Santa Clara Hyatt Hosts AI Services Conference Propel25

As artificial intelligence continues to shape the way Silicon Valley tech companies do business, some industry leaders gathered in Santa Clara to discuss how this technology is making their work easier.

Propel25, sponsored by AI professional services company Rocketlane, brought AI industry leaders and business owners together at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency for a two-day event on May 14 and 15.

“What we’re doing here is giving the professional services industry the opportunity to see things differently, and to step into the future and realize that the value and benefit of what it is that they provide,” said Brett Jarvis, Rocketlane’s vice president of customer success and experience. “The whole concept around the intelligent delivery organization – leveraging AI and people to be able to deliver projects in a more meaningful and powerful way – is what we want people to see as the future.”

This is the fourth year Rocketlane has held its Propel conference, though only the second year in person. This year’s event was double the size of last year’s, helping Rocketlane CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan reach his goal of bringing the community together to learn and “inspire great ideas.”

“It’s about showcasing experiments that are working already. It’s about inspiring people to think about more experiments that they should be doing, that maybe none of them are doing yet. And it’s about shining the light on the art of what’s possible, and that may or may not be directly relevant to what they’re doing today, and we may not have even imagined tomorrow,” said Ganesan. “Just to open people’s minds to what’s possible with AI because that’s going to give them new ideas about what else they want to accomplish.”

Rocketlane customers agree.

“We’re kind of thinking about how do we remove some of those repetitive, mundane tasks, and in order for us to be able to do that, how do we employ AI?” said Kanav Mahajan, a service delivery manager at Retool.

Mahajan says hearing from industry leaders helps him “understand” what’s happening in the “professional services landscape” from people with decades of experience. What’s more, he hears from different sectors of the industry.

“A conference like this not just attracts some of the largest companies, it also has some of the medium companies or some of the startups as well,” said Mahajan. “So, you kind of get a good idea of what is happening and where you should be going in terms of how professional services is shaping.”

Rocketlane’s Propel25 conference featured more than 45 sessions and workshops and speakers from companies like Zoom and Palantir. To see what happened at the conference, Rocketlane has put some of its sessions online, including clips from its Propel25 event at https://www.rocketlane.com/propel.

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Originally appeared in The Silicon Valley Voice