From AI Ambition to AI Assurance: Building a Resilient Data Foundation for the Enterprise

Executive Dinner

June 16, 2026 - Chicago, IL

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Michael LaRue University of Illinois Chicago
Michael LaRue

Deputy Director of Software Delivery & Data

University of Illinois Chicago

About Me

Experienced leader, technologist, innovator and collaborator. Michael leverages his previous experiences along with the talents of his team to drive successful projects using agile methodologies to meet or exceed organizational goals. Michael LaRue serves as Deputy Director of Software Delivery & Data at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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5:30 PM - 9:00 PM

From AI Ambition to AI Assurance: Building a Resilient Data Foundation for the Enterprise

As organizations race to operationalize AI, many are discovering that the greatest barrier to scale isn’t the model, it’s the architecture behind it. Sensitive data, fragmented pipelines, cloud dependency, and unpredictable infrastructure costs are creating new forms of business risk that can slow innovation, expose compliance gaps, and pull engineering talent away from strategic priorities. For CIOs, CTOs and platform leaders, the challenge is no longer simply deploying AI, it’s building an architecture capable of supporting it securely, reliably, and at scale.

Join an exclusive executive dinner for a candid peer discussion on what it takes to de-risk enterprise AI from the data layer up. Together, we’ll explore how leading organizations are rethinking data sovereignty, avoiding vendor lock-in, ensuring resilience across real-time AI pipelines, and creating predictable operating models that support long-term innovation. From governance to cost control and modernization strategy, this conversation will focus on how to build an AI-ready foundation that accelerates transformation without compromising control.


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