Build, Buy or Blend? The Enterprise AI Adoption Decision

​Every enterprise racing to adopt AI hits the same fork in the road: build it in-house, buy an off-the-shelf platform, or blend both. Get it wrong and you either burn 18 months on a custom build nobody asked for, or lock yourself into a vendor tool that can't flex to your workflows.

​Join us for this informative TechWeek Chicago session that brings executives and AI builders into the same room to cut through the noise. We'll unpack the real trade-offs — cost, control, speed, talent, and long-term flexibility — and walk through a practical framework for deciding what to build, what to buy, and where a blended approach actually wins.

​Who should attend:

• ​Executives and decision-makers at mid-to-large enterprises evaluating their AI roadmap

• ​Builders and technical leads shipping AI solutions who want to sharpen how they pitch build-vs-buy tradeoffs internally

​What you'll walk away with:

• ​A clear decision framework for build/buy/blend calls

• ​Real examples of enterprise AI adoption gone right (and wrong)

• ​A room full of peers wrestling with the same question

​Schedule:

• ​9:30 – 10:00 AM — Coffee & Networking

• ​10:00 – 11:00 AM — Speaker Session

• ​11:00 – 11:30 AM — Open Networking & Mingle