Short Presentation: "Enabling the AI Enterprise by Reverse Engineering the Future"

Short Presentation Speaker: Vipin Gupta, President, Chief Product Officer & CTO, Flipt Description: How can CIOs architect and build the future version of their enterprise—starting now? This provocative session explores the concept of working from the future back, challenging leaders to reimagine what their business could become if unconstrained by today’s systems and limitations. To reengineer the current state, one must start by reverse engineering the future state, making decisions today with a clear vision of an ideal, AI-native future. Through real-world examples, the session will demonstrate how every design and technology decision made today can—and should—contribute to building autonomous user journeys and intelligent business processes. The speaker introduces the idea using ‘Present Futurist’ superpower of a CIO to be profoundly strategic yet grounded in operational realities, capable of bridging today’s complexity with tomorrow’s innovation. Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Samhita Bandopadhyay, Director, PwC a) Are there current initiatives within your organization that you believe could have benefited from a future-back approach? Where would you implement the “reverse engineer the future” method to transform and realize your organization’s strategies? b) What does being a “Present Futurist” mean to you? What techniques do you employ to focus the teams on a strategic future while remaining grounded in operational reality. The roundtable discussions will not be recorded on video, and discussions will follow Chatham House Rules: When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. The purpose of the rule is to encourage open discussion since anything said is "off the record".