Fortune Brainstorm Tech Roundtable 2026 - Humans in the Loop

The Fortune Brainstorm community gathers in Las Vegas each year to discuss the role that technology will play—in industry, in government, in society—in the year ahead. In 2026, we met on January 5 at KYU located in the Fontainebleau Hotel. The event featured a panel discussion with four tech leaders on the role humans still have to play as AI tools are integrated into work and life. The conversation is moderated by Fortune's senior writer, Allie Garfinkle and features Bill Briggs, Chief Technology Officer at Deloitte, Hari Bala, Chief Technology Officer of Health Information Systems at Solventum, Susan Doniz, Chief Information and Data Officer at The Walt Disney Company, and Lauri Palmieri, Senior Vice President of Solution Engineering at Salesforce. Since 2001, Brainstorm has convened leading thinkers and thinking leaders—plus Fortune's award-winning journalists—for deep dialogue and collective conversation about the future. Top technologists, eminent executives, and influential investors join the Brainstorm community to challenge their perspectives and make connections with the sharpest minds in business and technology.