Type: Strategic Keynote / Executive Briefing Main Topic: A comprehensive, fourpillar framework (Economics, Talent, Structure, Governance) for leaders to fundamentally redesign their operating models to survive and thrive in an agentic AI world. Speakers: Stephen Brozovich (Amazon Executive, joined 1999; focused on tech, people, culture, and massive organizational transformation). The conversation around AI in the enterprise has irreversibly shifted. Clevel executives are no longer asking if they should adopt AI; they are asking how to organize, govern, and protect their businesses while embracing it. Brozovich delivers a reality check to leaders: the technology is not the primary threat—your competitors and colleagues who successfully adopt organizational models built around this technology are. The goal of this keynote is to prevent companies from learning through their own catastrophic mistakes by providing an empirical, databacked operational framework. The lecture constructs a robust mental model for executives based on four distinct pillars: Figure 1: The four organizational shapes — from the traditional Pyramid to the ideal Hourglass — and the traps leaders must avoid when restructuring for AI. 1. The 3 Worlds of AI Economics WORLD 1: USE (The EndtoEnd Managed Solution). Highest leverage, lowest differentiation. Someone else operates the AI; you consume it. WORLD 2: COMPOSE. Medium leverage, medium differentiation. Leveraging frontier APIs and stitching them into your specific workflows. (They bring intelligence; you bring the workflow). WORLD 3: BUILD. Highest control and cost, lowest speed. Training or finetuning proprietary models. Rule: Only build where it truly differentiates your business. 2. The 4 Organizational Shapes (The Talent Pipeline) The Pyramid: Traditional state. Lots of juniors, fewer midlevel, few seniors. The Diamond (The Trap): Overreaction to AI. Cutting juniors (AI does execution), bulking middle management (to oversee A
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