Strategic shifts: aligning AI around business value

About this talk

In this upcoming session of AI Activations, AI evangelist Cobus Greyling is joined by Cathal McCarthy, Chief Strategy Officer at Kore.ai, for an in-depth conversation on how enterprises can drive AI transformation at scale. Drawing from decades of experience leading strategy at multiple Fortune 500 companies, Cathal will share how his approach to deploying enterprise AI solutions reshapes customer experience, automation, and operational agility.

Together, they’ll discuss aligning executive stakeholders to building AI-native enterprises, offering a strategic roadmap for turning disconnected AI use cases into a unified, enterprise-wide force for innovation.

Key Topics

• From strategy to execution: lessons from leading AI across Fortune 500s.
• The evolution from guided to agentic autonomy in enterprise AI.
• Unifying disconnected AI efforts across CX, HR, IT, and operations.
• Executive alignment: bringing CIOs, COOs, CROs, and CXOs to the table.
• Key takeaways from Kore.ai’s re:imagine conference and what’s next in AI-first transformation.