
Breaking AI Paralysis,
Building What Lasts
Fifteen data and AI leaders. Three key questions and four discussion threads.
18 November 2026 | 18:00pm - 21:00pm | Fenchurch Restaurant, London
What to Expect
Most enterprise AI programmes are stuck between pilot and payoff.
AI spend is rising faster than the value it returns. This session sets the context, then puts the room's judgement to work on what's actually blocking scale, how to hold spend to a measurable return, and what a data and AI foundation built to last looks like. It's also the start of a standing peer group for the industry.
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AI Costs: Who's Watching the Bill?
Half of generative AI projects are forecast to go over budget. Do you know what each AI project costs, and what you get back?
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AI Trust: Who's Responsible When it's Wrong?
72% of marketers surveyed say their company made a big decision on AI insight that proved wrong. Do you have clear rules for AI, or just good intentions?
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AI + Content: Who Gets Paid?
Google search traffic to publishers fell by a third in a year. Do you know which of your content AI is using, and what it is worth?
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Proving What's Real: Who Made it?
New EU rules require AI-generated content to be labelled. Could you show where any content came from, who approved it and who owns it?
Event Details
Join a small, seniority-matched table of data, digital, and AI leaders from Media & Communications organisations for an evening at Viñoly Room, inside Fenchurch Restaurant, thirty-seven floors above the city.
We'll sit with three questions worth asking: why AI spend keeps outpacing the value it returns, whether the applications being built now will need rewriting in twelve months, and whether anyone can prove what their AI did, with whose data, and under which rules.
During the dinner, you will:
- Work through four facilitated discussion threads with peers holding equivalent seniority, CDOs, CDIOs, Heads of AI/Data Science, and VP/Director-level Digital, Data & Analytics and IT/Tech Strategy leads
- Take part in live polling on AI maturity, top challenges, and priorities for the next 12–18 months, with results shared back to the room in real time
About Dinner:
- Where: Viñoly Room, inside Fenchurch Restaurant at 1, Sky Garden Walk, London EC3M 8AF.
- When: 18 November 2026, 18:00pm
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