Operational efficiency: what enterprise AI leaders are working on

Panel Discussion: Transforming Industries with AI: Enterprise Success Stories

As AI adoption expands from experimentation to enterprise-level implementation, understanding sector-spanning success stories becomes essential. This panel will explore how AI drives operational efficiency, smarter decision-making, and personalized experiences at scale. Leaders will discuss methods to align AI initiatives with business goals and address pressing issues around ethics, governance, and workforce adaptation. Panelists will examine methods for turning AI insights into actionable strategies that impact business performance.

The Vision Talk: Agentic AI: From Hype to Value

As Agentic AI matures, enterprise focus is rapidly shifting from PoCs to scalable implementations that drive measurable ROI. This keynote cuts through the hype to give C-suite leaders a clear-eyed view of what Agentic AI is, and isn’t, why so many initiatives fail to cross into production, and what distinguishes organizations already turning early momentum into compounding value. Attendees will leave with a practical vision for where agentic systems fit, what conditions enable success, and how to approach adoption with the right balance of ambition, governance, and business discipline.

From Productivity Myths to Boardroom Metrics: The Real Levers of AI ROI with Enterprise Stories

Open Roundtable : Building the AI-Native Organisation

AI-native organizations thrive because they adapt and evolve continuously through AI at every level. By integrating machine learning and automation across operations, they achieve real-time insights and autonomous decision-making that traditional firms can’t match. This panel will examine the cultural, technical, and leadership shifts required to make AI not just a tool, but the foundation of business strategy and execution. How enterprise leaders are using AI to differentiate in the market, gain competitive intelligence, and anticipate future trends

From Productivity Myths to Boardroom Metrics: The Real Levers of AI ROI with 4 Enterprise Stories

In a world where AI is being deployed everywhere, the key question for CDOs and CAIOs is no longer whether to invest, but where to focus to maximize outcomes. In this keynote, Rémy Thellier argues that real AI ROI does not come from productivity gains alone. It comes from targeting the levers that matter most in the boardroom: reducing spend, accelerating revenue, lowering risk, and improving working capital. Joined by four leaders from Snowflake’s AI/ML ecosystem partners, Rémy shares four enterprise stories that show where AI delivers the strongest payoffs—and why. The pattern is clear: value is captured when AI is embedded in governed data foundations, integrated directly into workflows, and tied to explicit economic metrics. Designed for CDOs and CAIOs, this session offers practical guidance on where to place bets, how to avoid diluted effort, and how to move beyond pilots and “hours saved” toward faster time-to-value, safer scale, and durable ROI.

Open Roundtable: Building the AI Native Organization

AI-native organizations thrive because they adapt and evolve continuously through AI at every level. By integrating machine learning and automation across operations, they achieve real-time insights and autonomous decision-making that traditional firms can’t match. This panel will examine the cultural, technical, and leadership shifts required to make AI not just a tool, but the foundation of business strategy and execution. How enterprise leaders are using AI to differentiate in the market, gain competitive intelligence, and anticipate future trends.

Panel Discussion: Transforming Industries with AI - Enterprise Success Stories

As AI adoption expands from experimentation to enterprise-level implementation, understanding sector-spanning success stories becomes essential. This panel will explore how AI drives operational efficiency, smarter decision-making, and personalized experiences at scale. Leaders will discuss methods to align AI initiatives with business goals and address pressing issues around ethics, governance, and workforce adaptation. Panelists will examine methods for turning AI insights into actionable strategies that impact business performance.

The Illusion of AI Productivity — Why AI ROI Slips Away—and Four Enterprise Stories That Solved It

In this keynote-style talk, Rémy Thellier confronts the “illusion of AI productivity”—the growing gap between individual time savings and enterprise-level ROI. While AI adoption is accelerating, most organizations still struggle to translate usage into measurable economic outcomes. The core argument is simple: ROI doesn’t fail because models aren’t good enough; it fails because workflows, governance, operating models, and measurement systems aren’t redesigned to capture value. To move from pilots to profit, Rémy is joined by four guest leaders from four of Snowflake’s most strategic AI/ML ecosystem partners. Together, they present a series of customer stories showing how enterprises convert AI from isolated productivity boosts into measurable financial impact—by embedding AI into governed data foundations, integrating it directly into operational workflows, and tying initiatives to concrete economic levers: cycle-time reduction that accelerates revenue, external spend compression, and operational risk reduction. Examples include an agentic application for IT software license management that identifies waste and automates reclamation, and a centralized, AI-powered marketing & sales decision engine that unifies signals across channels to improve pipeline quality, conversion, and execution speed. Designed for CDOs and CAIOs, the session delivers pragmatic shortcuts to results: repeatable patterns, proven metrics, and implementation playbooks that help leaders move beyond “hours saved” to board-ready outcomes—faster time-to-value, safer scale, and durable ROI.