June 11 – 12, 2026
Boston, Massachusetts
The Age of Agents:
Progress and Peril in Commercial Deployments of Agentic AI
Panelists
Dr. Mark Maybury, VP, Lockheed Martin, Moderator
Ted Seward, Principal Verification Engineer, Forward Edge ASIC
Zach Maybury, Chief Technology Officer, DraftKings
Cliona Molony, Chief Data Officer and Data Scientist, VP R&D, IDEXX
Steve MacLellan, President Blue Sky and Board Director, ACSC
Panel Bios
Dr. Mark Maybury is the vice president, Commercialization, Engineering & Technology for Lockheed Martin, responsible for leading efforts to commercialize dual-use products and services across the corporation. Dr. Maybury’s prior roles include first chief technology officer for Stanley Black & Decker, Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Chief Technology and Chief Security Officer at MITRE and Director of the National Cybersecurity FFRDC. He serves on boards and advises Defense Science Board, LMEvolve, AstrisAI, Forward Edge ASIC, Internet Sciences, Halo.Energy, Nano surfaces, and the Advanced Cybersecurity Center. His past board service includes over 30 national studies, READY Robotics, Object Management Group, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Intelligence Science Board and Homeland Security S&T Advisory Committee. Dr. Maybury is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Ted Seward is a Principal ASIC Verification Engineer and AI Strategist at ForwardEdge ASIC, where he leads AI initiatives for ASIC development. In this role, he focuses on how agentic AI, automation, and advanced engineering workflows can improve the productivity, quality, and scalability of semiconductor development.
Ted brings more than 25 years of experience in ASIC, FPGA, and SoC verification, with deep expertise in verification architecture, reusable methodologies, UVM-based environments, coverage closure, regression analytics, and cross-functional technical leadership. His current work explores how AI agents can assist with complex engineering tasks such as requirements analysis, verification planning, debugging, test generation, knowledge capture, and workflow orchestration across design and verification teams.
Prior to ForwardEdge ASIC, Ted spent nearly nine years at Micron Technology, where he helped develop a company-wide verification methodology for the Advanced Controller Group and led verification efforts for advanced memory controller and NVMe PCIe SSD designs. Earlier, he held senior engineering and technical leadership roles at Seagate Technology, General Dynamics AIS, Terago Communications, and LSI Logic, contributing to enterprise SSD controllers, PCIe and SAS storage architectures, high-speed interfaces, custom ASICs, FPGA-based compute platforms, and processor subsystem verification.
Ted earned a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Mathematics from St. Olaf College.
Zachary Maybury is Chief Technology Officer at DraftKings, overseeing the day-to-day engineering operations that power DraftKings’ Sportsbook, Daily Fantasy,iGaming, Lottery, and Predictions platforms.
Zach has served multiple roles since joining the DraftKings team in 2016, bringing his extensive expertise in cloud-native applications and enterprise software development to each. He initially led web development teams building our Daily Fantasy Sports products before moving to lead the Financial Operations engineering team. Later, Zach transitioned to lead many product engineering teams, working his way up to several Vice President roles. Since then, he has been the driving force behind Global Site Reliability Engineering and has led consumer engineering teams across Daily Fantasy Sports, Casino, Lottery, and several additional sports products.
Prior to DraftKings, Zachary worked with several startup ventures in the visual analytics, machine learning, and computer vision fields. He also spent seven years building next generation image recognition and computer vision technology at Pixel Forensics.
Zachary earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the College of the Holy Cross and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Cliona Molony currently serves as the Chief Data Officer and VP of R&D at IDEXX, a position held since September 2022. Prior to this role, Cliona was the Global Head of Data Science at Sanofi from January 2018 to June 2022, where responsibilities included building AI and digital data products across various functions including Commercial Performance and Real World Evidence. Cliona’s experience also encompasses serving as Sr. Director and Head of Computational Biomedicine at Pfizer, leading a Data Science group focused on genetic and clinical data integration, as well as roles at Merck and Rosetta Inpharmatics emphasizing precision medicine and statistical genetics. Cliona’s academic background includes a B.Sc. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Steve MacLellan is a founding partner of Blue Sky Management & Research, a Cambridge, Massachusetts strategic advisory company. Blue Sky works with technology companies to help them maximize their potential and help create the future. Steve worked most recently for Fidelity Investments in Boston for over 26 years. At Fidelity, Steve was the Senior Vice President responsible for cyber security and global information security solutions. Steve also worked for BayBanks (now Bank of America), Charles T. Main Engineers, and John Hancock in technology and IT management roles. Steve is a founder of SecuritiNet, a start-up focused on securing eHealth transactions across US providers. Steve also operates Blue Sky Management & Research that provides angel venture capital funding to early stage start-ups. Mr. MacLellan is a respected IT leader with over 39 years of deep technical and effective management experience with a reputation for innovation, problem solving, and solution delivery. Mr. MacLellan has worked for several leading US financial services companies including Fidelity Investments, John Hancock, and Bank of America (formerly Bay Banks). His global consulting work covers the US, Europe, Africa, and China.
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