The AI Leadership Summit 2027 is IDC’s premier event for the senior executives shaping enterprise AI strategy across the United States. This full-day event delivers high-impact insights and actionable strategies focused on the leadership decisions that determine AI value: scaling AI responsibly, governing agentic systems, navigating the US regulatory landscape, and translating AI investment into measurable business outcomes.
US enterprises lead the world in AI deployment, but the gap between AI investment and value is widening. Security, governance, and the challenge of scaling from pilots to enterprise-wide value define the 2027 US agenda. The AI Leadership Summit is built for executives from all business functions at the center of that work. What you will take away:
Board-Led AI Strategies
Communicating AI’s potential and securing the resources to deliver it.
Innovation vs Productivity
Balancing new revenue creation with substantial revenue-per-employee gains.
Organizational Transformation in the AI Era
Transforming organizational models for human + AI collaboration.
The Autonomous Enterprise
Moving from AI-assisted processes to autonomous, agent-driven enterprise operations.
The New Enterprise Architecture
How will the tech stack change and the importance of having a guiding business architecture.
AI-Enabled Operating Models
Industry specific convergence of operating technologies with information technology to transform operating models including physical AI.
Creating Effective Operating Governance
Building scalable governance, oversight and transparency into enterprise AI systems, assuring compliance and controlling costs.
Measuring AI ROI at Enterprise Scale
Reshaping how productivity is measured across every business function.
By 2028, Every Global 100 firm will spend at least $2 million annually on unified AI governance, making governance a permanent and material line item on the enterprise P&L.
Set the AI Strategy
Frame AI as a board-level capability, not an IT side project.
Govern with Discipline
Operationalize compliance, ethics and cost control as AI scales.
Quantify the Value
Translate AI investment into measurable revenue-per-employee gains.
Lead the Change
Build the talent, culture and operating model for an AI-Fueled Enterprise.
How leaders move beyond AI experimentation to enterprise-wide orchestration, and what it takes to turn fragmented pilots into operational impact in the agentic economy.
Agentic AI will enhance the capabilities of more than 40% of enterprise applications by 2027. How IT and business leaders are governing, costing and scaling the shift.
The CIO is now the chief orchestrator of the intelligent enterprise. The ten IDC predictions defining the agentic, quantum-aware and edge-intelligent enterprise.
