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Keep an eye out for weekly speaker updates.

Keynotes
Hear from the leaders redefining customer experience and AI across industries. From visionary keynotes and compelling customer stories to practical deep dives, every session is designed to leave you with ideas you can put into practice.

The Listening Lounge
Some of the best business insights come from unexpected inspiration. Join curated conversations with artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, designers, and other masters of their craft as they share how to navigate pressure, creativity, leadership, and change.

Natural networking
The most valuable connections happen naturally. Throughout the day, personalized recommendations, coffee breaks, and happy hour create an opportunity to meet peers, and form valuable new relationships. You never know where you’ll find your next best idea.
8:15
Start Decagon Dialogues 2026 with a breakfast celebrating the women shaping the future of agentic AI. Connect with fellow leaders and innovators at Delarosa Downtown before the main program begins. Advance registration is required.
9:00 - 10:00
Close out Dialogues with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang as he reflects on the day's biggest insights and shares his vision for the future of AI, customer experience, and the opportunities ahead.
10:00

Co-founder & CEO,Decagon

Co-founder & President,Decagon

S.V.P. and Chief Digital Officer,Delta Air Lines

VP, AI Architect,Verizon
Kick off the day with Decagon co-founders Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas as they share Decagon’s vision for the future and latest product innovations, followed by conversations with Eric Philips, Chief Digital Officer at Delta Air Lines, and Vidyut Naware, VP of AI Architecture at Verizon, on transforming customer experience and building AI agents at enterprise scale.
11:00

VP of Digital Customer Experience,American Airlines

VP of Commercial Technology,American Airlines
Hear how American Airlines is designing AI-powered journeys that build trust and create loyalty.
11:00

Sommelier, Author & Director of Education,Wine Center at Meadowood
Hear from Kelli White, acclaimed sommelier and author of "Wine Confident," on tasting with every sense, finding the words for what is in your glass, and creating experiences people remember.
11:00
Director of Product Management, Programmable Voice,Twilio
Product Lead,Decagon
Making a voice agent sound impressive is only the start. Leaders from Decagon and Twilio unpack the systems, infrastructure, and safeguards needed to deploy helpful, reliable voice AI safely at scale.
11:30

GM Banking and Payments,Varo Bank

Senior Director of Engineering,Affirm
The next generation of customer support in financial services will be built on trust - earning it by using AI safely, consistently, and responsibly while delivering measurable business value. Hear leaders from Plaid, Affirm, and Varo share real-world lessons from putting AI customer experiences into practice.
11:30

Author & Palliative Care Physician,The Beginner’s Guide to the End
Dr. BJ Miller brings lessons from his personal journey and career in palliative care to a conversation about resilience, well-being, and what truly matters. He challenges us to build lives that are more wonderful, not just less horrible - and to rethink how we approach mental health and longevity now.
11:30

Senior Director of Agent PM,Decagon

Senior Manager, Business Transformation,American Airlines
AI adoption has no single blueprint. As companies move from pilots to scale, CX teams must evolve. Explore a practical framework for building an AI-ready CX organization at scale, from ownership to agent design and governance.
12:00
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12:00
Learn to build your own AI agent and compete for prizes in this hands-on Decagon University hackathon. Pre-registration and laptops are required.
1:30

Co-Founder and CEO,Cognition
Scott Wu will discuss the future of AI-powered software development and how autonomous agents are reshaping the way we work.
2:00
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VP, CX Strategy & Experience,Away
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SVP Strategy & Analytics Support & Operations,Ticketmaster
Join Anu Hariharan, Founder at Avra and leaders from some of the world's most innovative consumer brands as they explore how AI is transforming product discovery, personalization, and customer guidance into a concierge experience that feels effortless.
2:00

Author,Cool Gray City of Love
Join acclaimed author Gary Kamiya for an exploration of place through history, walking, and observation—and discover new ways to experience the city we call home.
2:00
Speech AI Researcher,Decagon
Engineering Leader,Decagon
Voice is one of AI’s toughest frontiers: agents must sound natural, respond quickly, and perform reliably. Decagon’s voice research team shares the challenges, design choices, and breakthroughs shaping the next gen of Decagon Voice.
2:30

Vice President Operations,Carrot
GM Healthcare,Decagon
Adam Terk joins Decagon’s Laura Vang to share how Carrot is building trusted AI-powered member support - from selecting the right use cases and connecting complex data to establishing guardrails and scaling across channels.
2:30
Hear how American Airlines and Avis are designing AI-powered journeys that build trust and create loyalty.
2:30
Agent Data Scientist,Decagon
After launch, AI agents need constant testing and refinement. This session explores how self-improving agents can automate that loop, what DuetBench reveals, and how to govern progress toward recursive improvement.
3:00

President & CEO,PayPal

Co-founder & CEO,Decagon
Enrique Lores joins Jesse Zhang to explore how PayPal is evolving for the next era of payments, the opportunities and challenges presented by AI and agentic commerce, and the principles enterprise leaders can use to navigate technological change.
3:30

Chief Digital Officer,Chipotle

Co-founder & President,Decagon
Chipotle Chief Digital Officer Arlie Sisson joins Ashwin Sreenivas to explore how the brand is creating one connected guest journey across its app, 23 million-member rewards program, and more than 4,000 restaurants. They’ll discuss how Chipotle is delivering meaningful personalization at scale while preserving the human hospitality at the heart of the guest experience.
4:00 - 6:00
Close out Dialogues with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang as he reflects on the day's biggest insights and shares his vision for the future of AI, customer experience, and the opportunities ahead.
Customer experience is changing faster than any team can keep up with alone. The organizations setting the pace are rethinking how customer support, product, operations, and engineering work together to create thoughtful, concierge customer experiences. Decagon Dialogues exists to bring together the leaders building the next generation of AI-powered customer support to share their experiences, learn from each other, and build what's next.
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The CJM is in San Francisco's vibrant Yerba Buena neighborhood, surrounded by great hotels, restaurants, and public transit.
Looking for somewhere to stay? We recommend staying at one of following the nearby hotels, all within a short walk of the venue:
W San Francisco, InterContinental, Hyatt Regency SOMA, Marriott Marquis, Hotel Zelos.
The museum is also just a five-minute walk from Montgomery Street BART Station and approximately 20–25 minutes from SFO.

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