Beyond the Hype Cycle

December 4, 2025 | 6:30 – 9:30 PM

It's time to get past the hand wavy, AI buzzwords and into what it takes to get to good.

Dr Leda Glyptis, digital transformation thought provocateur and author, takes us beyond the hype cycle to the real and the realistic. Join a small group of senior executives at large enterprises for a roundtable discussion on the people, processes, and technologies that come together to make progress accelerate.

As always, come prepared to enjoy an exquisite experience, this time featuring a bespoke tasting of wines followed by a lavish dinner.

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    • Dr Leda Glyptis

      Moderator
      Leda Glyptis is a seasoned fintech executive and former banker, with a career spanning two decades working in transformation and technology functions. A frequent keynote speaker at flagship industry events globally including Sibos, M20/20, Finovate as well as specialist regional events, she is the author of the highly acclaimed #LedaWrites column on Fintech Futures and the best-selling book, ‘Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition’.

    • Irene Sandler

      CMO
      I’m responsible for all things marketing—brand, positioning, product, content, demand gen— at Mechanical Orchard. I began programming on a Commodore 64 and have held product management and senior marketing positions at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I was on the Executive Leadership Team. After nearly two decades in the corporate world building high-performing teams, I’ve returned to startups: Mechanical Orchard is my seventh.

    • Rob Mee

      CEO
      A software engineer by trade, I began my career writing natural language translation systems in Lisp at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo. I later launched Pivotal Labs which was acquired in 2019, and has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. Today, I’m tackling what I envision as the last major problem of software; modernizing and future-proofing the critical systems that support the corporations that run our global economies.