CEO ADVISORY: KEYNOTES

This keynote is not about AI as a technology, but about why most companies will fail precisely because of it.

Reality is uncomfortable:

• 20 – 30% of today’s work will disappear.

• Up to 40% of previous skills lose value.

• Over 60% of companies are already failing because of the skills gap.

And yet most CEOs are solving the wrong problem. They optimize tools instead of work, digitalize existing structures and delegate decisions that cannot be delegated. Meanwhile, value creation shifts radically: routines are automated, decision-making work changes – and entire roles lose their raison d’être.

The real break lies deeper. Your organization is not built for this reality. Neither is your management team. And not because people are suddenly no longer capable, but because they were set up for a different time: with roles, skills and responsibilities that no longer work in the new logic of work.

And this is precisely where the loss of speed occurs. Because while you are still optimizing, others are already rebuilding: they are integrating AI into their core processes, developing new skills in a targeted manner and consistently moving people into new roles. The gap will not arise later. It is happening now. AI is not the problem. AI only makes your weaknesses quickly visible – and scales them up.

At its core, this keynote is about the decisions that many CEOs avoid:

• Which work no longer makes economic sense.

• Which skills need to be radically developed.

• And whether the company’s own management team can support this transformation at all.

Because the real bottleneck is not technology, but reskilling and leadership.

This keynote does not provide inspiration and further theoretical considerations. It confronts you with the points where you are losing time, money and competition. Because in the end, it’s not whether you use AI, but whether your company is rebuilt fast enough.