MONTHLY SESSIONS
The Problem
The Problem
The AI landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace, yet opportunities to connect and share insights are limited. This means many professionals spend months or quarters solving the same challenges in isolation, reinventing solutions that their peers may have already discovered.
We’re all grappling with elevating developer productivity with AI and how we measure it.
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As leaders and non-developers vibe code apps and put them into production, who will manage them?
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AI-assisted coding is changing the structures of development teams, but which structures deliver more value, more quickly?
I’m absolutely certain that many people in our peer group are figuring out parts of the answer right now.
The Solution
The Solution
Monthly closed-door sessions with 50-100 enterprise AI leaders solving real problems—together.
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“The Monthly AI Forum has been by far the best place to get industry leaders into a small room to talk about the important changes in AI and how it affects us. It's invaluable because we can share knowledge, understand the problem space, and execute flawlessly.”
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"This isn't an AI enthusiasm group. It’s a leadership forum for people dealing with the real consequences of AI at scale. The focus on flow, constraints, and ownership makes the discussions unusually practical."
What You Get
- 4 monthly sessions - pro-rated for the remaining sessions (June 2026–Sep 2026)
- 10am-12pm PT (subject to change, will rotate to accommodate everyone’s timezones)
Each Session
- 1 hour: 20 minute invited technology leader talk + 40 minute Q&A (Chatham House rules—candid stories, no recording)
- 1 hour: Unconference breakouts—work on problems you pitched
The 1 Hour Unconference Breakouts
The 1 Hour Unconference Breakouts
Bring the problems keeping you up at night and self-organize with fellow travelers to work on them. For the past ten years, ETLS Forum cohorts have created position papers, experiments, and frameworks using this same model—now, we're scaling it monthly.
Before
Submit your hardest problems. We’ll publish them so you can come prepared.
people
During
Join the group tackling what matters most to you. Work together with peers facing similar challenges.
assessment
After
Many groups will likely document what they discover and present findings to the community.
Past ETLS Forum cohorts have created position papers, guidance documents, videos, and case studies (view them here). Maybe you'll build the next ones!
Membership & Pricing
Membership & Pricing
Individual Seat
Best For: Solo leaders or first seat from the company
$2,000/seat
Team of 2-4
Best For: Bring your rising stars
$1,500/seat
Team of 5+
Best For: Scale across your organization
$1,000/seat
What's Included:
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4 monthly sessions (June 2026 → September 2026)
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Member-only analyst summaries & artifact library (e.g., resources, links, and Gene-authored summaries to make it easy to bring learnings to bear in your own context)
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Access to unconference project cohorts & peer circles
June Speaker
June Speaker
10:00am – 12:00pm PT | Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Last Month
May 12
Steve Yegge
Co-author of "Vibe Coding", Author of Gas Town agent swarm
Co-author of "Vibe Coding", Author of Gas Town agent swarm
This Month
June 16
Erik Meijer
Research Scholar, Leibniz Labs
Research Scholar, Leibniz Labs
Who This Is For & How to Join
Who This Is For & How to Join
This program is designed for technology leaders who attended Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit 2024 or 2025—and the rising stars you want to bring along. From my experience, the types of leaders who will benefit from this are those who want to create effective networks, engage with a community of trusted fellow travelers, contribute back to it, and, most importantly, apply those learnings to their own context.
This is how we put the practice loop into action: Listen → Reflect → Practice → Report back. (This isn’t just about passively consuming content.)
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Bring your rising stars: "I want my rising leaders to meet people outside the company, find mentors, and import important ideas so they can solve ever-larger problems." — Sarah Miller, Senior Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace
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Budget-friendly positioning: You’ve told us how this can be positioned as Executive Education and Leadership Development, eligible for Learning and Development budgets, Individual Development Plans, or Conference line items.
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Cost perspective: $5,000/year for 11 sessions ($455 per session) — Compare to a single day at Gartner Symposium ($4,000/day) or one executive coaching session ($3,000–$5,000/day). Instead of sending one more person to a generic, annual conference, invest in 11 months of interactions with fellow leaders solving your exact problems. In this environment, none of us can wait an entire year to get these types of insights.
Budget Codes That Work
This typically gets approved under:
- Conferences & Events
- Executive Education / Leadership Development
- AI Program / Innovation Budget (this allows us to tap large capital budgets, created to help executives figure out what and how to use AI)
Invoicing
Annual billing standard; quarterly invoicing available upon request. Can split across budget codes (e.g., Conference + L&D).
Guardrails & House Rules
- Closed-door, Chatham House: Share learnings, not secrets
- We will produce anonymized summaries for members only
- These are the same rules that we’ve used for ETLS Forum for a decade, and also used at the NYC and SF CTO Club.
Questions?
Questions?
Email Gene Kim (genek@itrevolution.com) or Marjorie Kessler (marjorie@itrevolution.com)