Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange - San Francisco

What happens when you bring together enterprise leaders, founders, investors, researchers, and innovators around one question: How do we turn agentic AI into real business impact? Last week, we explored that question at the Amplify Celebration: Keep Calm and Go Agentic. More than 100 leaders joined us from across the ecosystem for an evening that included: ⭐ A fireside chat with ElevenLabs and Skyfire on the future of AI agents ⭐ Enterprise reverse-pitches from Fortive, Gilead, and Marvell, sharing real business challenges with the startup and investor community ⭐ The inaugural Amplify Awards, recognizing the people and organizations helping shape the future of enterprise AI Congratulations to our award winners: 🏆 Connector Award: Shanna Hendriks & New Enterprise Associates (NEA) 🏆 Scaling Award: CrewAI 🏆 Visionary Award: TwelveLabs Perhaps the best measure of the evening's success was what happened after the formal program ended. Conversations continued for hours as founders, enterprise leaders, investors, and researchers made new connections, explored potential partnerships, and discussed opportunities to collaborate. We also welcomed 15 new organizations into the Amplify network. The future of enterprise AI will be built through collaboration, and it's exciting to see this community continue to grow.

Tomorrow, more than 200 founders, enterprise leaders, investors, researchers, and AI innovators will gather at the Amplify Celebration: Keep Calm and Go Agentic. What started as an idea to bring together the people actually building, deploying, and scaling AI has grown into an incredible community. Tomorrow's program includes: 🔥 A fireside chat with Skyfire and ElevenLabs on the future of agentic AI 💡 Three global enterprises reverse-pitching their toughest challenges and problem statements to the startup ecosystem 🥇 The inaugural Amplify Awards, recognizing two outstanding startups and one venture capital firm shaping the future of enterprise AI 🤩 Networking with leaders from across startups, enterprise, venture capital, and academia Most importantly, it's a chance to connect with the people turning AI from conversation into reality. More than 200 have already registered, and the list continues to grow. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time: https://luma.com/veirhtbm See you tomorrow at 4:30 PM. Keep Calm and Go Agentic.

We’re excited for this year’s 2026 Amplify celebration: Keep Calm and Go Agentic! 🤖✨ Join us as we bring together founders, startups, VCs, academia, enterprise leaders, and innovation partners for an evening focused on the people and connections shaping what’s next. Cheers to an inspiring evening, featuring: 🏆 Amplify Awards Celebrating leaders across our ecosystem with our Visionary, Scaling, and Connector awards 🤝 Ecosystem connections An opportunity to connect with innovators, builders, investors, and collaborators across industries 💡 Conversations on what’s next Exploring the rise of Agentic AI alongside our featured startups and enterprise leaders 🎉 Great people + energy Community vibes and plenty of time to cultivate connections over drinks and a live DJ We’d love to see you there! → RSVP here: https://luma.com/veirhtbm

🎉 We're excited to announce our 2026 Amplify Celebration: Keep Calm and Go Agentic! 🎉 Join this special moment, where we bring together & recognize our entire ecosystem of startups, VCs, partners, and clients in one place, at one time. Lovingly called Amplify, our ecosystem program is where the magic of emerging technology, research, and art of the possible meets enterprise needs. So, let's hear from the companies scaling agentic AI, recognize the AMAZING work being done, and continue to make connections that change the world!

A great afternoon at the Sogeti Executive Summit: Autopilot—Yes or No? at the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange - San Francisco. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a candid and thoughtful discussion on one of the most important questions organizations are now facing: Where should AI be trusted with autonomy... and where must humans remain firmly in control? Across keynotes, roundtables, and startup discussions, several themes stood out: ⭐ AI is rapidly moving beyond copilots toward agentic systems that act and execute ⭐ Organizational design is becoming just as important as model capability ⭐ Decision velocity is emerging as a major competitive factor ⭐ Human judgment, accountability, and context become more important, not less, as autonomy increases A big thank you to our speakers and contributors: João (Joe) Moura, CrewAI Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex Jeff Wang, Windsurf (Cognition) Joe Pine, Strategic Horizons Michiel Boreel, Sogeti Mike Buob, Sogeti And thanks to everyone who participated openly in the conversations throughout the afternoon. Strong perspectives, sharp debate, and a great mix of enterprise leaders, founders, and technologists. More to come!

A few days ago, we had the pleasure of hosting the EDHEC Business School Rendez-Vous 2026 Bay Area gathering at the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco. The evening brought together a fantastic mix of EDHEC alumni, graduating students from the EDHEC GETT program, entrepreneurs, and leaders from across the Bay Area and France ecosystems. One of my favorite things about the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange - San Francisco is exactly this: creating space for meaningful conversations, new connections, and the sharing of perspectives across generations, industries, and cultures. We had thoughtful discussions around leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, AI, craftsmanship, and what it means to transmit knowledge, values, and experience in a world that is changing rapidly. A big thank you to Antoine Gamberini from Google and Alexandra Sainz of Champagne for sharing their perspectives and journeys with the group. Also great to welcome the visiting EDHEC leadership team, including Tristan-Pierre Maury and Sébastien D.. Most of all, it was inspiring to meet so many future leaders at the beginning of their journeys. The energy, curiosity, and ambition in the room were remarkable. Great to continue deepening the ties between the San Francisco and France innovation ecosystems. Thank you to the EDHEC Ambassadors team and everyone who joined us for such a memorable evening.

Final reminder for tomorrow’s event at the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange - San Francisco! Apply to attend now! Sogeti Executive Summit: Autopilot—Yes or No? AI is moving beyond copilots. Systems are beginning to plan, decide, and execute work autonomously. The real leadership question is no longer whether to adopt AI. It’s where to trust the autopilot... and where humans must remain firmly in control. Tomorrow, we’re bringing together CEOs, CIOs, founders, and technology leaders for a candid discussion on what this shift actually means for organizations. Featuring perspectives from: R "Ray" Wang (Constellation Research) Joe Pine (The Experience Economy) João (Joe) Moura (CrewAI) Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex) Jeff Wang, CEO of Windsurf (now part of Cognition) Michiel Boreel (Sogeti) Looking forward to a strong set of conversations around agentic AI, autonomy, operating models, and the future of enterprise decision-making. A few spots remain open. Apply to attend: https://luma.com/8yl96sgf

Three years running, the AIE has partnered with SF Climate Week to host conversations on climate disruption — the impacts and the solutions to mitigate them. This year drew more than 250 attendees across two of our favorite events. First up: Ocean to Action, co-hosted with the FACC California SF-LA | French American Chamber of Commerce, California, tackling the scale of the ocean plastics crisis. Fabien Lamaison of Plastic Odyssey brought the problem to life with stories from their incredible global expeditions, followed by a live recording of the Hardware to Save a Planet podcast with host Dylan Garrett interviewing Julia Marsh from Sway, Molly Morse from Mango Materials, and Ryan Starling from frog — discussing creating and using incredible new materials that perform like plastic without the environmental cost. Wrapping it up with a solutions showcase featuring Wonderfil and 4ocean PBC. Next, inventor and investor Tom Chi delivered a keynote challenging us to reframe climate problems with realism and approachability — building forward by reinventing industries in ways that disrupt unit economics. Many of these ideas come to life in his new book, Climate Capital, grounded in his team's work at At One Ventures. Thanks to everyone who joined, and to Miguel Sossa-Mardomingo Sossa, our Capgemini Americas sustainability lead, for making this year's SFCW our best yet.

Yesterday was one of those days where the shift to agentic AI felt very real. We started with a LinkedIn Live episode of The Makers with Tara Khani and Majid Fekri from Moorcheh.ai by Edge AI Innovations (see the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gTjE35Uc) ... and ended the day with a packed event, co-hosted with AICamp, at the Applied Innovation Exchange with 100+ participants in the room. Same theme across both conversations: The bottleneck is no longer the model. It’s memory, context, and how systems evolve over time. A few things became very clear: ⭐ Agentic systems don’t fail in demos... they fail in production ⭐ Not because of reasoning, but because of context breakdown ⭐ We solved prompts. We haven’t solved memory. ⭐ And everything we’re building now depends on it Across the discussions, three perspectives stood out: 🎤 CrewAI (João (Joe) Moura): how agents collaborate, delegate, and execute as systems 🎤 LlamaIndex (Jerry Liu): how agents access and structure knowledge and context 🎤 Moorcheh.ai by Edge AI Innovations (Tara Khani & Majid Fekri): why current retrieval and memory stacks may be fundamentally flawed — and what comes next The deeper shift: We are moving from stateless systems that respond… to systems that accumulate, adapt, and compound over time. And it’s the difference between something that works once and something that actually improves with use. Thanks to everyone who joined — great energy, strong discussions, and a lot of signal in the room. More to come.