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Soho House Series

Soho House Series | Austin, TX

Thursday, October 01, 2026
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Networking & Cocktails at Soho House

AI Gateways and Guardrails: Defining Business Logic and Control.
Thursday, October 1st | 6:00 PM CT


You don’t need a Soho House membership. TechTalk gets you through the door. These members-only clubs are globally recognized for bringing together celebrities, executives, artists, and the cultural elite — and for remaining notoriously exclusive.

Ekene Uzoma, Vice President, Data and AI at State Street will lead AI Gateways and Guardrails: Defining Business Logic and Control, a conversation built for executives navigating AI at scale:

  • The operating model for governance and use of language models
  • Risk management frameworks for AI deployment
  • Latency and cost tradeoffs at the infrastructure layer
  • Using AI as the foundational layer for driving business value

TechTalk is the #1 short-format tech event, built for executives who want real answers, not another all-day conference. The evening opens with craft cocktails, passed hors d'oeuvres, and mingling with your technology peers inside Soho House's intimate lounges — spaces designed for the kind of luxury networking that turns strangers into collaborators. From there, the format moves into presentations and discussion covering the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — the intel you need to level up your career and connect with the top minds in tech from your area.

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Speakers
Ekene Uzoma Vice President, AI and Emerging Technologies at State Street Ekene Uzoma is a Vice President, Data and AI in State Street's Data & AI team, where he manages the roadmap, deployment, and governance of AI solutions for the firms’ internal users. He has over a decade of experience in product and program management across custody, payments, and digital assets, leading various global technology implementations. Ekene holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, combining his technical foundation with deep expertise in financial services innovation. He regularly partners with industry stakeholders to bring emerging technologies into regulated financial environments.
Agenda
6:00 pm
Check-in, Open Bar, Networking

Networking, Hors D'oeuvres & Open Bar

6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Introductions from keynote and sponsors

Salads and Apps served family style

6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Keynote Discussion
Featured Speakers
Ekene Uzoma Vice President, AI and Emerging Technologies at State Street
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Elastic

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7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models, and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Lumos

The explosion of SaaS and cloud infrastructure has flooded companies with hundreds of apps, thousands of identities, and millions of permissions. This sheer volume makes it nearly impossible to see who has access to what and control it at scale. Most are left duct-taping legacy tools, home-grown systems and endless spreadsheets just to keep up.

Lumos is the first autonomous identity platform. It automatically discovers and manages access across all your apps. Instead of being overwhelmed by the sprawl of apps and access, Lumos empowers organizations with one unified solution that controls access on auto-pilot. Lumos customers can enhance security, cut software spend and boost employee productivity — all in one platform.

If your software is increasingly running on autopilot, shouldn’t managing access feel the same?
 

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Networking, Open Bar & Raffles

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