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Scaling AI Adoption: Building a Culture of Champions for Enterprise Impact

Name: Scaling AI Adoption: Building a Culture of Champions for Enterprise Impact
Start: 2026-06-17T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-17T18:00:00-04:00
Location: New York City, TBD

Join Blend and Insight for a private executive dinner in NYC focused on scaling AI adoption through culture-led strategies. Senior leaders will explore how to build AI champion networks, align teams, and embed AI into everyday workflows to drive meaningful enterprise impact.

New York City, TBD

June 17, 2026

to June 17, 2026

6:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

About this event

As organizations accelerate AI investments, a new challenge is emerging: adoption at scale. While access to AI tools has expanded rapidly, many enterprises struggle to translate experimentation into sustained, organization-wide impact.

Insight’s own journey from being “AI curious” to becoming an AI-first organization revealed a critical truth: successful AI transformation is driven as much by people and culture as it is by technology. Without clear governance, shared learning models, and empowered teams, even the most advanced AI initiatives risk remaining fragmented and underutilized.

Join Blend and Insight for a private executive dinner bringing together senior business and technology leaders to explore how organizations can scale AI adoption through culture-led, repeatable approaches. Grounded in Insight’s proven AI Playbook, the discussion will focus on building AI champion networks, aligning business and IT leaders around prioritized use cases, and creating safe environments for teams to learn, experiment, and apply AI with confidence. Attendees will gain practical perspectives on how to embed AI into daily workflows—turning innovation into measurable business value and ensuring AI becomes part of how work gets done, not just another strategic initiative.

Our speakers

Parker Johnston

Agentic Field CTO | Insight

Parker is an agentic field CTO within Insight’s Microsoft solutions business line and an AI strategist who helps organizations design, implement, and scale enterprise technology solutions. During his 15-year career, he has led initiatives focused on enterprise modernizations, cloud uplifts, AI-driven transformations, and reimagination of critical systems. In his current role, Parker drives go-to-market strategies for technology solutions with an emphasis on AI, helping clients modernize legacy systems, automate software delivery, and realize measurable value. He works to ensure organizations are empowered to pursue transformation and growth without being limited by technology, providing a solid plan, trusted guidance, and an evolving roadmap that balances business priorities with technological advances.

Steve Lyerly

President | Infocenter, an Insight Company

Steve is a senior vice president at Insight, where he leads our cloud services sales across Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and ServiceNow, also serving as president of Infocenter, an Insight Company. Over the past nine years, Steve has helped lead Infocenter’s growth and strategic direction, delivering enterprise workflow and digital transformation solutions. Steve holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has completed executive education at Cornell University.

Key themes & discussion topics

Closing the AI Adoption Gap
Why organizations struggle to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption—and how to overcome the barriers.

Building and Empowering AI Champions
How to identify, enable, and scale internal champions who can drive AI momentum from within.

Driving Cross-Functional Alignment
Breaking down silos between business, data, and technology teams to ensure AI initiatives gain traction.

Balancing Governance with Innovation
Creating the right structures to support AI adoption while still encouraging experimentation and agility.

Event agenda

Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

Dinner & guided discussion

7:15 – 8:45

Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00PM

Why should you attend?

Gain practical insights on how leading organizations are scaling AI adoption beyond pilots into real business impact.

Learn how to build and empower internal AI champions to drive momentum across your enterprise.

Exchange ideas with senior peers on aligning business, data, and technology teams to accelerate adoption.

Discover how to balance governance and experimentation to embed AI into everyday workflows with confidence.

Who should attend

This event is designed for senior executives leading AI, data, and digital transformation initiatives, including CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and Heads of Data & AI. It is also ideal for data, analytics, and engineering leaders, as well as enterprise and business unit leaders responsible for driving innovation and operational change.

Attendees should be actively focused on scaling AI adoption, aligning cross-functional teams, and embedding AI into core business processes to deliver measurable impact.

Venue

New York City, TBD

New York
United States

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