14 Apr 2026
Plaza Athénée
IDC, AVANADE & MICROSOFT
The AI Reset: Reframing Business Cycles Through AI
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Bring innovation to life: Applications + AI, the winning combination
What if your applications became the true accelerator of your AI strategy?
By embedding artificial intelligence directly into core business processes, organizations unlock new innovation levers, gain agility, and make performance improvements tangible.
By combining applications, data, and AI, companies transform their workflows into sustainable growth engines—while ensuring security, compliance, and cost control.
An executive peer dinner discussion
Hosted by Avanade and Microsoft in partnership with IDC, this exclusive dinner will take place in the prestigious Salon Napoléon at the Four Seasons Hotel George V.
The evening will provide a unique setting to engage with IT decision-makers, experts, and peers on how AI is transforming business processes and how to scale its deployment across the enterprise.
Objective: share real-world feedback and identify pragmatic approaches to embedding AI at the heart of mission-critical applications.
On the agenda
- Reimagining business processes and enabling enterprise-wide AI integration
- Balancing in-house AI (DIY) with natively embedded enterprise solutions
- Maintaining security and compliance while infusing AI into workflows
- Defining the right KPIs to measure AI’s impact on business processes
- Exploring concrete use cases and understanding market trends
The evening will feature expert insights followed by an interactive discussion with participants.
Key themes
Integrating AI into mission-critical applications to accelerate business workflows
Scaling deployment while ensuring security and compliance
Measuring value and ROI: KPIs and best practices to maximize AI impact
Reasons to participate
Discover the benefits of joining:
- Connect with experts and peers facing similar challenges
- Align your AI ambitions with your company’s overall strategy
- Reimagine and secure AI-augmented business processes
- Accelerate adoption by leveraging your existing application landscape
- Identify practical approaches to generate value quickly
Agenda
IDC, AVANADE & MICROSOFT
One Day Event
Welcome and Networking Cocktail
IDC Welcome Speech and Introduction
Cyrille Chausson
Research Manager, IDC Europe
Welcome from Avanade & Microsoft
Dinner Roundtable Discussions
- Integrating AI into mission-critical applications to accelerate business workflows
- Scaling enterprise-wide deployment while ensuring security and compliance
- Measuring value and ROI: KPIs and best practices to maximize AI impact
Thank you from IDC, Avanade & Microsoft
Speakers
Cyrille Chausson
Research Manager
IDC Europe
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Cyrille Chausson
Event Sessions
Tuesday, April 14 2026 7:30 pm | Location:
Mots de bienvenue IDC
Sponsors
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Avanade
We do what matters
Microsoft
Venue
Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Hôtel Plaza Athénée – An evening in the Salon Organza
25 Av. Montaigne, 75008 Paris
Experience the charm of Salon Organza, an elegant setting within the Plaza Athénée, where soft lighting and a refined atmosphere create the ideal environment for meaningful conversations.
Alongside Avanade and Microsoft, in partnership with IDC, enjoy an exceptional evening where inspiration, innovation, and conviviality meet in the heart of Parisian elegance.
Participation criteria
This event is intended for client-side professionals with key responsibilities. To ensure a relevant and high-value audience, registrations from technology vendors, system integrators, or consulting firms may be declined at the organizer’s discretion.