The Great AI Catchup For Leaders
A one-hour catch-up for leaders who feel behind on AI and want to change that in 2027. Starts from first principles.
Led by Akhil Raj Gupta & Rishabh Jain
What it's about
Gallup’s 2026 data shows 51% of leaders are already using AI frequently at work.
This session is a one hour catch up for the other 49%.
If you are ready to start seriously driving AI adoption, but are overwhelmed by the pace of change and the overflow of information, then this is the right session for you.
We’ll start from the fundamentals of what an AI agent even is, and work all the way up to how you should think about your 2027 AI strategy, without any hype or jargon.
PS - Check where you stand today with Luminary’s AI fluency assessment; you can also share it with your team or contact us for a free custom survey across your org :)
What you'll take away
- See what changed while you were busy: a plain tour of where AI stands today, from chat assistants to agents that finish the work
- Sort the signal from the noise: first principles for judging which AI tools and terms are worth your time
- How AI native companies run in the real world: where AI adds value, what the roadblocks are, and how to prioritise investments
- Start crafting your AI strategy from the frontier: our predictions for what's next and how leaders can respond
Who should attend
Founders / Business Owners
You want to start converting your company into a lean AI native operation
Functional / Team Leaders
You need to drive AI adoption in your team but you're not sure how to go about it
Senior Operators & ICs
AI is a core expectation, but there's a flood of information out there and you just need a place to start
Who'll be leading
Akhil Raj Gupta
Founder at Luminary, ex-Airbnb
Akhil is the founder of Luminary (theluminary.ai), an AI platform that connects world-class practitioners to individuals and companies for AI education and training.
He also advises CEOs across industries on AI transformation and strategy: how to deploy AI across an organisation, how to become superproductive themselves, and how to build customer-facing AI products. Much of this session comes from that work.
Before that, Akhil spent years in Product and Strategy at Airbnb in San Francisco, where he built AI-powered systems for customer experience, commercial policy and marketplace operations, and lived through the organisational side of AI adoption at scale.
Rishabh Jain
Co-Founder, stealth AI startup | ex-BILL
Rishabh Jain is a co-founder of a stealth AI startup that's building at the frontier.
He was previously an AI product leader at BILL, where he built out the customer-facing AI agents team for BILL's accounts payable product.
Rishabh holds an MBA from Wharton.
Live on Zoom · 60 min
Nov 12 · 9:00 PM IST