ALIGN AI Executive Summit

ALIGN Chicago

ALIGN comes to Chicago. One day with the senior data and AI executives of the region’s largest enterprises: executive panels, roundtables and a networking reception.

Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2027
City: Chicago
Venue: To be announced
Attendees: 125 Director+

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An executive summit, close to home.

ALIGN Chicago brings together executives from the region’s largest enterprises and leading-edge solution and service providers. Sessions are built for peers: candid executive panels, focused presentations and invitation-only roundtables where leaders benchmark what is working.

Connect with enterprise data and AI executives in Chicago
Learn how to scale and govern AI responsibly
Benchmark with peers at roundtables and dinners

Highlights

An executive day, start to finish.

Intimate, invite-only networking
Network with senior decision-makers in an intimate, invite-only format.
Founder presentations
Presentations from the founders of leading-edge AI solutions.
Fortune 500 panels
Panel discussions among Fortune 500 AI and data executives.
Executive roundtables
Small-group roundtables where leaders compare notes on what is working.
Invite-only executive dinners
Private dinners for senior leaders the evening of the summit.
Matchmaking & 1:1 meetings
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings with the right people.
Exhibitor hall
An exhibitor hall of leading-edge AI solutions and services.

In the room

Moments from 2026.

2027 theme

Enterprise AI at Scale

Every 2027 AI Connect program is built around one question: what it takes to run AI across the enterprise. These are the topics on the agenda.

Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Orchestration
Context Engineering & Agent Memory
AI Observability & Evaluation
RAG, Vector Search & Knowledge Graphs
AI-Ready Data & Semantic Layers
Real-Time Data & Enterprise AI Integration
LLMOps & AI Engineering
AI-Native Software Development & Coding Agents
AI Infrastructure & Inference Optimization
AI FinOps & ROI
AI Governance, Security & Guardrails
Sovereign AI & Private AI
Multimodal AI & Voice Agents
Decision Intelligence & Predictive Analytics

How to attend

Two ways in.

Registration for ALIGN Chicago opens soon.

All-access pass

Skip the application and secure your seat at the summit of your choice. Registration includes:

All general sessions, including presentations and executive panels
An invitation to at least one executive roundtable
Breakfast, lunch and networking reception
Exhibit hall

Registration coming soon

Apply to attend for free

Free passes are highly limited and reserved for qualified attendees. You may qualify if you meet all three criteria:

Your company is not a vendor and has no sales interest in end users of AI products or services
You work at a non-vendor organization with 5,000+ employees
You hold a senior-level position (director and up)

Applications coming soon

Past speakers