{"id":28823,"date":"2026-08-20T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insightpartners.com\/?p=28823"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:00:03","slug":"scaleupai-2026-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightpartners.com\/ideas\/scaleupai-2026-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Only possible with AI: The discussions and topics shaping the ScaleUp:AI 2026 agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;[&#8230;] In 2026, a new kind of intelligence is being willed into the world by a remarkably small number of people. Each of them is driven by a particular mix of curiosity and hubris, vanity and avarice, idealism and craving, and the sobering reality is that, for better or worse, the quality of their characters will affect society.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/\">ScaleUp:AI 2026<\/a> speaker, Sebastian Mallaby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, ScaleUp:AI keynote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emollick\/\">Ethan Mollick<\/a> discussed<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yka2S-yTX70\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the jagged frontier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 the uneven, surprising edges of what AI could and couldn&#8217;t accomplish. This conversation has shifted considerably in the last year. AI performance on coding benchmarks<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/neuralcoretech.com\/stanford-ai-index-2026-key-findings\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rose from 60% to near 100%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, frontier models<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starkinsider.com\/2026\/04\/stanford-2026-ai-index-report.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gained 30 percentage points on Ph.D.-level reasoning tests<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Google&#8217;s Gemini<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/neuralcoretech.com\/stanford-ai-index-2026-key-findings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soon be better than humans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at nearly every task. Whether you&#8217;re pursuing the development of AI for profit, for research, or for practical reasons, the trajectory is the same. We are quickly approaching a future that is only possible with AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Agenda highlights<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll be navigating this new future at <a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/nyc\/\">ScaleUp:AI<\/a> across a dozen conversations throughout the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What does this AI moment actually mean \u2014 for investors, for society, for national security?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two conversations this year put the AI moment in the widest possible context.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastian-mallaby-13a24936\/\">Sebastian Mallaby<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, author and senior fellow at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a>,<\/strong> brings the perspective of a journalist who has spent decades tracking how transformative technology reshapes wealth and power. From his most recent book (quoted above), he makes the case that the choices being made right now by AI builders will define the next century of innovation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timhaugh\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>General Timothy Haugh<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, former director of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command<\/strong>, offers a firsthand view from the front lines of national security. He&#8217;ll discuss what it means to protect a nation when adversaries and allies alike have access to the same powerful tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Insight Partners&#8217; Managing Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lonnejaffe\/\">Lonne Jaffe<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will offer an investor\u2019s perspective on the current AI landscape, including areas of recent innovation and learnings from the past year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How do you turn AI from a promise into actual enterprise value?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise investment in AI has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/why-everyone-tech-talking-forward-deployed-engineers-4ewke\/?trackingId=byA2YojCSd21ygW8yMlh9w%3D%3D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">never been higher<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and businesses are navigating the distance between &#8220;AI is transforming business&#8221; and &#8220;here is how AI is transforming <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> business.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear from <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bobby-yerramilli-rao-93b01027\/\">Bobby Yerramilli-Rao<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, chief strategy officer at Microsoft<\/strong>, who has a front-row seat to the highest strategic priorities in a dominant tech and AI player.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In another fireside, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ron-gabrisko-4a21a\/\">Ron Gabrisko<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, chief revenue officer at Databricks<\/strong>, has helped grow the company from a $1M startup to a multi-billion-dollar AI leader, which today serves more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.databricks.com\/company\/newsroom\/press-releases\/databricks-grows-80-yoy-surpasses-7b-revenue-run-rate-scales\">70% of the Fortune 500<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How do you build AI that earns trust?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As AI moves from research to production at scale, many of the most difficult questions are distinctly human. They&#8217;re about accountability, trust, and what responsibility looks like when the stakes are real.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sarah-yager-295a194\/\">Sarah Yager<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> is the first human rights and responsible deployment lead at OpenAI<\/strong>, bringing decades of human rights and government work to her perspective on what this means in AI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll have enterprise <strong>leaders from Adobe, SAP, Oracle alongside innovative startup and ScaleUp CEOs<\/strong> discussing how AI is changing the nature of trust in reaching customers and addressing new go-to-market with increasingly AI-savvy customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What happens when AI runs at the core of critical infrastructure?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ryancnew\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ryan New<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, chief information officer at ICE and NYSE<\/strong>, discusses what it means to deploy AI inside the world&#8217;s most critical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightpartners.com\/ideas\/ai-in-financial-services\/\">financial systems<\/a>: the opportunities, the constraints, and what the markets of tomorrow might look like when machine intelligence runs at their core.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On security,<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/olakrez\/\">Gregor Stewart<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, most recently chief AI officer at SentinelOne,<\/strong> will lead a discussion with CEOs and cybersecurity leaders on where the real vulnerabilities are, what&#8217;s hype, and where the biggest differentiation opportunities for security-focused companies now lie.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What happens when AI unlocks software&#8217;s true potential for business?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several panels this year dig into how AI is enabling software companies to move faster and reach further than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the future of the development stack,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>several startup and ScaleUp CEOs<\/strong> will have a candid conversation about how AI is reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and shipped, and what it means to build products for engineering teams today.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep up with all our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/speakers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">speaker and agenda announcements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the ScaleUp:AI website. We\u2019re announcing new speakers regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Why attend<\/h2>\n<h3>Make a new connection<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join a curated in-person audience of over 350 in-person guests that represent a cross-section of Insight\u2019s influential networks in AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI builders, founders, CEOs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise executives and CxOs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academics and researchers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agency partners and other investors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other influential thought leaders in the NYC tech and finance community<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Build with us in the AI Lab<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the AI Lab to get a hands-on perspective from the Insight Partners&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightpartners.com\/onsite\/\">Onsite<\/a> advisory team working with our portfolio on AI and agentic strategy. Our team will share live demonstrations on what they&#8217;re learning and building with AI and agents alongside our portfolio companies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Meet our partners<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re joined this year by over 30 partners who are innovating in the AI space. Thank you to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Presenting Partners: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\">Adobe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyse.com\/\">NYSE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/\">Oracle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/\">SAP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svb.com\/\">SVB<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willkie.com\/\">Willkie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Industry Partners: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.a.team\/\">A.Team<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anjuna.io\">Anjuna<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apiphani.io\/\">Apiphani<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brinqa.com\/\">Brinqa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/devicie.com\/\">Devicie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/discern.io\/\">Discern<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e2b.dev\/\">E2B<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fastino.ai\/\">Fastino Labs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiddler.ai\/\">Fiddler AI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finout.io\/\">Finout<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floqast.com\/\">FloQast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gitguardian.com\/\">GitGuardian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goldenanalytics.com\/\">Golden Analytics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakesidesoftware.com\/\">Lakeside<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/litmus.io\/\">Litmus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmodus.com\/\">Modus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nx1.io\/\">NexusOne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimizely.com\/\">Optimizely<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postman.com\/\">Postman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantummetric.com\/\">Quantum Metric<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketlane.com\/\">Rocketlane<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonarsource.com\/\">Sonar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tricentis.com\/\">Tricentis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoneandco.com\/\">Zone &amp; Co<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>There\u2019s still time to join us in person and online<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you\u2019re a founder, builder, executive, academic, investor, or someone who just can\u2019t wait to hear what\u2019s next, you don\u2019t want to miss ScaleUp:AI this year. And if you&#8217;re not in NYC, we offer a livestream of the day and on-demand sessions if you register for a virtual ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can still <a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/register\/\">register<\/a> to join us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight portfolio companies can claim free virtual tickets using your work email address on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/register\/\">All-Access Virtual Pass &#8211; Insight Portfolio<\/a>&#8221; ticket type.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All other ticket types are <a href=\"https:\/\/scaleup.events\/register\/\">available for purchase here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re looking forward to discussing the once-impossible future with you all.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Insight has invested in OpenAI, Databricks, SentinelOne, A.Team, Anjuna, Apiphani, Brinqa, Devicie, Discern, E2B, Fastino Labs, Fiddler AI, Finout, FloQast, GitGuardian, Golden Analytics, Lakeside, Litmus, Modus, NexusOne, Optimizely, Postman, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, Sonar, Tricentis, Zone &amp; Co<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[&#8230;] In 2026, a new kind of intelligence is being willed into the world by a remarkably small number of people. 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