Verge Technologies Inc. has announced the featured speakers for its Cloud Convergence Summit, a free virtual event scheduled for October 8 and 9, 2026, from noon to 5 PM Central each day. The summit targets CIOs, cloud architects, and tech founders who manage three or more cloud providers, aiming to help them unify their disparate systems into one estate, minimizing downtime and operational friction. Cloud convergence is defined as the idea that an enterprise should run on every cloud it needs and still feel like it runs on one.
Many large enterprises have unintentionally adopted multi-cloud environments, arriving there by accident, resulting in separate consoles, policies, and databases that are hard to move or protect. The summit will address these challenges with a lineup of industry leaders sharing front-line insights. Malur Narayan, CEO & Co-Founder of XTRIUM, will present on leveraging cloud infrastructure for critical materials decisions, using AI to mitigate supply disruptions. Jimmy Jobe, CEO & Co-Founder of Verge Technologies, will deliver the opening keynote on The Cloud Convergence Model, outlining a framework for managing every database and cloud as one virtual data center. Matt LeBaron, Founder & CEO of Pocketbook, will lead a fireside chat on cloud sprawl as a procurement problem, focusing on the costs of scattered contracts and what to fix before renewal. Jacqueline Suttin, CEO & Founder of MagenTrust, will discuss closing the zero trust gap in agentic AI for government, emphasizing human verification as database operations become autonomous. MagenTrust and Verge announced an integration on July 15, 2026. Prasad Jaladi, Founder & Chief Facilitator of Suraksha, will explore the dual mandate for enterprise architecture, designing one coherent estate across many platforms. Additional speakers are being confirmed and will be announced to registrants first. For a full list of speakers, Click here for all Speakers.
Attendees will learn how to transition from swivel-chair management to a single pane, replacing separate consoles with a unified management plane. Sessions will cover downtime as a design choice, showing how operators are working to eliminate planned outages and cut disaster recovery time for the database layer. The event will also emphasize building a multi-cloud estate that is intentionally resilient and cost-aware, rather than accidental. Furthermore, participants will explore autonomous management in the AI era, with self-healing, predictive infrastructure readying enterprises for expanding AI workloads. After the event, attendees can request a sandbox of Verge's SentientDB on their own stack.
The summit is virtual and live, with Q&A in every session. Recordings will be available to all registrants within 48 hours. Registration is free at https://luma.com/9zydgx4h. Sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Email Contact. Verge Technologies Inc. builds SentientDB, an AI-driven platform that lets enterprises manage databases across cloud providers, regions, and environments as if they were in one virtual data center. Learn more at https://www.vergetech.cloud.
This announcement matters because as enterprises increasingly rely on multiple cloud providers, the complexity of managing them can lead to inefficiencies, security gaps, and unexpected costs. The Cloud Convergence Summit offers a timely opportunity for decision-makers to learn from peers and experts about unifying their cloud estates, potentially saving millions and improving resilience. With AI workloads growing, the need for a converged, autonomous approach becomes critical for staying competitive.
