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Bizzdesign Connect North America

September 17, 2026

9:30AM CDT / 10:30AM EDT 

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Where AI Meets the Moment of Decision

Enterprise Architecture is becoming more strategic, more intelligent, and more central to how organizations operate. The question is whether yours is keeping pace.

By the time enterprise context enters the conversation, the window to influence direction has already closed. Priorities are locked in. Investments have moved. Risks are no longer hypothetical.

Bizzdesign Connect North America 2026 is where we confront those challenges. Bringing CIOs, transformation executives, and architecture leaders together to see how leading organizations are putting trusted enterprise context at the center of decision-making in real time, while it still matters.

  • Shift architecture from documentation to strategic driver
  • Turn early ideas into architecture-informed scenarios through AI-native collaboration
  • Make EA and portfolio intelligence accessible to every decision maker, not just architects
  • Explore whether AI replaces the enterprise architect or redefines what the role can become

You'll leave knowing exactly how to make enterprise architecture a real-time driver of transformation, not an afterthought.

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Event Opens
10:30AM - 10:35AM EDT

A welcome message and opening remarks from Bizzdesign

Keynote Session
10:35AM - 11:05AM EDT

Andy Neill

How Enterprise Architecture Can Disrupt AI?

81% of organizations are expanding AI capabilities right now. Agentic AI investment jumped from 15% to 65% in a single year. The question is no longer whether AI will reshape enterprise architecture, it already has. The real question is: what does EA do about it?

Yes, AI is disrupting enterprise architecture, compressing timelines, auto-generating models, and challenging the relevance of traditional EA disciplines. Here's the truth: those who move fast have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the most powerful actors in their organization. Not passengers of the AI wave BUT the puppet masters behind how it's built, governed, and deployed.

If you're a transformation leader wondering where your discipline fits in an AI-first world, this session will give you both the perspective and the insight to lead from the front.

Bizzdesign Spotlight
11:05AM - 11:25PM EDT

Daniel Hebda

AI for EA, Not EA for AI: The Bizzdesign Difference

There's a difference between sprinkling AI on an enterprise architecture tool and building an AI-native platform for EA.  

While the market has been busy adding AI features to existing architecture tools, Bizzdesign has been asking a fundamentally different question: what does an EA platform look like when AI isn't an add-on, but the foundation? In this session, Dan Hebda, Head of AI at Bizzdesign walks through the value of having an AI-native EA platform where the graph-based architecture understands context and relationships, where governance isn't a policy document but a default embedded into every layer, and where architects aren't just using AI as a shortcut but deploying it as a genuine decision engine for the whole business. 

AI for EA. Not AI on EA. The distinction is everything.

Panel Discussion
11:25AM - 11:55AM EDT

Moderated by Grant Ecker

Does AI replace the role of EA? 

AI can map complexity, generate models, and surface insights at a scale no human team can match. So where does that leave the Enterprise Architect?

Customers, thought leaders, authors, and practitioners from across industries come together to explore one of the most pressing questions facing the architecture profession today examining where AI's capabilities end and where human judgment, organizational context, and strategic thinking still define the role.

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Closing Remarks
11:55AM - 12:00PM EDT

Reflect on key takeaways as Bizzdesign Connect North America 2026 comes to a close. 

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