Last week, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote presentation at Monday.com’s Elevate conference in London. The topic, “Leveraging data and artificial intelligence (AI) for organisational transformation,” allowed me to challenge some common misconceptions about AI adoption and share practical insights on harnessing the power of existing data. In this post, I outline the key themes discussed and provide some additional context.

Earlier this week, I got the opportunity to speak at our Amazon Web Services (AWS) office in London, to an audience of Private Equity firms and their portfolio company executives about driving value creation through AI and data. The presentation focused on how Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies can drive value creation through AI and data. I also took the opportunity to introduce a new concept called the AI Stages of Adoption (AISA), which is designed to help organisations assess their maturity and readiness for AI adoption.

I had an incredible afternoon as a guest lecturer at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where I got to discuss harnessing AI for organisational transformation led from the Board, at this summer’s Data Science for Executives class.

Tonight I got an opportunity to speak at the Chief Wine Officer event hosted by AWS, to an audience of AWS customers about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), the opportunities it creates, and how customers are using it to accelerate business transformation.

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Earlier this week I presented at a Gartner round table for CFO’s in Atlanta. The topic was how organisations use the cloud to transform and how the value from that transformation is expressed to the business. My presentation can be viewed on the Gartner website here (registration required).

Today I presented at AWS re:Invent on the key considerations organisations should make as they consider a migration to the cloud from their on-premises data centre. Joining me on stage was Greg Cope of the Financial Times who shared stories from his experiences in migrating to AWS.

Covering my presentation today on the key considerations organisations should make as they consider a migration to the cloud from their on-premises data centre was TechRepublic who did a great write up of my keynote.

Today I presented at the AWS Transformation Day London on how to write a business case for a migration to the AWS cloud. You can view the video here and see coverage from Hosting Journalist here.