. He currently leads AI-native SaaS solutions at Shift Healthcare. He’s an investor and advisor to several technology startups
Amitt Mehta, CEO at AKM Enterprises. Amitt is an active investor, advisor, and mentor with leading accelerators and venture networks including Life Science Angels, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Alchemist Accelerator. AKM Enterprises is a leading SaaS software provider specializing in data-driven optimization for energy companies, leveraging billions of data points (human and machine) to enhance operational efficiency for over 70 industry clients.
Zen Chu, Faculty Director of MIT’s Hacking Medicine Initiative. Zen is a Senior Lecturer at both MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, specializing in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. As Managing Director of Accelerated Medical Ventures, he builds and invests in early-stage healthtech and medical companies, with successful ventures including PillPack, Abridge, Aptible, and Figure1. Zen co-founded and led 3D-Matrix Medical , and has managed new ventures for Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Hewlett-Packard.
Networking & happy hour!
This even is hosted by Emergence, the platform built for developers and business teams to craft governed, auditable, enterprise-ready agents going from prompt to production without glue code or frameworks