HFS RESEARCH WEBINAR

AI doesnโ€™t need better models; it needs braver leaders.
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April 21, 2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT | Via Zoom

AI doesnโ€™t need better models. It needs braver leaders willing to trust, govern, and scale it.

Right now, most enterprises are stuckโ€”not because the technology isnโ€™t ready, but because leadership hasnโ€™t defined who owns AI decisions, when humans should intervene, or how to move beyond isolated pilots to enterprise-wide impact.

In our latest research with Altimetrik, HFS found a widening โ€œAI velocity gapโ€ where AI deployment is accelerating, but leadership, governance, and workforce readiness are falling behind.

Join our CEO and Chief Analyst Phil Fersht, HFS Executive Research Leader Dana Daher, Paul Daugherty, Technology CEO/CTO, Board Director, Investor, and Author, and Raj Sundaresan, CEO of Altimetrik, for a candid, executive-level discussion on whatโ€™s holding enterprises back from scaling AI beyond pilots into real business outcomes, and how to move from assistants to truly scalable, accountable AI.

Altimetrik’s work with Fortune 500 enterprises on scaling AI from pilot to production informs the panel’s view on what separates the companies closing the velocity gap from those falling further behind.

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What youโ€™ll learn

  • Why enterprise AI is advancing faster than leadership readiness
  • What the โ€œAI velocity gapโ€ means and why itโ€™s widening
  • Why โ€œhuman in the loopโ€ isnโ€™t governance and what actually works
  • How leadership hesitationโ€”not technologyโ€”is holding enterprises back
  • What it takes to move from assistants to truly autonomous, enterprise-scale AI

Youโ€™ll gain insights on

  • Why only 14% of organizations have a clear AI strategy with defined outcomes
  • How accountability is misalignedโ€”owned in technology but escalated to leadership when things fail
  • Why most enterprises cannot fully interrogate AI decisions before approving them
  • How fearโ€”not capabilityโ€”is the biggest barrier to workforce confidence
  • Why accountability breaks down across partner ecosystems
  • What leading organizations are doing differently to put humans truly at the helm

Why attend

This isnโ€™t about AI capability, itโ€™s about leadership readiness. Most organizations arenโ€™t blocked by technologyโ€”theyโ€™re blocked by hesitation, unclear ownership, and a lack of trust in the systems theyโ€™ve already deployed.

This session will challenge how you think about AI and what it actually takes to lead it.

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