Aaron Levie
CEO, Box
2025 Archive
Connected Stack 2025
A look back at the founders, operators, buyers, investors, and partners who gathered in San Francisco to compare what enterprise AI looks like in production.
2025 Speakers
On stage in 2025.
Last year’s lineup featured founders and CEOs building across the enterprise AI stack — from infrastructure and security to GTM, search, developer tools, and deployment at scale. Many were still early in the breakout curve when they took the stage.
Since presenting, companies have gone on to sign major enterprise deals, raise more than $2.9B in additional capital, and go on to exits representing more than $4.5B.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Garrett Lord
CEO, Handshake
Will Bryk
Founder & CEO, Exa
Paul Smith
Chief Commercial Officer, Anthropic
Misbah & Farah Uraizee
Co-founders, Nectar Social
Ashwin Sreenivas
Co-founder & President, Decagon
2025 Recap
A room that delivers.
Last year’s stage wasn’t just talk. The founders who spoke went on to define what enterprise AI looks like at scale—$4.5B in exits to ServiceNow and Palo Alto Networks, and over $1B in new capital raised to build the next generation of mission-critical infrastructure.
That’s the bar for who’s in the room. The founders solving the hardest problems, the operators deploying at Fortune 1,000 scale, the investors writing the checks that matter.
Connected Stack 2026 brought the room back together on September 10 at the Presidio Theatre, San Francisco—the cohort that’s shaping how the world’s largest companies build, buy, and bet on AI.
In the room last year
2025 Agenda
The format for practical enterprise AI signal.
The 2025 programming centered on founders and operators comparing what was moving from pilot to production.
8:30 AM
Doors Open & Registration
9:00 AM
Welcome
9:15 AM
Keynote Speaker
9:30 AM
Founder Flash Talks
10:25 AM
Break: Meet the Room
10:55 AM
Founder Flash Talks
11:15 AM
Spotlight Conversations
11:45 AM
Founder Flash Talks
12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker
12:30 PM
Networking Lunch
Afternoon
Continued Networking
The venue will remain open in the afternoon for continued networking, meetings, and conversations. We encourage attendees to use this time to meet the room, connect with companies they may want to build with, back, or deploy, and continue the conversations sparked throughout the morning.
2025 Co-hosts & Partners
Co-hosts
Partners
