Designing your AI Roadmap: A step-by-step guide for growing businesses

A successful AI journey begins with a clear roadmap—this session by Dr. Stylianos Kampakis equips businesses to turn AI curiosity into practical, revenue-generating projects through strategic planning, ownership, and real-world frameworks.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and prioritise AI opportunities across operations, marketing, and product.

• Build a phased roadmap that aligns technical feasibility with commercial impact.

• Establish key success metrics and governance checkpoints for each initiative.

Description.

Every successful AI journey starts with a clear, realistic roadmap. In this session, Dr Stylianos Kampakis, data scientist, author, and CEO of the Tesseract Academy, demystifies the planning phase so companies of any size can move from “AI curiosity” to concrete, revenue-generating projects.

We begin by mapping the business value-chain and spotting high-impact, low-risk AI opportunities. Next, you’ll learn how to segment initiatives into “quick wins” and “strategic bets,” assign ownership, and set measurable milestones. Finally, Stelios shares a proven framework for balancing talent, data, budget, and governance considerations, illustrated with real-world case studies from start-ups, scale-ups, and corporates. By the end, you’ll walk away with a practical template you can adapt immediately, turning AI from buzzword to business advantage.

Speakers

Dr Stylianos Kampakis

CEO & Chief Data Scientist, Tesseract Academy

Stylianos (Stelios) Kampakis, PhD, has spent 12+ years helping SMEs and multinationals unlock value with data science and AI. He is the author of “The Decision Maker’s Handbook to Data Science,” a mentor at University College London, and a frequent keynote speaker at industry events worldwide.