Why Your AI Pilot Isn't the Problem
From pilot to performance: how leaders build trust, align teams, and prove business value.
Presented by AIScoop. Underwritten by Salesforce.
The Session
AI is no longer stuck at the “should we?” stage. The challenge now is turning pilots into measurable business performance, and most organizations are finding that gap harder to close than expected.
AI adoption fails not from lack of technology, but from lack of methodology. The gap is organizational. And it is solvable.
Micah Margolis shares three proven approaches from neurocollective's AI Adoption Engineering Framework:
Bold AI Leadership
How leaders turn AI from potential into performance. Most AI initiatives fail not from technology limitations, but because leaders struggle to communicate value and build organizational momentum.
The AI Performance Flywheel
A continuous four-phase cycle of Foundation, Execution, Scale, and Innovation that turns successful pilots into compounding returns. Each phase builds on the last.
Visual Dartboarding
A proprietary facilitation technique that transforms abstract AI challenges into visual, shareable artifacts. Visual thinking increases retention by 65% and accelerates consensus by 2x.
Free to attend. Virtual. April 14, 2026.
What you will walk away with
Practical frameworks and tools you can apply the same week.
A clear model for why AI stalls and what the highest-performing organizations do differently
A repeatable framework for building the trust that makes adoption stick across functions and levels
A practical technique for making success visible to every audience, from your board to your frontline teams
The leadership language and structure to align AI strategy with measurable business value
Concrete next steps you can bring back to your organization and apply immediately
Who this is for
This session is for anyone leading, supporting, or navigating AI adoption inside an organization. Whether you are just beginning to build your AI strategy or working to scale what is already in motion, this framework meets you where you are.
Your Speaker
Micah Margolis
Chief of NeuroAI Adoption, neurocollective
Micah bridges the gap between AI strategy and measurable business results, applying expertise in neuroscience, psychology, and enterprise AI adoption to make the human side of transformation as rigorous as the technical side.
Before joining neurocollective, Micah served as Global Director of Executive Advisory at Gartner, advising C-suite leaders around the world on technology strategy, organizational change, and the human side of digital transformation. As a founding member of Gartner's AI Advisory Council, he helped shape how the world's leading research firm guides enterprises through AI adoption.
About neurocollective
neurocollective is the company that wrote the book on AI adoption, literally. Founded by Dr. Lisa Palmer and built on doctoral research the largest qualitative study of successful enterprise AI adoption, neurocollective produces the methodology, certifications, diagnostics, and tools that help organizations build real AI capability from the inside out.
“Clients report measurable productivity gains and significant ROI in year one.”
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Part of AI Week 2026, presented by AIScoop and underwritten by Salesforce.