Five Approaches CIOs Can Use to Build Winning Cases for AI Investment
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BRT
About the Session
It used to be enough to prove the technology worked, present a credible business case and show a plausible return. AI has raised the bar. Its value, adoption, operating economics and even the way work gets done can continue changing long after deployment, while failed pilots and years of AI enthusiasm have made investment committees increasingly demanding. And the bar keeps rising: every new round of funding comes with harder questions about what was learned, what changed, what scaled and what value actually materialized. This session presents five practical approaches CIOs can use to answer those questions, from testing the assumptions behind the business case and validating human AI workflows to proving adoption, building reusable capabilities and continuously governing AI economics and value. The goal is not to make AI look less uncertain than it is. It is to systematically reduce that uncertainty, build executive confidence and earn the next dollar of AI investment.
