We kicked things off with former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart, who outlined the state of the economy and memorably said that it wasn’t “frog choking” conditions he was most worried about, but “frog boiling”—in his words, “the creeping, long-term changes where you can’t point to a particular event, necessarily, but over time you wake up and find you’re in a different world.”
So how did the CEOs say they’re managing change?
For one software firm, it’s “go all in” on AI with the ability to “answer the ROI question in about 24 months.” For another, it’s “hold on to your best developers” and “train up” everyone to leverage new tech. For an auto supplier, it’s diversifying your supply chain to deal with evolving relationships on the global stage; for a robotics company, it’s “robots building robots” in the U.S. where tariffs won’t wreck the balance sheet. And, of course, it’s seizing fresh opportunities amid the tumult.
CEOs have shifted their focus to a different kind of disruption—that driven by AI. Sixty percent of chief execs say AI will have either a significant (45%) or transformational (15%) impact on their core processes over the next one to three years.
Many thanks to sponsor Deloitte for helping to make the conversation happen.
