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AI Sovereignty

How CEOs keep control of their data, economics, and operating leverage as AI moves into the core of the company.

Format
Keynote or executive briefing
Length
30 minutes plus guided Q&A
Best for
CEOs, presidents, portfolio leaders, and senior operating teams
An editorial systems map with company controls, a central data vault, workflows, and external cloud infrastructure
Program studySam Gaddis

The decision

Which parts of our AI strategy should we actually own?

Every CEO is being pushed to produce an AI strategy. The harder question is where the company should depend on a vendor and where it should control its own data, workflows, software, and institutional knowledge. This session gives leaders a practical way to make those choices without pretending the technology has stopped moving.

Built for the group. The examples and control map change for each room. A manufacturing group should see different dependencies than a software company or a family office.

Signature segment

A control map, revealed layer by layer.

I walk through a prepared company case and show where the economics change across models, data, workflows, and software. The tradeoffs stay concrete, and the point where control starts to matter becomes visible.

How it runs

The session, end to end.

  1. 01 / Tailor

    Choose the company pattern

    I select examples and dependencies that match the members' sectors and operating context.

  2. 02 / Show

    Reveal the control map

    A prepared case makes the rent, portability, and ownership choices visible one layer at a time.

  3. 03 / Send

    Take the rubric home

    Participants receive the field kit and a 90-day starting sequence for one owned capability.

What people take home

Three usable decisions.

  1. Map the five layers of the company AI stack and decide where control matters most.
  2. Separate reversible vendor choices from dependencies that become expensive to unwind.
  3. Set a 90-day sequence for one owned capability without freezing the company into a grand plan.

Bring it to your group

Start with the room and the decision in front of it.

Tell me who will be there, what they are wrestling with, and what a useful session would change.

Talk through the session