Join SolixEmpower 2026, an enterprise AI conference at UC San Diego (Oct 28–30), exploring agentic AI, enterprise data governance, and cloud data management.
SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, October 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading Data + AI company, today announced the full agenda and speaker lineup for SOLIXEmpower 2026, taking place October 28–30 at the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California San Diego. Held in collaboration with UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing and the SPARK AI Consortium at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), this year’s conference is built around the theme “The Agentic Enterprise: Reimagining Enterprise Applications with Enterprise AI.” Across three days of keynotes, industry panels, a hands-on product workshop, live demonstrations and a student AI hackathon, attendees will see how organizations are moving from AI-ready data to AI-activated results.
Three Days, Three Distinct Programs
Day 1 — Solix Product Day (Wednesday, October 28): Sai Gundavelli, Founder and CEO of Solix, opens the conference with the Welcome Ceremony, and Solix Chief Product Officer Mark Lee follows with the keynote “Put AI in the Hands of Your Business.” Morning sessions include “What’s New in Enterprise Archiving and Application Retirement” and “Data Governance for the AI Era: Classification, Retention, Data Minimization and Governing Data In Place,”. A customer panel follows: “Lessons from Enterprise Data and AI Programs in Production.” After lunch, attendees take part in the hands-on workshop “Build It: A Semantic Layer for Enterprise Data (using Solix Data Sense) — Let Business Users Ask Questions in Plain Language and Get Accurate, Cited Answers,” using Solix’s Data Ask. Participants leave with a working blueprint and a Solix Academy certificate.
The afternoon continues with “Did You Know? Twelve Capabilities Hiding in Your Enterprise Data Platform”; “Automating Enterprise Data Workflows with AI Agents: Low-Code Agent Building, MCP Integration and Agent Governance”; and “AI-Ready Data for Life Sciences: Automating Lab and Manufacturing Data Workflows End to End.” The day wraps with the “Ask the Product Team” forum, “Training and Certification for Enterprise Data and AI Teams,” the Day 1 close and the Solix User Group cocktails and dinner.
Day 2 — Solix Customer Day (Thursday, October 29): Prof. Rajesh Gupta, Dean of the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing, and Sai Gundavelli open the day with the Welcome & Hackathon Kickoff, followed by a keynote from Alastair Thomson, Founder of AI Strategy LLC and former Chief Information Officer of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at NIH. Six executive panels follow: “Designing the Foundations for Trustworthy, Scalable, and Adaptive AI Agents”; “Designing Secure, Governed, and Context-Aware Foundations for AI”; “Engineering the Next Generation of Enterprise Intelligence”; “Designing Governance for Intelligent, Agentic Enterprises”; “AI is Here: What Happens When Governance Isn’t?”; and “Building Secure, Accountable, and Human-Centered AI for the Public Sector.” The day closes with a networking dinner.
Day 3 — Solix Customer Day (Friday, October 30): A morning of healthcare and life sciences panels: “Building Trusted, Human-Centered Intelligence Across the Healthcare Ecosystem”; “Beyond Efficiency: How Agentic AI Creates Enterprise Value Across Pharma Workflows”; and “From Pilot to Production: Scaling Agentic AI Across the Drug Discovery Pipeline.” The program concludes with the Hackathon Winner Announcements and a networking lunch.
Featured Speakers
Confirmed speakers and panelists include:
Prof. Rajesh Gupta, Dean, Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing, UC San Diego
James Short, Ph.D., Lead Scientist and Director, SPARK AI Industry Consortium, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Jonathan Behnke, Chief Information Officer, City of San Diego
Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Ph.D., Director of Computational Biology, Oncology Research, Pfizer
Joshua Baughman, Ph.D., Scientific Director, Bristol Myers Squibb
Bheema Paraselli, President and CEO, Chemveda Life Sciences
Madhu Varadarajan, Senior Director, R&D Digital Business Partner, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Richard Haubrich, M.D., UC San Diego School of Medicine
Harakh Shah, Vice President, Clinical Operations, REV Clinical
Dharini Shah, Head of Drug Discovery, Alembic Life Sciences
Arvind Sathi, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, Data Science, CDO Data Catalyst, KPMG US
Additional speakers from industry, academia and government will be announced ahead of the event. The complete agenda is available at empower.solix.com.
Academic Collaboration With UC San Diego
SOLIXEmpower facilitates faculty and researchers to join enterprise practitioners on stage throughout the program, including sessions on agentic AI foundations, AI governance and regulation, public-sector AI and drug discovery.
“The hardest part of enterprise AI isn’t the model — it’s the data underneath it,” said Sai Gundavelli, Founder and CEO of Solix Technologies. “SOLIXEmpower is where our customers, partners and the research community work through how to govern data well enough that agents can act on it, and how to move from AI-ready to AI-activated in practice, not just in theory.”
Registration
Seating for SOLIXEmpower 2026 is limited, and registration is required. Enterprise technology and business leaders are encouraged to register early and finalize travel plans to secure their place for all three days. Register at https://empower.solix.com/.
About Solix Technologies
Solix Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) is a leading Data + AI company helping Fortune 2000 enterprises transform enterprise data into trusted AI-powered business outcomes. The Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), Enterprise Content Services (ECS), and Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) provide a trusted foundation to unify, govern, secure, and activate enterprise data for AI. Solix Enterprise AI (EAI), a fourth-generation AI-native data platform, combines enterprise data warehousing, semantic intelligence, natural language interaction, and autonomous AI agents. Supporting multi-cloud, hybrid, and sovereign AI deployments, Solix enables organizations to securely manage and activate data wherever it resides. Learn more at www.solix.com.
About the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing
The Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing at UC San Diego unites the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and the San Diego Supercomputer Center to advance research and education in data science, AI and computing. Learn more at hsdsc.ucsd.edu.
About SPARK AI
SPARK AI is an industry-focused research and education consortium based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, dedicated to advancing the responsible development and governance of artificial intelligence in business and civic society. Learn more at sparkai.network.
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