Private Executive Dinner & Wine Tasting

Taverna • Palo Alto, CA • Thursday, September 17, 2026 • 5:30–8:00 PM PT

Beyond the Pilot: Operationalizing Agentic AI

Join senior IT, engineering, AI, and data leaders for a candid discussion on how enterprises are hardening agentic AI in production—with durable governance, zero-trust security, AI-ready data, and cost-aware scaling.

🔒 Invitation-only. Limited seating.

Meet the panel

TBA

The Production Reality

Hardening agentic AI beyond the pilot

Agentic AI has moved past the pilot stage. Enterprise IT, engineering, AI, and data leaders are no longer asking whether to deploy autonomous agents—they are managing them in production and confronting the operational realities that follow: auditing what agents actually do, treating AI workloads as untrusted traffic on the network, retrofitting data pipelines after the fact, and understanding the true cost of running agents at scale.

This executive discussion will examine how organizations that have already deployed agentic AI are hardening their environments with real governance, zero-trust security postures, practical data controls, and cost-aware scaling as usage expands beyond initial use cases.

Discussion Topics

Operationalizing at scale

What does it take to run agentic AI as a durable production capability rather than a one-off deployment—and what breaks first as usage grows?

Governance and auditability

How are organizations tracking what an agent actually did—which actions it took, what data it touched, and why—after the fact?

Zero-trust for AI workloads

How are organizations tracking what an agent actually did—which actions it took, what data it touched, and why—after the fact?

Retrofitting data for AI

What is the practical path to cleaning up, securing, and governing enterprise data after agents are already in use?

Cost and performance visibility at scale

How are teams gaining end-to-end visibility into GPUs, tokens, orchestration, model routing, and cost per use case or agent?

Join us for an exclusive dinner and wine tasting with HPE & NVIDIA.

The Evening

Agenda

5:30 Registration and networking reception

5:50 Introductions

6:00 Welcome from HPE & NVIDIA

6:15 Guided wine tasting

6:45 First course and networking

7:10 Moderated executive discussion, Q&A, dinner, dessert, and coffee

8:00 Event concludes

What to expect

Panel Insights

Learn from the panel’s insights based on their latest data & experiences

Peer Networking

Participate in peer-to-peer learning & networking with like-minded leaders

Private Dinner & Wine Tasting

Enjoy a premium dinner and guided wine tasting in a private setting at Taverna in Palo Alto

Who Should Attend

Designed for senior leaders responsible for enterprise IT, engineering, AI, data, security, infrastructure, platform operations, and governance.

Confirmed Attendee Companies

Join senior leaders from organizations shaping the future of enterprise AI, infrastructure, cloud, and data.

CAPITAL ONE•NVIDIA•SAP•JPMORGAN CHASE•MICROSOFT•DELOITTE

More companies to be announced.

Invitation-only.
Limited seating supports a focused, high-quality discussion.

The Venue

Taverna

800 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Taverna offers a warm, contemporary setting where modern Mediterranean cuisine meets the spirit of a neighborhood gathering place. Its farm-to-table menu highlights locally sourced ingredients and the vibrant flavors of Greece, complemented by attentive service and a thoughtfully curated wine selection. With its inviting atmosphere and refined yet relaxed dining experience, Taverna provides an ideal backdrop for an executive dinner and wine tasting.

Complimentary municipal parking is available within a short walk of the restaurant.

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HPE helps organizations connect, protect, analyze, and act on data and applications from edge to cloud. Through hybrid cloud, AI, networking, and infrastructure solutions, HPE enables enterprises to modernize operations, scale AI securely, and pursue measurable business outcomes.

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NVIDIA is a full-stack accelerated computing company delivering the AI infrastructure and software that power demanding enterprise workloads from cloud to data center to factory floor. Its integrated platforms combine industry-leading GPUs, high-performance networking, and optimized software to help organizations build, deploy, and scale generative AI, digital twins, and advanced analytics with greater performance and efficiency. NVIDIA helps enterprises transform data into competitive advantage, modernize core systems, reduce total cost of ownership, and accelerate time to value.

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