Dinner for Seattle IT Leaders

The CIO’s Playbook: Navigating Hybrid AI for Business Transformation

Date

Thu, April 24, 2025

Time

5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT

CIOs have a unique vantage point across the enterprise, making them critical drivers of business transformation. AI presents an unprecedented opportunity to create competitive advantages and enhance customer experiences—but how do you effectively navigate the complex landscape of Hybrid AI adoption?

Join Lenovo and NVIDIA experts for an interactive dinner discussion as we break down key insights from IDC’s latest AI research. This session will help CIOs and IT leaders explore the evolving AI landscape, gain practical insights, and determine the next steps in their AI adoption journey.

DINNER AGENDA

5:00 PM PT Welcome Reception and Arrivals with Refreshments

6:00 PM PT Leadership Discussion

  • Introduction (5 mins)
    The peer executive will engage the audience for brief introductions and discuss the format and key takeaways from the guided interaction conversation and dinner discussions.
  • Guided Interactive Conversation (25 mins) – Topics include:
    • Being the AI orchestrator
    • Using AI to improve productivity in the short-term and long-term
    • Data as a differentiator
    • Investing in your people
  • Open Forum Discussion (30 mins) – This discussion will be based on the list of challenges discussed already and will take the format of group brainstorming and open discussion to come up with suggestions and solutions to common challenges at the executive level.

7:15 PM PT Dinner Service

9:00 PM PT Conclusion

Wes Thomas

Speaker

Wes Thomas

Enterprise Sales Director, Western Region Data Center Group

Lenovo
John DuPont

Speaker

John DuPont

Americas Sales Leader

NVIDIA

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About Lenovo

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

About NVIDIA

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.