Invitation-only LEADERSHIP roundtable

Practical AI implementation, discussed in confidence by senior leaders.

Practical AI implementation, discussed in confidence by senior leaders.

The AI Leadership Roundtable brings together senior leaders from business, technology, government, academia and international institutions to exchange practical lessons on implementing AI. Every discussion is confidential, independently moderated and strictly noncommercial.

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Confidential exchange

Every discussion is designed to surface implementation lessons, operational failures, and governance approaches that rarely appear in public conferences or published case studies.

Implementation-led

Sessions focus on AI operating models, deployment barriers, governance, data readiness, and organizational adoption.

Peer learning

Participants compare experience with leaders facing similar executive, operational, and technology decisions.

Current agenda

Questions senior leaders are already trying to answer.

Operations

Where AI changes operating rhythm

How leaders are redesigning workflows, exception handling, and decision rights once AI tools leave pilot environments.

Operations

Where AI changes operating rhythm

How leaders are redesigning workflows, exception handling, and decision rights once AI tools leave pilot environments.

Operations

Where AI changes operating rhythm

What AI deployments actually produced measurable productivity gains? How leaders are redesigning workflows, exception handling, and decision rights once AI tools leave pilot environments.

Risk

Governance without paralysis

Balancing speed, accountability, model risk, procurement, and legal oversight in complex organizations.

Risk

Governance without paralysis

Balancing speed, accountability, model risk, procurement, and legal oversight in complex organizations.

Risk

Governance without paralysis

What governance models are proving too slow? Balancing speed, accountability, model risk, procurement, and legal oversight in complex organizations.

Supply chain

AI in planning and resilience

What leaders are learning about forecasting, scenario planning, supplier intelligence, and operations visibility.

Supply chain

AI in planning and resilience

What leaders are learning about forecasting, scenario planning, supplier intelligence, and operations visibility.

Supply chain

AI in planning and resilience

Where are organizations abandoning pilots—and why? What leaders are learning about forecasting, scenario planning, supplier intelligence, and operations visibility.

Leadership

The executive adoption problem

How boards and senior teams develop literacy, set priorities, and avoid disconnected experimentation.

Leadership

The executive adoption problem

How boards and senior teams develop literacy, set priorities, and avoid disconnected experimentation.

Leadership

The executive adoption problem

What capabilities should CEOs build before scaling AI? How boards and senior teams develop literacy, set priorities, and avoid disconnected experimentation.

Moderated by Fergus McCormick

An economist’s lens on AI decisions.

Fergus frames each discussion around incentives, constraints, implementation tradeoffs, and the practical consequences of technology choices for firms and markets. Most AI conferences discuss possibilities. This roundtable focuses on what leaders have actually learned while deploying AI inside real organizations.

About Fergus

Designed for decision-makers.

The AI Leadership Roundtable is limited to approximately 15 senior leaders. Invitations prioritize leaders responsible for strategy, implementation, operations, risk, or technology adoption inside organizations. Participants include leaders from Fortune 500 companies, multilateral institutions, global technology firms and universities.

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