27 October 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
A Bay Area executive dinner on turning AI pilots into value
Many AI programs reach the same meeting. The pilots worked. The demos landed. Then someone asks which of them deserves next year’s budget, and nobody has a clean answer.
This evening is about getting to that answer. Coditas opens with a presentation drawn from its work on enterprise AI programs. Dinner and discussion follow, with a small group of leaders working through the same decisions.
What the evening covers:
Beyond the tools. What changes. What changes inside an organization when agents take on real work, and why it decides whether AI pays back.
The five places AI programs stall. No baseline to measure against, tools nobody uses, systems that don't connect, agents without business context, and pilots that don't add up. How to tell which one is holding yours back.
One process, rebuilt end to end. A walk-through of a single business process before and after AI, and how to measure what changed.
How to start. Begin with one process or a whole function, keep control of your infrastructure, data, models and agents, and plan a two-to-three-year program that shows first value in weeks.
The evening
Arrival and reception
Presentation: Why AI tools alone rarely move the numbers
Dinner and discussion
Co-Founder and Head of Growth | Coditas
Shirish works with enterprise leaders on AI strategy, enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps. At Coditas, he built the company’s data and AI practice from the ground up, spanning data engineering, data science and AI/ML, and later led its consulting practice. Before Coditas, he co-founded two technology companies and was a consultant at Microsoft, delivering business intelligence and analytics solutions for global clients.
Vice President, Strategic Accounts and Growth | Coditas
Thomas helps enterprise clients navigate complex digital and AI transformations. He brings more than a decade of Bay Area consulting leadership in life sciences and healthcare, most recently as Client Partner and Business Unit Head for Healthcare and Life Sciences at EPAM Systems, and before that at Sia Partners and Slalom, where he led the Healthcare and Life Sciences market in Silicon Valley.
Director of Engineering | Coditas
Neel Gala is Director of Engineering at Coditas, where he leads a team of more than 100 engineers delivering enterprise AI and data programs. His focus is moving AI out of pilots and into the systems teams use every day, starting with a governed data foundation. Before Coditas, he was a data management consultant at Kearney and worked in data science at Nielsen, and he co-founded Whizfy, an AI-powered fleet management product.
San Francisco Bay Area.
Seats are limited and confirmed by the hosts.
