Session: "The Role That AI Built: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Defining Career of the Agentic Era"
Rajeev (Raj) Kapoor is Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of NAP AI, an AI-native enterprise connectivity and intelligence platform purpose-built for the CFO stack — operating across 20 ERP systems with 72 proprietary agentic CFO workflows. NAP AI is the infrastructure layer that enterprise finance teams deploy when they need AI systems that are governed, bidirectional, and auditable: not a copilot, but a system of action.
Raj brings over two decades of operational, strategic, and entrepreneurial experience across the full spectrum of enterprise technology. His career spans:
FIL (Filecoin) Fintech Innovation Lab Finalist.
He has lived the FDE problem from every angle: as the operator who needed deployed AI and didn't get it fast enough, as the consultant who wrote the recommendations but couldn't ship the product, and now as the founder building the agentic infrastructure that FDEs deploy. This talk is not theoretical — it is built from two decades of enterprise operational experience and three years on the frontier of agentic AI deployment.