Objectives
Built to offer participants a journey that helps them walk away with:
- A sharper view of what strategy needs to become in an AI age
- Concrete patterns for building new initiatives both inside large organisations and in startups
- A more honest read on how much of today’s AI narrative is talk versus action in the market
- Practical ideas for making better competitive positioning choices
- Fresh conviction about the talent already inside their organisations and how to support it
Part 1 (pre break): Rethinking strategy for an AI native future
The other from an AI native startup – designed from day one to question every role, process and interaction with a simple test: can AI do this, and if not, why not?
- We open with a high energy keynote from international speaker and author Richard Mulholland, as he challenges traditional strategy thinking and asks what it means to stay relentlessly relevant when the rules are being rewritten. It sets the tone for the rest of the afternoon – honest, practical and uncomfortably useful.
- From there, we explore two contrasting but complementary organisational journeys in this moment: One from inside a large, established organisation that has built a fast growing, innovation focused “startup” division in the middle of the corporate gravity that so often weighs agility and disruption down.
- Together, these stories surface what it really takes to create new value, whether you are operating inside a behemoth or building from scratch. There are lessons here for every leader, no matter the size of the organization you lead
Break
A combination of caffeine, sugar, and conversation inspired by the content so far will hopefully spark some energy to launch into part two of the afternoon.
Part 2 (post break): Facing competitive reality and committing to action
- While the true innovators might be progressing, what the latest industry pulse data telling us? We’ll kick off again with a look at if there a gap between industry AI transformation rhetoric and reality, and what does that means for where the AV and workplace ecosystem is genuinely moving.
- This leads into a fresh take on the importance of competitive intelligence – how to see your competitive landscape more clearly, how to position your portfolio and story today, and how to identify where real disruption may come from tomorrow. All of which is critical in deciding whether it is time to hold, fold, or change the game altogether.
- We then turn the agenda to the audience. In tables specifically curated for balance and diversity (with a little AI assistance). A roundtable breakout opportunity will invite you to consider your organization’s current competitive reality, and then offer a chance for the table to test assumptions, and explore areas of risk and opportunity the table sees.
- We’ll then reconvene in the room for an open, facilitated conversation between the audience and an onstage panel drawn from the day’s contributors, as we look to collectively summarise the journey of the day, the committed actions it has created, and the questions that remain.
- Leadership may thrive around strategy, but it is executed by people. So we close the day with the inspiration of a talent story from the front lines. You will meet the kind of digital native many organisations already employ, but may not yet fully see – someone who has moved from hands on technical work into building AI powered tools and workflows that reshape what a “tech” or “engineer” can do. It is a powerful reminder that the people who can help you navigate this decade might already be on your team, waiting to be recognised and unleashed, and that organisational innovation in this moment is as much about people as it is about technology.
An evening networking reception will follow – an informal opportunity to continue open sourcing the diversity of thought, ideation and learning that came from the day with a peer group of equally committed and inspired transformation leaders.
