GILD AI Forum: B2B Founders & CEOs
This GILD AI Forum brings together B2B tech founders and CEOs for candid conversations about building, scaling, and transforming their companies in the AI era.
This isn't a conference. It's not a panel. It's a small, curated room of leaders sharing what's actually working, what's not, and the real challenges of operating in the AI era.
Each Forum opens with a Conversation Starter, a practitioner leader sharing what their company is doing with AI, followed by open Q&A. From there, the room breaks into intimate discussions where everyone has a seat at the table. Every attendee brings their own experience. Every attendee contributes.
No pitches. No performative networking. Just senior leaders being honest about the decisions they're making, the bets they're placing, and what they wish they'd figured out sooner.
TRENDING THEMES FOR THIS SESSION
Conversations at the Forum are shaped by what leaders bring to the table. Themes likely to surface this evening include:
The ROI gap: why AI investments aren't translating into organization-wide outcomes, even when individual productivity gains are real
Moving agentic AI from pilot to production: what's actually working, where the integration and memory walls are, and who owns the hand-offs between agents
The "super user" problem: a small class of employees driving outsized AI gains while the rest of the organization drags behind
Employee resistance and quiet sabotage: how leaders are navigating cultural pushback on AI adoption without losing trust or momentum
Proving AI value to the CFO: moving past user satisfaction metrics to hard cost-and-outcome accountability
Redesigning workflows, not just jobs: the operational shift from "AI as a tool" to "AI as a new way of running the company."
Presented in partnership with Tecla, helping AI-forward companies hire elite talent across engineering, product, and growth.
THE FORMAT
GILD is intentionally small and highly curated.
This is a private, off-the-record exchange under Chatham House Rules. No panels. No pitches. No demos.
AGENDA
6:00–6:30 PM · Arrival, food and drinks
6:30–6:45 PM · GILD welcome + sponsor introduction
6:45–7:00 PM · Conversation Starter
7:00–8:00 PM · Breakout rounds
8:00–8:30 PM · Open mingling
WHO THIS IS FOR
CEOs · Founders
This session is for founders and CEOs actively building and scaling B2B tech companies.
Chatham House Rules apply. Discussion stays private.