GXA® AI Foundation Series · Session 2
How to Build an AI Strategy That Won’t Waste Your Budget
The AI market is full of impressive demos, overlapping tools, and vendors promising a shortcut. This session gives business leaders a practical way to choose the right path before committing the budget.
Watch George Makaye (CEO, GXA) and Cory Buls (CIO, GXA) break down public vs. private AI, vendor evaluation, and how to turn business priorities into an AI strategy.
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Why This Matters
Start With the Business Decision, Not the Tool
Buying AI before defining the problem creates another expensive platform that never becomes part of the business. The right path depends on the data involved, the process you want to improve, the controls you need, and the value you expect to create.
Session 2 translates those choices into a practical strategy. You’ll learn how to compare public and private options, evaluate vendors, and connect the investment to a real operating need before spending a dime.
The goal is not more AI. It is the right AI, applied to the right work, with a plan to operate it safely.
What You’ll Learn
A Practical AI Strategy for Growing Businesses
Built for CEOs, owners, and the CIOs and CFOs who own the budget and the risk at companies with roughly 20–200 employees.
Public vs. Private AI: What Leaders Need to Know
Understand where public tools, private models, and enterprise platforms fit — and how data sensitivity, control, and cost change the decision.
Which AI Tools Fit a Growing Business
Cut through the noise and focus on the tools and use cases that make sense for a 20–200 person company.
How to Evaluate AI Vendors
Use practical criteria to separate a credible implementation partner from a polished demo with no governance, integration, or operating plan behind it.
How to Build the Strategy Before You Spend
Connect business priorities, readiness, risk, and expected value so the budget follows a plan instead of the latest AI pitch.
Live Q&A
Questions from business leaders on tools, vendors, readiness, and the next practical step in AI adoption.
Meet the Speakers
Your Presenters
George Makaye
CEO, GXA
CISSP-certified cybersecurity leader and GXA’s CEO. For more than two decades he has helped growing businesses use technology, security, and strategy to drive performance.
Cory Buls
Chief Information Officer, GXA
A technology leader with 15+ years in IT leadership, managed services, and digital transformation. Cory helps leadership teams align technology investments with business goals and measurable value.
Finish the Series Live
Session 3 turns policy and strategy into day-to-day AI operations: controls, monitoring, incident response, and what managed AI looks like month-to-month.
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