# The New Industrial Era: Why AI Value Lives in the Redesign, Not the Tool

_Learn why AI value depends on business redesign, agentic AI governance and practical operating models that turn pilots into ROI._

Why AI value lives in the redesign, not the tool

With Kristy Brown, Chief Executive New Zealand, Fusion5

US$1.7 trillion has gone into AI since 2022 - yet no major economy is showing productivity gains, and only 11% of CFOs report clear ROI.

If your organisation has rolled out Copilot or run AI pilots but hasn't yet moved agents into production with real oversight and accountability, this session is built for you.

In 45 minutes, Kristy Brown draws a direct line from the electrification era - where the productivity payoff took decades and only arrived once factories were rebuilt around the electric motor - to the reshape your organisation needs now to turn agentic AI into measurable growth and profit.

**Watch this recording to learn:**

- Why AI is everywhere except in company growth and profit - and the institutional reshape that closes the gap
- The three disciplines of safe, diffused innovation: distributed build, enforced standards and progressive trust
- The four capabilities that turn agent experiments into enterprise operations
- A practical model to prevent a cost blow-out: track like a CFO, allocate like a VC, manage like a CEO
- How an Agent Operations Centre lets you govern agents in production without governance becoming a brake

Who it's for

CEOs and Managing Directors, CIOs/CDOs/CTOs, COOs and transformation leaders, and CFOs across mid-to-large ANZ organisations who set or influence the AI agenda.