Two days of unfiltered conversations with the CIOs, cloud architects, and enterprise technology leaders who are replacing fragmented infrastructure with a single unified cloud estate — and never looking back.
Why This Summit
Most large enterprises run across four to seven cloud providers — not by design, but by accident. The result is fragmented infrastructure managed vertically, with no unified view and no ability to act across environments simultaneously. This summit brings together the people who've solved it.
Learn how enterprises managing 4–7 cloud providers are replacing three separate consoles with a single AI-driven management plane — one view, one set of policies, zero context switching.
Maintenance windows are obsolete. Hear from the operators who've eliminated planned outages entirely — running maintenance live, with zero transaction loss, while production keeps running.
The strategic endpoint for every enterprise is a cloud estate that was intentionally designed for resilience and cost efficiency — not one that drifted there. The path is Cloud Convergence.
As AI workloads compound data demands, manual cloud management becomes impossible. Discover how self-healing, predictive infrastructure makes the enterprise ready for what's next.
Featured Speakers
More speakers are being confirmed. Registrants hear about each one first.
Jimmy Jobe
CEO & Co-Founder · Verge Technologies
Opening Keynote: The Cloud Convergence Model
Jimmy co-founded Verge Technologies and leads the company behind SentientDB. He opens the summit with the Cloud Convergence model: how an enterprise already running four to seven clouds can operate them as one.
Arun Majumdar
CEO · Permion
Cloud Convergence: A Logical Unified Data View for Super Intelligence and Agentic Operations
Arun is CEO of Permion, which builds neurosymbolic software and semiconductor processor designs for machine reasoning. He started in intelligence work in the weeks after 9/11 and spent about a decade at the nation’s top agencies. Permion is a Carahsoft partner, won the Government AI Grand Challenge, and is named in federal programs including Golden Dome.
Jason Carswell
Advisory Board · Verge Technologies
The Future Won’t Fit Inside One Data Center. Now What?
Jason has spent 19 years across enterprise infrastructure, defense and emerging technology. He sits on the Advisory Board of Verge Technologies, was a Lead Network Engineer at Lockheed Martin, and began his career as a US Army Ranger.
Jacqueline Suttin
CEO & Founder · MagenTrust
Human in the Loop: Closing the Zero Trust Gap in Agentic AI for Government
Jacqueline is CEO and founder of MagenTrust, which closes the gap Zero Trust leaves open. Most systems stop verifying the moment a session is authenticated. MagenTrust keeps verifying every consequential action, for enterprises in financial services, defense and critical infrastructure.
Prasad Jaladi
Founder & Chief Facilitator · Suraksha
The Dual Mandate for Enterprise Architecture
Prasad is a social entrepreneur based in Austin. He founded Suraksha, which promotes innovation with environmental protection in mind and has been featured in United Nations newsletters. He has held executive roles in IT, biotech and pharma, and mentors startups in the US and India.
Kamilla Harcej
Co-Founder · TauGuard
From AI Policy to Runtime Authority: Making Governance Enforceable Before Execution
Kamilla co-founded TauGuard, where she is building TauDIL GOS, a governance operating system that turns AI policy into enforceable runtime control. Her work separates intelligence from authority: AI can advise, but governance decides whether a consequential action is allowed before it runs. She is taking the system into institutional pilots and enterprise deployments.
William Böll
CEO · Velocity Capital Intelligence
You Wouldn’t Run Multi-Cloud Without a Control Plane
William is CEO of Velocity Capital Intelligence and a serial founder with two exits in finance and technology. He has more than 25 years of C-level experience in capital governance. His book Precision Power: Using AI in Real Estate Development was an Amazon best seller in 2025.
Ujjwal Sinha
Co-Founder · Aegis AI
The AI Decided. You’re Still Accountable.
Ujjwal co-founded Aegis, which builds the system of record for institutional judgment: the record of why a decision was made, not just that it was made. He spent 16 years in enterprise product, with leadership roles at Citi, Thomson Reuters, Walmart and IBM.
Malur Narayan
CEO & Co-Founder · XTRIUM
Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure for Critical Materials Decisions
Malur is CEO and co-founder of XTRIUM, an Austin startup building decision infrastructure for critical materials. He spent 25 years scaling enterprise technology across semiconductors, telecom and industrial systems, growing B2B business units from zero to $600M at Nortel and Tata Consultancy Services. He has co-founded two AI startups.
Matt LeBaron
Founder & CEO · Pocketbook
Cloud Sprawl Is a Procurement Problem: What to Fix Before Your Next Renewal
Matt is founder and CEO of Pocketbook, which helps engineering and finance teams find waste, optimize vendor contracts and govern tech spend. He has saved clients more than $1B on cloud, software, AI and infrastructure. He holds an MBA and a master’s in computer science from Wharton and was a Tech Strategy Director at PwC.
Two days. Live Q&A. Zero filler.
Summit Schedule
Ten sessions across two afternoons, one track, nothing to choose between. Day 1 is infrastructure and architecture. Day 2 is governing what the machines decide. Every session is live with Q&A, and recordings go to all registrants within 48 hours.
All times are US Central (UTC−5). Times may shift slightly on the day. Registrants get every update by email, and the recordings either way.
October 8–9, 2026 · Virtual · Free
The Cloud Convergence Summit took place October 8–9, 2026. Registration is now closed.
Presented By
Verge Technologies built Sentient DB — the AI-driven platform that converges enterprise cloud infrastructure across every provider, every region, and every database into a single autonomous management system. No migration required. Operational in days.
The Cloud Convergence Summit is Verge's flagship category-defining event, bringing together the enterprise IT leaders, cloud architects, and technology practitioners who are building the converged enterprise — right now.
FAQ
Yes. The Cloud Convergence Summit is completely free to attend — live sessions, Q&A, and recordings. No upsell, no credit card required.
Fully virtual, streaming live on October 8–9. All sessions will be recorded and sent to registrants within 48 hours of the event.
CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Infrastructure, and enterprise IT leaders managing multi-cloud environments. Also relevant for cloud architects, technology vendors, and anyone building or evaluating AI-driven infrastructure management systems.
Registration is closed. If you registered for the summit, please check your email for recording access information.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Reach out at summit@vergetechnologiesinc.com to receive the sponsorship prospectus.
Speaker applications are open. Reach out at the address above with your name, title, company, and a brief session pitch — your best idea in 15 words or fewer.