Vice President, Kroger/84.51
Kroger
Kristin Foster is a Vice President at Kroger and 84.51°, where she leads the development of data science and AI capabilities and the technology that enables them across the business. She is responsible for building shared science, AI, and agentic capabilities that can scale across Kroger. Kristin focuses on applying AI to create better customer experiences, accelerate how work gets done, and help teams make faster, smarter decisions.
Sunday Jan 10
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Insider One Stage, Javits North
Join Kroger, Mercado Libre, and Rakuten Ichiba to discover how they have architected an enterprise agentic AI platform for maximum flexibility, rock-solid security, and optimal cost efficiency across any cloud. This session will review the latest advancements in Agentic AI and share proven strategies for deploying open-source models at scale, giving you greater control over and IP ownership of your models, at significantly lower inference cost. You don’t have to choose between frontier performance and open-source control. Leading retailers are building hybrid agentic platforms that leverage both.
