A warm welcome to Generative AI Summit Austin from our summit chair as we kick off a day filled with valuable insights, engaging content, and exciting opportunities.

Generative AI has transitioned from experimentation to enterprise priority; however most deployments struggle with reliability, scalability and trust in their systems. This challenge is no longer model intelligence. It is now a system design problem. Generative AI will be refamed as a systems engineering problem where Human-in-the-loop (hitl) will be a strategic operating model not just a temporary safeguard. We will demonstrate how structured collaboration between humans and ai in real-world implementations results in measurable performance gains while strengthening governance and accountability. Executives will have a clear blueprint for building ai systems that are reliable by design, scalable in operation, and trustworthy in high-stakes environments. The future of ai will not be fully automated - it will be intelligently orchestrated.