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Mid-Year AI Checkpoint: What Happens When AI Becomes Infrastructure?

July 16, 2026
About the Speakers
  • Sarah Hoffman

    Director of AI Thought Leadership
    AlphaSense
  • Shelly Hagan

    Business and Finance Editor
    AlphaSense

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Watch this forward-looking discussion, where we explore AI developments that matter most for business leaders right now.

The session will cover:

  • The Pragmatism Shift: What the shift from tech demos to deployment realities looks like in practice.
  • AI as Infrastructure: The operational reality of moving AI from an isolated "tool" to permanent enterprise infrastructure.
  • Agentic AI in Practice: How to cut through the hype and identify what a high-value AI agent looks like in a business context.
  • Measuring ROI: Why measuring AI success is harder than it looks, and what happens when organizations measure the wrong thing.
  • Workforce Reality Check: What organizations should understand about job disruption, talent shifts, and the growing public anxiety around AI.
  • What's next for H2: The key developments, opportunities, and risks to watch in H2 2026

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