Organizations race to adopt AI but stall because messy BI foundations amplify problems, governance, consistency, and traceability are the real blockers. This global roundtable explains why trusted data, standardized KPIs, ethical controls, technical readiness, and decision integration are essential to scale AI.

Practical roadmap: stabilize governance and KPI definitions, codify ethics, choose small high-impact pilots, and embed models into decision workflows. AI isn’t a shortcut; it’s a capability built deliberately from strong BI foundations.