Little Caesars has always been at the forefront of innovation, and Plug and Play can help execute those ideas faster. As the world’s most active VC, Plug and Play connects enterprise partners with our ecosystem of over 100,000+ startups to solve real business challenges. We’ll walk through how our startup matching process works and how you can leverage it for fast, low-risk pilots to test your internal concepts. We will also share a few quick case studies of how our other corporate partners successfully use our network to move projects from the idea phase to reality. Whether you have a breakthrough concept you want to champion or an operational bottleneck you’re trying to solve, you’ll leave this session with a clear roadmap on how to tap into our startup network and partner with Trish and the Innovation Team to get things moving.
Amazon Finance is undergoing a transformation, with teams across the organization experimenting and building AI-powered tools to boost productivity, improve cost management, and reduce manual work. Across five key areas, the results are significant: in Accounting, AI reduced variance analysis from 15 minutes to 1 minute and saved 14,000 manual hours; in Finance Operations, AI-guided workflows processing 10M+ cases annually boosted team throughput by 34%; in Billing, agentic AI extracts and validates complex contract pricing in minutes instead of hours; in Procure-to-Pay, AI cut PO cycle time from weeks to days; and in FP&A, custom AI agents deliver real-time financial insights that previously took analysts 6+ hours to compile.
This presentation walks the audience through Amazon Finance's AI transformation journey, including a new way to work, people and culture change, ROI and cloud/AI cost management, and dives into specific use cases across these five areas with business impact, concluding with a live demo of Amazon Quick.
Running live event operations at scale with zero margin for failure is the ultimate stress test. And it can be solved with an Intelligent Command Center (ICC). In this session, learn how the ICC blueprint — born from the world of smart stadiums and live events — translates directly into a competitive advantage for any enterprise facing high-stakes, complex operations. From hospital networks and university campuses to smart cities and corporate headquarters, the ICC model is redefining how intelligent spaces are operated and optimized. Siloed systems, fragmented data, and operations that react instead of predict. Explore the biggest barrier to unified, intelligent operations at your scale; where have agentic AI or integrated workflows create genuine impact. What would it take to move from isolated innovation to a true intelligent command center?
AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact, creating new opportunities to improve how organizations operate, make decisions, and drive growth. This session will showcase real-world AI applications already delivering value across the Ilitch family of companies, highlighting how business challenges can be reimagined through intelligent automation, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Through two compelling case studies—AI at the Detroit Tigers, which is exploring innovative ways to enhance player evaluation and seamlessly integrate data sources across baseball operations, and AI at Ilitch Companies, where AI is being leveraged to improve enterprise processes, decision-making, and organizational efficiency—the session will demonstrate how practical AI solutions can create measurable business outcomes. More than a technology discussion, this conversation will challenge leaders to think differently about where AI can unlock productivity, enhance decision-making, and accelerate strategic objectives within their own organizations. Ultimately, this session is designed to inspire attendees to identify new possibilities, learn from proven successes, and accelerate AI-driven transformation across the enterprise.
