2026 SAX Business Symposium

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Celebrating our 70th anniversary, the SAX Symposium marks a significant milestone. We’re expanding to a bigger stage and bringing together business leaders, advisors, and partners who are shaping the future of their industries.

For seven decades, we’ve worked alongside you to navigate complex challenges and find strategic solutions. This event represents our commitment to continuing that partnership—delivering fresh insights, meaningful connections, and the collaborative thinking your business needs to thrive.

Join us for the next chapter.

Program Overview

8:00am – 9:00am

Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:00am – 1:30pm

Exhibitor & Vendor Showcase
Connect with exhibitors delivering live product and platform demonstrations built to help your business run smarter, alongside presentations spotlighting the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping our industries today. Walk away with practical tools and timely insights you can put to work right away.

9:00am – 9:45am
(Main Stage)

CEO Fireside Chat: Leading Beyond the Playbook: How Uncertainty Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
Leadership is tested when the path forward is unclear. This panel brings together three leaders who guided major organizations through disruption, volatility, and high-stakes decisions. They’ll share how they led their teams without a playbook, made critical choices under pressure, and found resilience amid uncertainty.

Joseph Damiano
SAX, CEO and Managing Partner

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Dustin M. Riccio, MD
St. Joseph’s Health, CEO and President

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Ira Robbins
Valley Bank, CEO and Chairman of the Board

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10:00am – 10:35am
(Breakout Room)

Breakout Session: The Legacy Model: Turning Private Wealth into Public Impact

10:45am – 11:20am
(Breakout Room)

Breakout Session: The AI Imperative: From Technology Evolution to Enterprise Transformation
AI is the next major era of enterprise technology, moving organizations beyond systems that simply store information toward intelligent systems that help people act, decide, and create. This panel explores how leaders can turn AI experimentation into enterprise value through data readiness, governance, security, workforce adoption, and scalable operating models. The opportunity is not just better technology, but a more agile, resilient business built for what comes next.

Maria Koller
Verizon Business, Associate Vice President of Product Strategy & Commercialization

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Rob Owen
SAX Technology Advisors, Partner & CIO

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Leon Grassi, SAX Technology Advisors, Partner & CIO

Leon Grassi
SAX Technology Advisors, Partner & CRO

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11:30am – 12:05pm
(Breakout Room)

Breakout Session: Ready, Not Waiting: Building a Business the Future Can Take Over

12:30pm – 1:30pm
(Main Stage)

Keynote Speaker: The 2-Minute Drill: Adapting, Leading, and Winning Through Change

Phil Simms
CBS Sports, NFL Analyst, Super Bowl MVP, 2x Super Bowl Champion

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1:30pm – 2:30pm

Networking Reception

Grown From a Proven Foundation

The 2026 SAX Business Symposium is the expanded flagship evolution of our well-established Consumer & Industrial Products Conference, an event that has built a loyal following over four consecutive years.

Building on that proven track record, the Symposium broadens its scope to bring together leaders across industries for a single, premier business event. What began as a focused industry conference has matured into SAX’s signature annual gathering, a natural progression that reflects both the growth of the event and the broadening of the conversations our clients value most.

Interested in Sponsorship?

View our sponsorship options to learn how your organization can take part in the 2026 SAX Business Symposium and connect with an engaged audience of business leaders and advisors.

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