Registration and Networking

Opening Remarks by

Rita Scroggin, CEO and Founder Firstboard.io

Monica Nayar, PwC West Region Leader and Silicon Valley Market Managing Partner | PwC Cyber Risk & Regulatory Private Equity and Deals Leader | Board Member

AI is only the beginning. Open-weight models, AI agents, tokenization, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and emerging infrastructure are converging to reshape industries faster than most organizations are prepared for. This forward-looking conversation will explore the trends that will define the next decade — and what boards and executive teams should be doing today to stay ahead."

Panelists:

Mark Lohmeyer, VP/GM, AI and Computing Infrastructure, Google Cloud

Colleen Kapase, VP Global Partnerships and Ecosystem, OpenAI

Latha Vishnubhotla, Chief Platform Officer, HPE

Moderated by: Vikas Agarwal, PwC's Advisory CTIO.

We instinctively ask whether a building is secure, a supply route is reliable, or a bridge can bear weight. We are less practiced at asking the equivalent questions about the digital systems on which our businesses now depend. This session examines the new fault lines of corporate resilience: concentrated technology dependencies, AI-enabled threats, cyber disruption, and quantum readiness.

Presented by: Tonya Ugoretz, Cyber and Risk Innovation Institute Co-Leader, PwC, former Assistant Director Directorate Intelligence FBI

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1. Modern Boardroom

Welcome to The Modern Boardroom, where we dismantle 20th-century governance relics and engineer the agile, high-velocity oversight engine your enterprise demands today. You will leave this session with a blueprint to transform passive compliance into active strategic dominance across multi-national and regional ecosystems. Master our 4-pillar modernization framework—Structure, Speed, Skill, and Synergy—to future-proof your board against unprecedented global volatility.

Forum Leaders:

Julie Iskow, CEO & Board Director, Workiva( NYSE: WK); Board Director Five9 ( Nasdaq:FIVN) and Enable; Firstboard.io Advisory Board, Laura Clayton McDonnell ,Board Director forrmer President Thomson Reuters Corporate, Shuchi Rana, Firstboard.io, SVP, Immuta, CXO Co-Chair, Firstboard.io

2. Architecting the new Enterprise: How the CIO, CLO, and Board Build an AI-Ready Organization

As AI reshapes how companies operate, the CIO, CLO and Board each have a critical role in building an organization that can move quickly without losing sight of risk, governance and trust. This session will explore how these leaders can work together to create the technology, governance and operating frameworks needed for an AI-ready enterprise.

Forum Leaders: Eve Saltman former CLO GoPro(GPRO), FIrstboard.io Member, Shanti Ariker, CLO JForg(FROG) and Firstboard.io member, Julie Irish, CIO Alteryx(AYX)

3. Board Governance in the Age of AI: How Directors Navigate Risk, Oversight, and Accountability

AI is transforming more than products, workflows, and business models. It is changing the assumptions behind the metrics boards and leadership teams use to assess performance.

Customer acquisition cost can look stable even as AI changes how buyers discover and evaluate companies. Revenue per employee can improve as work shifts from people to agents and automated systems, without capturing the full cost or quality implications of that shift. Churn can remain low while customer trust erodes, and pipeline can grow even as AI-generated activity makes it harder to distinguish genuine demand from automated engagement.

Forum Leaders: Leilani Latimer CxO, NACD Certified Director, Board member, Black Diamond Group (TSX: BDI), Sedex, and Narratize and Firstboard.io Founding Member, Meenu Agarwal, Global head of Customer Experience, Alkami; Independent Board Director, Patterson Companies, Inc (NASDAQ: PDCO) now a PSC portfolio company; Board Member, Computing for All and FIrstboard.io Member

4. The Last SaaS Generation

People who built, funded and scaled category-defining software companies take the same question from the top: if you were starting a company today, in a market where agents do the work, how would you price it, how would you build it, and who would you hire? The discussion is concrete rather than retrospective — what the pricing model actually looks like, what the product and data architecture has to get right early, and how small the team stays.

Forum Leader: Somya Kapoor, CEO IFS Loops

5. Vibe Coding: Testing AI Value and Control. In this hands-on session you'll play both sides of an AI investment: first as the executive making the case, then as the board director questioning the AI as it defends itself, and deciding whether it delivers real value and stays under real control. In 45 minutes you'll leave with a sharper way to judge any technology bet your board takes on next.

Vibe coding leaders: Lauren Canto, Director, Advisory Commercial Technology & Innovation Strategy Lead, PWC, Jason Glantz, AI Growth Leader, PwC

6. Behind the Scenes of Design Engineering

In this interactive demo session, attendees personalize a real AI-powered voice assistant device — choosing physical components under a cost constraint while actual generative AI powers the device’s responses — then walk it through two of our engineering labs to see it’s prototyped and tested. It's a hands-on way to feel the trade-offs of hardware innovation: what you build, what it costs, how it's tested, and how fast it can become real.

Forum Leader: Jason Burton, Managing Director | PwC Connected Products

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1. Winning Category Leadership: Board Strategies for Market Creation and Disruption

Boards are increasingly asked to oversee bets on markets that don't have a playbook yet — no comps, no established metrics, no precedent. This session puts participants in the room during a board's first 90 days after approving a category-creating strategy, and asks: what should the board be asking management? Working from a shared scenario, small groups will draft the questions they believe matter most — then put them to the test with experienced board members who'll weigh in on which ones would actually land with a CEO, and which ones cross the line into managing rather than governing. For example, how will we know if we're early and right versus early and wrong — and by when?

Forum Leaders: Paramita Bhattacharya CMO 3x and Firstboard.io Founding Member, Sanyogita Shamsunder, CTO Geolinks,and Firstboard.io Member Claire Trimble, CMO Security Scorecard and Firstboard.io Founding Member

2. The Missing Layer: Why AI Strategy Fails Without Structural Intelligence

Most organizations already have AI in play, but delivering reliable, scalable business impact requires looking past frontier model hype. Taking enterprise AI to the next level relies on foundational discipline across two fronts: building a trusted, unified system of context to fuel models and continuously managing those models to limit drift. This interactive session will explore these two operational requirements and equip executives and directors with the practical questions to uncover where their company's AI foundation is solid and where hidden gaps remain.

Forum Leaders: Reena Tiwari , Global CIO and Firstboard.io Leadership Council, Trish Hayward, Chief AI Transformation Officer, Realtio ( an SAP company) and Firstboard.io Member

3. Beyond the AI Budget: How Boards Invest for Long-Term Competitive Advantage

Two years into the enterprise AI surge, the honeymoon phase is officially over. The shift from denial to adoption happened overnight, but rapid experimentation has given way to budget realities, with AI spending now cannibalizing traditional SaaS, services, and talent investments. As boards demand proof of direct business value, enterprise leaders must pivot from high-volume experimentation ("tokenmaxing") to disciplined ROI ("valuemaxing").

In this interactive workshop, forum leaders share the governance and value-alignment frameworks top C-suite executives use to maintain board confidence.

Forum Leaders: Patrica Grant, CIO Tenable and Firstboard.io Leadership Council, Seena Ganesh, CTO Staples and Firstboard.io member

4. Vibe Coding: Testing AI Value and Control. In this hands-on session you'll play both sides of an AI investment: first as the executive making the case, then as the board director questioning the AI as it defends itself, and deciding whether it delivers real value and stays under real control. In 45 minutes you'll leave with a sharper way to judge any technology bet your board takes on next.

Vibe coding session leaders: Lauren Canto, Director, Advisory Commercial Technology & Innovation Strategy Lead, PWC, Jason Glantz, AI Growth Leader, PwC

5. Behind the Scenes of Design Engineering

In this interactive demo session, attendees personalize a real AI-powered voice assistant device — choosing physical components under a cost constraint while actual generative AI powers the device’s responses — then walk it through two of our engineering labs to see it’s prototyped and tested. It's a hands-on way to feel the trade-offs of hardware innovation: what you build, what it costs, how it's tested, and how fast it can become real.

Forum Leader: Jason Burton, Managing Director | PwC Connected Products

Step inside the boardroom of the future with an exclusive 'Ask Me Anything' panel. Unfiltered, strategic, and provocative—this session offers you direct access to leading board members’ insights on navigating the most critical technology challenges shaping today’s business landscape. Engage in a high-impact conversation that sharpens your governance perspective and empowers you to make bold, informed decisions that drive lasting value.

Speakers:

Lisa Edwards, Board of Directors Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Qualtrics (XM), LogicMonitor, ZEDEDA

Board Director Victoria Secret, Janus Henderson Group, former Chair of SEC Investor Advisory Committee

Moderator: Tracey-Lee Brown, Senior Director, PwCs Governance Insights Center