The Next Wave: AI, Chips & Quantum in 2026

Overview

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Bloomberg Intelligence invites senior financial and corporate leaders to a half-day forum exploring the technologies shaping the next wave of growth and disruption across industries. Moderated by Bloomberg Intelligence analysts, the series of panel discussions will feature executives from leading private companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, cloud infrastructure, and emerging platforms.

The panels will examine how leading firms see the technology landscape today and evolving into 2026 — from breakthroughs in AI and accelerators to the future of data, search, and cloud observability. Attendees will come away with sharper insights into the technologies set to drive the next phase of market and industry transformation that can then drive their corporate and investment strategies.

**This event is closed door and will be held under Chatham House rule**

Agenda

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM: Arrivals & Registration
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM: Opening Remarks
Drew Jones, Deputy Global Director of Research, Bloomberg Intelligence
8:15 AM – 8:40 AM: AI Agents in Enterprises
Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO, Stack Overflow
Ryan Wang, Co-founder and CEO, Assembled
Anurag Rana, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
8:40 AM – 9:05 AM: Cloud Infrastructure and Open Source
Ahmed Lone, Co-founder, Traversal
Laura Sellers, Co-President and Chief Product Technology Officer, Anaconda
Sunil Rajgopal, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
9:05 AM – 9:35 AM: Emerging Tech Platforms
James Cadwallader, CEO and Co-founder, Profound
David Walker, CEO and Co-founder, Spara
Cecilia Ziniti, CEO and Co-founder, GC AI
Mandeep Singh, Global Head of Technology Research, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM: Evolution of Quantum
Yuval Boger, Chief Commercial Officer, QuEra Computing
Kunjan Sobhani, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
9:55 AM – 10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM: Investing Through Continuous Disruption
Breanne Dougherty, Head of Thematic Strategy, Bloomberg Intelligence
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM: Accelerator Chips for Workloads
Rodrigo Liang, CEO, Sambanova
Kunjan Sobhani, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
10:40 AM – 11:05 AM: Datacenter and Storage
Mike Maniscalco, CEO, Qumulus AI
Greg Matson, Head of Products, Solidigm
Woo Jin Ho, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
11:05 AM – 11:30 AM: Data and Multimodality
Bob Petrocelli, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Vimeo
Tomer Shiran, Founder and CPO, Dremio
Sunil Rajgopal, Senior Technology Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Moderator)
11:30 AM: Closing Remarks