Keynotes and featured talks on AI empowerment and what it requires of business leaders

Organisations have spent heavily on AI, and their people use it every day. Yet few leaders can say what it has changed, what is going into it, or who answers when it goes wrong. Meanwhile, research by PwC found that a fifth of organisations capture nearly three quarters of AI's economic value.

This talk changes what leaders think it takes to succeed with AI. It shows why platforms, policies, training and mandates leave organisations where they started, and what the organisations getting real value do differently. Fahed builds each point on the room's own answers, given live as the talk unfolds.

Leaders leave able to see the AI Empowerment Gap in their own organisation, knowing what it costs them and clear that closing it is theirs to lead.

This talk draws on Chapters 1 to 3 of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders.

AI makes work faster and more fluent, and that speed and fluency are exactly what let mistakes slip past capable people. Global brands, established agencies and national newspapers have already paid for it in retractions, lost clients and lost jobs.

This talk works through real, reported cases of AI going wrong. It sets out the risks that surround everyday use of AI and what it takes to stay alert while using it.

Leaders leave knowing where their own teams are exposed and what to put in place.

This talk draws on "Make It Safe", Chapter 5 of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders.

Organisations have given their people AI assistants, and on work specific to the organisation those assistants default to average answers. People spend so long re-explaining, steering and fixing that any time saved disappears. Many of the most experienced quietly go back to doing the work themselves.

This talk explains why capable AI keeps producing average work on an organisation's own tasks, and why a newer model or a specialist tool rarely changes that. It then shows what the teams getting expert-level work from the same assistants are doing differently.

Leaders leave knowing how to turn general AI assistance that costs time into specialist help their experts rely on.

This talk draws on "Make It Yours", Chapter 6 of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders.

In most organisations, recurring work still runs as if every step needs a person. Experts spend their days drafting, formatting and checking, quality varies with whoever does the job, and the method leaves with people when they go. Meanwhile, clients judge every provider against the fastest and most consistent one they have used.

This talk shows how organisations are already having AI carry their recurring expert work the same way every time, with people keeping the judgement. It also shows why the people who make it work are their experts, with no technical background needed.

Leaders leave seeing how their recurring work could run on their best methods, whoever does it, with room to take on more.

This talk draws on "Size the Value" and "Build", Chapters 8 and 9 of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders.

In most companies, managers now use AI in their own work, and some use it very well. Each of them is working it out alone, so what one manager discovers never reaches the next team. The company as a whole gets no better at it.

This talk takes managers through twelve shifts in how they think about AI, the shifts that turn scattered personal use into something the whole company can build on. The room works through each shift together, in live exercises and discussion, so the conclusions are shared ones. It is ideal for managers, especially in companies preparing a more focused effort to drive AI empowerment across the business.

Managers leave excited about what their company could do with AI and clear about their own part in it.

This talk draws on "Set Up the Helm", Chapter 7 of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders.