AI Buyer to AI Builder: What Business Leaders Actually Need from AI

About this session

Business leaders face an AI marketplace full of demos, pilots, and competing promises. This panel explores how to move from interest to accountable adoption: evaluating real business value, deciding when to buy or build, establishing governance, redesigning workflows, and enabling teams. Panelists will share practical approaches for aligning leadership, technology, operations, and people so AI investments become durable business capabilities rather than disconnected experiments.

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Key takeaways

  • Evaluate AI opportunities through business outcomes, operating constraints, and adoption readiness.
  • Use practical criteria to decide when to buy, build, or pause an AI initiative.
  • Establish governance, workflow ownership, and workforce enablement for sustainable AI adoption.

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