Executive Dinner

From AI Hype to Engineering Reality: Scaling What Actually Works

Date

September 23, 2026

Location

San Francisco, CA

Community

CIO

Agenda

September 23, 2026
All times Pacific Time
5:30 PM-9:00 PM
From AI Hype to Engineering Reality: Scaling What Actually Works

As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, organizations are struggling to reconcile skyrocketing token costs with uneven software outcomes.

Some teams are seeing meaningful gains in velocity and output. Others are navigating fragmented tooling, growing pressure to prove impact at scale, and unclear ROI.

For engineering leaders, the challenge is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to manage the gap between tokens spent and outcomes shipped.

This private discussion brings together senior engineering leaders to examine how AI is reshaping developer workflows, platform strategy, and engineering effectiveness in real environments. The conversation will focus on how organizations are operationalizing their AI efforts to deliver consistent and measurable outcomes.

Join a curated group of peers for a candid exchange on what it takes to move from experimentation to sustained impact in AI-enabled engineering.

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