AI ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

As artificial intelligence accelerates across industries, a paradox is quietly taking shape.

The tools are more powerful than ever. The possibilities are near limitless. And yet—clarity remains scarce. Within a small, considered circle of technologists, academics, and business leaders, a recurring insight has emerged: the constraint is no longer capability.
Even the most advanced AI teams will struggle to deliver a fraction of what sits on their 2026 roadmaps. Not for lack of ambition—but because there is simply too much that can be done, and too little agreement on what should be done.

I’m therefore convening a roundtable discussion in response to that tension.

Not to explore AI as a technology.
But to interrogate it as a set of decisions.

This is not a forum for presentations.
It is not a platform for persuasion.

It is a deliberate, closed discussion among senior leaders navigating the same terrain—each confronting the quiet, consequential choices that shape how AI creates value.

Together, we will reflect on questions that resist easy answers:

  • What are you truly delivering with AI—not merely exploring?

  • Where has AI reduced the cost to serve, without introducing new risk?

  • Are your initiatives compounding—or fragmenting into disconnected tools?

  • Are you building systems that scale with elegance—or accumulating complexity?

These are not technical questions.
They are human ones.

They require space.
They require honesty.
They require the presence of others who understand the weight of these decisions.

The next phase of AI will not be defined by experimentation, but by selection.

What is chosen?
What is prioritised?
What is left behind? In that sense, the role of the modern organisation is shifting—from adopter to editor. This roundtable creates the conditions for that editorial thinking to emerge.

Event Details

Date: 13 April 2026
Time: 12:00 – 16:00
Format: Closed, invitation-only roundtable

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