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The AI Operational Layer 3/11/26

​What Sits Under the Future of Work?

AI is no longer just tools or models. It is becoming the operating layer that connects people, systems, decisions, and execution across modern organizations.

Join them Wednesday, March 11 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, 1 Federation Way, Irvine, CA 92603. (Parking is FREE).

​Human System
AI as a Workforce and Talent Operating Layer

​Stuart McClure
CEO and Founder, Wethos AI | AI and Cybersecurity Thought Leader

​Drawing from decades of building AI driven cybersecurity and enterprise systems, Stuart explores how AI becomes the operating layer for human performance. His talk focuses on using predictive and generative AI to understand traits, biases, and behavioral patterns at scale. This enables dynamic team design, real time performance optimization, and AI powered talent placement.

​Rather than static org charts and fixed roles, Stuart outlines what AI native organizations look like when intelligence continuously aligns people, incentives, and execution.

System Layer
AI as an Infrastructure and Systems Operating Layer

​Miguel Caballero Pinto
Startup Advisor at Braid Theory | Software Engineering Manager at Harmonic

​Miguel breaks down what sits beneath the AI workplace including APIs, distributed systems, data ingestion pipelines, and scalable architectures. He explores how AI moves from experimental prototype to production grade infrastructure and what engineering discipline is required to support reliability, scale, and security.

​This layer focuses on how intelligent systems are architected, deployed, and maintained inside real organizations.

Execution Layer
​AI as a Workflow and Productivity Operating Layer

​Tony Xiong
Founder of Bubbl

​Tony shares how AI integrates directly into daily workflows. As the founder of an AI native conversational assistant, he explores how AI can filter signal from noise, surface insights across platforms, and generate actionable next steps.

​This layer examines how AI shifts from background model to active operating partner, augmenting communication, coordination, and productivity in real time.

​Event Schedule

6:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Networking and arrivals

​6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Speaker sessions and discussion

​7:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Closing remarks, networking, and community connection

Please register here to attend.

Thanks to Ascend GenAI for offering this local startup event, the details, and the graphic!