Scaling Enterprise AI Through Systems Thinking

Mash is an AI strategy and operations leader with enterprise AI build experience across major companies in utilities, automotive, and healthcare. Currently driving GM’s agentic AI self-service (Workday), previously created IBM’s gen-AI/RAG product for regulated utilities’ rate cases (adopted by multiple clients), delivered $20M+ impact at the leading telco with Conversation Intelligence, and partnered with SAP/AWS for variance analysis journal entries in corp fin systems for the largest energy provider. He has also been advising the Bangladesh Government on its national AI Act.

Grant Kurz is a software engineer, community builder, and entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience who founded DeepStation, a global AI community of 3,000+ industry professionals delivering 70+ AI presentations and workshops. Through partnerships with the OpenAI Academy and Miami Dade College, he's committed to making AI education accessible and equipping professionals with the skills needed to leverage AI's transformative potential. Grant is also the CEO of Consultabit, an AI consultancy.

His diverse technical accomplishments include developing RAG systems for factory automation at Coca-Cola and Stanley Black & Decker, creating CryptoScenarios—a crypto analytics platform with 400,000+ users that was acquired by CoinLedger.io—and building an AI Call Center solution adopted by a major U.S. political campaign. Grant's work has been featured in Forbes, Coindesk, and OpenAI's blog, highlighting his technical expertise across multiple industries and his mission to accelerate AI education and innovation through the power of community.