Rethinking Search: How Technology Leaders Are Driving Intelligent Discovery

Virtual Council

September 25, 2025 - National

Visionaries

Sunil Kakade CommonSpirit Health
Sunil Kakade

System VP enterprise Data, Analytics & AI

CommonSpirit Health

About Me

Sunil Kakade is a results-driven Data and AI Executive with over 25 years of experience spearheading enterprise-wide Data and AI strategies. As SVP of Data and AI, he is a leading force in leveraging artificial intelligence to solve complex business challenges and drive measurable value at scale. Passionate about using AI to accelerate growth, efficacy, and innovation across industries, Sunil has spearheaded over 100+ AI use cases, directly improving patient outcomes and saving lives. He is a published author and educator, teaching applied AI for over 10 years in Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies. His extensive experience with research into neural networks applications and generative AI has led to the development of over 10 patent applications. Sunil's mission at CommonSpirit Health is to enable AI and empower the organization with a data-driven approach. He is a visionary leader who believes that AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare with health equity and bring healthier life for all.

Yael Gomez Pet Madness
Yael Gomez

CTIO

Pet Madness

About Me

Yaël Gomez is a fractional CIO/CTO and former Vice President, Global IT, Integration & Intelligent Automation at Walgreens Boots Alliance. As an accomplished technology executive, technologist, and strategic business partner across large-scale enterprise organizations, Yaël has proven expertise in successfully developing technology delivery centers, delivering complex technology strategies and transformations generating business growth. He is skilled at driving global strategies whilst meeting business specific local requirements, with the goal of enabling business innovation, agility and performance with the right technologies. Yael finds his energy at the intersection of people, business and technology, and taps into 25 years of experience in small and large organizations such as Walgreens, in aligning business and technology, and in bringing clarity to complex problems to drive growth, operational excellence and product/service leadership for the businesses he serves.

September 25, 2025

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3:00 PM-4:15 PM

Rethinking Search: How Technology Leaders Are Driving Intelligent Discovery

Join a small group of technology decision makers for a roundtable discussion on how organizations are applying techniques like semantic, vector, and hybrid search to improve how people find and use information.

This is a chance to ask questions, share what you’re seeing in your own organization, and hear how others are thinking about Generative AI, search relevance, platform scalability, and what it takes to move from legacy systems to more intelligent search.


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