PanellistBijan Vafaei
Vice President, Head of AI Engineering
Priorities
Vafaei prioritizes scaling enterprise AI, agentic workflows, and decision fusion frameworks (like consular/LLM-as-a-judge models) to elevate decision accuracy. Operational priorities center on cloud resource optimization, establishing AI strategy and governance, standardizing developer experience, and accelerating developer delivery without compromising security or architectural compliance.
Current focus
As Head of AI Engineering for Global Banking at JPMorgan Chase, Bijan Vafaei leads AI platform infrastructure and innovation. Active projects include building multi-agent systems, agentic RAG workflows, AI personalization tools, and recruiting talent for process automation and UI/AI component integration across AWS, Azure, and Databricks.


Chicago · 21 Aug 2026
