Session Abstract

It's painfully obvious how difficult so many organizations find it to actually build and execute on their AI strategy, in part because of the decades they've spent kicking their proverbial data can down the road, and in part because it turns out most people have zero clue where to start. This is your golden opportunity to become a true leader in artificial intelligence! Join us to pick up practical knowledge and tools to help your organization (or your customer) assess its maturity to adopt and scale AI, and identify specific areas to invest time, talent, and treasure across 25 dimensions including your technical ecosystem, data distribution and integration, business applications, AI development tools, extensible AI, Responsible AI (RAI), data governance, and how technical debt can destroy your greatest AI dreams. Organizations diverse as government, law firms, banking, industrial and manufacturing, utilities, global humanitarian, and Microsoft partners from the United States to France to Thailand are using the AI Strategy Framework to get twelve steps ahead. You should be, too.

Note to event organizers

The AI Strategy Framework comes from the Microsoft paper, “Crafting your Future-Ready Enterprise AI Strategy, Second Edition”. It’s being used by Microsoft partners and organizations around the world to assess, build, architect, and act on their AI strategies.

Andrew Welch

Ana’s husband and Alexandra’s dad :-) Also a cloud technology leader, Founder and CTO of Cloud Lighthouse, Microsoft MVP, speaker, published author, and regular writer of essays and white papers on cloud technology including the multi-edition “Crafting your Future-Ready Enterprise AI Strategy”, “Ecosystem-Oriented Architecture in the Public Sector”, “Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture”, “Scaling your Enterprise Cloud with Power Platform”, and more. I have served as CTO, global Vice President, Practice Director, and VP of Operations, and other tech and business focused roles at various Microsoft partners. I work directly with CXOs, Microsoft partners, Microsoft product engineering groups, technologists, investors, and global humanitarian and governance organizations to guide strategy and ecosystem architecture across the cloud. Previously I have led some of the world’s largest Microsoft adoptions on all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica), serving startup to Fortune 100 organizations, public sector agencies, and global NGOs.

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