A virtual summit scheduled for August 13 will gather senior enterprise technology leaders to examine the overlooked gaps between AI adoption, cost, risk, and quantifiable returns.
“Over the last two years, companies have focused on demonstrating what AI is capable of. The coming two years will center on proving its worth: understanding its costs, identifying its risks, and measuring what it actually delivers.”— Shyam Kumar, CEO, CloudNuro
CloudNuro, an enterprise platform purpose-built for managing AI, SaaS, and cloud environments, has unveiled the AI Adoption Management Summit 2026. This virtual event, bringing together technology, data, security, and business leaders, will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
Operating under the theme “The Blindspots of AI Adoption,” this summit aims to shift the enterprise AI discussion away from experimentation and toward accountability. It will explore where AI is being deployed, its associated costs, performance metrics, organizational vulnerabilities, and whether investments are generating tangible business value.
A 2025 report from MIT’s NANDA initiative revealed that 95% of organizations studied were not seeing any measurable return on their generative AI projects. Concurrently, BlackFog’s 2026 Shadow AI research indicated that 49% of employees are using AI tools not sanctioned by their employers, creating security, privacy, and governance risks that often go undetected by IT departments.
Collectively, these findings highlight an expanding divide between the swift pace of AI uptake and the visibility, oversight, and financial discipline necessary for its effective management.
“Organizations have spent the last two years proving what AI can accomplish. The next two years will focus on establishing its value,” stated Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO of CloudNuro. “Most leaders can articulate their AI ambitions in great detail, but they cannot specify the cost of those tools, where their exposures lie, or what those tools are returning. That gap is where the critical work lies, and it is the basis on which we built this summit.”
The summit is tailored for CIOs, CTOs, chief AI officers, CISOs, CFOs, engineering leaders, and heads of AI who carry the dual responsibility of accelerating AI adoption while proving its security, efficiency, and business contribution.
Five Blindspots of Enterprise AI Adoption
The agenda will tackle five key obstacles that frequently hinder enterprise AI initiatives from scaling responsibly and delivering measurable outcomes:
• Shadow AI: Unauthorized AI tools used without formal approval, security vetting, or governance, leading to hidden data, access, and compliance risks.
• Runaway Token Costs: Unpredictable and rapidly climbing generative AI consumption expenses as enterprise usage, applications, and agents expand.
• Real-Time Risk: Excessive token consumption driven by bloated prompts and verbose outputs, causing financial waste and performance issues while offering diminishing returns.
• Stalled Returns: AI performance improvements that begin to level off even as compute, data, and infrastructure costs continue to climb, challenging the economics of conventional scaling methods.
• Silent Failures: AI models and systems that gradually degrade, drift, or produce inaccurate results without prompt detection, potentially harming customers and business operations.
Participants will gain actionable insights into identifying enterprise AI use cases, attributing costs, monitoring risk and performance, and building an operating model that ties AI adoption to accountability and measurable value.
Speakers Representing the AI Adoption Lifecycle
The announced lineup of speakers features leaders with expertise spanning 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 viewpoints from across the AI adoption lifecycle—from building and scaling AI systems to funding, governing, and measuring their enterprise impact.
CloudNuro is organizing this summit as organizations move past isolated AI experiments and start treating AI as a new operational and financial category, comparable to SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
Registration is now open at www.cloudnuro.ai/ai-summit-2026.
About CloudNuro
CloudNuro is an enterprise platform for managing AI, SaaS, and cloud environments, delivering unified visibility, governance, and cost optimization across modern technology landscapes. The platform enables organizations to discover applications and AI tools, understand adoption and usage patterns, allocate and optimize spending, manage access, and strengthen governance and accountability.
Serving both enterprises and government agencies, CloudNuro has earned industry recognition from the Chicago Innovation Awards, Gartner, Info-Tech SoftwareReviews, and Everest Group.
For additional 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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