Ambition vs. Execution: A Structured Approach to AI Readiness

About the event: For entrerpreneurs, product managers, designers, frontend engineers, founders, and anyone interested. Anyone interested in Product or trying to get into Product Management is welcome.

Most AI initiatives don't fail at implementation. They fail before anyone writes a line of code or signs a vendor contract. The tools are bought, the use cases get announced, and six months later, no one can explain what changed. This session uses a real startup case study to walk through the discovery work most organizations skip: figuring out where AI belongs in a business before the building starts. It covers AI readiness assessment, where implementations break down, and what a structured pre-build process looks like in practice.

About our speaker: Marvin McKinney has spent the last several years working inside that gap, adapting enterprise AI frameworks for businesses without dedicated ML teams or eight-figure transformation budgets. Before founding Savvy Analytics, an AI and data strategy consultancy, he spent over a decade in analytics roles at Kroger, Bank of America, and GM Financial. He now brings that same Fortune 500 rigor to small and mid-sized companies, the ones with real AI ambition and no structured way to execute on it.

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