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Presentation: The CAIO Print: Developing Regional AI Capability
- Leading Responsible AI across the region, ensuring safe, ethical and transparent adoption.
- Transforming transport with intelligent, data‑driven systems
- Advancing AI in health and social care to improve outcomes, efficiency, and early intervention.
- Strengthening education and skills pathways working with teachers and educational technology providers.
- Building better capability in the Combined Authority and across the CA’s
- Building better regional AI capability and economic strength by backing innovators, supporting AI literacy, data access and adoption.
Speaker:
Tiffany St James, Chief AI Officer - Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Presentation: From AI Ambition to AI Reality: What CAIOs Must Get Right to Ensure Success
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Lots of companies are excited about AI, but very few are turning that excitement into lasting business results. This session is about how to get from “interesting ideas” to real impact at scale.
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We’ll dig into the unglamorous bits that make-or-break success: governance that helps teams move faster (without creating risk), choosing AI bets the board will back, and building an operating model that works in the real world.
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You’ll leave with a practical playbook to link AI to business outcomes, spot the usual traps early, and help data and analytics land valuable results.
Jean Ortiz Perez, Director of Data, Analytics and AI - Valuedynamx
Presentation: The real reason AI fails in Business: Adoption, not Models
- Why most enterprise AI initiatives stall after the pilot — and what separates the ones that scale
- How fear, not features, drives adoption failure — and the guardrails that rebuild trust
- A practical adoption ladder: from demo applause to embedded culture, with clear gates at each stage
Presentation: AI as Critical Infrastructure: From Deployment to Global Governance
Drawing on field deployments across edge environments and multilateral governance advisory work, this session moves beyond policy theory and into operational reality.
Attendees will learn:
- Act I — From Field Reality to Systems
Why AI governance begins with physics, not policy.
How data corruption, sensor drift, identity sprawl, and runtime instability determine whether systems are deployment-ready — or merely demo-ready. - Act II — From Systems to Authority
When AI shifts from decision support to decision influence.
How deployment transforms technology into governance — and why authority must be engineered, not assumed. - Act III — From Authority to Interoperability
Why no organisation governs AI in isolation.
How cross-platform integration, open standards, and regulatory alignment redefine sovereignty in the age of distributed systems. - Act IV — From Interoperability to Generational Consequence
What happens when AI becomes embedded in 40%+ of national and enterprise decision loops.
Speaker:
Aaron Kalvani, Global AI Gouvernance – United Nations