CANalytics 2026 Schedule

Armen Badeer is the Vice President of Development at Agilx Software. He’s spent over two and a half decades helping people solve problems using software, all while quietly judging drag & drop UI and untested code. Hundreds of projects in insurance, sports, manufacturing, agriculture, commodities, transportation (and a few other industries he can’t remember) have revealed one thing…he loves it when a plan comes together. And now Armen is bringing his highly technical expertise to the CANalytics 2026 Stage! Most AI prototypes never ship. This keynote covers the full arc from prototype to production: how to pick the right first project, how to build a roadmap, and how to navigate the hidden pitfalls that will send your prototype straight to the graveyard(like political and cultural dynamics that don’t show up in any architecture diagram).

Our most requested topic for CANalytics 2026! Ben and Tyler are sharing the real strategies we are using at Contemporary Analysis to keep costs manageable for our enterprise clients.

Archana Raghu is a Quality Lead at Quantum Workplace, an all-in-one HR software platform serving organizations across the United States. During her presentation, Archana will share how AI breaks every assumption traditional QA is built on. She is showing the behind-the-scenes, including: – How they built an AI evaluation pipeline in production, what they measured, what broke, and what they learned about catching hallucinations and grounding failures before they reached users – How they are approaching disparate impact analysis for workforce AI using counterfactual testing and what that means for how they think about fairness in production – The new challenges of testing agentic AI and what evaluating a system that takes sequences of actions looks like in practice.