Speakers
Gary O’Sullivan
Gary O’Sullivan, Managing Partner & Ciara Close, Growth & Innovation, Sia Partners
Every organisation runs on "what if" questions. What if interest rates jump two points? What if a once-in-a-century flood hits? What if the grid loses power on the coldest night of the year? Answering questions like these means running large, complex models, and for years that took hours or days. That wait is disappearing. Complex models that once ran overnight now run in minutes. That sounds like a pure win, but it changes more than just speed to answer.
This talk looks at what changes when that happens: the questions people ask, who gets to ask them, and how we absorb the answers. Drawing on real work building complex solutions with large insurers, this talk looks at what happened when their simulations/ financial model runs went from hours to minutes, and what any organisation should think about if they’re dealing with the same thing.
Gary O’Sullivan is Managing Partner of Sia in the UK and Ireland, leading teams across Dublin, London & Edinburgh. Gary has more than 30 years building a deep understanding of organisations, leading strategic transformation and inspiring leaders to think differently. He is now excited to bring his experience and expertise to bear on AI, helping clients move from ambition to results by building the foundations and capability to innovate and scale.
Ciara Close leads Strategy & AI for Sia in Dublin. She helps executive teams decide where AI creates value and build the capability to deliver it, and she leads how Sia's own teams learn to work with AI. Ciara holds a PhD in Optical Engineering from UCD and sits on the board of the Liffey Trust, where she works on investment in STEM education for second-level DEIS schools.