I Saved You $1,000 and a Week in Conference Halls

Let’s Save You the Trouble.

I spent time at IRM UK’s Data & AI Conference so you don’t have to. A ticket started from $1,000 for a full day of slides, some panel clichés, and polite applause. You can skip all that; here’s everything a decision maker actually needs to know in under 20 minutes.

(Joking and being sarcastic aside, I do have great takeaways and met some interesting, likely long-term connections, so keep reading.)

Everything below is yours, for less than the price of a sandwich, and you’ll be smarter 20 minutes from now.

So…

You’ve likely proudly told someone, “We’re rolling out an AI strategy,” or plugged ChatGPT into a process to tick a digitalization box.

However, you’d soon run into unmeasured hours, modest impact, and the hidden risk that you’re building a tech stack on sand. Every unchecked assumption, every “basic” governance shortcut, is compounding.

Anyone can now talk and make a beautiful PowerPoint-deep AI strategy with ChatGPT.

Yes, these speakers didn’t try to avoid the fancy terms and overhyped words (I’d be making fun of those, yes), but they also revealed some really interesting concepts.

I won’t be giving you a TLDR today… This takeaway is just short enough. By the way, I created a mini-game and linked it at the end of this post to help you figure out what you have and what’s missing in your AI project.

Shall we?