Virtual Summit 2025 Agenda

9:02AM
Opening Keynote
9:02 AM - 9:40 AM PST

Opening Keynote: Agent-First Organizations: Trust as the Ultimate Growth Engine

Join Jeetu Patel, President of Cisco, for an insider's view on how the world's largest enterprises are restructuring around AI agents—and why embedding trust at every level creates unstoppable competitive advantage. Patel will share Cisco's playbook for building organizations where autonomous systems amplify human genius rather than replace it, revealing metrics that show trusted AI agents delivering 10x productivity gains. Discover why companies that architects trust into their foundation will dominate those still treating it as an add-on feature.

Jeetu Patel
President and Chief Product Officer
Cisco
Navrina Singh
Founder and CEO
Credo AI
9:40 AM
Panel 1
9:40 AM - 10:15 AM PST

Securing the Frontier: Governance at Hyperscale

Learn how hyperscalers and leading frontier AI labs are balancing innovation with security, transparency, and trust—from open models to sovereign clouds as we go from generative AI , to agentic AI.

Mehrnoosh Sameki
Generative AI Evaluation and Governance Product Lead
Microsoft
Alice Friend
Global Head of AI & Emerging Tech Policy
Google
Chloé Bakalar
Member of Technical Staff
Open AI
Mark Sullivan
Senior Writer
Fast Company
10:15 AM
Panel 2
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM PST

Beyond the Leaderboard & AI Evaluations: Rebuilding Trust in Frontier AI’s Stack and Standards

In this session, leading researchers and critical practitioners unpack why current evaluation metrics are increasingly inadequate—and what a new generation of governance-aware, context-specific benchmarks could look like. The next wave of AI leadership won’t be defined by who tops the leaderboard—it will be defined by who aligns best with the world they aim to serve.

John Dickerson
CEO
Mozilla.ai
Sara Hooker
Head of Cohere Labs
Cohere
Heather Gentile
Executive Director watsonx.governance, Data and AI
IBM
Susannah Shattuck
Head of Product
Credo AI
10:40 AM
Panel 3
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM PST

Agents at Work: Power, Autonomy, and Alignment

The age of AI agents is here. Discover how enterprises are deploying autonomous systems—and why agentic AI needs governance to get the ROI.

Sunil Agrawal
Chief Information Security Officer
Glean
Sean White
CEO
Inflection AI
Eric Freeman
Chief Information Security Officer
WRITER
George Hammond
Reporter
Financial Times
11:10 AM
Panel 4
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PST

The Workforce Revolutions: Humans, Agents, and the New Talent Wars critical for AI Trust

In a future where AI agents will work alongside us—or instead of us—the real competitive edge will be knowing how to collaborate. This session explores the next workforce revolution: what human-agent teaming means for productivity, purpose, and power, and why the AI talent war will be about aligning skills, systems, and sovereignty in a world where intelligence is everywhere.

Francine Katsoudas
Executive Vice President and Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer
Cisco
Taylor Stockton
Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of Labor
Navrina Singh
Founder and CEO
Credo AI
11:40 AM
Panel 5
11:40 AM- 12:10 PM PST

Commanding the future: ROI of trusted AI

Explore how leading enterprises are achieving exponential ROI through embedded governance, customer loyalty, and first-mover advantage in AI transformation.

David Stevens
Global Lead for RAI
PepsiCo
Kent Sokoloff
Senior Data Architect for RAI
Former Chevron
Andrew Reiskind
Chief Data Officer
Mastercard
Dr. Heather Domin
Vice President and Head of Office of Responsible AI and Governance
HCLTech
Michal Lev Ram
Journalist at Fortune/CNBC
Fortune, CNBC
12:10 PM
Panel 6
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM

Bridging the Gap: Standards for a Unified AI Future

With the U.S. and E.U. forging divergent AI strategies, this panel will explore how to align technical standards to build a unified and resilient future for global AI governance.

Wael Diab
Chairman
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
Avani Desai
CEO
Schellman Compliance, LLC
Ashley Casovan
Managing Director
IAPP
12:40 PM
Panel 7
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM PST

The Trust Unlock: Uniting Cross functional teams in AI, Legal, Security, and Innovation Around AI

In this breakthrough session, leaders who've successfully united these warring factions share their battle-tested playbooks for creating cross-functional AI governance that actually accelerates deployment. Learn the "alliance model" that transforms governance from a blocker into a growth multiplier, including real frameworks for turning your biggest skeptics into your strongest champions.

Brendan Kelleher
Chief Compliance Officer at Softbank Group International
Softbank Group International
Christina Montgomery
Chief Privacy and Trust Officer
GM
Roger Roberts
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Parth Patel
Global Head of AI and Data Science
Madrigal
Mike Rogers
Head of Revenue and GTM
Credo AI
1:10 PM
Panel 8
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM PST

U.S. Competitiveness: How Trusted AI Becomes Your Strategic Advantage

In this session, senior leaders explore why trust is paramount to sustaining America’s competitive edge in AI. They’ll discuss how embedding trust into AI adoption accelerates innovation, strengthens national security, and ensures U.S. leadership in the global AI race. Focus: How government initiatives create market opportunities.

John Larson
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
Booz Allen Hamilton
Joseph Larson
VP, Head of Government
Open AI
Carl Hahn
Former CECO Northrop Grumman. Co-Founder, Gentic Global Advisors.
Gentic Global Advisors.
Megan Morrone
Tech Editor
Axios
1:40 PM
Fireside 1
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM PST

America's AI Trust Advantage: What the White House Plan Means for Your Enterprise

This fireside chat unpacks the goals of the AI Action Plan and the current administration’s vision to establish American AI leadership. Dean Ball, a co-author of the AI Action plan will speak to the implications for AI evaluation, security, and governance – and how the plan highlights trust as a critical element of winning the AI race. The views expressed in this video are solely the speaker’s and not reflective of Credo AI.

Dean Ball
AI Action Plan Author
Foundation for
American Innovation
Akanksha Ray
AI Policy Expert
Credo AI
2:10 PM
Fireside 2
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM PST

Building Trustworthy Models at Anthropic

What can enterprise leaders learn from one of the world's most safety-focused AI company? This discussion shares hard-won insights around building robust AI governance frameworks that scale from research labs to enterprise deployments. Hear how Anthropic is building an organizational culture that prioritizes responsible AI development while maintaining innovation velocity.

Dave Orr
Head of Safeguards
Anthropic
Susannah Shattuck
Head of Product
Credo AI
2:40 PM
Closing Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM PST

Agents of Trust: Your Charter for the Future We're Building Together

You arrived asking IF you could trust AI agents. You leave knowing HOW to build that trust. Credo AI CEO Navrina Singh transforms today's insights into tomorrow's action plan, unveiling practical frameworks that turn every executive into an agent of trust within their organization. This isn't theory—it's the roadmap from someone who's built her company solving the exact challenges you face daily.

Navrina Singh
Founder and CEO
Credo AI
Tara Jana (TJ)
Head of Marketing
Credo AI