- FinOps for AI & ROI: Managing consumption, attributing cost to value and providing measurable return on AI investment.
- Security & Governance: Establishing the guardrails, controls and oversight that make AI adoption safe, compliant and defensible at scale.
- Platform Value: Moving beyond pilots to extract real, repeatable business value from your core AI and data platforms.
- Change Enablement: Equipping people, redefining roles and building the operating model that turns AI capability into sustained organizational adoption.
- 5:30 – 6:00 PM | Registration & Networking
- 6:00 – 6:30 PM | Peer Table Discussions
- 6:30 – 7:00 PM | Keynote Speaker
- 7:00 – 7:30 PM | Client Panel
- 7:30 – 8:30 PM | Networking Reception
Protiviti’s Innovation Series: Beyond the Headlines – Delivering AI Value & ROI
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ABOUT THE EVENT
AI budgets are climbing faster than the evidence that they're paying off. As models, agents and platforms scale, leaders face a sharper version of the cloud-era challenge: proving return, managing risk and turning pilots into durable capability.
Protiviti's Innovation Series brings C-suite leaders together for a practical look at how to demonstrate value and scale with confidence, focusing on:
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
Time: 5:30 – 8:30 PM
Agenda:
Location: The Library | 190 S. LaSalle St., Chicago |
Resources
Six shifts redefining the modern CIO As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate the center of the technology stage, the role of the chief information or technology officer — CIO or CTO — is entering its most consequential period in decades. This change brought by AI is so dramatic that it requires a whole new understanding of what it means to be chief enterprise technologist, and a corresponding behavioral change. |
The AI-People Conundrum: Learning to Lead, Not Lag The C-suite broadly expects AI to create enterprise value by 2030. The larger question is whether organizations are preparing the workforce, operating model and leadership capabilities needed to realize that value. |
The Alignment Advantage in Transformation Protiviti's 2026 Global Executive Survey: The Alignment Advantage in Transformation, conducted in partnership with the University of Oxford and based on 850+ C-suite executives, finds a strong relationship between executive alignment and technology modernization maturity, along with higher confidence in areas like AI value, strategy execution and operational performance. The data reveals a clear opportunity: alignment is a leadership advantage that helps scale transformation value. |
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