Roundtable

Turning AI Ambition into Business Outcomes: Balancing Innovation, Governance, and Risk

22 June 2026 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CEST
Data-driven.
People first.
Executive Engagement.

As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, how can organizations balance innovation, governance, and risk while delivering measurable business value?

Artificial Intelligence has become a boardroom priority, with organisations under increasing pressure to move beyond experimentation and deliver tangible business outcomes. Yet as AI adoption accelerates, many leaders are finding that scaling AI successfully is far more complex than deploying new technology.
Questions around governance, data security, regulatory compliance, workforce readiness, and operational integration are becoming just as important as the technology itself. At the same time, business leaders are being asked to demonstrate measurable value from AI investments while ensuring innovation does not outpace control.

Join this Meet the Boss roundtable, in partnership with Rackspace, select group of senior business and technology leaders for an interactive discussion exploring how organisations are navigating the realities of enterprise AI adoption. Together, we will examine the challenges of scaling AI responsibly, balancing innovation with governance, and creating the foundations needed to deliver sustainable business value. Through candid peer discussion, attendees will share lessons learned, discuss common obstacles, and explore practical approaches for turning AI ambition into meaningful business outcomes.

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Discussion Topics

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Moving Beyond AI Pilots: How are organisations transitioning from isolated use cases to AI initiatives that create meaningful enterprise-wide impact?

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Governance Without Slowing Innovation: What frameworks, controls, and operating models are needed to enable responsible AI adoption while maintaining business agility?

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Measuring Success in the Age of AI: How should organisations evaluate business value, productivity gains, and long-term competitive advantage from AI investments?

About Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology is the multicloud solutions expert. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions.
We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimising returns into the future.

As a global, multicloud technology services pioneer, we deliver innovative cloud capabilities to help customers build new revenue streams, increase efficiency and create incredible experiences. Recognised as a best place to work, year after year, by Fortune, Forbes, Great Places to Work and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent to deliver the best expertise to our customers. Everything we do is underpinned by an obsession with our customers’ success — our Fanatical Experience® — so they can work faster, smarter and stay ahead of what’s next.

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