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All Things AI 2027

Name: All Things AI 2027
Start: 2027-04-18T12:00:00.000Z
End: 2027-04-21T22:00:00.000Z
Location: Raleigh Convention Center

The AI conference for business: practitioners, buyers, and the executives who sign off. A track for every job, one building, Raleigh.

April 18–21, 2027Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh

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Sold out in 2025 and 2026. Building toward a bigger 2027.

2,408
unique registrants at the 2026 conference.
Source: All Things AI registration data, 2026
3,200
conference and training registrations in 2026, double the 1,600 of 2025.
48.5%
report purchasing influence over the AI their organization buys.
1,208
employers represented, from Fidelity, SAS and IBM to two-person startups.
28.2%
are C-level leaders, managers or directors.
33%
are engineers or developers (19.1% and 13.9%).

Source: All Things AI registration data, 2025–2026

Thirty seconds

What It Actually Feels Like

Practitioners, not panelists

Past Speakers

John Willis
Editor-in-ChiefAI CIOShow John Willis's talk
Their talkWhy the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It's AuthoritySee the session by John Willis
James Kaplan
Partner / CTOMcKinseyShow James Kaplan's talk
Their talkThe Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA LiftSee the session by James Kaplan
Victoria Vojnovich
PhDIndependent ResearcherShow Victoria Vojnovich's talk
Their talkThe Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It's a Leadership EvolutionSee the session by Victoria Vojnovich
whurley
CEOStrangeworksShow whurley's talk
Their talkWhen AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine IntelligenceSee the session by whurley
Mayor Leonardo Williams
MayorCity of DurhamShow Mayor Leonardo Williams's talk
Their talkThe Future of AI and DurhamSee the session by Mayor Leonardo Williams
Michael Donovan
VP of ProductDockerShow Michael Donovan's talk
Their talkThe Future is Non-DeterministicSee the session by Michael Donovan
Angie Jones
Global VP of Developer RelationsBlockShow Angie Jones's talk
Their talkCodename Goose: An Open Source Local AI Agent Built on MCPSee the session by Angie Jones
Craig McLuckie
CEO / FounderStacklokShow Craig McLuckie's talk
Their talkThe Context Economy: Getting More Bang for Your TokenSee the session by Craig McLuckie
Luis Lastras
Director, Language & Multimodal TechnologiesIBMShow Luis Lastras's talk
Their talkHow the Oldest Principle in Engineering Will Reshape AISee the session by Luis Lastras
Burr Sutter
Senior Director of Developer ExperienceRed HatShow Burr Sutter's talk
Their talkA Developer’s Adventures in AI WonderlandSee the session by Burr Sutter
Melissa Nysewander
Head of the AI Center of ExcellenceFidelity InvestmentsShow Melissa Nysewander's talk
Their talkAI Governance: Mitigating Risks in the EnterpriseSee the session by Melissa Nysewander
Ben Heller
Field CTOMicrosoftShow Ben Heller's talk
Their talkWhen Intelligence Gets Cheap: The Next Great Leadership TestSee the session by Ben Heller

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Why this exists

We built the conference we wanted to attend.

Then it sold out. Ten tracks, and the people who make the decisions.

Building the technology was only ever half the work. The other half is making sure people get the chance to learn to use it — responsibly, and productively — and that half needed somewhere to happen. So we built somewhere.

— Todd Lewis & Mark Hinkle, founders

Todd Lewis and Mark Hinkle, founders of All Things AI

Why here

The AI future is being built in North Carolina.

We did not put this in the Triangle because we live here. We put it here because this is where the work is.

1st
Research Triangle Park is the largest research park in the United States — hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of technologists, twenty minutes from the venue.
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3
Major research universities in one metro — Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, graduating AI-ready talent by the thousands every year.
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#1
CNBC's America's Top State for Business — 2022, 2023 and 2025, and never out of the top two since 2021.
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1,897
Distinct employers have sent someone to All Things AI. Not a mailing list — a register of companies that decided this was worth a day.
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Sector

Raleigh· 8 employers

First Citizens

Headquartered in Raleigh's North Hills. It opened as the Bank of Smithfield in 1898 and acquired Silicon Valley Bank in 2023.

AI at work Runs AskFirst, a knowledge agent for branch associates, alongside a company-wide Copilot rollout and an internal AI Academy. Source (opens in a new tab)

First Citizens Bank

Founded in Raleigh in 1937 and still headquartered downtown, with branches in all 100 North Carolina counties.

State Employees' Credit Union

Not-for-profit health system serving Wake County since 1961, with hospitals in Raleigh, Cary, and North Raleigh.

AI at work Rolled out Regard's AI platform in 2024 across its three acute care hospitals to surface likely diagnoses from patient records. Source (opens in a new tab)

WakeMed

Pendo

Product analytics and software experience company founded in Raleigh in 2013 and headquartered downtown.

AI at work Launched Agent Analytics in 2025 to measure how AI agents are used and whether they finish the job. Source (opens in a new tab)

Pendo

Communications API and voice network company founded in Raleigh in 1999, with its global headquarters campus in west Raleigh.

AI at work Supports OpenAI's Realtime API so companies can run AI voice agents on its network (2025). Source (opens in a new tab)

Bandwidth

Red Hat

Open source enterprise software company, part of IBM, headquartered in downtown Raleigh's Red Hat Tower.

AI at work Launched Red Hat AI Inference Server in 2025 for serving large language models, built on the open source vLLM project. Source (opens in a new tab)

Red Hat

Building materials company headquartered in Raleigh, with roots in Superior Stone, founded there in 1939.

Martin Marietta

Auto parts retailer that moved its headquarters to Raleigh's North Hills in 2018, citing the region's tech talent.

AI at work Uses OneRail's AI platform to coordinate same-day deliveries across more than 4,000 locations (2026). Source (opens in a new tab)

Advance Auto Parts

Durham· 4 employers

Clinical research and health data company headquartered in Durham. Its predecessor, Quintiles, was founded in North Carolina in 1982.

AI at work Launched AI agents built with NVIDIA in 2025 for target identification, clinical data review, and literature review. Source (opens in a new tab)

IQVIA

Blue Cross NC

Not-for-profit health insurer headquartered in Durham, covering North Carolinians since 1933.

AI at work Uses predictive models to flag members at risk of a hospital stay so nurses can reach out early. Source (opens in a new tab)

Blue Cross NC

Academic health system running Duke University, Duke Regional, and Duke Raleigh hospitals, and the largest employer in Durham County.

AI at work Its AI Evaluation and Governance Program oversees how clinical AI tools are built, deployed, and used across Duke Health. Source (opens in a new tab)

Duke Health

Silicon carbide chipmaker headquartered in Durham, where it started as Cree Research in 1987.

AI at work Is developing 300mm silicon carbide as a material for packaging advanced AI data center chips (2026). Source (opens in a new tab)

Wolfspeed

Chapel Hill· 1 employer

State-owned health system headquartered at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill.

AI at work Piloted a secure internal generative AI assistant on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to answer staff questions (2023). Source (opens in a new tab)

UNC Health

Research Triangle Park· 5 employers

Runs a large campus in Research Triangle Park with client service, software engineering, and data science teams.

AI at work Its AI Center of Excellence built Seq2Pat, an open source library for finding patterns in sequences, with Carnegie Mellon (2023). Source (opens in a new tab)

Fidelity

Runs an operations center in Research Triangle Park for technology and drug development teams. Its headquarters is in Burlington.

AI at work Launched Test Finder in 2025, a generative AI tool built with AWS that suggests lab tests from a clinician's plain-language question. Source (opens in a new tab)

Labcorp

Its RTP Innovation Center is the global research and development center for Syngenta Seeds.

AI at work Uses AI and machine learning in plant breeding to separate genetic, environmental, and management effects (2025). Source (opens in a new tab)

Syngenta

Research Triangle Park is home to BASF's North American agricultural headquarters and several of its global crop research groups.

AI at work Its xarvio FIELD MANAGER gives farmers field-specific advice from crop models, with AI seed recommendations. Source (opens in a new tab)

BASF

Arrived in Research Triangle Park in 1965 and helped launch the park's growth. Its software and business teams still work there.

AI at work Released its Granite enterprise language models under the open Apache 2.0 license (2024). Source (opens in a new tab)

IBM

Morrisville· 1 employer

Morrisville has been one of Lenovo's two global headquarters since 2005.

AI at work Marking 20 years in North Carolina in 2025, it said it is investing $1 billion in AI innovation over three years. Source (opens in a new tab)

Lenovo

Cary· 4 employers

Runs its global technology campus in Cary and co-hosts a technology workforce center with NC TECH.

AI at work Launched AI-based benefit tools with Aura in 2025 that flag online and mental health risks for employees' children. Source (opens in a new tab)

MetLife

Deutsche Bank

Its Cary technology center builds software for the bank's trading, risk, and transaction processing systems.

AI at work Uses Google Cloud generative AI to process thousands of documents a day, reporting 97% accuracy (2025). Source (opens in a new tab)

Deutsche Bank

Epic Games

Maker of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, headquartered in Cary since 1999.

AI at work Added a conversational AI Darth Vader to Fortnite in 2025 and gave creators tools to build AI-powered characters. Source (opens in a new tab)

Epic Games

SAS

Analytics and AI software company that grew out of an NC State project in 1976, headquartered on a campus in Cary.

AI at work Unveiled tools in 2025 for building and governing AI agents with adjustable levels of human oversight. Source (opens in a new tab)

SAS

Holly Springs· 2 employers

Opened a drug substance manufacturing plant in Holly Springs in 2025 and is building a second one beside it.

AI at work An early adopter of ChatGPT Enterprise, which it has scaled across the company (2025). Source (opens in a new tab)

Amgen

Opened a large biologics manufacturing plant in Holly Springs in 2025, producing medicines for drugmakers.

AI at work Used digital twins and AI-driven construction tracking to build the Holly Springs plant, according to a 2026 ISPE award. Source (opens in a new tab)

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies

Clayton· 1 employer

Novo Nordisk

Clayton is its first and largest U.S. manufacturing site, making diabetes and obesity medicines for more than 30 years.

AI at work Is building custom AI models and agents for drug discovery with NVIDIA (2025). Source (opens in a new tab)

Novo Nordisk

The 2027 theme

Make AI Work for You

What do you do differently on Monday?

Every talk has to answer one question. We don't want AI to take over. We want to take over AI — and make it a tool for building a better future.

It is not a tagline, it is a mission. We help people become the one in the room who knows what to do, and we want everyone to leave able to do something they could not do when they walked in. A society that understands this technology gets the better jobs, the better medicine and the better products. One that does not gets it done to them.

We want the AI future to look more like the Jetsons than the Terminator.

And the question is the acceptance filter, not a slogan: every submission to the call for speakers is judged against it, and a session that only describes what a model can do gets declined — however good the demo is.

Conference day · Tuesday 20 April

A track for the job you do, so you never sit through the wrong one.

Ten tracks in ten rooms, 80 track sessions: AI Users, AI in the Enterprise, AI Builders, AI Engineers, AI Executives, AI Solutions Theater, AI Governance, Security & Compliance, Sovereign AI and Open Source, AI for Small Business, and AI & the Workforce. Twenty-five minute talks on a thirty-minute grid.

AI Users
Practical workflows for teams adopting AI in everyday work. No code required: sessions for professionals who use AI to get their own job done. Ballroom B.
AI in the Enterprise (Transformation & Infrastructure)
Operating models, platforms and change management for AI at scale: how organizations move AI from pilot to production, and what it takes to run it. Ballroom A.
AI Builders
Founders and product teams shipping AI-native products and agents. Apps, agents and getting something that runs into production. Ballroom C.
AI Engineers
Models, serving, pipelines, evaluations and production cost. The engineering track for people who run AI systems in production. Room 306 BC.
AI Executives
Strategy, investment and organizational change for accountable leaders: P&L, organization design, and what to stop doing. Room 302 C.
AI Governance, Security & Compliance
Policy, risk, security, audit and compliance for trustworthy deployment, in organizations that have to answer for their AI. Room 303.
Sovereign AI and Open Source
Open-weight models, self-hosted inference and keeping your data where you decide it lives. For teams that want AI they can inspect, run and own. Room 302 AB.
AI for Small Business
AI for owners and small teams without an IT department: the tools worth paying for, the workflows that save real hours, and what to skip. Room 304.
AI & the Workforce
Jobs, skills and hiring as AI changes the work: reskilling, training that sticks, and how managers lead teams through the change. Room 301 B.
AI Demo Theater
Tuesday's live stage for 30-minute sponsor demos: working solutions shown in action, with time for the hard questions. Room 306 A.

Whoever you are

Nobody has to sit at the kids' table.

A CFO, a state legislator, an NC State senior and a veteran retraining for a new career are in the same building on purpose. That only works if each of them can find a room where the level is right — technical depth for the people who want it, plain language for the people who need it, and no one made to feel tested. If you leave without the thing you came for, we got it wrong.

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