Mid-Year AI Checkpoint: What Happens When AI Becomes Infrastructure?

What you'll learn

• The Pragmatism Shift : What the shift from tech demos to deployment realities looks like in practice. - AI as Infrastructure : The operational reality of moving AI from an isolated "tool" to permanent enterprise infrastructure. - Agentic AI in Practice : How to cut through the hype and identify what a high-value AI agent looks like in a business context. - Measuring ROI: Why measuring AI success is harder than it looks, and what happens when organizations measure the wrong thing. - Workforce Reality Check : What organizations should understand about job disruption, talent shifts, and the growing public anxiety around AI. - What's next for H2 : The key developments, opportunities, and risks to watch in H2 2026

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