Keynotes, General Sessions & Panels, AI Enterprise Architecture

AI Enterprise Architecture Live! Panel Discussion: From Pilots to Platforms - The Architecture Decisions That Make AI Work

11/19/2026

11:00am - 12:00pm

Level: Intermediate

Tony Champion

President

Champion DS

Jocelynn Hartwig

Director, AI Solution Engineering

Microsoft

Samantha St-Louis

VP of Ai App Innovations

Atmosera

AI pilots are easy to start and hard to scale. Moving from experimentation to enterprise value requires more than choosing a model or wiring up a chatbot — it demands architecture decisions that connect business strategy, data trust, governance, integration, security, cost, ethics, and operational reality.

In this panel discussion, Rockford Lhotka moderates a conversation with Tony Champion, Jocelynn Hartwig, Samantha St-Louis, and Sarah Wimberley on what it really takes to build AI-enabled enterprises. The panelists will compare perspectives from cloud architecture, enterprise platforms, agentic AI, governance, and ethical risk, focusing on the trade-offs architects face when AI moves from prototype to production. Expect practical discussion, productive disagreement, and guidance you can apply when designing scalable, secure, and sustainable AI architectures.