October 14, 2026
8 AM - 5 PM
The Baird Center - 405 W. Kilbourn Ave. , Milwaukee WI
In 2026 creating a technology ecosystem that is built to last comes with more questions than ever before. Should you be embracing AI tools, or waiting to see if they're actually here to stay? How do you guard against cyber-attacks that are becoming faster and smarter than ever? Is there a way to make sure your team is fully realizing your software's potential? Join AE Business Solutions at Guidepost to find answers to these questions and more! Join your peers for a day of learning and collaboration that will help you build The Intelligent Enterprise.
Event welcome and introduction to the days schedule.
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Everyone can generate code now, but can everyone design systems and software? In an era of vibe coding, the ability to think like a software developer is morei mportant than ever. Coding was never the hard part. How do you improve your ability to design systems and architecture?
By playing a video game, of course.
In this talk, I discuss how Factorio — a game about building factories on an alien planet — teaches critical lessons about systems design, iterative development, and managing complexity that directly apply to software engineering. Playing a video game won't make you a developer, but it will teach you to think like one.
Getting a model to respond is a weekend project. Getting it to respond only to the right people, at a metered rate, on hardware you actually own, with an audit trail your security team will happily sign off on that's the platform problem NKP and NAI are built to solve. During this session we'll walk the whole stack with you: GPU operator and CSI at the foundation, then model catalog, scoped endpoint credentials, RBAC, rate limiting, and SIEM-ready logs. We'll finish with a real application running live on all of it, every token served on your own hardware, and the receipts to prove it.
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Enjoy lunch in the main hall while networking with your peers. Be sure to walk through the sponsor exhibits if you have the time. If you are gluten free, please find a Baird Center wait staff member to assist you.
Every SOC wants automation, but few take the time to build strategy around it. From hidden script “features” to breaking user-facing services, we’ll explore how to identify the right automation opportunities, how to avoid creating more tech debt, and where AI fits into the larger picture.
For years teams were built on volume: more headcount, more tickets closed, more throughput. It's been stretching for a long time. AI finally broke it. Not by replacing people, but by making the gap between the best person and an average one wider than the org chart can absorb. This session makes the case that talent has always been the constraint and AI has simply made talent the only constraint that matters. We'll examine multiplier math, the tells of exceptional performance, and the comp conversation most organizations are still avoiding. You'll leave with a framework for spotting such talent and perspective to drive the challenging conversations throughout the org chart to get (or keep) it.
Introduction to network automation patterns, and how to use AI coding tools to get going quickly. You'll walk away from this talk with a template and framework to get started automating your network.
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The modern endpoint has fundamentally changed, shifting from classic binaries to an assembled layer of AI models, autonomous agents, and MCP servers.Traditional EDR solutions are blind to this new infrastructure, leaving critical gaps that look like trusted user behavior.Join us for a deep-dive session and live demonstration of Cortex Agentic Endpoint Security (AES). You will discover firsthand how to achieve complete, real-time visibility into your unmanaged AI software stack, accurately evaluate supply-chain risks, and enforce immediate behavioral guardrails—all without displacing your existing EDR architecture. See how to eliminate the enterprise AI blind spot before machine-speed threats can execute
Harnessing A.I. to invisibly influence human behavior.