CTO Craft Mixer: Dublin March 2026

Bridging the AI Gap: From Strategy to Delivery

AI ambition is now common across organisations, but translating that ambition into practical, safe delivery is where most CTOs and senior leaders are spending real time and energy.

In this Dublin CTO Craft mixer, Lee Bristow, Director of Cyber & AI Governance at Saros Consulting, will share practitioner-led perspectives on how CTOs are bridging the gap between AI strategy and execution by anchoring your approach in a clear AI charter, grounding governance in real organisational constraints while still enabling progress.

The session will focus on how senior leaders are approaching AI governance today: what’s working, what’s proving difficult, and how teams are avoiding both chaos and innovation theatre.

You’ll walk away with
• A blueprint: Aligning strategy with delivery. How CTOs are using lightweight constructs (such as an AI Charter) to clarify intent, define ownership, and align AI initiatives to business objectives.
• The guardrails: Governance, risk, and resilience. Real-world approaches to managing governance, risk, and resilience across privacy, data, security, bias, transparency, and third-party risk as AI adoption scales.
• The value: Driving real value from AI. How senior leaders are steering AI usage toward tangible outcomes and ROI, while avoiding hype-driven or unfocused experimentation.

As with all CTO Craft events, this is a community-first session, designed to maximise peer discussion and networking.