We are in an AI Gold Rush. Boardrooms are demanding innovation, but for Portfolio, Program and Project Leaders, this rush often looks like chaos: dazzling demos, ballooning budgets, and high-risk pilots that fail to scale. The danger isn’t missing out on AI; it’s drowning in "AI Theater" without capturing real business value.

This session equips Project Managers and PMO leaders with a framework to separate the signal from the noise. We will explore how modern product and agility techniques can be used to drive value in the AI age, ensuring that your organization’s AI investments aren't just "mining for fool's gold," but delivering measurable ROI.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify the "Value Veins": Learn to map AI initiatives to actual business constraints and flywheels, ensuring every project has a clear path to business outcomes and impact.
• Risk-Managed Agile Experimentation: Apply venture-capital discipline to your portfolio. Treat AI opportunities as a series of "bets" and search for product-market-fit using product development best practices.
• Stop the "AI Theater": Move beyond status reports to Evidence-Based Steering. Learn to use fast, agile cycles that produce leading indicators to validate (or kill) projects early, preventing sunk costs in pursuing AI dreams. Target Audience: Portfolio, PMOs and Program/Project Leaders tasked with turning AI mandates into outcomes.

About the Speaker:

Yuval helps leaders at mid-market and scaleup tech and tech-enabled companies such as Gillette, Dyno Therapeutics, CyberArk, M:M Bio, Idemia, and ARAS Software improve organizational traction and outcomes, leveraging the principles of flow, agility, and product orientation. Yuval is always helping push agility to new frontiers, such as AI Adoption, Marketing, Organizational Traction, Deep Tech R&D, and improving time to impact on strategic transformations.

As a Sense and Respond Certified Training Partner, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and SAFe Fellow and SPCT, he’s often sought out by leaders who are pursuing strategic scalability and agility without falling into the trap of process theater.

Yuval is an active thought leader, sharing insights and thought leadership in his Scaling w/ Agility newsletter and the Scaling w/ Agility Podcast. He is based in the greater Boston area and works with clients throughout the US and beyond.