Stanford Workshop: Leading the AI-Powered Organization to Create Value - Strategy and Execution
An interactive workshop with Stanford HAI Professor Arvind Karunakaran
Monday, November 9 | Stanford GSB, Gunn G101
5:30 PM - Check-in opens
6:10–9:10 PM - Interactive workshop
Pizza and drinks will be provided.
Launching an AI pilot is one thing. Turning it into lasting competitive advantage is another.
For founders, that gap can determine whether an enterprise customer adopts your product or leaves it in pilot mode. For investors, it raises questions about which AI businesses can deliver durable value. For business leaders and professionals, it shapes how teams work and where new opportunities emerge.
What does it take to close that gap?
Join Professor Arvind Karunakaran for a three-hour interactive workshop exploring how organizations turn AI’s potential into business results. Through real-world case studies, hands-on exercises, and group discussions, you’ll examine the strategic and execution choices behind enterprise AI transformation and apply these ideas to challenges from your own work.
What you’ll learn
Identify high-value AI opportunities. Look beyond making tasks faster to creating new capabilities and competitive advantage.
Make better strategic choices. Explore where to deploy AI and when to build, buy, or partner.
Move beyond pilots. Understand how workflows, incentives, and organizational structures influence adoption.
Redesign work for the AI era. Examine how roles, human judgment, and accountability need to evolve.
Measure business impact. Look beyond impressive demos to assess AI’s enterprise value.
Who should attend?
Investors evaluating enterprise AI opportunities.
Founders building and selling solutions to enterprise customers.
Business leaders driving AI adoption and transformation.
Engineers, product managers, and professionals applying AI in their organizations.
Bring your questions and leave with practical frameworks for turning AI into business value.
Register to join us at Stanford.
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This event is hosted by a Stanford alumni group and is primarily intended for Stanford alumni and students, with a limited number of seats available for friends and the broader community.
If you're interested in joining us, please share what interests you about the topic and how you hope to contribute to the workshop discussions and exercises.