Monday, August 3, 2026 · Dan Abreu · Canadian Civic Holiday cancels today's MSCI, IGM, and TD calls · DTCC and Empower cadences still on
Schedule
Today — Monday, August 3
Tentative9:00–10:30 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Weekly Automation
Zoom · Org: Krishna Makani · DTCC: wclaffey, hquinonesruiz, cpillitteri · NB: Shiladitya Sen, Dan Abreu
Standing weekly automation session — still on today even though the other two DTCC-adjacent Monday meetings (IGM, TD) were called off for the holiday.
10:00–10:30 AM ET — AI Champion check-in
Teams · Org: Priscilla Smith · Attendees: Brian Walls, Daniel Cook, Gerry Zhang, Greg Baden, James Esposito, James Hanlon, Michael Gannon, Nigel Hickey, Prashant Pareek, Sylvain Nehme, Yijun Liu, Joey Cheng, Dan Abreu
Internal AI Champion sync; no agenda details on the invite.
11:15 AM–12:15 PM ET — Empower-NB Automation Services
Teams · Org: Suneet Tatikonda · Empower: Salim Khadarwadi, Paul Gann, Paulson Chemmanoor, Armando Euceda, Anil Singh, Varun Thunoli, Mutum Singh, Bryan Roberson, Suraj Pradhan, Arjun BR · NB: Ian Ballantyne, Dan Abreu, Jeff Notaro, Christian Perauer, James Hanlon
Weekly automation services cadence with Empower.
CanceledThree Monday calls called off for the Canadian holiday
MSCI-NB Weekly Working Sessions (Jyoti Muduli canceled after MSCI's Masarrat was unavailable) · IGM/NetBrain CSM Health Check Bi-weekly (Ian Ballantyne, "Observing Canadian Holiday") · TD/NetBrain Weekly AMS Project Sync-Up (Heather Sun, "Canada's holiday"). No action needed — just don't expect these three today.
Tomorrow — Tuesday, August 4
Tentative4:30–5:30 AM ET — MSCI-NB Weekly Working Sessions
Prep: Ravish Dangi's 8/3 follow-up to MSCI ("Reviewing Our Progress and Planning What's Next") is still sitting unanswered — worth a check before this session convenes.
8:30–9:30 AM ET — BDR - Dream Team Power Hour
Zoom · Org: Michael Pasqualoni · Attendees: Dream Team alias, Vamshi Kakubal, Chancellor Mendiola, Scott Henderson, Dardo Simone, Walter Boan, Michael Obrien, Ann Caron, Dan Abreu, Doug Mohan, Tony Biel, Connor Field, Craig Curtis, Kevin Witt, Mike ONeil
Weekly BDR/AE pipeline power hour.
9:00–10:00 AM ET — NetBrain & Corebridge - Ops Team Cadence
Zoom · Org: Andrew Wentzell · NB: Dan Abreu, Jake Dayley · Corebridge: full ops team distribution
Agenda on the invite: understand daily challenges; automate manual workflows.
Tentative9:00–10:30 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Weekly Automation
Zoom · Org: Krishna Makani · DTCC: wclaffey, hquinonesruiz, cpillitteri · NB: Shiladitya Sen, Dan Abreu
Same recurring slot as today's session, back again tomorrow.
Tentative10:30–11:30 AM ET — NetBrain - Baron || Technical Cadence
Agenda on the invite: upgrade system to latest R12.3; AI demo by the NetBrain team. Worth confirming who's driving the demo before the call.
11:30 AM–12:00 PM ET — Ian & Dan Weekly Accounts Sync-Up
Teams · Organizer: Dan Abreu · Attendee: Ian Ballantyne
Standing agenda per the invite: DTCC, CIBC, Empower, TD — a good spot to close out anything open from today's Empower and DTCC touches.
Tentative12:00–12:30 PM ET — ACG / NetBrain - Weekly Cadence
Teams · Org: Paul Lubiak (Advantage CG) · Attendees: Steve Rome, Chris Tsombanos, Michael Pasqualoni, David Mann, Mike ONeil, Sean Dailey
Recurring partner cadence with Advantage CG.
Important Emails
FYI
FYIMSCI weekly working session canceled today
Jyoti Ranjan Muduli / Prasad Umredkar · "RE: [EXTERNAL] MSCI-NB: Weekly Working Sessions" · 6:47–6:51 AM ET today
MSCI's Masarrat was unavailable, so Prasad asked to cancel today's call and Jyoti confirmed. Matches the calendar cancellation above.
FYIIGM/NetBrain CSM Health Check canceled — Canadian holiday
Ian Ballantyne · "Canceled: IGM/NetBrain: CSM Health Check (Bi-Weekly)" · 6:26 AM ET today
Canceled for the day, "Observing Canadian Holiday." Next bi-weekly check-in falls two weeks out.
FYIMSCI progress follow-up still awaiting a reply
Ravish Dangi · "RE: MSCI - NetBrain: Reviewing Our Progress and Planning What's Next" · 5:18 AM ET today
Ravish nudged Kalam Shaikh and Prasad Umredkar again after an earlier email went unanswered: "Not sure if you have missed my previous email... Looking forward to your response." Worth a check before tomorrow's 4:30 AM MSCI session.
FYIMSCI automation & AI usage reports landed
NetBrain@msci.com (automated) · "NetBrain Automation Status Report" / "NetBrain AI Usage Report" · 5:03–5:07 AM ET today
Routine weekly usage and AI-capability metrics for the MSCI account — no action, just reference if the account comes up.
FYIEY virtual training wrap-up thanks
Edgar Sanchez · "Re: EY | NetBrain virtual training [Internal]" · 3:46 AM ET today
Edgar echoed thanks to Anvesh and the team for wrapping the EY workshop and is looking forward to hearing about any feedback from EY.
FYIEY automation roadmap deck shared
Anvesh Reddy Kosna · "Anvesh Reddy Kosna shared 'Automation_Roadmap_EY'" · 2:05 AM ET today
Same deck came up in the POD 5 Teams thread this morning — Edgar added it to the POD 5 master tracker and asked to discuss it at the next 1:1.
Action Items
Follow upCheck on MSCI's response to Ravish Dangi's progress email
Shaikh/Umredkar haven't replied to Ravish's "Reviewing Our Progress" nudge — useful to know the status heading into tomorrow's 4:30 AM MSCI working session.
This weekReview the Automation_Roadmap_EY deck before the next 1:1
Anvesh shared the deck and Edgar flagged it in the POD 5 tracker for discussion at your next 1:1.
TomorrowConfirm who's running the AI demo for Baron
Tomorrow's 10:30 AM Baron Technical Cadence agenda includes an R12.3 upgrade discussion and an AI demo — line up the presenter beforehand.