Rocky Mtn - From Strategy to Autonomy: How Agentic AI is Redefining IT and Business Transformation

Hey HDI Rocky Mountain community,

We have an exciting update for our Thursday, May 21 event! We are welcoming a new speaker to the lineup and she brings an incredible depth of real-world experience in exactly the topics we care about most. 🎉

Join us at Blend.co from 5:30 to 7:00 PM for happy hour courtesy of our generous sponsor AHEAD, great conversation, and a talk on agentic AI that is grounded in actual delivery experience. 🤖🍻

🎤 Featured Talk: From Strategy to Autonomy: How Agentic AI is Redefining IT and Business Transformation

Speaker: Mara Southard, Intelligent Operations Solutions Manager at AHEAD

Mara is an enterprise transformation leader with nearly two decades of experience helping organizations reimagine how they deliver services, from Navy Medicine's global operations center to some of the world's largest enterprises. At AHEAD, she shapes the go-to-market strategy for Intelligent Operations and works alongside partners like ServiceNow to bring AI-enabled capabilities to market in ways that are practical, governed, and built to scale.

Mara recently created AHEAD's Autonomous Service Operations solution, which she piloted directly with AHEAD's own Managed Services team before bringing it to clients. She also authored AHEAD's whitepaper Reimagining IT Operations with Agentic AI. Her background includes years leading ServiceNow professional services at CDW, where her practice helped earn multiple validated endorsements and partner of the year awards. 🤖

If you work in ITSM, IT ops, or are trying to figure out where agentic AI fits in your org, this is the conversation you have been waiting for.

📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21

🕠 Time: 5:30 to 7:00 PM

📍 Location: Blend. co (Private Room)

💸 Cost: Free, sponsored by AHEAD