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Beyond the Helpdesk: AI Turning IT Into a Strategic Function | Serval | RAISE Summit 2026
Serval is an AI-native platform that completely rebuilds IT Service Management infrastructure to replace legacy systems like ServiceNow by integrating dual-agent architecture for full automation of enterprise workflows. Co-founded by Jake, the company has driven an 80% automation rate for major clients such as SeatGeek and Ramp, enabling thousands of IT staff to shift from support roles to building cross-functional solutions in marketing, legal, and HR. By treating AI as a core foundation rather than an add-on layer, Serval allows enterprises to eliminate support queues and rapidly reinvent their operational roadmaps every six months.
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Who Controls AI? The Open Source Imperative | Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Arthur Mensch, Mark Surman, Henri Delahaye
Speakers Arthur and Marc outline a strategic framework for artificial intelligence sovereignty that prioritizes domestic compute security, affordability, and sustainability to mitigate economic inequality and social unrest. They identify open source technology as a critical mechanism for nations to retain control over essential infrastructure, preventing foreign dependency while fostering a global ecosystem where open components serve as the dominant building blocks within the next decade. Although this shift from proprietary chatbots to shared infrastructure is widely anticipated, the speakers warn that realizing this future requires sustained research funding and coordinated interoperability to overcome significant capital and partnership challenges.
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A fireside Chat with Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean ft. Semafor
DigitalOcean CEO Patti and Reid Hoffman discuss the platform's role in serving 3 million developers by providing specialized AI infrastructure for both native startups and traditional firms integrating large language models. The conversation highlights critical global bottlenecks, including power constraints necessitating nuclear energy and a talent war driving new hiring protocols for AI automation engineers. Hoffmann forecasts a massive economic expansion where AI increases the technology sector's share of global GDP to 25% within a decade, alongside a predicted dispersion of value beyond current market leaders.
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A fireside Chat with Ramin Hasani, Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid AI ft. Robert Cahill (Enhance Venture)
Liquid AI, an MIT spin-off founded by Ramin Hassani, is deploying a unique full-stack foundation model platform that utilizes biologically inspired Liquid Neural Networks to run generative AI directly on edge devices. This architecture achieves linear scaling rather than the quadratic costs of standard Transformers, enabling powerful on-device intelligence in resource-constrained hardware like smartphones and satellites without relying on data centers. Positioned as a specialized "gatekeeper" alongside massive cloud-based Oracles, the Boston-based company targets a projected $1 trillion on-device AI market by 2035 with applications spanning consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace sectors.
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SQORUS & Oracle: How AI is transforming step by step our industries. Use cases by ONET
Cyril Grira, Geoffrey, Gaurit Champenois, Romain Guyettremotier
Oracle, Skorus, and ONET Airport Services unveiled a comprehensive digital transformation at a 40th-anniversary celebration that leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce annual baggage losses by 25%. Led by Cyril Grira of Oracle, Geoffrey of Skorus, and ONET CIO Guillaume de Montessu, the project utilizes Autonomous Database 23ai, AI-powered vision services, and generative AI to shift operations from rigid timing-based SLAs to value-driven, real-time decision-making. Future initiatives plan to advance this system toward autonomous mission assignment and augmented reality interfaces to further optimize ground service productivity across Charles de Gaulle and other major hubs.
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A Fireside Chat with Luc Julia, Renault & Matthieu de Chanville, Shift for Good
Luc Julia, Matthieu de Chanville
Luc Beaulieu, Renault's Chief Scientific Officer, highlights the critical lag between century-old automakers and agile startups regarding AI adoption, noting that legacy software cycles remain incompatible with the rapid hardware refresh rates required for software-defined vehicles. While dismissing the feasibility of Level 5 autonomy and humanoids, Beaulieu champions specialized "physical AI," geo-fenced Level 4 robot taxis, and virtual sensor technologies to enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. These insights are further reinforced by the "Software Republic" consortium, which includes Renault and Thales, as it advances a vision where artificial intelligence serves as a specialized tool to augment human capability rather than replace it.
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An AI conversation with Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack OverFlow
Prashanth Chandrasekar, Henry Shi, Prashant
Stack Overflow has pivoted from a traditional Q&A hub into a revenue-generating knowledge intelligence layer by licensing its data to major AI providers like Google and Microsoft while launching enterprise solutions for corporate workflows. This strategic shift addresses a 64% year-over-year traffic decline caused by user migration to AI search, transforming trust deficits among senior developers into a premium verification service rather than a code-generation competitor. Despite risks to junior developer roles, the company remains profitable and is expanding its talent pipeline through certification challenges and asynchronous human-to-human chat features.
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Eric Piscini (Hashgraph) & Jonathan Dotan (EQTY Lab): Proof of Trust Rethinking AI ft. DLTBlockchain
Equity Lab and its partner Hedera are deploying a hardware-rooted system that leverages next-generation Intel and NVIDIA secure enclaves to generate tamper-proof certificates for AI agents, addressing the critical trust barrier identified by business leaders. This architecture delivers a 400,000x performance improvement in cryptographic proof generation while recording immutable audit trails on the Hedera blockchain to ensure compliance with global regulations like GDPR. Following a successful pilot with 11 Accenture agents, the technology positions itself as an essential infrastructure for the projected trillions of autonomous agents expected to dominate future web traffic and enterprise supply chains.
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Aurélien Rodriguez, Director at Cohere: Building AI for Security-Minded Enterprises
In this session, a former Meta AI researcher now directing foundation model training at Cohere explains how the company prioritizes secure, grounded generation over pursuing Artificial General Intelligence. The discussion highlights a strategic shift toward on-premise deployment and retrieval-augmented pipelines that ensure data remains within client environments while minimizing hallucinations through strict source verification. By leveraging co-development partnerships with entities like Fujitsu and RBC, the organization focuses on specialized, high-value tools that deliver concrete business impact in regulated sectors without mimicking human biology.
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Alok Sama & Nikesh Arora: AI, Cybersecurity, and Bold Leadership
The event outlines a systemic shift toward the democratization of intelligence, where agentic AI transforms search, disrupts traditional ride-sharing economics through autonomous fleets, and expands cybersecurity threats into state-sponsored warfare. Parallel to these technological shifts, the discussion contrasts high-risk investment strategies at SoftBank with Palo Alto Networks' disciplined acquisition model of retaining founders to build unified security platforms. The presentation concludes by warning of an imminent quantum computing vulnerability that threatens current encryption standards before defenders can establish quantum-safe protocols.
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Jennifer Tejada, CEO&Chairperson, PagerDuty: Never Miss a Beat Building Reliable Experiences with AI
Spotify and PagerDuty are leveraging artificial intelligence and standardized infrastructure to address a 43% surge in major operational incidents that cost enterprises nearly $1 million each. By shifting from a pet-centric to a cattle-centric philosophy, Spotify enforced rigid "golden paths" through its Backstage platform, a move that enabled fleet-wide code transformations and the commercialization of its internal tools as the B2B "Portal" product. This evolution toward automated digital resilience and code remediation prioritizes predictability over developer autonomy, allowing Spotify to manage its massive codebase while transforming into a higher-margin infrastructure provider.
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Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Prosus Group at RAISE 2025
On the one-year anniversary of his appointment as CEO, Fabricio outlined Prosus's strategy to transform its $130 billion valuation into a €1 trillion European tech giant through a $15 billion AI investment and aggressive expansion. The company is accelerating this vision by restructuring 40,000 employees, deploying 200 AI models at portfolio firm iFood, and seeking regulatory approval for a $4 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway. With profitability increasing tenfold and $18 billion in reserves, Prosus plans to double its size and target fintech and e-commerce sectors to secure global leadership in AI-driven commerce execution.
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Stephanie Cohen - CSO @ Cloudflare: Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
On July 1, Cloudflare implemented a permission-based default policy to block AI scrapers while launching a beta for micropayments via HTTP 402, aiming to transition the web into a value-based economy where content creators control data access. This strategic shift, supported by data showing a 65% surge in training crawler traffic, has drawn criticism from industry figures like BrightData's David Bossert but is defended by CEO Matthew Prince as necessary to repair the broken economic relationship between publishers and tech giants. Complementing this infrastructure, newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen leverages her Wall Street background to guide Cloudflare's expansion into cybersecurity and AI financial services, predicting that high-value human judgment will remain essential even as automation transforms data-rich sectors.
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Wes Cummins, Founder & CEO of Applied Digital: Ellendale’s Purpose Built AI Factory in North Dakota
Applied Digital is expanding its high-power density data center operations by securing a 400-megawatt contract with CoreWeave to construct a North Dakota campus utilizing stranded wind energy and designed for AI workloads. The company transitioned from Bitcoin mining to Tier 3 semiconductor-grade infrastructure after spending $5 billion on this project to ensure "five nines" reliability and extreme cooling standards for hyperscalers. With approximately 3% ownership by NVIDIA, the firm is capitalizing on the shortage of available power sites in the U.S. heartland while planning future phases that will integrate gas assets and explore nuclear options like small modular reactors.
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RAISE 2025: Building AI for Security-Minded Enterprises
A French math PhD turned AI leader leveraged their academic background to build the Llama family at Meta before joining Cohere to prioritize business traction and secure, localized enterprise solutions. The speaker details a strategy where data quality and strategic partnerships, such as those with Fujitsu and RBC, drive the development of models optimized for specific languages and industries rather than pursuing Artificial General Intelligence. By focusing on grounded generation and flexible hosting options, the organization ensures data sovereignty and verifiable outputs for regulated sectors while avoiding the inherent risks of trying to mimic human cognition.