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The Enterprise AI Leadership Series / Governing, Scaling, and Competing with AI

EXECUTIVE DISCOVERY CONVERSATIONS

Choose the table conversation that most interests you. Each  table explores a different perspective on how AI is reshaping the enterprise. 

There are no right answers. The value is in the conversation.

Please note: only the upcoming or current Executive Discovery Conversation table topics will be visible. The page will be updated for each subsequent session.

Thursday Breakfast:
REIMAGINE - What could we become?

Table 1 – AI-Native Enterprise

  • If you were designing your company from scratch today, what would you build differently because AI exists?
  • What would you stop building altogether?

Table 2  – Organizational Design

  • Which assumptions about how a large enterprise is organized become obsolete when AI can perform work continuously and at scale?
  • What is the first organizational layer you would eliminate or radically redesign?

Table 3 – Customer Experience

  • As AI makes it possible to understand customers at unprecedented depth, what should enterprises actually choose to know—and what should remain private?
  • Does knowing more about a customer necessarily mean serving them better?

Table 4 – Work & Decision-Making

  • Which aspects of work should we redesign around AI—and which should we deliberately preserve as human?
  • What might we lose if we optimize every process for efficiency?

Table 5 – The Autonomous Enterprise

  • Where should an enterprise allow AI to act autonomously—and where should human judgment remain non-negotiable?
  • What is the cost of keeping a human in the loop—and what is the cost of taking the human out?

Table 6 – Enterprise Architecture

  • How should enterprise architecture change when AI agents can continuously interact with systems, data, and one another?
  • Does the application-centric enterprise eventually give way to an agent-centric one?

Table 7 – Business Model

  • What business models become possible when the marginal cost of intelligence and digital work approaches zero?
  • What existing revenue model becomes hardest to defend?

Table 8 – Products & Services

  • If AI can fundamentally change what a product or service can do, where should enterprises rethink the product itself rather than simply add AI features?
  • Are we adding intelligence to yesterday’s products—or designing entirely new ones?

Table 9 – Competitive Advantage

  • Which advantages that matter today become less defensible as AI capabilities become widely available?
  • What becomes harder for competitors to copy?

Table 10 – Human Differentiation

  • As AI takes on more knowledge work, what capabilities become more valuable precisely because they remain uniquely human?
  • What will exceptional human talent look like in an AI-native enterprise?

Table 11 – Strategic Restraint

  • What if the best AI strategy for part of the enterprise is to use less AI, not more?
  • Where might human judgment, simplicity, or even friction be an advantage?

Table 12 – The 2030 Enterprise

  • If we meet again in 2030, what will we recognize as the defining characteristic of an AI-native enterprise?
  • What are today’s leaders most likely to underestimate?