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Your Company Already Knows the Answer: Turning Institutional Knowledge into an Operational Advantage

Join Blend and Graphon AI for an exclusive executive dinner exploring how organizations can transform fragmented institutional knowledge into a measurable operational advantage. Discover how AI can preserve critical expertise, accelerate problem-solving and empower employees to make better decisions.
Event Location
New York City, TBD
Event Date
December 1, 2026
to December 1, 2026
Event Time
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
About this event

Critical operational knowledge often sits locked inside disconnected systems or individual minds. This fragmentation leads to costly downtime, repeated mistakes, and slow onboarding. Modern AI solves this by converting scattered expertise into an instantly accessible operational advantage.

Join Blend and Graphon AI for an exclusive dinner with peer executives. We will examine practical strategies to unify enterprise knowledge, eliminate operational bottlenecks, safeguard key expertise, and generate measurable ROI using AI.

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Our speakers
Deepak Mishra
Co-founder and COO | Graphon AI

Deepak Mishra is co-founder and COO of Graphon AI. A data scientist turned venture capitalist, he previously led Data and AI investments at Hitachi Ventures, Hitachi’s $1B venture fund. His portfolio includes Regrello ($1B Salesforce acquisition), Ema, Arcee AI, and Pantomath. He worked closely with these founders on product strategy and go-to-market growth.

Eva Saha
Host, Emcee & Moderator

Eva is a professional host, emcee, and moderator who regularly interviews C-suite executives, professional athletes, high-profile actors, scholars, and
political leaders. Her background as a corporate attorney makes her a quick study on client content, while her deep research and ability to communicate
key messaging often lead audiences to mistake her for part of the client’s own team. Combined with her natural warmth, commanding presence, and
commitment to being involved from planning through execution, Eva is the host of choice for clients across a wide range of industries.

Kevin Kitsch
Global Sales | Graphon Labs

Kevin Kitsch leads global sales at Graphon Labs. A veteran of MongoDB and Alteryx, he has spent over a decade helping enterprises turn data into business outcomes.

Raja Rao
SVP of Marketing | Graphon.ai

Raja Rao is SVP of Marketing at Graphon.ai. Previously, he was VP of Marketing at Kumo (acquired by NVIDIA), where he tripled qualified pipeline meetings, and VP of Growth at Redis, where he drove 4× growth in its self-serve cloud business.

Key themes & discussion topics

Unlocking Fragmented Institutional Knowledge
Where does critical organizational knowledge live, why does it remain difficult to access, and how businesses can connect information scattered across people, systems and documentation.

Preserving Expertise and Enterprise Memory
The risks of relying on individual employees for operational knowledge and how organizations can capture valuable expertise before experienced workers retire or leave.

Using AI to Turn Knowledge into Action
How AI can connect fragmented information, deliver relevant insights at the point of need and help frontline employees solve problems faster and more effectively.

Measuring the Operational Value of Knowledge
How improved knowledge accessibility can reduce downtime, minimise rework, accelerate onboarding and deliver measurable improvements in productivity, service quality and operational efficiency.

Event agenda
01
Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

02
Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

03
Dinner & guided discussion

 7:15 – 8:45 PM

04
Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00 PM

Why should you attend?

Engage in candid discussions with fellow executives responsible for operations, technology, manufacturing and digital transformation, sharing experiences and practical approaches to common challenges.

Explore how AI can unlock the value of existing organizational knowledge, helping teams access critical information and make faster, more informed operational decisions.

Gain fresh perspectives on preserving institutional expertise, reducing reliance on individual employees and ensuring valuable knowledge remains accessible across your organization.

Identify opportunities to improve operational performance, reduce costs and translate AI investments into tangible business outcomes through better knowledge accessibility.

Who should attend
This event is tailored for executive leaders across Operations, Service, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Customer Experience, AI Transformation, and IT.
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Venue
Event Location Light
New York City, TBD
New York
United States
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