Enterprise technology leaders will convene virtually on August 13 to tackle the overlooked gaps between AI adoption, cost, risk, and measurable return.
“Companies spent the last two years proving what AI can do. The next two will be about proving its value: what it costs, where the risks are, and what it actually returns.”— Shyam Kumar, CEO, CloudNuro
CloudNuro, a platform purpose-built for managing AI, SaaS, and cloud environments, has officially announced the AI Adoption Management Summit 2026. This virtual event gathers technology, data, security, and business leaders and will be held on Thursday, August 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
With the theme “The Blindspots of AI Adoption,” the summit shifts the enterprise AI conversation away from experimentation and toward accountability. It will explore where AI is being deployed, what it costs, how well it performs, where organizations face exposure, and whether investments are delivering tangible business value.
According to a 2025 report from MIT’s NANDA initiative, 95% of organizations studied reported no measurable return from their generative AI efforts. Separately, BlackFog’s 2026 Shadow AI research revealed that 49% of employees use AI tools not sanctioned by their employers, creating security, privacy, and governance risks that may stay hidden from IT.
Together, these findings highlight a growing divide between the pace of AI adoption and the visibility, governance, and financial discipline needed to manage it effectively.
“Companies spent the last two years proving what AI can do. The next two will be about proving what it’s worth,” said Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO of CloudNuro. “Most leaders can describe their AI ambitions in detail, but not what those tools cost, where they’re exposed or what they return. That gap is where the real work is now, and it is what we built this summit around.”
The summit is designed for CIOs, CTOs, chief AI officers, CISOs, CFOs, engineering leaders, and heads of AI who are tasked not only with accelerating AI adoption but also with demonstrating its security, efficiency, and business value.
Five Blindspots of Enterprise AI Adoption
The agenda will tackle five key challenges that often prevent enterprise AI initiatives from scaling responsibly and generating measurable outcomes:
• Shadow AI: AI tools used outside formal approval, security review, and governance, creating hidden risks around data, access, and compliance.
• Runaway Token Costs: Unpredictable and rapidly rising generative AI consumption costs as enterprise usage, applications, and agents scale up.
• Real-Time Risk: Excessive token consumption from bloated prompts and verbose responses, causing financial leakage and performance bottlenecks while delivering diminishing value.
• Stalled Returns: AI performance gains that plateau while compute, data, and infrastructure costs continue climbing, challenging the economics of traditional scaling methods.
• Silent Failures: AI models and systems that quietly degrade, drift, or produce inaccurate results without timely detection, potentially impacting customers and business operations.
Attendees will gain practical insights into identifying enterprise AI use cases, attributing costs, monitoring risk and performance, and building an operating model that connects AI adoption to accountability and measurable value.
Speakers Representing the AI Adoption Lifecycle
The announced speaker lineup includes leaders with experience across AI research, enterprise technology, data science, business transformation, governance, and investment:
• Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO, CloudNuro
• Ravi Reddy, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Sunera Group; Venture Partner
• Dr. Shailesh Kumar, Chief Data Scientist, AI/ML Center of Excellence, Jio
• Jesse Carrillo, former Chief Information Officer, Hines and Howard Hughes
• Balakrishna Reddy, Chief Data Scientist and Vice President, AI/ML Center of Excellence, Jio
Together, these speakers will present perspectives spanning the entire AI adoption lifecycle—from developing and scaling AI systems to funding, governing, and measuring their enterprise impact.
CloudNuro is organizing this summit as organizations move beyond isolated AI pilots and begin treating AI as a new operational and financial category alongside SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
Registration is now open at www.cloudnuro.ai/ai-summit-2026.
About CloudNuro
CloudNuro is an enterprise AI, SaaS, and cloud management platform that delivers unified visibility, governance, and cost optimization across modern technology environments. The platform helps organizations discover applications and AI tools, understand adoption and usage, allocate and optimize spending, manage access, and strengthen governance and accountability.
CloudNuro serves enterprises and government agencies and has earned industry recognition from the Chicago Innovation Awards, Gartner, Info-Tech SoftwareReviews, and Everest Group.
For more information, visit www.cloudnuro.ai.
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Sources:
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
BlackFog, 2026 Shadow AI Research
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