Taking place virtually on August 13, this summit unites enterprise technology leaders to examine the overlooked gaps in AI adoption, including cost, risk, and measurable returns.
“Over the last two years, organizations focused on demonstrating what AI is capable of. The coming two years will be dedicated to proving its worth: understanding its expenses, identifying its dangers, and determining its actual returns.”— Shyam Kumar, CEO, CloudNuro
The enterprise platform for overseeing AI, SaaS, and cloud environments, CloudNuro, has officially announced the AI Adoption Management Summit 2026. This virtual event, bringing together technology, data, security, and business executives, is scheduled for Thursday, August 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
With the theme “The Blindspots of AI Adoption,” the summit aims to shift the enterprise conversation around artificial intelligence from experimentation toward accountability. Discussions will center on identifying where AI is deployed, its associated costs, performance metrics, organizational vulnerabilities, and whether these investments yield tangible business outcomes.
According to a 2025 report from MIT’s NANDA initiative, 95% of organizations studied failed to achieve measurable returns from their generative AI efforts. Meanwhile, BlackFog’s 2026 Shadow AI research revealed that 49% of employees utilize AI tools not endorsed by their employers, leading to security, privacy, and governance risks that often go undetected by IT departments.
These findings collectively indicate a growing disconnect between the swift pace of AI adoption and the oversight, governance, and financial discipline necessary for effective management.
“Organizations have spent the past two years showcasing what AI can accomplish. The next two years will focus on demonstrating its value,” stated Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO of CloudNuro. “Most executives can thoroughly outline their AI aspirations, but they cannot specify the costs of those tools, where vulnerabilities exist, or the returns they generate. That discrepancy is where the real challenge lies, and it is the foundation upon which we built this summit.”
This summit is tailored for CIOs, CTOs, chief AI officers, CISOs, CFOs, engineering leaders, and heads of AI who bear the responsibility of accelerating AI adoption while also proving its security, efficiency, and business contribution.
Five Blindspots of Enterprise AI Adoption
The agenda will tackle five key obstacles that often hinder enterprise AI initiatives from scaling responsibly and delivering measurable results:
• Shadow AI: Unauthorized AI tools used without formal approval, security reviews, or governance, introducing hidden data, access, and compliance threats.
• Runaway Token Costs: Unpredictable and swiftly rising generative AI consumption expenses as enterprise usage, applications, and agents expand.
• Real-Time Risk: Excessive token consumption due to overly lengthy prompts and verbose outputs, causing financial waste and performance slowdowns while offering decreasing value.
• Stalled Returns: AI performance improvements that start to level off while compute, data, and infrastructure expenses continue climbing, undermining the economics of conventional scaling methods.
• Silent Failures: AI models and systems that gradually deteriorate, drift, or generate incorrect results without prompt detection, potentially impacting customers and business operations.
Attendees will obtain actionable insights on identifying enterprise AI use cases, allocating costs, monitoring risk and performance, and developing an operating model that links AI adoption to accountability and quantifiable value.
Speakers Representing the AI Adoption Lifecycle
The confirmed speaker roster includes leaders with expertise covering AI research, enterprise technology, data science, business transformation, governance, and investment:
• Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO, CloudNuro
• Ravi Reddy, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Sunera Group; Venture Partner
• Dr. Shailesh Kumar, Chief Data Scientist, AI/ML Center of Excellence, Jio
• Jesse Carrillo, former Chief Information Officer, Hines and Howard Hughes
• Balakrishna Reddy, Chief Data Scientist and Vice President, AI/ML Center of Excellence, Jio
Collectively, these speakers will provide viewpoints spanning the entire AI adoption lifecycle—from building and scaling AI systems to funding, governing, and assessing their organizational impact.
CloudNuro is organizing this summit as companies move beyond isolated AI experiments and start treating AI as a new operational and financial category, similar to SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
Registration is currently available at www.cloudnuro.ai/ai-summit-2026.
About CloudNuro
CloudNuro offers an enterprise platform for managing AI, SaaS, and cloud environments, delivering unified visibility, governance, and cost optimization across modern technology stacks. This tool enables organizations to discover applications and AI tools, track adoption and usage, allocate and refine spending, control access, and strengthen governance and accountability.
Serving both enterprises and government agencies, CloudNuro has earned industry recognition from the Chicago Innovation Awards, Gartner, Info-Tech SoftwareReviews, and Everest Group.
For further details, visit www.cloudnuro.ai.
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Sources:
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
BlackFog, 2026 Shadow AI Research
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