Solix sets agenda for SOLIXEmpower 2026 at UC San Diego

Solix Technologies released the agenda and speaker lineup for SOLIXEmpower 2026, a three-day enterprise AI conference set for Oct. 28–30 at UC San Diego. The event will focus on agentic AI, data governance and cloud data management, with sessions spanning industry panels, product demos, workshops and a student hackathon.

Why it matters: - SOLIXEmpower 2026 is designed to show how enterprise AI moves from data preparation to real business use. - The conference puts data governance, regulated AI and practical deployment at the center of the conversation. - The program brings together enterprise leaders, researchers and students at a time when organizations are trying to use AI agents without losing control of data.

What happened: - Solix Technologies announced the full agenda and speaker lineup for SOLIXEmpower 2026. - The conference runs Oct. 28–30 at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. - Solix is hosting the event with UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing and the SPARK AI Consortium at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. - The theme is “The Agentic Enterprise: Reimagining Enterprise Applications with Enterprise AI.” - The event includes keynotes, industry panels, a hands-on product workshop, live demonstrations and a student AI hackathon.

The details: - Day 1, Solix Product Day, opens with a welcome from Sai Gundavelli, founder and CEO of Solix. - Mark Lee, Solix chief product officer, will deliver the keynote “Put AI in the Hands of Your Business.” - Day 1 sessions include enterprise archiving, application retirement, and data governance topics such as classification, retention and data minimization. - A customer panel will discuss lessons from enterprise data and AI programs in production. - The afternoon workshop will focus on building a semantic layer for enterprise data using Solix Data Sense and Solix’s Data Ask. - Workshop participants are expected to leave with a working blueprint and a Solix Academy certificate. - Day 1 also includes sessions on enterprise data platform capabilities, AI agents, low-code agent building, MCP integration, agent governance and AI-ready data for life sciences. - Day 1 ends with an “Ask the Product Team” forum, training and certification session, and a Solix User Group cocktails and dinner event. - Day 2, Solix Customer Day, opens with a welcome and hackathon kickoff from Prof. Rajesh Gupta and Sai Gundavelli. - Alastair Thomson, founder of AI Strategy LLC and former CIO of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at NIH, will deliver the Day 2 keynote. - Day 2 features six executive panels on trustworthy AI agents, secure and governed AI foundations, enterprise intelligence, governance for agentic enterprises, the risks of weak governance, and human-centered public-sector AI. - Day 2 closes with a networking dinner. - Day 3 focuses on healthcare and life sciences panels, including trusted intelligence across healthcare, agentic AI in pharma workflows and scaling agentic AI across the drug discovery pipeline. - Day 3 ends with hackathon winner announcements and a networking lunch. - Confirmed speakers and panelists include Prof. Rajesh Gupta, James Short, Jonathan Behnke, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Joshua Baughman, Bheema Paraselli, Madhu Varadarajan, Richard Haubrich, Harakh Shah, Dharini Shah and Arvind Sathi. - Solix said additional speakers from industry, academia and government will be announced before the event. - The complete agenda is available at the conference site.

Between the lines: - Solix is using the conference to position enterprise data governance as the foundation for agentic AI. - The UC San Diego partnership gives the event academic credibility and widens the audience beyond corporate buyers. - The mix of product sessions, customer panels and a hackathon suggests Solix wants attendees to leave with both strategy and implementation ideas. - Gundavelli said the hardest part of enterprise AI is not the model, but the data underneath it. - Gundavelli also said SOLIXEmpower is where customers, partners and researchers work through how to govern data well enough for agents to act on it.

What's next: - Solix will announce additional speakers ahead of the conference. - Registration remains required, and Solix said seating is limited. - The company is encouraging enterprise technology and business leaders to register early and finalize travel plans. - The conference will culminate with hackathon results and the closing sessions on Oct. 30.

The bottom line: - SOLIXEmpower 2026 is shaping up as a practical enterprise AI event centered on governance, deployment and real-world use cases rather than hype.