On August 13, a virtual summit will convene enterprise technology leaders to tackle the hidden gaps between AI adoption, cost, risk, and quantifiable returns.
“Over the last two years, companies have been demonstrating what AI can accomplish. The upcoming two years will focus on validating its worth: the expenses involved, the associated risks, and the actual outcomes delivered.”— Shyam Kumar, CEO, CloudNuro
CloudNuro, an enterprise platform designed 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, is scheduled for Thursday, August 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
Operating under the theme “The Blindspots of AI Adoption,” the summit aims to shift the enterprise AI discussion from experimentation toward accountability. It will scrutinize where AI is deployed, the associated costs, its performance levels, organizational vulnerabilities, and whether investments are yielding measurable business outcomes.
A 2025 report from MIT’s NANDA initiative indicated that 95% of organizations surveyed were experiencing no measurable return on their generative AI projects. Concurrently, BlackFog’s 2026 Shadow AI research revealed that 49% of employees utilize AI tools not sanctioned by their employers, leading to security, privacy, and governance risks that may stay hidden from IT departments.
Collectively, these findings highlight an expanding divide between swift AI adoption and the visibility, governance, and financial oversight needed to manage it successfully.
“Organizations have spent the past two years proving AI’s capabilities. The next two years will be dedicated to proving its value,” stated Shyam Kumar, Founder and CEO of CloudNuro. “Most leaders can articulate their AI ambitions in great detail, but they cannot specify what those tools cost, where vulnerabilities exist, or what returns they generate. That discrepancy is where the real challenge lies, and it is the foundation upon which we built this summit.”
The summit is tailored 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 hinder enterprise AI initiatives from scaling responsibly and achieving measurable outcomes:
• Shadow AI: AI tools employed outside official approval, security review, and governance frameworks, generating hidden risks related to data, access, and compliance.
• Runaway Token Costs: Unpredictable and swiftly rising generative AI consumption expenses as enterprise usage, applications, and agents expand.
• Real-Time Risk: Excessive token consumption driven by bloated prompts and verbose responses, resulting in financial waste and performance issues while offering diminishing returns.
• Stalled Returns: AI performance improvements that start to level off while compute, data, and infrastructure costs continue climbing, challenging the viability of conventional scaling methods.
• Silent Failures: AI models and systems that gradually deteriorate, drift, or produce inaccurate outputs without timely detection, potentially impacting customers and business operations.
Participants will acquire practical insights into identifying enterprise AI use cases, attributing costs, monitoring risk and performance, and establishing an operating model that ties AI adoption to accountability and measurable value.
Speakers Representing the AI Adoption Lifecycle
The confirmed speaker lineup includes 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 provide viewpoints from across the AI adoption lifecycle—from developing and scaling AI systems to funding, governing, and measuring their enterprise impact.
CloudNuro is organizing this summit at a time when organizations are moving beyond isolated AI pilots and beginning to treat AI as a new operational and financial category, much like SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
Registration is currently open at www.cloudnuro.ai/ai-summit-2026.
About CloudNuro
CloudNuro is an enterprise AI, SaaS, and cloud management platform offering unified visibility, governance, and cost optimization across contemporary technology environments. The platform assists organizations in discovering applications and AI tools, understanding adoption and usage, allocating and optimizing spending, managing access, and strengthening 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 further details, 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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