CIO 100 Leadership Live preview: Tech execs confront the demands of AI at scale

Enterprise AI is moving from experimentation to scale, and the article highlights that CIOs must now address the operational, financial, and architectural realities of making AI durable across the business. The biggest implications for IT organizations are stronger data governance, cleaner architectures, better talent and operating models, tighter ROI discipline, and more rigorous risk management—especially in regulated environments—because AI is exposing long-standing weaknesses in fragmented systems and processes.