By invitation
Invite-only and deliberately small. We're assembling the founding cohort now: senior leaders who own AI outcomes inside a traditional enterprise and aren't selling AI to anyone. Founding members help shape the first rooms.
What it is
Eight to twelve people, quarterly, under the Chatham House Rule. The agenda is the problem you actually have, not a vendor demo. The two of us facilitate.
A short quarterly read for people in your seat, built partly from what members share, anonymized and aggregated. No filler.
Warm introductions to others working on the same problem. Sometimes one good conversation with a peer is the whole point.
Anonymized "how do we compare" data you can't get from a vendor who is selling you the answer. It is the part that compounds over time.
Who it's for
CEO, CTO, CIO, CAIO, chief data or analytics officer, head of transformation. Equivalent roles judged on scope, not title.
Named, direct accountability for the results. You answer for whether the work pays off, and you don't sell or advise on AI for a living. This is the one that matters most.
You work inside an established company in a traditional industry, where the hard parts are legacy systems, regulation, risk, and change. Not an AI-native tech company.
Who it's not for
Not for vendors, consultants, analysts, or anyone whose business is selling or advising on AI. That holds whatever your title. The room is for buyers and operators, so the conversation can stay honest.
Independence
Most groups that gather AI executives are paid for by someone selling something. A consultancy wants the engagement, a vendor wants the platform deal, an event firm wants the sponsor money. We work the other way: vendor-free, consultancy-free, and sponsor-free, by published rule. No vendor pays for a seat, and no logo goes on the door.
We also run a consulting practice, and we'd rather you know how it stays separate than wonder about it. The rules we hold ourselves to:
Who's behind it
The Association is new and founder-led, so we'll say the obvious thing: there are no members yet. That's deliberate. We're choosing the first room rather than chasing a number, and founding members help define what this becomes. We're assembling the cohort now from senior AI owners across insurers, banks, manufacturers, health systems, and logistics companies. What we bring is the convening and the research. We don't claim to be the most senior operator in your industry. The people in the room are.
We also run the Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence, where we publish research and case studies on how traditional companies put AI into production. It's public, so you can judge us by it.
Co-founder
A senior product engineer who builds and ships AI systems in production, across product, data, and infrastructure. He runs the Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence, researching what holds up when traditional companies put AI to work. More than ten years building software, four of them teaching it at Le Wagon. Based in Lisbon.
Co-founder
An enterprise growth and customer-experience leader. For more than eight years he has scaled sales and operations inside large financial-services and business-process organizations, the kind of regulated, traditional companies this network is built for. He works on how big companies adopt AI and make it pay off. Based in Salt Lake City.
After you ask
We read every request ourselves. If it's a fit, we'll set up a short call to talk it through.
We're still assembling the founding cohort, so we won't pretend there's a meeting next week. We convene your first roundtable once there are enough peers at your scale and in your industry to make it worth your time, and we'll tell you where that stands.
Roundtables run under the Chatham House Rule. We never publish the attendee list. Anything that informs a briefing is anonymized and aggregated first.
Request an invitation
Tell us who you are and what you own. The more specific you are, the faster we can tell whether it's a fit.
We read every request ourselves, and you'll hear back within a week. If it's a fit, that note will include a time to talk.