Virtual Pass · Live from Austin · Thursday, September 10, 2026

Building Tomorrow, Today.

Six sessions. One unfair advantage. No flight required.

September 10 is for leaders who refuse to be surprised by what’s next. Stream the Client Innovation Conference live from the Hyatt Regency Austin: the keynote, the panels, the market intelligence. And keep the recording.

Reserve a virtual seat · $200
What you’ll watch, live

The full conference day, hour by hour. Sessions with a slash beside the time are streamed to you live; everything else happens in the room.

Thursday, September 10 · All times Central

EIG Partners also get the Wednesday, September 9 stream and recording, plus the Day 1 agenda. Email jdevries@consultingeig.com to request access.

7:30 – 8:40 am

Arrival & Welcome Reception

Check-in and informal discussion with hot buffet breakfast, coffee, and snacks.

In Austin
/ 8:40 – 9:00 am

Opening Vision: The EIG Advantage

Jim de Vries

The problem, the gap, how EIG closes it, and the proof. The gap between where your business is and where it should be gets mapped here first.

/ 9:00 – 10:00 am

Flagship Keynote: Excellence & Innovation in Executive Leadership

Jose Pires, CEO, Global Excellence & Innovation

The one hour you’ll be quoting for the rest of the year.

10:00 – 10:15 am

Energizing Break

In Austin
/ 10:15 – 10:45 am

Market Intelligence: Navigating 2026

Chair: Jim de Vries

Your competitors are already positioning for what comes next. Get the same briefing: a 20-minute presentation, then a 20-minute panel.

PanelKen Gould · Mark Johnson · Jose Pires · Javier Zarazua Ruiz
/ 10:45 – 11:30 am

Trustbuilding Transparency Revolution: SC Trust Acceleration Index™

Chair: Greg Schlegel

Findings from the one-year MxD project, and what they mean for Defense Industrial Base competitiveness.

PanelHosni Adra · Jim de Vries · Sashi Wishart
/ 11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Lightning Innovation: 6 Challenges, 6 Solutions

Chair: Mark Sneeringer

Six TED-style short talks on industry challenges EIG is addressing. Five minutes each.

Start-up AI-NPI – Aaron Parr
NPI Assessment – Mark Sneeringer
Leadership – Ken Gould
Change Management – Leila Rao
Unified Security: One View. One Response. Total Protection. – Joe Patti & Adam Roth
How to Develop a Team Based on Your PI Behavior – Erik Herman
12:00 – 12:45 pm

Lunch

In Austin
/ 12:45 – 1:30 pm

The Future is Here: Activating Industry 5.0

Chair: Jim de Vries

AI, digital twins, and agentic systems via ChainSightAQ™, treated as a present-tense problem rather than a future one.

PanelBulent Uyaniker & Aaron Parr · Hosni Adra · Nitin Uchil · Assad Mirza
1:30 – 3:15 pm

Collaboration Labs I & II: GTM Focused Solution Sessions

Chair: Mark Sneeringer

Two labs of simultaneous breakout tracks, drawn from the topic pool below by attendee vote. Lab II goes deeper on whichever topics gain momentum.

Topic pool & leads
SCR&R · Trust – Greg Schlegel
AI-LLM-Agentic – Bulent Uyaniker & Hosni Adra
Digital Twins · Strategic PE Planning – Nitin Uchil
Cybersecurity – Joe Patti & Adam Roth
Leadership – Ken Gould
Agile & Change Management – Leila Rao
AI-Assisted Operational Scale-up Failures – Aaron Parr & Mark Sneeringer
By invitation
/ 3:15 – 4:00 pm

Closing Momentum: Present GTMs, Your Next Steps

Jim de Vries

Wrap-up and a summary of the actions developed in the Collaboration Labs.

4:00 – 7:30 pm

Sunset Networking

Nine holes of golf hosted by Ken Gould, or a local social activity hosted by Jim de Vries.

In Austin
7:30 pm – late

Offsite Dinner

In Austin
The keynote

The insights that have transformed leadership teams across Fortune 50 organizations.

Jose Pires

Jose Pires is a TEDx speaker, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and CEO of Global Excellence & Innovation. His work has shaped decision-making in more than 1,000 cross-industry organizations.

1,000+
Organizations Shaped
10,000s
Deployments Worldwide
30+
Countries Applied
What stays in the room

The Collaboration Labs are by invitation. If one is relevant to your work, a collaboration team lead will reach out and bring you into the virtual session.

The closed-door executive conversations stay off-record. The value of that room requires it, and no stream changes that.

Who’s watching

Founders, CEOs, operators, and senior leaders across manufacturing, supply chain, technology, and professional services: anyone responsible for decisions that have to survive the next twelve months.

Twenty EIG partner experts are in the room in Austin. Eleven more are joining remotely. You’d be in good company.

One decision

The cost of not being there shows up later.

$200. Six sessions, live. The recording within a week.

Registration closes Monday, September 8; access links go out the day before.

Reserve a virtual seat · $200
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