MONTHLY SESSIONSETLS Enterprise AI Leadership ForumJoin 50+ enterprise AI leaders solving the same problems you are—in closed-door sessions you can't find anywhere else.Monthly sessions. Fellow technology leaders. Real case studies. Your peer circle that actually helps. Reserve Your Seats – Starting Nov 12 The ProblemThe AI landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace, yet opportunities to connect and share insights are limited. This means many professionals spend months or quarters solving the same challenges in isolation, reinventing solutions that their peers may have already discovered.We’re all grappling with elevating developer productivity with AI and how we measure it.As leaders and non-developers vibe code apps and put them into production, who will manage them?AI-assisted coding is changing the structures of development teams, but which structures deliver more value, more quickly?I’m absolutely certain that many people in our peer group are figuring out parts of the answer right now.The SolutionMonthly closed-door sessions with 50-100 enterprise AI leaders solving real problems—together.“None of us is as smart as all of us.”"This is where I learn what actually works—not theory, not hype."What You Get11 monthly sessions (Nov 2025–Sep 2026)2nd Wednesday of each month, 10am-12pm PT (subject to change, will rotate to accommodate everyone’s timezones)Each Session1 hour: 20 minute invited technology leader talk + 40 minute Q&A (Chatham House rules—candid stories, no recording)1 hour: Unconference breakouts—work on problems you pitchedAnnual Membership: $5,000/year See below for quantity discount(Compare to $4,000 for one day at Gartner Symposium.)The 1 Hour Unconference BreakoutsBring the problems keeping you up at night and self-organize with fellow travelers to work on them. For the past ten years, ETLS Forum cohorts have created position papers, experiments, and frameworks using this same model—now, we're scaling it monthly. BeforeSubmit your hardest problems. We’ll publish them so you can come prepared. DuringJoin the group tackling what matters most to you. Work together with peers facing similar challenges. AfterMany groups will likely document what they discover and present findings to the community.Past ETLS Forum cohorts have created position papers, guidance documents, videos, and case studies (view them here). Maybe you'll build the next ones!November and December Speakers9:00–10:30am PT | 2nd Wednesday each month | Nov 2025 – Sep 2026🗓️ November 12John RauserSr. Director of Software Engineering, Cisco Cloud SecurityLeaders Must Ship: What happened when we required 50 managers to ship AI features into production.John convinced his SVP to run an audacious experiment: every manager, senior manager, and director had one quarter to ship a user-facing feature into production. All fifty of them. We'll learn what they discovered, how it changed their view of tech leadership, team structures, strategy, and maybe even the future of their engineering organization. This is a live research cohort—and you'll get the results first.🗓️ December 10Dr. Topo PalVP Architecture, Fidelity InvestmentsWho Manages Vibe-Coded Apps? Meet the Junior Engineer Who VolunteeredTopo gave a fantastic presentation on vibe-coding a security governance application into production. We’ll learn and meet Swathi, who volunteered to manage his vibe-coded application in production. She also happens to be the most junior engineer on the team. They will share their experiences and the surprising things that have happened since.Potential Future Speakers — You Choose!We’ll constantly ask you to recommend and vote on topics and talks that you want to hear, and the talks with the most upvotes will be invited and scheduled.Potential SessionJason Cox (Executive Director, Global Hosting & SRE, Disney) & Stuart Pearce (Portfolio CTO, Hg)Are Specification and Delegation The New Critical Technical Skills?In his presentation, Stuart noticed that engineers thriving with agentic coding excel at three things: writing specifications, delegating execution, and jumping in for final touches. Jason independently observed that senior engineers resisting AI tools often get the same career feedback: "shows strong technical ability but needs to delegate more to advance." The provocative hypothesis: engineers struggling with AI are the same ones who need delegation coaching for career growth. If this pattern holds across our community, what does it mean for how we develop technical talent, structure teams, and define what "senior" means in an AI-augmented world?Potential SessionNathan LabenzCognitive RevolutionThe Risks We Didn't Have Time For: Why the enterprise use cases might be riskier than you thinkIn September, Nathan gave us 90 minutes of AI risks in 20 minutes, and I had to cut him off just as he was getting to the unsettling part: many of the AI failure modes he described are uncomfortably close to what enterprises are already deploying. It seems reasonable to ask a model to review proposals and pick the best one… until we find out that it may manipulate the data, choose a proposal counter to the goal, and then deny it did anything wrong. In short, as models get more powerful, these behaviors are becoming more common. Let’s discuss the risks and how to prevent, detect, and correct them.Who This Is For & How to JoinThis program is designed for technology leaders who attended Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit 2024 or 2025—and the rising stars you want to bring along. From my experience, the types of leaders who will benefit from this are those who want to create effective networks, engage with a community of trusted fellow travelers, contribute back to it, and, most importantly, apply those learnings to their own context.This is how we put the practice loop into action: Listen → Reflect → Practice → Report back. (This isn’t just about passively consuming content.)→ Bring your rising stars: "I want my rising leaders to meet people outside the company, find mentors, and import important ideas so they can solve ever-larger problems." — Sarah Miller, Senior Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace→ Budget-friendly positioning: You’ve told us how this can be positioned as Executive Education and Leadership Development, eligible for Learning and Development budgets, Individual Development Plans, or Conference line items.→ Cost perspective: $5,000/year for 11 sessions ($455 per session) — Compare to a single day at Gartner Symposium ($4,000/day) or one executive coaching session ($3,000–$5,000/day). Instead of sending one more person to a generic, annual conference, invest in 11 months of interactions with fellow leaders solving your exact problems. In this environment, none of us can wait an entire year to get these types of insights.Annual Membership & PricingIndividual SeatBest For: Solo leaders or first seat from the company$5,000/seatTeam of 2-4Best For: Bring your rising stars$3,000/seatTeam of 5+Best For: Scale across your organization$2,000/seatWhat's Included:11 monthly sessions (November 2025 → September 2026)Member-only analyst summaries & artifact library (e.g., resources, links, and Gene-authored summaries to make it easy to bring learnings to bear in your own context)Access to unconference project cohorts & peer circlesAdd Vegas Summit 2026 to any seat: +$2,000/seat ($500 discount)Budget Codes That WorkThis typically gets approved under:Conferences & EventsExecutive Education / Leadership DevelopmentAI Program / Innovation Budget (this allows us to tap large capital budgets, created to help executives figure out what and how to use AI)InvoicingAnnual billing standard; quarterly invoicing available upon request. Can split across budget codes (e.g., Conference + L&D).Guardrails & House RulesClosed-door, Chatham House: Share learnings, not secretsWe will produce anonymized summaries for members onlyThese are the same rules that we’ve used for ETLS Forum for a decade, and also used at the NYC and SF CTO Club.Next Steps Reserve Your Seat Join us November 12, 2025: John Rauser (Senior Director of Software Engineering, Cisco Cloud Security)Leaders Must Ship: What happened when we required 50 managers to ship AI features into productionWe'll send house rules, budget justification, and invoice optionsQuestions?Email Gene Kim (genek@itrevolution.com) or Marjorie Kessler (marjorie@itrevolution.com)
