Speakers

Deepak Sachdeva is an enterprise technology executive who has spent two decades building, securing, and scaling infrastructure where the margin for error is zero. As a C-suite leader who has commanded technology strategy for the U.S. Air Force across 60+ installations worldwide, led $4 billion in M&A and private equity transactions, and driven digital transformation inside Fortune 500 organizations, he brings a rare vantage point to the conversation around AI’s next frontier: contested, communications-denied, and off-planet environments. His keynote examines how secure AI infrastructure must evolve as compute moves beyond terrestrial boundaries. Drawing on his experience architecting resilient, classified-grade systems for real-time decision-making—and his leadership in deploying zero-trust security models, hybrid cloud architectures, and AI-powered platforms at national scale—Deepak frames the strategic and architectural challenges of running autonomous AI workloads in space: latency constraints, adversarial threat surfaces, edge sovereignty, and the organizational thinking required to get there. Rather than a deep technical drill-down, Deepak’s talk is designed for leaders navigating the “what’s next”: how emerging architectures will reshape who controls compute, where intelligence lives, and what “secure by design” means when the data center is in orbit. He connects the dots between defense-grade infrastructure discipline, commercial AI ambition, and the policy and investment decisions that will define the next era of compute. Deepak’s career spans GE, Sabre, Cisco, and multiple PE-backed ventures. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas, a Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, and executive credentials from Wharton. He teaches Finance and Private Equity at UT Dallas and is a sought-after keynote speaker known for translating complexity into clarity—and leaving audiences with a sharper lens on what’s coming.