Board Packs: The Strategic Role of AI and New Tools in Driving Organisational Success

Impact Boards EM's "Virtual Boardroom" series are an opportunity for our members and guests to meet virtually for networking and sharing knowledge on specific board themes.

Our next discussion in this series will focus on Board Packs: The Strategic Role of AI and New Tools in Driving Organisational Success.

Board packs have traditionally been the way boards understand what is happening across the organisation at a given point in time. They are formal documents with legal regulatory and fiduciary importance, so they need to be prepared with great care. They should also help the board evaluate strategy and assess risk in a clear and practical way.

In the past, creating board packs involved time consuming data collection and manual reporting. Digital tools improved how they are formatted and shared, but challenges with data infrastructure, data collection and reporting still limited how effective they could be.

Now the rise of AI offers the potential for much stronger board packs. In theory, these could show past performance, track developments in real time and project future scenarios that support strategic decisions.

The key question is how to use AI and modern tools in a way that truly improves the relevance and usefulness of board packs.

Please join us for for an open and insightful discussion as well as the opportunity to make valuable connections in an informal online setting.

Moderator:

Gregorio Saichin, CEO & Co-Founder, Impact Boards EM

About the speakers:

Hande Ocak Basev is a strategic consultant specialised in AI, and its potential implications on corporates. She is Managing Partner at WSI, the world’s premier digital marketing agency, where she crafts transformative AI centric strategies. With over 20+ years of experience in strategic consultancy and digital marketing, she is uniquely positioned to explore the impact of AI, not only on overall corporate strategy, but also across different corporate functions such as HR, manufacturing and marketing, on a sector specific basis.

Hande is fluent in English and Turkish with an industrial engineering background. She has led numerous board level and C level executive trainings in AI, and how to garner its advantages on a company specific basis. AI is poised to transform the global economy, and corporates which are early adopters, will be the ultimate winners.

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Ilona Simpson is a board director and technologist with 25 years of experience driving operational efficiency, technology and cybersecurity for iconic brands like Porsche, Aston Martin and Adidas. Known for the "heavy lifting" of corporate turnarounds and complex integrations, she currently advises private equity firms and executives on high-stakes technology and investment decisions.   

As the Founder and CEO of Agent & Capital, Ilona is designing agentic AI to help leadership teams bridge the persistent gap between strategy and execution.  

A Harvard-certified corporate director, she is focused on using next-generation tools to ensure AI and technology drive measurable success for organisations in a responsible, safe and secure way.  

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