AI is moving fast. Organizations are not.

Despite unprecedented access to powerful models, tools, and data, most AI initiatives fail to deliver meaningful outcomes. Not because the technology doesn’t work, but because strategy never shows up.

This session explores the growing AI Strategy Gap: the space between what AI can do and what organizations actually need it to do. Drawing on hard lessons from Agile and digital transformation, the talk reveals how tool-first thinking, cargo-cult adoption, and leadership misalignment are quietly sabotaging AI efforts before they begin.

This is not a technical talk. There are no demos, frameworks, or vendor pitches. Instead, it offers a sharp, experience-driven perspective on why AI exposes organizational dysfunction rather than fixing it, and why the cost of getting it wrong is higher than ever. History is repeating itself with dysfunctions and antipatterns. We still have time to prevent them. This talk covers our unique AI Strategy Canvas, which participants can apply tomorrow.

Attendees will leave with clearer thinking, better questions, and a renewed focus on intent over intelligence. Because without strategy, AI doesn’t create advantage. It creates faster failure.