Speaker Reveal Friday: Animesh Singh, Sr. Director of AI Platforms & Infrastructure @LinkedIn, joins #VBTransform 2026. 250x GPU infrastructure growth. AI platforms for 1.3B members. Founder of Liger and KServe. Inference at scale, from someone who's done it. Join him this July 14-15 in Menlo Park: bit.ly/49oTA6r

Speaker Reveal Friday: Rachad Alao, VP of Product Engineering @cohere, joins #VBTransform 2026. He's building Cohere's Agentic AI platform, after leading AI Trust & Safety at Meta and Responsible AI at Google. Agentic autonomy, with guardrails. July 14–15, Menlo Park. Join us: bit.ly/49oTA6r

Most enterprises have agentic pilots. Almost none have agentic systems. We're closing the enterprise AI adoption gap at #VBTransform on July 14–15, Menlo Park. See what we're building: bit.ly/49oTA6r

Fully driverless. No safety driver. Real city. That was Rashed Haq. Now he's VP of Autonomous Vehicles at @GM and speaking at #VBTransform 2026, the event for enterprise AI leaders who are done piloting. 📅 July 14–15 → bit.ly/49oTA6r

The best engineering leaders don't just talk about AI transformation, they've lived it. Toby Roberts has scaled cloud-native platforms at Amazon and Fortune 50 companies, led teams of 500 engineers, and driven AI enablement across product, data, fintech, and enterprise tech at Zillow. That's the kind of practitioner insight we're bringing to #VBTransform 2026. July 14–15 | Menlo Park → bit.ly/49oTA6r

What does it take to deploy AI at true scale? Ask Xavier Amatriain. As former VP of AI at Google and now Chief AI & Data Officer at Expedia Group — he's led the teams building platforms that power Gemini, Search, Cloud, and Ads. He's not theorizing about enterprise AI. He's been doing it for 20 years. Catch him at #VBTransform 2026 → July 14–15 | Menlo Park, CA Register here: bit.ly/49oTA6r

Most enterprise AI agents are vibing in staging. The ones in production built the orchestration layer themselves, and learned what "agent failure in prod" means at 2am. That's the conversation at VB Transform 2026. Real case studies. No fluff. July 14–15 | Menlo Park bit.ly/49oTA6r #AgenticAI #VBTransform

Deciding on AI models is as much a technical decision and it is a strategic one. My latest @VentureBeat story from #VBTransform dives into how AI leaders at @GM, @Zoom & @IBM are approaching model architecture — and factors like cost, performance, trust & safety. Link in 🧵.

ICYMI: here’s my @VentureBeat story from last week’s #VBtransform event. One of the shifts in thinking needed for AI agents is understanding the outcome-based nature. @may_habib also noted the benefits of building blueprints for agents that instruct them with business logic.

ICYMI: My latest freelance story for @VentureBeat about this week’s #VBTransform event.

During her talk at #VBTransform, @may_habib said AI agents are “categorically different” in how they’re built, operate and improve. My latest @VentureBeat story looks at @Get_Writer takes a different approach to building adaptive systems than traditional software. (Link in🧵)

Last but not least! At our Innovation Showcase, seven cutting-edge companies took the stage to present AI products poised to disrupt the enterprise—each vying for awards in Most Likely to Succeed, Coolest Technology, and Best Presentation Style. Congratulations to the winners: - Coolest tech @catio - Presented by Boris Bogatin, Founder, and Adam Kirsh Head of Product - Best presentation @CTGTIn - Presented by Cyril Gorlla, Founder - Most likely to succeed solo.io - Presented by Keith Babo Chief Product Officer It was a powerful glimpse into the next generation of AI-driven innovation—and a reminder that the future of enterprise transformation is already being built. #VBTransform #AIInnovation #Startups #EnterpriseAI #VC #PitchCompetition #InnovationShowcase #DisruptiveTech #FutureOfAI #GenAI #AIStartups

At VentureBeat #Transform we celebrate brilliance, leadership, and the future of AI. At the 7th Annual #WomeninAIAwards, we honored the trailblazers, researchers, mentors, entrepreneurs, and rising stars who are not only advancing the field—but making it more equitable, ethical, and inclusive for all. Since 2019, VentureBeat has proudly recognized women who are transforming the AI landscape. From cutting-edge breakthroughs to unwavering mentorship, these women are shaping what AI can be—and who it can serve. A heartfelt congratulations to this year’s winners! AI Entrepreneur: Natalya Lopareva, CEO and Founder, @algorized AI Research: Lindsay Richman, CEO, Innerverse Inc Responsibility & Ethics of AI: Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer, @Cloudflare AI Mentorship: Suruchi Shah, Engineering Manager, Model Serving Team, @LinkedIn Rising Star: Arina Curtis, CEO, DataGPT And to all the nominees as well! venturebeat.com/ai/announcin… The future of AI is brighter because of your work. #VBTransform #WomenInAI #AILeadership #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch #InclusionInTech #AICommunity #WomenInTech #GenAI #AIawards

In another story about @VentureBeat's #VBTransform, I wrote about what experts from @BCG, @Microsoft, and @BankofAmerica said about why enterprises should prioritize AI-ready data, governance and planning for longer term issues like model drift. Link to the story in the thread!

New byline alert: I just wrote my first freelance story for @VentureBeat! First up: My story about @Replit CEO and Co-founder @amasad, who spoke yesterday at #VBTransform about his vision for vibecoding, AI agents and what sets Replit apart.

Great customer experiences don’t just happen—they’re engineered with the right AI infrastructure. In “Engineering Autonomous AI Agents,” leaders from across the AI stack came together to unpack how to move from assistive AI to truly autonomous agents: - Shawn Malhotra, CTO at Rocket Companies - Shailesh Nalawadi, Head of Product at @SendBird - Thys Waanders SVP of AI Transformation at @cognigy - Moderated by Joanne Chen, General Partner at Foundation Capital This powerhouse panel broke down: ✔️ The infra leap needed for autonomy—from orchestration layers to API flexibility ✔️ How to architect agents that are context-aware, real-time, and user-trusted ✔️ Where companies are seeing impact—from faster resolution times to richer, more human-like interactions The shift from copilots to fully autonomous agents starts here— with infrastructure built for scale, speed, and experience. #VBTransform #AgenticAI #CustomerExperience #AIInfrastructure #RocketCompanies #Sendbird #Cognigy #EnterpriseAI #AIEngineering #AIAutonomy