The Velocity Room Signal Series

Real conversations with the technologists building what's next in AI. 

A free, in-person event for technologists, builders and engineers exploring what's next in AI infrastructure and security.

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November 5, 2026

SPIN San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

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About the event

The future of AI infrastructure & security is built here.

The TVR Signal Series brings together leaders, builders and practitioners for candid conversations about what's next in AI. This intimate, in-person event is designed for real connection, practical insights and fresh perspectives you won't hear anywhere else.

Candid Conversations

Unfiltered insights from industry leaders and builders.

Meaningful Connections

An intimate setting with peers and experts.

Actionable Ideas

Leave with new perspectives you can put to work.

Featured speakers

Industry leaders. Real perspectives.

Five expert voices sharing practical insights and real-world experiences shaping the future of AI infrastructure, security and innovation.
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Christine Boles

Founder, MC Consulting Services
Former VP & GM, Intel

Christine Boles spent 33 years at Intel, rising from product and application engineer to Vice President and General Manager of Federal and Industrial Solutions in the Edge Computing Group, where she led a major division delivering edge, AI, and infrastructure solutions. Her work spans business unit leadership, product and program management, and ecosystem development, across markets including industrial manufacturing, utilities, retail, and networking. Today she advises tech executives on turning strategy into action through her firm, MC Consulting Services, and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Arizona Technology Council.

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Tom Edwards

Americas Consumer AI Leader
EY

Tom serves as a Generative AI leader within EY, with a wealth of experience that covers various C-Suite positions such as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer. His multifaceted background uniquely qualifies him to provide insights that connect the dots in the realms of digital and data transformation, AI, and innovation. Today Tom is helping Fortune 10 companies define their AI strategy and how to scale generative AI.

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Cal Al-Dhubaib

Principal Technologist
Rubrik

Cal Al-Dhubaib is a data scientist and entrepreneur who founded and scaled Pandata, an AI design and development firm focused on responsible AI for heavily regulated industries like healthcare, energy, and financial services, until its acquisition by Further in 2024. That experience led him to develop Trust Engineering for AI, a framework that shifts the focus from controls alone to rebalancing human-AI interaction to reduce risk. His insights carry weight because they come from the unglamorous middle ground of AI work, not the model itself, but everything around it: orchestration, observability, and the human judgment that decides whether an AI system can actually be trusted in production.

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Joseph Bisaccia

Lead AI Engineer
Behavior Frontiers (BFHQ)

Joseph Bisaccia builds secure, governed AI systems that teams actually adopt. As Lead AI Engineer at Behavior Frontiers, he's standing up the AI function for a national behavioral health organization, where every deployment has to hold up under HIPAA and prove its value with real data. His work spans production LLM systems, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and LLM evaluation. His background in education means he knows how to turn complex technical systems into tools people understand and trust.

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Zane Niyazbekov

Infrastructure Supply Development Manager
AWS

Zane Niyazbekov is an Infrastructure Supply Development Manager at AWS, working on data center capacity planning and business development for AWS's global infrastructure.

Thursday, November 5

Agenda.
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9:45 – 10:15

Arrival & Networking

10:15 – 11:15

Opening Session

Defining AI Strategy: Enterprise scale-up angle - What it actually takes to scale out agentic and generative AI across the enterprise.

Tom Edwards, EY

11:15 – 11:45

Fireside chat

Land, Power, Water: How Hyperscale Data Centers Actually Get Built

Building a hyperscale data center is a logistics problem first. Substations, transmission lines, water rights, steel lead times, and permitting can make or break a multi-billion-dollar build. This fireside chat digs into what it actually takes to get one online, and how hyperscalers are moving faster than ever to keep up with GPU demand.

 

Zane Niyazbekov, Infrastructure Supply Development Manager, AWS

11:45 – 12:30

Networking Lunch: Shape the Closing AMA

During lunch, you'll have the opportunity to share and rank your top questions about what's most critical to the future of AI infrastructure. We'll bring the community's questions back to the stage for the final AMA, giving you a direct role in shaping the closing panel discussion.

12:30 – 1:15

Security Session

Details coming soon

1:15 – 2:00

Fireside chat

Transforming Industrial Infrastructure for Edge Compute and Physical AI

An engaging fireside chat on the industry needs, trends, and challenges, illustrating how companies need to address and are using edge compute and AI in real-world applications in the industrial and energy sector.

Christine Boles, Founder, MC Consulting Services

2:00 – 2:45

Community Case Study

What worked, what broke, and what we would change. Hear directly from a TVR member about the wins and challenges for deploying AI in healthcare. 

Joseph Bisaccia, Lead AI Engineer, Behavior Frontiers (BFHQ)

2:45 – 3:00

Break

3:00 – 3:45

Preventing AI Systems From Turning Into Autonomous Insiders

What worked, what broke, and what we would change

Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist, Rubrik

3:45 – 4:15

Community AMA

Ask Me Anything with Technical Leaders: Open Q&A on AI infrastructure roadmaps and best practices

Facilitator: Tom Edwards, EY

4:15 – 5:00

Closing & Happy Hour – Networking
 
Venue

SPIN San Francisco

690 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA

Join us at SPIN San Francisco for an evening of conversation, connection and a little friendly competition. Known for its upscale, social atmosphere, SPIN offers the perfect backdrop for bringing together the TVR community.

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