From Hype to Impact: Turning AI into Enterprise Value - Nasstar (CIO Inspired Summit Ireland)

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Overview

In this CIO Inspired Summit masterclass, recorded at Carton House, Ireland, in September 2026, Sean Morris, CTO for Nasstar's Microsoft business, and Jack Fisher, Solutions Architect at Nasstar, tackle why so many organisations are still struggling to turn AI initiatives into tangible business benefits.

They frame AI as a paradigm shift on the scale of cloud and use Microsoft's Frontier Firm idea of moving from personal productivity, to task-based agents, to humans and agents working together in teams. They then walk through the Nasstar AI Adoption Framework, from strategy, advisory and use cases with a business case behind them, through AI readiness and data security, to adoption through champions programmes and a centre of excellence.

Key takeaways

  • The fastest-moving organisations share senior leadership buy-in, a plan to bring people with them on the change and real technology readiness across security, data and identity.
  • Most organisations are now moving from chat-based personal productivity into task automation built into agentic solutions; none the speakers have met are fully 'frontier' everywhere.
  • Measure value rather than usage, so you can answer the finance director who asks why the business is spending tens of thousands a month on Copilot.
  • Keep token costs under control: agents can burn through credits quickly if consumption is not managed.
  • Agents need lifecycle management and ongoing support once in production, and putting agents over unsecured data can surface information nobody knew was accessible.

Watch the full session on YouTube: From Hype to Impact: Turning AI into Enterprise Value

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