CSS Executive Forum
Join Us for Strategic Dialogue and Executive Exchange
As AI moves from experimentation to embedded capability, customer leaders face a defining question:
What must change in how we design and run our organizations?
This forum convenes senior customer and technology leaders to examine how AI is reshaping operating models, decision rights, talent, and value creation.
Innovation Workshops (2:00 – 4:15 PM)
Small-group, peer discussions focused on redesigning the post-sales operating model for an AI-enabled future.
🔹 Workshop 1: Designing Value-Centric Operating Models
For revenue and retention leaders
- Aligning Success, GTM, and Product around shared outcomes
- Shifting from account management to proactive orchestration
- Embedding value realization into daily workflows
- Converting AI insight into retention, expansion, and margin growth
🔹 Workshop 2: AI-Native Service and Support Operations
For support and service leaders
- Embedding contextual intelligence into support workflows
- Accelerating resolution with AI diagnostics
- Using predictive signals to prevent escalations
- Aligning AI with IT architecture, governance, and security
Executive Forum (4:00 – 8:00 PM)
4:00 PM | Welcome Reception
Connect with fellow leaders over refreshments and light bites.
4:30 PM | Opening Remarks - Omid Razavi
Why the Customer Operating Model Must Evolve in the AI Era
A strategic framing of how AI reshapes leadership, accountability, and organizational design.
4:45 PM | Host Perspective - Srivatsan Vaiyakarnam
Leading Customer Success in an AI-Enabled Enterprise
5:00 PM | Workshop Insights: Rapidfire Takeaways
Key themes and lessons emerging from peer discussions.
5:15 PM | Keynote Conversation - Ted Shelton
What Endures When AI Scales Everything?
Exploring where durable advantage lives beyond products, in trust, delegation design, and operating model architecture.
5:45 PM | Leadership Exchange
Architecting the AI-Enabled Operating Model
A candid executive dialog exploring:
- Rearchitecting the Customer Operating Model
- Rewiring Decision Governance and Accountability
- Realigning Customer, Product, and Technology
- Repositioning Talent and Leadership for Impact
7:00 PM | Peer Exchange Dinner
Continue the conversation over a curated dinner with peers.
Why Attend?
- Move from AI pilots to structural advantage
- Redesign decision governance at scale
- Engage in candid dialogue with senior peers
- Leave with clarity on your next move
Attendance is limited to senior leaders to preserve depth of exchange. Complimentary for approved guests.
Hosted by NetApp and organized by SuccessLab in partnership with Gradual, Neuron7, Planhat, and SearchUnify.
