07/02/2026
The math on registering before Tuesday ๐
$400+ off registration
Up to $250 off the Ga***rd Pacific
$650+ you keep in your budget
Same seat. Same sessions. Same room full of people figuring out AI-Native SAFe in the real world.
Early Bird closes July 8.
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06/14/2026
Lean thinking has always been about more than efficiency. It's about wisdom.
The principle of eliminating waste isn't just about cutting what doesn't work. It's about understanding your systems well enough to know what actually delivers value โ and what just looks like it does.
As enterprises navigate AI adoption, that same wisdom applies.
Not every AI use case delivers value. Not every workflow that can be automated should be. Not every efficiency gain is worth the tradeoff it creates.
The organizations applying systems thinking to their AI adoption โ rather than just enthusiasm โ are the ones making decisions they won't regret in three years.
That's not a caution against AI. It's a case for approaching it the same way the best enterprise leaders have always approached transformation: with rigor, with principles, and with their people at the center.
06/12/2026
Thousands of employees watch the same prompt engineering videos, earn the same certifications โ and return to work largely unchanged.
Sound familiar?
In his new Forbes Technology Council article, our Chief Product Officer & Chief Methodologist, Andrew Sales, names the hidden risk in enterprise AI training: it's built to feel productive, not to be transformative.
Certifications are a starting point, not a destination. Tools training produces individuals who can use AI โ not teams that can deliver AI value at scale. And if you're tracking course completions instead of behavioral change, you're not measuring what determines success.
The organizations that lead in the AI era will treat AI adoption as a chance to change how the organization works โ not as a learning management problem. That thinking has guided us for 15 years. AI just raised the stakes.
Read Andrew's full article: https://bit.ly/4vJ1HUL
Why Most AI Training Programs Fail To Realize Value
Most AI training programs are designed to feel productive rather than to be transformative.
06/05/2026
Happy World Environment Day.
Sustainable ecosystems don't thrive by extracting everything as fast as possible. They thrive through balance โ input and output, growth and renewal, pace and rest.
Organizations work the same way.
SAFe's sustainable pace principle wasn't written with the environment in mind. But the logic is identical: systems that operate within their natural capacity, that allow for renewal and reflection, outlast and outperform the ones that don't.
As enterprises embed AI into their operating models, that principle becomes even more critical. Automation creates capacity. What you do with that capacity โ whether you reinvest it in your people or just compress timelines further โ determines whether your transformation holds.
Build sustainable systems. Inside and out. ๐ฑ
05/20/2026
Amsterdam wasn't the finale. It was the warm-up.
The SAFe+AI Summit lands in San Diego this September โ and if Amsterdam taught practitioners anything, it's that the work of scaling agility doesn't get easier in the AI era. It gets more essential.
The leaders and practitioners walking out of these rooms aren't the same ones who walked in. They're the ones who stopped asking how AI fits into their existing process and started asking how their operating model evolves to amplify what AI makes possible.
That's what AI-Empowered SAFe looks like in practice.
Here's what's coming to San Diego:
โ Two days of keynotes from practitioners actually doing the work, not just theorizing about it
โ AI-Native Foundations class for teams ready to operationalize what they learn
โ Partner & SPCT Day for the community shaping how this rolls out at scale
โ Lightning Talks where attendees take the mic ๐ค
Super Early Bird closes May 29โthe lowest price you'll see between now and the doors opening. After Friday, it's gone.
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