601 Maximizing ROI in AI Implementations: A Strategic Approach
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT Thursday, October 24
Despite the potential of AI to transform business operations, many organizations struggle to quantify the return on investment (ROI) of AI implementations. This challenge hinders executive support and funding for AI projects, leading to missed opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage.
This session will provide attendees with practical tools and methodologies for calculating the ROI of AI implementations, ensuring alignment with executive goals. Participants will learn how to integrate ROI calculations into the design phase of AI projects, use business metrics to gain executive support and identify innovative ways to connect AI initiatives with the company's mission and strategy.
In this session, you will learn:
- Frameworks for calculating ROI from AI projects at different stages of implementation
- Strategies for aligning AI initiatives with organizational goals to ensure executive support and successful adoption

Michael Hruska
President/CEO
Problem Solutions
Michael Hruska is a technologist and design thinking (DT) practitioner with experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. As a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Hruska provides technology, business model, and innovation solutions to Fortune 500, government, and startup companies. Hruska speaks at industry events, conferences, and webinars on topics spanning the continuum between advanced research on adaptive learning ecosystems and emerging technology solution/product design in a variety of industries. Hruska is an advisor/mentor to Ed Tech startups for GSV Capital, along with mentoring local and regional entrepreneurs. He is on the advisory board of a number of companies that support entrepreneurship and early- stage companies, as well as being recognized at industry events internationally.