Top 20 influential Chief AI Officers in the Silicon Valley area 2026

Silicon Valley remains the global epicenter for 17. Klarissa Marenitch – Chief AI and Technology Officer, CognizantGlobal technology leader.Core projects: The AI Migration Factory; using “Vibe Coding” agents to rewrite millions of lines of legacy COBOL code into modern, AI-supported Python.💡You can see Klarissa Marenitch’s session ‘Driving enterprise AI adoption: Integrating autonomous agents’ at 1. Alexandr Wang – Chief AI Officer, MetaCo-founder/CEO of Scale AI. In mid-2025, Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI, and Wang transitioned into this inaugural CAIO role to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).Core projects: Llama 4 & 5 Development: Shifting Meta from open-source ‘efficient’ models to closed-source ‘frontier’ superintelligence to compete directly with OpenAI.Meta compute infrastructure: Harmonizing Meta’s massive H100/B200 GPU clusters with unified software layers for autonomous agent training.🚀 Catch some of Silicon Valley’s top tech leaders at Chief AI Officer Summit on April 14.Step into the room where the Bay Area’s top AI decision-makers shape what’s next.Apply for your pass and:Connect with leading Chief AI Officers from multi-billion-dollar tech companies.Gain strategic insights on scaling AI across enterprise environments.Explore real-world case studies driving measurable AI impact.Network with senior AI leaders, innovators, and technology partners.Position yourself at the forefront of AI leadership in Silicon Valley.Spots are limited. Secure your place among the leaders defining AI in 2026.Find out more