Sidebar Speaker Series: Business Consciousness: How to Achieve Real ROI from AI and Transform Your Organization with Chris Wise & Neil Sahot
We’re entering a new era in business, one where artificial intelligence goes far beyond automation and efficiency. The businesses that win in the AI era will think, adapt, and evolve in real-time, becoming dynamic, intelligent entities.
Join Chris Wise and Neil Sahota, co-authors of the Amazon new release bestseller The AI Activation Code (recently launched at the UN's AI for Good Summit)—as they introduce the revolutionary concept called Business Consciousness and explain how your organization can leverage it for tangible ROI.
With a proven track record of successfully delivering hundreds of AI-driven projects across a wide variety of industries, Chris and Neil, supported by their consulting firm of over 30 AI strategists, technologists, and business experts, bring deep practical insights on achieving meaningful returns from AI.
In this engaging session, you’ll discover:
Why conventional businesses risk irrelevance in the rapidly evolving AI landscape—and what you can do today to future-proof your organization.
The four stages of moving from conventional to conscious: Awareness, Adoption, Adaptation, and Autonomy, and how your organization can strategically navigate each phase.
Real-world insights and lessons learned from hundreds of successful AI projects, demonstrating how businesses can realize significant returns from intelligent integration.
Practical next steps and resources for leaders ready to evolve their organizations toward continuous, real-time adaptation and intelligent decision-making.
This is your opportunity to learn directly from recognized leaders who combine AI expertise with strategic business acumen, and who have consistently delivered measurable ROI through their extensive AI implementations.
✅ Attend this session to:
Gain clarity and strategic direction on your organization’s current AI readiness
Get immediate access to the Business Consciousness Assessment, designed to help you understand where your business stands today
Learn more about AIActivationCode.com and actionable strategies for transforming your business into an intelligent, adaptive organization
Speaker Bios:
Chris Wise is a business growth strategist who specializes in helping companies increase enterprise value and scale to successful exits. With extensive experience working with mid-market companies ($10M-$500M revenue), Chris understands the intricate workings of every business department—from operations and leadership to HR, finance, marketing, and sales—and how integrating AI can impact organizational performance.
Neil Sahota, widely known as "The AI Guy," is a United Nations AI Advisor, IBM Master Inventor, and Professor at UC Irvine. As one of the original creators of IBM Watson—the breakthrough AI system that defeated Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings in 2011—Neil has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence development for over a decade.
Together, Neil and Chris combine deep technical AI expertise with practical business transformation experience. Their collaboration has birthed the "Conventional to Conscious" framework—a revolutionary approach that provides readers with both the vision and the roadmap necessary to successfully activate AI within their organizations and evolve toward true business consciousness.