CIO 100 Leadership Live Atlanta: AI spending enters a reckoning phase

Keith Fulton delivered a keynote arguing that succeeding in enterprise AI requires different leadership skills than early technical promotions provide: budgeting, organizational design, cross-functional collaboration, and effective communication with executives and boards. He advocated shifting from a control mindset to one of enablement, building cultures of trust and impact, and maintaining personal discipline and work-life balance to sustain long-term leadership effectiveness.