AI Innovation Summit
From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Impact
Location: The Starling, Atlanta
As organizations increase investment in generative AI and intelligent automation, many face a common challenge: translating innovation into measurable business outcomes. Success requires more than technology alone. It demands the right combination of data foundations, governance, talent, culture, and financial accountability.
Through a series of interactive workshops and peer-led discussions, attendees will examine the critical elements of enterprise AI success. Topics include scaling AI from pilot to production, building AI-ready teams and cultures, establishing governance frameworks that connect AI investment to business value, and modernizing data and technology ecosystems to support intelligent decision-making at scale.
Key Themes
Scaling AI Beyond the Pilot
Explore the key levers for scaling AI successfully across your organisation
From Cost Centre to Growth Engine
Demonstrate the business value of AI investments with clear metrics and measurable outcomes.
Governance That Accelerates Innovation
Build AI governance that enables innovation, manages risk, and supports confident, scalable deployment across your organisation.
Building AI on Better Data
Learn how strong data foundations enable reliable AI outcomes and where to prioritise investment for lasting success.
Previous Speakers
Daniel Hulme
Sarah Willock
Jeanine Brosch
Dr. Paul Dongha
Agenda
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Registration
4:30pm - 4:40pm
MOC Welcome & Meet the Team
4:45pm - 6:15pm
Mission Tracks: The Catalyst
Track 1: From Experimentation to Enterprise Impact: How AI Leaders Are Scaling Beyond the Pilot Stage
Most organisations sit on a graveyard of promising pilots that never reach production. This session confronts what breaks between proof-of-concept and enterprise scale, and hands you a practical playbook for moving AI from isolated experiments to repeatable, business-wide impact and the levers that separate the scalers from the stallers.
Track 2: From Cost Centre to Growth Engine: Proving Business Value from AI Investments
With boards sharpening their scrutiny of AI spend, the pressure to prove hard value has never been higher. Reframe AI from a line-item cost into a measurable growth driver; with the metrics and value-tracking frameworks to defend budgets and unlock the next wave of investment, in the language your CFO and CEO trust.
Track 3: Governance That Accelerates Innovation: Building the Foundations for Scalable AI
Governance is too often cast as the brake on AI ambition. This session flips that, showing how the right guardrails for risk, ethics and compliance let you move faster and deploy with confidence. Leave with a blueprint for governance that de-risks scale without smothering the experimentation your business depends on.
Track 4: Fix the Foundation First: Why Data Readiness Determines AI Success
Every ambitious AI strategy eventually collides with the state of its data. Cut through to the foundational work that makes or breaks outcomes (quality, access, lineage and architecture) and how to prioritise it without stalling delivery. Leave knowing exactly where to invest in your data estate to turn aspiration into dependable results.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Cocktail Reception
7:20pm - 9:30pm
Gala Dinner
7:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am - 8:40am
MOC Opening
8:40am - 9:05am
Gamechanger
Beyond the Pilot Factory: Designing an AI Model That Can Scale Across the Enterprise
Most enterprises do not have an AI experimentation problem. They have a fragmentation problem. This session explores how to move beyond isolated POCs, duplicated infrastructure and one-off builds by creating a hub-and-spoke model that identifies the right opportunities, redesigns inefficient processes and builds shared capabilities once for reuse across the business.
Leave with a practical blueprint for turning scattered experimentation into a scalable enterprise AI model.
9:10am - 10:40am
Mission Tracks
The Blueprint
The four mission streams reconvene to turn Day 1's challenges into a delivery blueprint. Building directly on The Catalyst, partner-led working sessions move each stream from diagnosis to design — shaping the practical, prioritised blueprint each theme will carry into execution.
Track 1: From Experimentation to Enterprise Impact: How AI Leaders Are Scaling Beyond the Pilot Stage
Track 2: From Cost Centre to Growth Engine: Proving Business Value from AI Investments
Track 3: Governance That Accelerates Innovation: Building the Foundations for Scalable AI
Track 4: Fix the Foundation First: Why Data Readiness Determines AI Success
10:45am - 11:15am
Future on Fire
From Hype to Execution: Making Agentic AI Work in the Enterprise
Agentic AI owns the headlines, but few leaders have moved it into dependable production. This session separates genuine capability from noise: where autonomous agents are already delivering, and the architecture, controls and use-case discipline to make them work at enterprise scale. Leave able to spot the agentic opportunities worth pursuing now.
11:20am - 11:50am
Future on Fire
The AI Decision Map: How to Pick the Use Cases That Won't Die in Pilot
Why do some organisations convert AI investment into outsized returns while others plateau? This session decodes the habits, operating choices and prioritisation discipline that set the highest performers apart, giving you a candid benchmark against the best and specific moves to close the gap.
1:00pm - 2:05pm
The Provocation Tables
Responsible AI in Practice: Bridging Legal, Compliance and Technology
Responsible AI often breaks down not in the policy itself, but in the handoffs between legal, compliance, technology and the business.
This roundtable examines how organisations can create stronger feedback loops, define where human review is still required, escalate concerns quickly and introduce new AI capabilities safely.
Compare how peers are turning responsible AI principles into practical decisions across different functions, use cases and risk environments.
2:05pm - 2:35pm
Radical Perspectives
Build, Buy or Partner? Making the Right AI Investment Decisions in a Crowded Market
The AI vendor landscape is expanding faster than anyone can evaluate it, and the wrong bet is costly to unwind. Get a clear-eyed framework for deciding what to build, what to buy and where partnering wins. Discover methods of balancing speed, control, cost and long-term flexibility, with criteria that hold up as the market shifts.
2:40pm - 3:45pm
The Provocation Tables
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Radical Perspectives
Creating a Repeatable AI Delivery Model for the Business
One-off wins don't compound; repeatable delivery does. This session unpacks how to industrialise AI delivery. It explores the teams, playbooks and platforms that let you ship value again and again rather than reinventing every project. Leave with a practical model for turning AI from heroic effort into a reliable capability.
4:25pm - 4:55pm
Radical Perspectives
How Do You Build an AI Stack That Won't Need Replacing in 18 Months?
In a market moving this fast, today's cutting-edge stack risks becoming tomorrow's technical debt. Learn how to architect for change; the abstractions, standards and modularity that keep you adaptable as models, tools and costs evolve. Take this and build an AI foundation that ages well and protects your freedom to move.
7:15pm - 10:00pm
Offsite Evening Experience
7:00am - 8:15am
Breakfast
8:15am - 8:20am
MOC Opening
8:20am - 9:50am
Mission Tracks
The Reckoning
The mission streams converge for a candid, joint verdict. The culmination of the mission-track journey: streams come together to separate what's real from what's hype, and to lock in the concrete commitments each theme carries back to the business. The output every delegate leaves with.
Track 1: From Experimentation to Enterprise Impact: How AI Leaders Are Scaling Beyond the Pilot Stage
Track 2: From Cost Centre to Growth Engine: Proving Business Value from AI Investments
Track 3: Governance That Accelerates Innovation: Building the Foundations for Scalable AI
Track 4: Fix the Foundation First: Why Data Readiness Determines AI Success
9:55am - 10:25am
Ecosystem Exchanges
10:30am - 11:00am
Radical Perspectives
How Do You Move Faster Without Losing Control?
Speed and control are usually framed as a trade-off — the leading AI organisations refuse to choose. Explore how to accelerate delivery while keeping risk, cost and quality firmly in hand, through the right mix of automation, guardrails and operating discipline. Leave knowing how to give teams velocity without losing your grip on outcomes.
11:05am - 11:35am
Radical Perspectives
From Guardrails to Growth: Building AI Innovation the Board Can Trust
AI innovation cannot scale without board confidence. This session explores how to connect a clear AI strategy with responsible governance, business value and the right level of control, while still creating space for experimentation.
Leave with a practical approach to building executive trust, aligning investment with priorities and turning guardrails into an enabler of growth.
11:40am - 12:10pm
Turning AI Investment into Revenue Growth, Productivity and Competitive Advantage
The closing provocation moves from capability to competitive edge, connecting AI investment directly to the outcomes the board cares about — top-line growth, productivity and durable differentiation — and how to make that link explicit and defensible. Leave ready to position AI not as a cost to justify, but as the engine of your next chapter.
12:15pm - 12:45pm
MOC Closing
Why attend?
Connect with like-minded senior leaders for a curated agenda, focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Be a part of exclusive shared learning, horizon scanning and actionable insights enabling organizations to deliver transformative strategies.
Build meaningful relationships with solution providers matched to your business priorities to help accelerate your projects and deliver your objectives.
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