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Optimum Partners Launches Local AI Innovation Councils to Tackle the Hard Questions of AI Implementation
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Optimum Partners Launches Local AI Innovation Councils to Tackle the Hard Questions of AI Implementation
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Local AI Innovation Councils
Optimum Partners is opening Local AI Innovation Councils city by city, starting in Tampa this October.
From strategy to execution, from pilot to production, the Innovation Center Councils bring leaders together to work through what it actually takes to make AI work for their organizations.
About Local AI Innovation Councils Hosted by Optimum Partners
Optimum Partners is expanding its Innovation Center with Local AI Innovation Councils, bringing business and operations leaders together to tackle the hard questions of putting AI to work across industries including finance, fintech, healthcare, fintech, energy, media and retail.
Optimum Partners sees a growing need for more direct, real-world and experience-based conversations about AI, led by the people doing the work in their local markets. The Local AI Innovation Councils create that forum, bringing business and operations leaders together to share what they are seeing inside their organizations, compare approaches, learn from what has worked and what has not, and work through the decisions that will shape long-term business impact as AI moves from experimentation into everyday operations.
Joe Sticca, CEO of Optimum Partners Americas, said:
“The conversation around AI is incredibly sophisticated and becomes more complex every day as organizations race to implement new technologies and products. That pace of innovation makes the decisions in front of business leaders more complicated, more consequential and more material to the bottom line. We need to stay focused on what to implement, where to invest, what risks to manage and how to know if something is actually working.”
Sticca continued:
“We created the Local AI Innovation Councils to bring the people doing the work into that conversation. These are the leaders making the decisions, changing the workflows and learning what happens after the pilot. They are seeing firsthand what works, what doesn’t, what it really costs and where the risks are. That experience is invaluable as organizations decide where to invest, what to change and how to move AI into real business operations.”
Launching at Tampa AI Week
Optimum Partners’ first Local AI Innovation Council will launch at Tampa AI Week, powered by the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA), bringing together the region’s business leaders, technology practitioners, entrepreneurs and AI community to tackle practical questions around AI adoption and implementation.
Tampa AI Week’s local-first, community-powered approach makes it the ideal forum to launch the first Council. With a focus on practical insights, real-world use cases and conversations among the people building and implementing AI, the event brings together the perspectives needed to move the conversation from what AI could do to what organizations are actually doing with it.
During Tampa AI Week, Optimum Partners will lead conversations and workshops focused on the issues its clients and audiences are navigating now: breaking down operational complexity, understanding the real cost of AI implementation, putting the right guardrails in place, and maintaining control over critical processes, data and access.
The Council will continue those conversations beyond the event, creating an ongoing peer community where leaders can share what they are learning, compare approaches and work through the challenges of moving AI from pilot to production.
Join an AI Innovation Council
Applications are now open for the AI Innovation Councils in Tampa, Atlanta, Boston and other cities. If you are evaluating, implementing or scaling AI within your organization, we want to hear from you.
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