The New Ways

 

Forward

An invite-only executive AI learning series

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With the arrival of GenAI in 2023, and 2024 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 of AI for your people, your processes, and your customers. 

 

Join us as we continue The New Ways Forward, our executive AI learning series for Bay Area executives.

By attending, you can expect to:

  • learn and gain inspiration from VC innovators, AI leaders from Slalom and technology partners, and the builders of AI through rapid-session panel discussions, demos, and panels.
     
  • collaborate and connect through roundtable discussions with industry peers discussing successes, challenges, and learning with each other.
     
  • gain tangible solutions and opportunities to move your business further toward fully utilizing AI to optimize your organizational ecosystem.

 

Your opportunity

60+

Form connections with and learn from more than 60 business and technical leaders from the Bay Area and beyond at each session.

 

10

Explore 10 upcoming and past sessions by attending or reviewing outcomes, or select the ones that will mean the most from you. Can't make a session? Let us know and we'll be happy to share insights with you after.

 

6K+

More than 6,000 consultants at Slalom are trained on generative AI and ready to help you realize the potential AI brings your organization.

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An explosion of innovation through the democratization of AI

What happens with innovation when everyone can be a software engineer or a data scientist? Our August 2024 learning session explored how GenAI will deliver and transform innovation.

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Transforming data management and governance with AI

How do you approach the seemingly insurmountable tasks of effectively creating, procuring, preparing, and using your data for AI?

 

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Upcoming sessions

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Building an adaptive and secure organization

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 empowering quick pivots responsive to internal and external insights, ensuring those pivots are secure, and measuring adaptability for optimization. 

 

April 24, 2025

San Francisco

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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, you can transform raw data into a strategic asset, creating 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

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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 and also introduce higher development costs and governance demands. We’ll find solutions for the right balance: using where clear value is measurable and expanding thoughtfully to deliver tangible returns.

 

August 2025

San Francisco

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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. 

 

October 20-22, 2025

New York City

 

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Accelerating your AI outcomes

Ensure you are optimizing your current AI models, scaling projects, and getting the most out of your AI advancements.

 

November 2025

San Francisco

 

 

Past sessions

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AI for ROI

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The ambiguity surrounding ROI fundamentally affects strategic decisions across every level of an organization. This session addressed how to evaluate ROI early on to maximize emerging technologies and ensure innovation drives value.

 

 

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Transforming innovation with AI and GenAI

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The fourth session in our series discussed core technical capabilities brought by AI, major impacts across industries, lessons to apply to the enterprise, navigating common challenges when innovating with AI and how to maximize return, and how IT can show up differently to innovate.

 

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Productivity in the Age of AI

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Learning sessions ranged from technical, hands-on learning journeys to strategic, expert-led thinking sessions around digital and AI integration, using AI-powered accelerators, and how to best leverage training bootcamps and pilot programs.

 

 

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Transforming data for AI

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Our second session brought deep discourse across five roundtable groups themed around trust in AI, data management, data governance, implementation solutions, and overall impacts of AI. Discussions ranged from the preparation of early-career engineers for a world where AI co-pilots may prohibit professional growth to the importance of utilizing a trustworthy source of data for AI pilots. 

 

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Creating growth in your industry with GenAI

Featuring:

  • Guido Appenzeller, special advisor to Andreessen Horowitz
  • Justin Charness, GenAI and ML Partnerships, AWS
  • Ram Sriharsha, CTO, Pinecone
  • Clemens Meywald, Head of Product, Instabase
  • Sarah Duffy, General Manager, Slalom Northern California
  • Collin Burdick, Head of Northern California GTM & Life Sciences, Slalom

 

The arrival of generative AI is prompting an era of augmentation of our mental powers. We can start to apply intelligent machines to solving tasks that require sensing, and reasoning, and making judgments and decisions.Attendees discussed unlocking creativity in the difficult realm of GenAI-driving growth, with executives offering insights into unique approaches, varying mindsets, and a path forward to expansion and optimization in their unique industries.

 

 

 

 

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