F102_Frederick.pptx

1、,DATA SUMMIT 2026 SESSION F102,MAY 6,2026 12:0012:45 PM,A CANDID SESSION FOR LEADERS,Learnings From the Front Lines of AI.,Understanding AI realities for leaders.Whats working,whats quietly failing,and what to do about it.,Ryan Frederick,AI Advisor,Speaker&Investor,Ryan Frederick,00 SPEAKER,Whos tal

2、king.,AI advisor,speaker,and investor.Working with leadership teams to turn AI from a science project into a line on the income statement.,01,Advisor embedded with leadership teams turning AI from pilots into a P&L line.,02,Speaker on stages and in boardrooms,translating AI hype into operating decis

3、ions.,03,Investor backing founders building the operating systems the next decade runs on.,01 THE STATE OF PLAY,Most companies are“using”AI.Few have made it a core capability.,Tools in hands AI in the operating system.Observed across 80 enterprise engagements,20252026.,01 THE CURRENT STATE,Using com

4、pared to operating with AI.,01,Experimenting with AI tools,78%,02,Production AI for one task,34%,03,AI embedded across functions,11%,04,Treating AI as core capability,4%,Synthesized from Transform Labs client benchmarks,MIT NANDA,BCG AI in the Workplace 2025.,The 4%arent smarter.They decided to stop

5、 experimenting and start operating.,01 REALITY,Most AI initiatives dont fail loudly.,Month 0,Kickoff.Steering committee.Vendor selected.,Month 3,Pilot demo.The room claps.,Month 6,Champion is reorganized.,Month 9,Slack channel goes quiet.,Month 12,Finance asks where the budget went.,Month 18,No one

6、quite remembers.,Your job:see the fade before it happens.,02,Five pitfalls I see everywhere.,None of them are technical.,02 PITFALL 01 OF 05,01,Pushing adoption before the foundation.,Everyone has Copilot.No one knows what good looks like,where the data lives,or who owns the outcome.,Adoption withou