How do you ensure GenAI innovation is driving business value and customer outcomes?
With 2024 primarily focused on understanding and adapting GenAI to the world of business, 2025 brings the opportunity to fully realize the potential AI brings to your people, your processes, and your customers.
The ambiguity surrounding ROI fundamentally affects strategic decisions across every level of an organization. When a clear quantifiable outcome is unavailable, caution becomes priority, potentially missing out on innovative advantages.
In our first New Ways Forward session of the year, join Slalom, Microsoft, investors, founders and your peers to discuss how to evaluate ROI early on to maximize emerging technologies and ensure innovation in your organization is in-line with what will drive value.
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 4:00–7:00 p.m. with networking following
Location: Shack15, Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
Style: Expert insights followed by Jeffersonian roundtable with peers & experts under Chatham House Rule
Featuring:
Keynote speaker:
- Dona Sarkar, Chief Troublemaker - AI, Copilot, and Agent Extensibility, Microsoft
Conversation moderated by Gaston Cruz, Slalom
Special guests:
- Marjorie Janiewicz, Global Head of Revenue and US GM, Mistral AI
- Michael Hoff, Global Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Mistral AI
- Ben Budde, GTM NA, ElevenLabs
- Kabir Gill, GTM Partnerships, ElevenLabs
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What to expect:
Event Format
Expect to join a working roundtable to discuss our big innovation question through an outward-facing strategic lens pushing to think bigger, or through a more inward-facing lens focused on how to move faster and implement new strategies.
Agenda
- 4-4:30 p.m.: Connecting over demos, drinks and appetizers
- 4:30-5 p.m.: Expanding our thinking by featuring conversations with a remarkable thought leader, entrepreneur or expert.
- 5-6:30 p.m.: Discussing various practical answers to the simple yet profound questions posed in our roundtables.
- 6:30-7 p.m.: Synthesizing what emerges from the roundtables and the mix of various minds in the room.
- 7-8 p.m.: Final Connecting over drinks and appetizers as we informally talk about next steps.
Conversations will be captured with audio recordings using Chatham House Rule, allowing speakers and their companies to remain anonymous in any output. This allows the production of anonymized media that can be studied and shared like extended quotes distributed to attendees post-event, a two-page event summary to share with your team for future discussion, and additional resources and support to create action for your organization.
