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BERLIN | 07-09 OCT. 2026

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cto summit

BEYOND THE HYPE

Ilya Sakharov

Executive Director, Redcare Pharmacy
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Ilya Sakharov is a board-level technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading engineering organizations through scale, transformation, and complex business-critical environments. He has held senior technology leadership roles across international product and platform organizations, including CTO and executive engineering positions, leading teams of 200+ engineers across Europe and globally. His work focuses on product-engineering operating models, platform strategy, engineering effectiveness, AI-assisted software development, operational resilience, and organization design. Ilya is known for translating business ambition into focused technology direction, building high-performing engineering systems, and helping organizations modernize architecture, delivery, quality, and developer experience while operating under real-world complexity.

Who Owns AI at Scale? From Token Sprawl to Central Enablement

A roundtable on AI FinOps, platform ownership, agent governance and the operating model for enterprise AI adoption.

AI adoption started with engineers experimenting bottom-up; now organizations need to decide who owns the platforms, tokens, policies, vendors, agents, and outcomes required to scale it safely.

Main provocation: “Bottom-up AI adoption got us started. It will not get us safely to scale.”
Grassroots AI vs Centralized AI Enablement
Token FinOps: Shared Investment vs Team Accountability
Platform Engineering vs Dedicated AI Enablement Team
Agent Autonomy: Productivity Breakthrough vs Governance Nightmare

Closing question: “What should we centralize now before AI adoption becomes expensive, fragmented, or unsafe?

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