AI Driven Business Transformation

Thomas Meyer

General Manager and Group Vice President, IDC Europe

Ann-Christel Graham

Chief Revenue Officer, IDG

Crawford Del Prete

President, IDC

Meredith Whalen

Chief Research Officer, IDC

Your customers have spent the past year dreaming of, experimenting with, and piloting GenAI projects. One year later, they’ve run an average of 37 GenAI proof of concepts; but on average only 5 have moved into production. Is GenAI, the fastest technology to reach mass experimentation, at risk of stalling? Will AI be another 10-year adoption cycle, like cloud and digital transformation? Join Meredith Whalen, IDC’s Chief Research Officer, as identifies the hurdles preventing enterprises from moving forward to enterprise deployment of AI. Ms. Whalen will share IDC’s AI Adoption model, AI 5-year forecast, and a sneak preview of 2025 predictions.

Rick Villars

Group Vice President Worldwide Research, IDC

The more organizations gain experience with GenAI, the more they believe AI must evolve from a portfolio of isolated capabilities to a common data/model platform running on a coordinated train/tune/inference infrastructure, embedding AI across the business. This AI foundation is the next strategic workload (like ERP, eCommerce, and Mobile before) that will expand the overall tech opportunity. It requires long term commitments to an AI-ready infrastructure architecture, an AI platform for data/model/app coordination, and a partner strategy to ensure global scale and effective AI governance. Join Rick Villars, IDC’s Group Vice President, Worldwide Research, as he provides insights on how far enterprises are in building their foundation, where they will be making strategic choices in the coming year, and what comes next as they strive to become an AI-fueled business.

Gail Fulciniti

Group Vice President, Global Research Product Management

IDC’s global research point of view on AI and beyond includes advising you on how to overcome challenges and maximize opportunities as you move from Experimentation to Adoption. Learn how IDC’s research and product portfolio leverages the span and depth of our collective analyst knowledge across technology, industry, and regions to rapidly deliver relevant, actionable, and impactful research that will help you to become an AI Driven Business.

Samantha Miller

SVP & GM, IT Sales Accelerator, IDC

Jim Spare

SVP & GM of IT Buyer Digital Products, IDC

Amy Loomis

Research Vice President, IDC

IDC predicts that Adoption of AI and GenAI empowered ways of working will rapidly change job roles and required skills to enable competitive business growth across industries. Not only will jobs change with automation but work environments - digital and physical alike - will also evolve to focus on business outcomes. Learn what IDC research has to say about how vendors can help clients shift to insight-driven ways of working that promise to drive business outcomes at scale.

Aly Pinder

Research Vice President, IDC

Customer value is no longer achieved through individual transactional moments but integrated experiences. To achieve excellence and sustainable customer relationships, organizations must ensure functions across the organization have the insights to deliver experiences that benefit from multiple perspectives. Shared knowledge, metrics, and goals ensures customers win and organizations and partners can succeed in the long term. This session will highlight the shift in value expectations and how organizations must finally get past a siloed approach to customer experiences.

Ashish Nadkarni

GVP & GM, Infrastructure Research

As AI continues to revolutionize industries, the need for robust, scalable and fit-for-purpose infrastructure to support enterprise AI workloads is critical. This session will explore the key components and strategies required to build an AI-ready infrastructure. Attendees will learn about the trends in hardware and software, data management techniques, and integration of cloud and edge computing, and how IDC plans to track them. The session will also discuss how vendors can instill best practices for ensuring data security, scalability, and performance optimization at their clients.

AI is changing the nature of both the services and software industry. Service firms must bring software, data graphs, and models to engagements while software companies will have to strengthen their services capabilities to manage AI applications over time. And AI is changing expectations for how services will be delivered. In this breakout session IDC will share research on these important trends and offer guidance on how to best capitalize on them.

Amplifying Your Brand – Future Enterprise Awards, Custom Solutions, IDC Global Events

Data Insights – Vendor and End User Digital Platforms, Data & Analytics

Stewart Bond

Research Vice President, Data Integration Software

AI is enabling new value creation opportunities for software vendors as organizations re-examine their entire IT stack looking through AI colored glasses. But there is no AI without data, and in this session Stewart will discuss how organizations must leverage data, content, and intelligence in new ways, safely and timely, to deliver meaningful business outcomes with AI. Where and how technology vendor solutions integrate and adapt into the customer's data environment will have an impact on selection and implementation decisions. Leverage the IDC research presented in this session to learn how to become an integral part of your customer's AI journey.

Thomas Meyer