Realizing AI's potential in 2025
With the arrival of GenAI in 2023, and 2024 primarily focused on understanding and adapting it to the world of business, 2025 brings the opportunity to truly optimize our businesses to fully realize the potential AI brings to your people, your processes, and your customers.
Join us as we continue Slalom's learning journey for Bay Area executives, titled "The New Ways Forward."
Register to receive invitations to our 2025 events.
Each session provides the opportunity to:
- collaborate, connect, and learn with executive VC innovators, AI leaders from Slalom and technology partners, and the builders of AI through rapid-session panel discussions.
- join working roundtables to discuss pre-specified big growth questions through an outward-facing strategic lens.
- Gain tangible solutions and opportunities to move your business further toward fully utilizing AI to optimize your organizational ecosystem.
View takeaways and summaries from our 2024 sessions here.
2025 sessions
Innovating with AI and GenAI for ROI
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. We’ll discuss how to evaluate ROI early on to maximize emerging technologies and ensure innovation in your organizations is in-line with what will drive value.
February 27, 2025
San Francisco
Building an adaptive and secure organization
As AI continues to evolve, building a resilient organization that swiftly responds to emerging needs for talent and human capital, but also prioritizes security is imperative. We’ll solution around balancing the design of the future over past successes, empowering quick pivots responsive to internal and external insights, ensuring those pivots are secure, and measuring adaptability for optimization.
April 24, 2025
San Francisco
Data as a differentiator
Learn how AI can transform data into a strategic differentiator by uncovering insights, predicting trends, and personalizing customer experiences. By leveraging AI, organizations can transform raw data into a strategic asset, giving organizations a significant competitive edge. At this immersive off-site learning excursion, reimagine what it means to be a data-driven organization and discover new paths to shaping a culture of data.
June 16-17, 2025
Napa
Creative value with AI agents
AI agents deliver powerful benefits when addressing tasks too complex or variable for static approaches. They thrive on dynamic orchestration—deciding next steps on the fly, self-monitoring progress, and freeing humans for higher-value work. Yet, they also introduce higher development costs and governance demands. Striking the right balance is key. We’ll explore and find solutions for the right approach: using where clear value is measurable, and expand thoughtfully to deliver tangible returns.
August 2025
San Francisco
R4: a multi-day hosted experience
Over two and a half days, 1,000+ executives spanning a diverse set of industries discuss, debate, and define the future landscape of their respective domains. The fully-hosted event is designed to serve as a space for intentional learning, inspiration, and collaboration. More details to come Summer 2025.
October 20-22, 2025
New York City
