As AI transforms the business landscape, organizations face both unprecedented opportunities and emerging challenges. This webinar cuts through prevailing narratives to examine the real-world impacts organizations are encountering, while exploring how geopolitical shifts are reshaping the private sector.
The expert panel explores:
- Moving beyond the hype to explore the real opportunities and threats associated with AI adoption.
- Understanding how the evolving relationship between Big Tech and government agencies shapes corporate decision-making
- Navigating the new expectations from executives, boards, and regulators – from emerging compliance frameworks to shifting priorities
Key session highlights:
- Balancing fascination with security: The discussion revealed a “schizophrenic” relationship with AI – simultaneously exciting for its possibilities yet concerning for its security implications. AI enables both proactive identification of vulnerabilities and more sophisticated threat vectors. This dual nature requires organizations to develop protection and recovery capabilities across people, infrastructure, data, and technology ecosystems.
- Navigating the balkanized tech landscape: Geopolitical tensions are driving increased focus on data sovereignty and infrastructure control. Organizations must now consider jurisdictional control of their data, models, and compute capacity as technology ecosystems split along geopolitical lines. This fragmentation requires strategic positioning with “some degree of confidence” in the governance of critical capabilities.
- Surviving the coming time warp: The pace of change in AI is creating what was described as a “time warp” where the next five years will feel like a massive leap forward. This compressed timeline renders traditional planning cycles inadequate. Successful organizations will focus less on predicting specific developments and more on building fundamental response capabilities that can adapt to unforeseen challenges.
- Distinguishing signal from noise: With constant announcements of breakthroughs and disruptions, looking beyond short-term market reactions to understand fundamental shifts in supply chains and power dynamics becomes increasingly critical. Organizations need systematic frameworks to assess emerging technologies based on their operational context rather than reacting to market hype or sensational headlines.
- Targeted scenario exercising builds capability: Well-designed scenario exercises are invaluable for developing the cognitive flexibility and collaborative judgment needed during disruptions. “Practice makes perfect” – with regular, focused simulations being essential for building organizational muscle memory and enabling effective response when real crises emerge.
Duration:
60 minutes (including Q&A)
Panellists:
Marcus Vaughan | Cofounder, iluminr
James Hardy | Founder, Iroko Advisors
John Ellis | Global Head of Security & Influence, QBE
