Stranded ROI: Why your AI investments still stall at the business level

Turning task-level gains into measurable business value

HotTopics C-suite Exchange in partnership with 

Most enterprise AI pilots work. Individual tasks get faster, outputs improve and teams sign them off. But when the board asks where the return is six months later, the honest answer is often that nobody is entirely sure.

The ROI may not be missing. It may be stranded: captured at the level of individual tasks but failing to translate into the process-level outcomes promised by the original business case.

This HotTopics C-suite Exchange will examine:

1. The gap between task metrics and business metrics

2. Why cross-functional alignment is often underestimated in agentic AI deployment

3. What organisations closing the value gap are doing differently

4. How agent efficiency can translate into outcomes visible on the CFO’s balance sheet

Event details

📍 Location: Virtual

🗓 Date: 17th November 2026

🕛 Time: 12:00 - 1.00 PM GMT

👥 The Hosts: Doug Drinkwater, Editorial and Strategy Director, HotTopics

This HotTopics C-suite Exchange is part of The Agentic Enterprise, where HotTopics and Salesforce bring technology leaders together through events and peer insights to explore how organisations can balance innovation with control, speed with security and automation with human ingenuity.

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