Connected Stack Enterprise AI Summit Announces Speaker Lineup Including Keynote by Anthropic

Twenty-one leading venture capital firms co-host the San Francisco event on September 10, each nominating enterprise AI founders to present flash talks on what they're building

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Connected Stack today announced the lineup for its second annual enterprise AI event on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at The Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.

The headlining keynote will be delivered by Anthropic Head of Americas Kate Jensen, who leads the company's enterprise sales and partnerships across the region. True Ventures Partner Mike Montano will join Jensen on stage as they dive into how the agentic enterprise tracks impact and value in a conversation titled "Real ROI: How the Agentic Enterprise Measures What Matters."

Co-hosting firms nominate founders for Spotlight Conversations and Founder Flash Talks—a collective signal of who they believe are at the frontier of the enterprise AI landscape. 

Spotlight Conversations include:

• Winning Attention: The New Marketing Playbook featuring Nectar Social Co-founders Farah Uraizee and Misbah Uraizee in conversation with Amy Wu Martin of Menlo Ventures.
• Climbing the Enterprise AI Value Pyramid featuring HappyRobot Co-founder and CTO Luis Paarup in conversation with Anish Acharya of Andreessen Horowitz.
• Why the Cost of Inference Won't Go to Zero featuring Unconventional AI CEO Naveen Rao in conversation with Konstantine Buhler of Sequoia Capital.
• From Models to Context: Building AI That Works Across the Enterprise featuring Glean Founder and CEO Arvind Jain in conversation with Mamoon Hamid of Kleiner Perkins.

Featured Flash Talk companies include:

Sailplane, Knit, LlamaIndex, Plain, Corridor, Resolve AI, Natural, Aegis AI, Maxima, Latent Defense, Vero Security, GetReal Security, and more.

Doors open at 8:30 AM PT, with programming running through a networking lunch. The venue stays open into the afternoon for meetings, conversation, and Scrappy Sessions – True Ventures' informal builder demo series where anyone building with AI can apply to showcase their latest project to a room of investors, builders, and the community at large.

Connected Stack 2026 is co-hosted by twenty-one of the industry's leading venture firms: True Ventures, Accel, Addition, a16z, Ballistic Ventures, Battery, Conviction, Felicis, Forerunner, Greylock, GTM Capital, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, MTF.VC, Notable Capital, NVIDIA Inception Program, Redpoint, Sequoia Capital, and Sound. The event is proudly supported by Lowenstein Sandler, Silicon Valley Bank, Aduro Advisors, Attivo Partners, Goodwin Procter, and PwC.

View the agenda and request one of the limited remaining seats at connectedstack.ai.

About Connected Stack

Connected Stack is a gathering of the most influential minds in enterprise AI — bringing together ambitious founders, operators, CEOs, investors, and Fortune 1000 executives to shape the future of enterprise technology. Held in San Francisco, the event is situated at the epicenter of the AI startup ecosystem. Speakers have included Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Anthropic CCO Paul Smith, and Box CEO Aaron Levie. For updates and more information, visit connectedstack.ai.

SOURCE Connected Stack