Dive Into the Agentic AI Revolution at UT Austin
Free Online Event, Nov. 13-14, 2025
We’re thrilled to invite you to the 2025 Agentic AI Summit hosted by UT Austin’s Texas Global and the McCombs Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies. This year's conference spotlights Agentic AI — systems that think, act, and learn autonomously — ushering in a new age of strategic, real-world artificial intelligence.
Why Attend?
- Hear from visionaries shaping Agentic AI, including academic thinkers, enterprise leaders, and policy advocates.
- Engage in hands‑on workshops focused on implementing autonomous AI systems components — memory, dynamic planning, orchestration, and multi-agent architectures.
- Explore applications transforming industries — from cyber resilience and operational automation to personalized services and intelligent decision-making.
- Navigate the challenge of autonomy with responsibility — discussions will tackle essential issues such as ethical governance, accountability, and legal frameworks in the age of independent AI.
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© 2025 McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
2025 GLOBAL ANALYTICS SUMMIT
AGENTIC AI:
November 13-14, 2025 / Online
This is a free virtual conference.
All registrants will receive a program following the event.
SYSTEMS THAT THINK,
ACT, AND LEARN
Nov. 13-14, 2025
Free Online Event | Confirmation Sent Upon Registration
AGENTIC AI:
SYSTEMS THAT THINK, ACT,
AND LEARN
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Faculty, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty, Department of Finance
Principal Advisor, Informatica
Founder and CEO, Wisary, Inc.
Software Development Engineer, AWS
Co-creator of Project Jupyter and the Jupyter Notebook; Sr. Principal Technologist, AWS
Best-selling author of Mastering Tableau; Founder, Giddy Up Data
Associate Dean for Research, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
Principal Advisor, Informatica Inc.
Software Development Engineer, AWS
Founder, PathPilot
Faculty (IROM) and Faculty Director (CATT), UT Austin
Principal AI Researcher, Intuit Corp.
Sr. Software Engineer, AWS
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co.
Dean, McCombs School of Business
Software Development Engineer, AWS
Visiting Fellow, Imperial College Business School
Faculty (Finance) and Managing Director (CATT), UT Austin
Principal Software Development Engineer, AWS; Jupyter Distinguished Contributor
Finance Systems Transformation, Alphabet (Google) Inc.
SVP Data Science, TransUnion LLC
Co-founder at Sphinx; ex-AI/ML Leader at Citadel
Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University; Amazon Scholar, AWS
Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies Corp.
VP, AI and Data, Applied Materials, Inc.
SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
All Times Listed US Central
AGENDA
DAY 1 / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Pre Conference Workshop: AI and Agents
Kumar Muthuraman, Faculty (IROM) and Faculty Driector (CATT), UT Austin
12:45 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Welcome Remarks (Day 1)
Michael Sury, Faculty (Finance) and Managing Director (CATT), UT Austin
Lillian Mills, Dean, McCombs School of Business
1:00 p.m.–1:50 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: SmartMCP: Data-Driven Rule Learning and Description Optimization for Tool-Use Agents
Kamalika Das, Principal AI Researcher, Intuit Corp.
1:50 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
BREAK
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Panel/Workshop: Jupyter and AI: New Features and Implementation Paradigms
Sanjiv Das, Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University; Amazon Scholar, AWS
Brian Granger, Co-creator of Project Jupyter and the Jupyter Notebook; Sr. Principal Technologist, AWS
Piyush Jain, Principal Software Development Engineer, AWS; Jupyter Distinguished Contributor
Jonathan Guinegagne, Sr. Software Engineer, AWS
David Qiu, Software Development Engineer, AWS
Andrii Ieroshenko, Software Development Engineer, AWS
Michael Chin, Software Development Engineer, AWS
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
BREAK
3:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Panel: The Future of Agentic AI in the Enterprise
Moderator:
Panelists:
Michael Sury, Faculty (Finance), UT Austin
Victor D'Souza, VP, AI and Data, Applied Materials, Inc.
Saurabh Jha, Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies Corp.
Puneet Thakkar, Finance Systems Transformation, Alphabet (Google) Inc.
4:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Talk: Learning What Actions Do: Induction and Planning in Agent
Driven Automation
Robert Stratton, SVP Data Science, TransUnion LLC
DAY 2 / FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Welcome Remarks (Day 2)
David Harrison, Associate Dean for Research, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Agentic AI: A Business Revolution or (an expensive) Bust
Jeff Hart, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co.
10:00 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Panel: Vibe Coding: Risk, Reward, and Responsible Design
Moderator:
David Hendrawirawan, Principal Advisor, Informatica Inc
Panelists:
David Baldwin, Best-selling author of Mastering Tableau; Founder, Giddy Up Data
Feridoon "Doon" Malekzadeh, Founder, PathPilot
Michael Schrage, Visiting Fellow, Imperial College Business School
Ala Stolpnik, Founder and CEO, Wisary, Inc.
11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
BREAK
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Presentation: Optimal Representations of Data for AI
Rohan Kodialam, Co-founder at Sphinx; ex-AI/ML Leader at Citadel