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Onboard AI the way you onboard people

Dave LawyFounder and Managing Partner, QuantumSmart; former CIO, Canada Protection Plan

Dave Lawy, founder of QuantumSmart and former CIO at Canada Protection Plan, argues that AI needs the same onboarding, nurturing and offboarding as an employee, that a demo on a laptop is not production, and that migration is not transformation.

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  • AI Adoption

    Bringing AI into an operating business: onboarding and offboarding it like a hire, governance, and the gap between a demo and production.

  • Data Migration

    Moving years of financial history without breaking trust in the numbers.

  • ERP Implementation

    Getting a rollout live without losing the year to it.

  • ERP Selection

    Choosing the next system when the current one is holding the business back.

  • Finance Transformation

    Rebuilding the finance function around better systems and cleaner data.

  • Security and IP

    Owning what you build, keeping the whole house locked, windows included, and preparing for quantum-safe encryption.

  • Technology Roadmaps

    Planning technology the way a company plans finance and sales: what to build, in what order, with certainty on cost and delivery.

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