Keynote 03 · AI Adoption & ROI Keynote
Closing the AI adoption gap
Most enterprise AI is live, yet half of companies still can’t prove it works. Real use cases, a proven adoption process, and the leadership habits that turn AI spend into results.
The technology is no longer the bottleneck. People, process and proof are. Leaders spend about an hour and a half a week with AI themselves, and only a quarter of employees use it regularly. Meanwhile, budgets keep climbing and boards keep asking what they are getting for the money.
Sandy walks audiences through real use cases by function, the organizational adoption process that moves a company from scattered pilots to measurable value, and the habits leaders need to model from the top. Attendees describe it as the session where AI finally became concrete.
That was the best AI session I’ve attended. Your deck with the actual use cases made things really easy to understand. The business context was really helpful, and the organizational adoption process made it very easy to consider where one stood with respect to the actual corporate process for AI adoption.
The research behind the talk
Forbes
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