AI Opportunities & Challenges: Effective Governance and Delivering Real Value

AI is no longer an experiment. It is becoming core to how many organizations operate. Yet many companies remain caught between running pilots and delivering real impact. The challenge is not the technology itself, but governance, coordination, and change.

Join Colin Nelson, alongside Gavin McClafferty from Subsea7 and John Toon from HLB, for a fireside conversation focused on real-world experience from their organizations as AI scales. The discussion will explore how AI campaigns are progressing toward production-ready initiatives, how measurable benefits are being realized, and how governance challenges are being addressed along the way.

This session focuses on what worked, what did not, and what needs to change as AI moves beyond experimentation.

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What You’ll Learn:

How organizations turn AI campaigns into production-ready initiatives
How ideas are converted into measurable impact, including multi-million-dollar benefits
How organizations grapple with the challenges of governance
Why AI must be treated not as a tool problem, but as a change management challenge

This session focuses on real-world experience, what worked, what didn’t, and what needs to change as AI scales, designed for Innovation Leaders in all industries.

If you’re navigating AI across multiple teams and trying to avoid fragmentation, duplication, or stalled initiatives, register now to gain practical insights from industry experts.

Colin Nelson

Chief Innovation Consultant at Hype

Colin Nelson is an experienced innovation strategist with over 20 years of helping complex organizations build and scale collaborative innovation processes. He specializes in engaging employees, partners, and customers to harness collective intelligence and deliver business value.

Colin supports clients in defining metrics that resonate with leadership, aligning innovation efforts with standards like ISO 56000. He helps drive initiatives in Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and Business Transformation by uniting diverse groups under common goals.

Previously, he led the European division of Imaginatik, where he pioneered crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation methods that drove transformation and improvement.

Gavin McClafferty

Enterprise AI Leader at Subsea7

Enterprise AI leader focused on turning AI from experimentation into governed, scalable, value-creating capability. Currently lead enterprise AI within a global energy and offshore engineering organisation, with accountability for AI strategy, operating models, governance, and value realisation across a federated, asset-heavy environment.

Gavin owns a portfolio of AI systems delivering multi-million-dollar annual efficiency and productivity impact globally across core business functions. Known for building AI capabilities that are embedded, scalable, and safe by design in regulated, safety-critical environments.

John Toon

Head of Technology