Stop right there: You are spending real money on AI. Where is the real value?
If spending money on AI were an Olympic sport, most companies in this room would be on the podium with a gold medal around their neck. If creating actual business value from those AI investments were the second event of the same Olympics, most of the same medallists would either finish last or be disqualified for not really having competed at all. Throwing money at something has never made it good and AI is not the exception. Budgets for AI initiatives keep climbing every quarter, but at the end of the day there is maybe a handful of companies actually using it in a way that produces real value. The debate over Claude versus ChatGPT versus Copilot should have died a quiet death by now. AI is a powerhouse of a tool, for sure, but it is still a tool. And like every tool that came before it, it will never produce value on its own without someone knowing what they actually wanted to achieve with it. After thirteen years of building enterprise software across Europe and watching dozens of AI initiatives either succeed or fail miserably, I have learned that the gap has very little to do with how much money has been invested - but if it has been invested in the right places. This session is for the people who are also tired of throwing money onto the Hype and are ready for a ROI. You leave with a way to assess your own AI spend against real outcomes, a clearer read on which AI initiatives are actually worth real money, and a quick start guide for setting up a valuable AI instead of just any AI.
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Balazs Horvath
Founder, Lead Architect at VisualLabs
Balazs Horvath has spent thirteen years on both sides of software projects, first implementing Microsoft transformations at KPMG and HCL, now running a Microsoft Partner Company he built. As Founder of VisualLabs, serving clients across the UK, US and Europe, he works with CFOs and COOs on the decisions that make technology investments actually change how a business performs, increasingly on where AI hype turns into AI value.... mehr erfahren