Pat Halford is an international business leader and expert in mobility and drone strategies, R&D funding partnerships, and the organisational impact of Generative AI. He works with Investors, Boards and Senior Leadership teams helping to adapt organisations and exploit converging exponential technologies including AI, drones, robotics and mixed reality. His expertise in building European R&D partnerships between corporate and research institutions across Healthtech, Electronics, AI, Mobility and Defence industries brings a unique combination of business, technological and funding expertise to his activities with the Singularity Organisation.
He is also on the Board of Advisors for Nordic drone and mixed reality startups, and an advisor to Nordic VCs in the Spacetech, Healthtech and Defence arenas. He is a frequent business and technology conference moderator and speaker, and publishes a weekly newsletter on the impact of AI on organisational development, and runs a YouTube channel focused on the same themes. He is a regular guest lecturer at Nordic business schools. Finally, he is the author of three Nordic thrillers, and one business book on AI, all available on Amazon. He is based in Finland.
In this session, leaders from organisations of all types will learn how toapply generative AI to dramatic effect across their teams to accelerateopportunities for growth. Participants will be guided on how to harnessrapidly emerging AI tools and techniques and apply them to businessmodel design.Emerging generative AI’s offer leaders a new set of abundant capabilitiesthat can accelerate research into commercialisation, short circuitproduction and sales processes, and a myriad of other ways. But there aretwo key challenges; disconnecting from a traditional, hierarchical mindset,and delivering on existing commitments, at the same time as harnessingthese new AIs. So how can Leaders solve these contradictory challenges,and unlock the exponential power of AI?After the introduction, participants will learn how generative AI’s appliedrigorously to an organisations processes and structures, can rapidlyenhance the team’s capabilities, reducing tedious activities and enablingthem to scale collectively to higher-value tasks. The participants will learnhow the interconnections between business model functions, customersand partners can be unshackled from traditional assumptions, unlockingpotential for rapid growth powered by generative AI.This session is ideal for leaders from organisations such as corporates,SMEs, startups, research & technology institutions, universities and publicorganisations. Participants will leave this session tooled-up with anunderstanding of the ease with which generative AI can be utilised toaccelerate their organisations.