Billions are flowing into AI, yet 95% of enterprise GenAI initiatives show no measurable business impact. If AI research is advancing so fast, why are companies still struggling to turn it into real value? In this talk, Romano Roth, Chief of Cybernetic Transformation & Partner at Zühlke, shares candid insights from the front lines of AI adoption in industry. He explores the gap between what AI can do in a lab and what it takes to make it work in practice, where organizational complexity, legacy systems, data quality, and human factors create challenges that no paper ever mentions. Drawing on real-world examples, recent research (including MIT's State of AI in Business report and Harvard's work on AI-augmented teams), and his own experience helping companies become "Cybernetic Enterprises", Romano offers a honest look at where AI truly delivers value, where it fails, and what this means for the next generation of computer scientists moving from academia to industry.
Expect an interactive session with room for questions, discussion, and a few uncomfortable truths about AI hype.

Romano Roth