Hunter Data Analytics

Talk Description: In this candid session, Zanné pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening inside organisations trying to adopt AI, the good, the bad, and the painfully familiar. This is not another glossy AI keynote full of buzzwords and cherry‑picked case studies. It’s a field report from the trenches.
We’ll dig into the gap between AI hype and AI reality: misaligned leadership expectations, “magic wand” thinking, messy data estates, culture that quietly resists change, governance that shows up too late, and the awkward truth that most people don’t actually use the shiny AI tools they’ve been given.
You’ll hear concrete examples of:

• Teams who made AI work without a 50‑page strategy deck (but they did have a practical plan)
• Projects that looked amazing in a demo and died the moment they met real users
• Subtle “red flags” that almost guarantee your AI initiative will stall out

You’ll walk away with:

• A clear mental model for where most organisations really are on their AI journey (not where the slideware says they are)
• Examples of green flags that accelerate value, and red flags that quietly kill AI momentum before anyone admits it
• Sharper ways to talk to stakeholders about AI that cut through the hype but keep the excitement
• Practical next steps if you’re stuck between grand AI vision decks and… absolutely nothing in production