Beyond the Pilot: How Leaders Are Operationalizing AI at Enterprise Scale
Most organizations have run the pilots. Few are running the business on AI.
The gap between AI ambition and operational reality is where most programs stall: scattered experiments, unclear ownership, governance treated as a brake instead of an enabler, and workflows that still depend on the same manual handoffs they always did.
Join us for an evening with AI and business leaders who are closing that gap. Over a moderated panel and open Q&A, we'll get into what's actually working:
Ownership in practice. Who owns AI inside the enterprise, and what that role looks like when it's real.
From pilots to production. Moving past proofs of concept to governed systems that run critical workflows end to end.
Safe speed. Why responsible AI is becoming a competitive advantage, not a compliance tax.
Culture and fluency. Building the trust and capability that let AI scale across the org.
You'll leave with a clearer picture of what separates the organizations operationalizing AI from the ones still stuck in pilot mode, and practical perspective from leaders doing the work.
Featured Panelists:
Dr. Pravi Devineni – Lead AI Scientist, Duke Energy
Dr. Pravi Devineni is the Lead AI Scientist at Duke Energy, where she leads the development and operationalization of AI across nuclear, cybersecurity, and other critical business domains. She works across product, engineering, risk, and business teams to move AI from promising pilots to trusted systems that perform reliably at scale.
Previously, Dr. Devineni was a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Energy, applying AI and machine learning to scientific discovery. She views enterprise AI as a co-creation process, shaped with the people who use it and grounded in the realities of their work. This collaborative perspective informs her work in AI strategy, responsible adoption, and calibrated trust.
Dr. Devineni holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside. She is also an advocate and mentor for women in technology, helping expand their visibility, opportunities, and pathways to leadership.
Brandie Fuller – VP, Commercial Excellence, Great Dane
Brandie Fuller is a senior commercial leader providing strategic advisory support across go-to-market strategy, pricing, and commercial operating alignment within complex B2B manufacturing environments.
She currently serves as Vice President of Commercial Excellence at Great Dane, where she leads enterprise commercial capabilities spanning sales, marketing, pricing strategy, planning, enablement, and customer insight. Her work focuses on strengthening the commercial operating model, improving performance visibility, and ensuring market and customer realities inform strategic and operational decisions.
She is frequently engaged by executive leadership to support decisions beyond her formal remit, including organizational design, prioritization, business model evolution, and senior hiring considerations. She is known for bringing clarity to complex issues, framing problems at their root cause, and helping teams navigate trade-offs constructively.
Her experience includes formalizing customer and market segmentation, establishing pricing governance, strengthening forecasting and planning discipline, introducing structured operating cadence, and building customer advisory mechanisms to inform strategy and product direction.
She brings deep understanding of fleet-driven B2B markets, dealer ecosystems, and brand expectations, and how customer behavior shifts across economic cycles. She is most effective in environments where alignment, focus, and disciplined execution are required to move the business forward.
Brad Ruiter – Partner and UX Strategist, EKKO Studio
Brad Ruiter is an experience strategy + innovation leader who helps organizations leverage their existing business cultures to drive innovation, accelerate growth ideas, and strategically maximize experiences across the organization.
His experience comes from the morphing of business and strategy with an eye on innovation; architecting those current and future states into physical and digital experiences that make big and little differences to businesses and consumers alike. Companies that have grown from using this approach include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson Education, Meijer, Adobe, Voya Financial, Sony Music, and more than a hundred other Fortune 100 and private sector organizations.
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