EVENT SPEAKERS

James Utting

Chief Business Officer, Group Emerging Technology, UBS

James has 17+ years experience working in Banking across a number of leadership roles in the Investment Bank at UBS. James has a diverse set of experience spanning AI, Data & Analytics, Business Strategy, Operating Management, Conduct & Culture and Cost Management. James is passionate about People Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Process Re-engineering, Data Visualisation, Behavioural & Data Science and Community Affairs.

Ken Usdin

MD, Equity Research, Jefferies LLC

Ken Usdin is recognized as a top-ranked financial analyst, specializing in U.S. commercial banks. Before joining Jefferies in 2010, Ken previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS, Lehman Brothers, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ken holds a BA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Alexandra Mousavizadeh

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Evident

Alexandra has spent the last 25 years ranking and quantifying complex societal and political forces. She started her career at Moody’s, then Morgan Stanley, later became CEO of ARC Ratings and then Director of the Prosperity Index. Most recently, Alexandra was a Founding Partner at Tortoise Media, where she ran Tortoise Intelligence, the Index and data business. Here, she was the architect of the groundbreaking Global AI Index, the first benchmark to track the strength of national AI ecosystems. She holds a degree in economics, mathematics and game theory from the University of Copenhagen.

Colin Gilbert

VP of Intelligence, Evident

Colin leads Evident's Intelligence Team. focused on developing new content offerings and expanding our customer-facing diagnostics. Colin has spent the last 15 years working in Research & Advisory services, specializing in using quantitative benchmarking to measure an organization's digital aptitude vs. performance. Previously, he served as a Managing Vice President at L2 Inc. (acquired by Gartner in 2017), where he worked on the Digital IQ Index® as it expanded to cover nearly 1,500 leading brands across 15x B2C industries.

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AI transformation requires the mobilization of a wide range of stakeholders, including: employees, investors, customers, and prospective hires. It requires individuals at the top of the organization to understand the transformational power of AI and establish clear ambitions, goals, and targets for the enterprise at large.

Ultimately, impactful AI leadership comes down to consistent messaging and clarity—coupled with amplification of that messaging through the right surrogates on the Executive Team.

Our Leadership Roundtable offered a unique opportunity to learn from industry practitioners and subject matter experts working at some of the world’s leading banks. Attendees learnt how to translate AI strategy into an effective communication plan—and asked critical questions on this topic.

Key discussion topics included:

• How do banks translate AI strategy into an effective Communications strategy?
• What might be driving some of the regional nuances we see?
• Now that everyone has joined the conversation, how can we expect to see AI disclosures evolve from here?
• What are emerging best practices to coordinate where and how C-level staff  amplify the AI narrative on external comms?
• Who are the future executive voices driving this dialogue and what do they add?

This event focused on the updated 2024 Evident AI Leadership Report.

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