AI Talks for CEOs and CHROs Who Need Production Outcomes
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$19M+ revenue impact at Mindvalley · 1st Place AAIMS25 · Former CIO · 13+ years engineering
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AI hackathons are one of the most underutilized talent acquisition and culture tools available to CHROs and CTOs. This talk covers how to run an internal AI hackathon that surfaces hidden talent, accelerates AI literacy across the org, and produces shippable IP — not just slide decks.
3 Takeaways
- How to design a 48-hour AI hackathon that produces production-ready code, not POCs
- The talent identification framework that surfaces engineers you didn't know you had
- Budget, tooling, and judging criteria that actually work for companies under 500 people
Chat made intelligence cheap. Proactive agents make attention and authority scarce. This talk unpacks the shift from reactive copilots to proactive AI that anticipates, plans, and acts — and what executives must do now to not be blindsided. Includes practical framework for evaluating agent-readiness.
3 Takeaways
- The 3 signals that your industry is about to be disrupted by proactive AI
- Why most "AI strategy" decks will be obsolete by 2027 — and what replaces them
- The CEO-level questions to ask before any agentic AI investment
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