Andrew will be returning to Elite Business Live in 2026 to participate on a panel titled:
Capability to Culture: How Businesses Are Putting AI to Action
AI is no longer just a buzzword; it’s transforming how businesses operate, compete, and grow. This panel explores how forward-thinking companies are moving beyond experimentation to embed AI into their strategy, workflows, and culture.
Hear from industry leaders who are turning AI capability into tangible results, from automating processes and boosting productivity to empowering teams and reshaping decision-making.
Discover how to overcome adoption challenges, build trust, and create an AI-ready culture that drives sustainable innovation and real business impact.
At the 2025 event, he presented keynote titled: “The power and the peril of AI & Deepfakes” at Elite Business Live at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, St. Paul’s, London.
See also Andrew’s participation at Elite Business Connect.
Read Andrew’s point of view on this panel below.
“The Maturity Gap”
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: 95 percent of AI pilots generate zero ROI, yet 88 percent of organisations are already using AI. We’ve created a world where everyone experiments but almost no one executes. The conversation has shifted from “Should we use AI?” to “Why can’t we make it work at scale?”
The answer isn’t technology, it’s maturity. Ninety-one percent of organisations cite cultural barriers and resistance to change as bigger obstacles than technical limitations. We keep building better AI models whilst our organisations remain structurally unprepared to deploy them. Data quality delays projects by six months.
Employees fear job loss rather than embrace augmentation. Pilots work beautifully; production scaling fails catastrophically. These aren’t technology problems; they’re discipline problems.
The winners this year won’t have the smartest models. they’ll have the readiest people, cleanest data, and clearest governance. They’ll move from “bolt AI onto existing workflows” to fundamentally redesigning how work happens, embedding humans in the loop as active partners rather than passengers.
They’ll measure business outcomes, not model accuracy. And critically, they’ll treat AI as a strategic capability requiring executive commitment and structured change management, not a technology project bolted onto business as usual.
2026 is when organisations stop experimenting and start integrating. The maturity test isn’t technological. It’s organisational. And most organisations are still in early primary school.
The key trait of companies that successfully implement AI is digital curiosity, the desire to ask deeper questions about the technology that surrounds us.
