FALL 2025

AI Symposium II Boulder, Colorado October 14, 2025

Private, peer-to-peer sharing -- what's working, what's not

Fall 2025 Cross-Industry AI Symposium

Exclusive, Confidential, & Actionable.

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What makes this event different?

Participants represent each layer of the GenAI tech stack

This second AI Symposium — IterateOn: Boulder — is all about action (just like the first Symposium in Silicon Valley). After hearing from top AI leaders, you’ll dive into real-world successes, tackle industry challenges, and leave with insights you can immediately apply.

With executives from retail, finance, telecom, and beyond—plus experts across the AI stack—we break down silos to drive real innovation. This isn’t just another event; it’s where strategy meets execution.

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October 2025 Agenda

The second IterateOn Cross-Industry AI Symposium is dedicated to peer-to-peer information sharing, all about AI. It’s designed to spark insights, accelerate action, and build connections across industries.

The Symposium includes:

Quick-hitting Trend Talks to stretch your thinking
Rapid-fire demos of AI solutions that are already successfully driving results
Networking, conversations, cocktails, and food

This is the first in a continuing series of invite-only Symposiums, shaped by and for the participants.

OPtional Pre-Event

Oct 13th

Explore Colorado’s quantum frontier—where Nobel minds, AI innovation, and startup energy converge in the Rockies.

1:30pm — 5:00pm

Quantum + AI Tour: Field Trip into the Future

Location: Boulder & Broomfield

Arriving Early? Join Us for a Quantum Innovation Tour

If you're coming to Boulder a half-day early, don’t miss our exclusive tour of America’s most concentrated quantum innovation cluster—Boulder and Colorado's Front Range.

Boulder is the nation's quantum hub, home to a rare fusion of Nobel-level science, pioneering startups, and federal labs. CU Boulder anchors the ecosystem with cutting-edge research in quantum computing and sensing, supported by national institutes and a new wave of venture-backed companies.

Let’s pause on this: Five Nobel Laureates—four in physics—call CU Boulder home. That level of intellectual firepower is almost unheard of, especially in a frontier field like quantum.

Colorado is also a top-tier tech economy, with the third-highest concentration of tech workers per capita in the U.S. Boulder’s startup scene is powered by organizations like Techstars and companies such as Zayo and Level 3. Innovation runs deep here.

And it’s beautiful, too. Mid-September to mid-October is peak Boulder—golden aspens, cool air, and the Flatirons glowing against crystal clear blue skies. Chautauqua trails, outdoor festivals, and a thriving farmers’ market make it the perfect long weekend destination.

On our tour, we plan visit a few leading quantum startups and labs that are pioneering the convergence of quantum computing and AI. Potential stops include:

Atom Computing – $100M+ investment into cold atom quantum hardware
Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta) – Leaders in quantum networking and sensing
Quantinuum – Born from Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum
Oxford Ionics – Newly expanded to Boulder from the UK
CU Boulder Quantum Labs – Home to four Nobel Laureates and deep NIST collaboration

Topics:

How AI and quantum will intersect over the next 3–5 year
What’s real (and what’s hype) in Quantum Machine Learning (QML)
Recent breakthroughs and timelines for scaled quantum
How policy and public funding are shaping Colorado’s quantum corridor

This is a rare peek inside a globally important science and tech ecosystem.

Let us know by replying to quantum@iterate.ai if you'd like to join the tour—so we can get a headcount reserve your spot. The final agenda for this peek into Quantum will be completed mid-summer.

5:00pm — 6:30pm

Welcome Reception

Location: Redgarden Lower Terrace, St Julien Hotel & Spa

Enjoy light fare, mountain air, and meaningful conversations.

"If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near."

— Jack Welch

A Full Day of Events

Oct 14th

Discover how enterprises are rewiring for AI—from agentic systems and robotaxis to GenAI demos and IP strategy, all in one high-impact day.

7:30am — 8:00am

Continental Breakfast

Location: Ballroom Pre-Function, St Julien Hotel & Spa

8:00am — 8:05am

Welcome

Jon Nordmark (co-founder and CEO, Iterate.ai)

8:05am — 9:40am

Trend Talks: Shaping Tomorrow’s Enterprise Today

Fresh ideas and bold perspectives on how AI, innovation, and human creativity are reshaping the modern enterprise.

When Companies Learn: Building Living, Breathing, Evolving Organizations
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Chris Byrne, JD, Former VP & IP Attorney — ex-Samsung‍
The Coming Convergence: When Agentic AI Meets Humanoids

Nikolaus Correll, Ph.D., Founder, Professor — Golem & University of Colorado‍‍
The Next Leap in AI: From Digital to Physical Processors by Leveraging Vision AI Agents
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John Selvaduria, Ph.D., Vice President of R&D — Iterate.ai‍
Private AI: The Infrastructure That Thinks (and Never Forgets)
‍Brian Sathianathan, Co-Founder, CTO & CAIO — Iterate.ai‍
Demo Kickoff: Secure by Design — Building Tech with Agentic Code
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Magnus Tagtström, Corporate VP, AI Transformations — Iterate.aiTed Shelton, Senior Partner — Infinite Future
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A Practical Guide to Thriving in a Post-AI World
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Ted Shelton, Senior Partner — Infinite Future
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9:40am — 10:00am

Founder Mindset: Innovation at Human Speed Demos

Two rapid-fire talks on creativity, adaptability, and the founder’s approach to thriving in the AI era.

Can Big Companies Think Like Founders? Testing the DNA of Enterprise Innovators
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Jonathan Greechan, CEO & General Partner — Founder Institute / Founder Capital
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How I Taught AI to Run My Five Jobs (and Still Show Up Human)
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Randy Kohn, President — AppBrew, Adventure Mind; former Attentive & Many

10:00am — 10:15am

Break

10:15am — 12:10pm

Morning AI Demos: From Research to Reality

Live showcases of AI in action—where research, real-world use cases, and next-gen tech converge.
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AI vs. Adversaries: Reinventing Threat Intelligence for a Faster World
‍Jai Desai, Co-Founder — RIGOR
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Inside Toyota’s Lab: GenAI Meets High-Performance Computing
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Tom Burggraf, Head of Product, AWS Batch, Enabling AI & HPC — AWS
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The $17.4M Agent: How AI Uncovered and Uncovers Lost Revenue in Healthcare
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Dr. F.X. Campion, MD, FACP, Atrius Health
Jeff Wennberg, Co-Founder — HFDS
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The Untapped 95%: Unlocking Hidden Enterprise Intelligence
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Keola Wong, Client Executive — NetApp
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Privacy First, Progress Always: The New AI Imperative
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Ruban Kanapathipillai, SVP, Racklive
Vish Panchal, Product Manager — ASA Computers
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From Shadow to Strategy: Turning Hidden AI Into Competitive Advantage
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Joe Boggio, VP, Strategy — Portal26
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AI Gotchas: The Hidden Pitfalls That Can Break Your Deployment
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Robert Taylor, JD, Partner — Carstens, Allen & Gourley LLP
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Legislative Update: What’s on the minds of our federal and state representatives as they work to set up AI laws?
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Senator Mark Baisley, Senator & Gubernatorial Candidate — State of Colorado
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Inference at Scale: Making AI Smarter, Faster, Cheaper
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Chris Tobias, SVP — Intel
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Results: Agentic coding while meeting security needs
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Magnus Tagtström, CVP — Iterate.ai

12:10pm — 12:45pm

Lunch Buffet

Location: Ballroom Pre-Function, St Julien Hotel & Spa

"Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed, processed, broken down, and analyzed for it to have value."

— Clive Humby, British mathematician and architect of the Tesco Clubcard, 2006

12:45pm — 1:30pm

Panel Discussion: Model Mayhem — Navigating the Rapid Evolution of AI and Language Models in the Enterprise

A candid conversation on how leaders are adapting to an era where AI models evolve faster than enterprise strategy.
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From foundation models to fine-tuning at scale, the pace of AI innovation is rewriting enterprise playbooks in real time. This discussion brings together pioneers building and deploying next-generation models to share how they balance experimentation, governance, and results in a rapidly shifting landscape.
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Moderator:
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Brian Sathianathan — Co-Founder, CTO & CAIO, Iterate.ai
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Panelists:
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Sean Varley — SVP, Strategy, Ampere
David Hanhim Chang — CEO, Enzer AI
Sawyer Birnbaum — Chief of Staff, Inception
Vamsi Sistala — Founder & CEO, Symbolic Mind
Alex Panait — SVP, Strategy, Lazarus

1:30pm — 2:55

Afternoon AI Demos: Intelligence in Motion

Live demos from innovators redefining how AI performs, collaborates, and connects in the real world.
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The afternoon demo series showcases the next wave of applied intelligence—from runtime breakthroughs and multimodal sensors to AI at the edge and inter-agent collaboration. These presenters reveal how AI is accelerating retail, healthcare, agriculture, and beyond—making AI at Checkout Speed: Optimizing Runtime & Dramatically Reducing LLM Costs in Retail (and Elsewhere)‍

Brian Sathianathan, Co-Founder, CTO & CAIO — Iterate.ai Magnus Tagtström, Corporate VP — Iterate.ai
Use Case: Retailer 1U, Retailer 2Y

How Iterate.ai’s low-latency runtime and lightweight model orchestration are cutting AI inference costs while supercharging customer experiences at the point of sale.

When Sensors Speak and the AI Responds: How AI Reads and Delivers Responses in the Physical World

Ganesh Harinath, Co-Founder & CEO — Futuriai
Chris Seahorn, Co-Founder, CMO & SVP of Marketing — Boundless / Gardyn / Naked Wines / eBags
Use Case: Winery, Formula 1, Fashion Brand, Gardyn

See how multimodal sensor data and intelligent response systems are bridging the digital and physical worlds to make environments more adaptive and responsive.

Beyond Productivity: When AI Becomes the Product (and the Edge)

Janine Ellenberger, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer — Behavidence

‍AI is no longer just powering productivity—it is the product. Explore how edge AI is reshaping human wellness and user experience design.

AI and a Phone = Behavior: Reading Human Patterns Through Everyday Devices

Jake Alme, Head of Digital Health — Sage Therapeutics

‍Discover how behavioral AI models can detect, interpret, and respond to human patterns in real time—turning smartphones into health-sensing instruments.

Agent to Agent: The Dawn of Company-to-Company AI Collaboration
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Kevin Homer, VP — FUJIFILM / Iterate.ai
Shomron Jacob, Head of AI — FUJIFILM / Iterate.ai
Use Case: Undisclosed Brand
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One agent creates an RFP. Another evaluates every response. Watch how agentic collaboration is redefining how enterprises communicate, negotiate, and execute.

Democratizing AI and the OpenAg Framework

Richard Lackey, CEO — World Food Bank
‍Use Case: Africa

Learn how AI is being deployed to tackle agricultural efficiency, food security, and equitable access to data-driven insights in developing markets.

Edge Intelligence: How LLMs Are Powering Menus, Machines, and Mobile Moments
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Sam Hall, Business Development — Qualcomm
Brian Sathianathan, Co-Founder, CTO & CAIO — Iterate.ai
Use Case: Toast, Elo, Square+
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A look at how on-device LLMs and multimodal intelligence are transforming everyday interactions—from digital menus to embedded machines—at the true edge of AI.

3:00pm — 5:00pm

Networking Reception

Location: T-Zero Lounge, St Julien Hotel & Spa

Conclude the day with drinks and networking in the T-Zero Lounge, fostering connections and discussions sparked throughout the symposium.

IterateOn!

"Every company is going to become an AI company. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of how quickly."

— Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud

Stay at the Heart of Boulder’s Action

The AI Symposium will be held at the St Julien Hotel & Spa—Boulder’s premier destination for luxury, location, and local charm. Make the most of your experience by staying onsite. A limited number of rooms are available at a special group rate of $209 per night, so we encourage you to book early before they’re gone. Rooms can be reserved starting the week of June 2.

For those flying in or visiting from out of town, it doesn’t get more convenient—or more Boulder. The St Julien is just one block from the iconic Pearl Street Mall, a pedestrian promenade lined with over 200 shops, galleries, and restaurants. Known for its vibrant street performers, public art, and mountain-town energy, Pearl Street offers a walkable, immersive slice of Boulder’s progressive and outdoor-loving culture.

Step out of your room and into the soul of the city.

Unbeatable Location: Nature + Culture at Your Door

St Julien sits at the crossroads of everything Boulder. In addition to Pearl Street, you’ll find:

Boulder Creek Path and hiking trails just across the street
Stunning views of the Flatiron Mountains from many rooms
Complimentary cruiser bikes to explore the city like a local

Nationally Recognized for Excellence

St Julien Hotel & Spa is one of Colorado’s most celebrated hotels, earning awards that place it in elite company:

Forbes Four-Star Award Winner — a distinction held by fewer than 15% of hotels evaluated worldwide
AAA Four Diamond Rating — awarded to just 6% of hotels assessed by AAA across North America
Frequently featured in Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and U.S. News & World Report as a top Colorado destination

St Julien Hotel & Spa
900 Walnut St. Boulder, CO. 80302

Special group rates will be available in June. We'll notify you if you're on the Waitlist.

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