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Announcing our first round of summit speakers
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Editor’s note: After 18 months and hundreds of events, conversations, and activations, we curated a group of executives who have a real story to share about practical AI transformation. These are the people who are solving small for the enterprise.
No one comes to an ON_Discourse event to hear me or anyone on my team speak. We are provocateurs, not pontificators. We leave that to the real experts - the executives who are building, leading, doing hard things that will move markets. This type of expert is hard to find in the AI era.
These experts are driving meaningful AI adoption at the enterprise level. To do this, they abandoned epic and hyperbolic AI theories in favor of practical, immediate investments that improve business outcomes today. We call that solving small, and we organized a summit around their stories.
And on March 26, we are going to provoke them into telling their story in a new way. I am excited to share our first round of confirmed speakers for the Solve Small ON_Discourse Summit on AI Transformation.
Setting the stage with the Solve Small mindset—why small, tactical shifts lead to big impact.
Dan Gardner
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Code and Theory, ON_Discourse
The rise of Agentic Managers and what they mean for the future of management, leadership, and productivity.
Katherine von Jan
Founder, CEO, Tough Day
How a global marketing team is integrating AI, not just experimenting with it.
Don McGuire
CMO, Qualcomm Incorporated
The AI guardrails every business needs—and why the entire C-Suite needs to get on-board.
Mark Howard
President, COO, TIME
In the coming days and weeks we will announce more provocateurs, agitators, builders and makers who are driving enterprise level transformation from the bottom up.
What to expect at The ON_Discourse Summit
This is not another AI conference filled with high-level platitudes. ON_Discourse is designed for those leading AI transformation inside the enterprise—across functions, across teams, and across the C-suite.
- Sharp, provocation-driven keynotes that move beyond theory and into action.
- Small-group discussions designed to generate practical, real-world strategies.
- A cross-functional approach that goes beyond AI as a tech initiative to AI as a business transformation tool.
Why Solve Small?
Big AI transformation stories dominate the headlines, but the most meaningful change happens at a smaller scale:
- Small is implementable—today, not next year.
- Small is iterative—it can fail, adapt, and evolve.
- Small is tangible—it moves beyond theory into action.
- Small is powerful—because when compounded, it leads to massive transformation.