Julie
Gilbert
CEO and Board Director & Trusted Advisor at Full Throttle Growth & Capital
"AI + Quantum: The New Growth Mandate for Boards and the C-Suite: Navigating Growth, Efficiency, and Risk in an Accelerating Age"
"AI + Quantum: The New Growth Mandate for Boards and the C-Suite: Navigating Growth, Efficiency, and Risk in an Accelerating Age"
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Session: AI + Quantum: The New Growth Mandate for Boards and the C-Suite: Navigating Growth, Efficiency, and Risk in an Accelerating Age
OverviewAI is reshaping global markets at unprecedented speed. Quantum computing is close behind, carrying the potential to upend today’s encryption and security assumptions. Together, these forces represent the most significant strategic shift facing corporate leaders in decades.
This keynote delivers a clear roadmap for growth, operational excellence, and responsible leadership.
Key Themes
1. The New Executive Imperative
AI is redefining industries, economics, and leadership accountability.
Quantum is emerging as a transformational—and potentially destabilizing—force.
Boards and executives face mounting pressure to accelerate growth, increase efficiency, and manage escalating risk.
Inaction is no longer an option.
2. AI as the Engine of Accelerated Growth
Revenue & Innovation and new business models and intelligent products.
Personalized, predictive customer experiences.
Competitive Advantage
Disruptors scaling faster than incumbents.
Speed, data maturity, and execution discipline emerging as the strategic edge.
Quantum Threat Horizon
The coming ability to decrypt today’s security systems.
Implications for data protection, IP, and digital trust.
3. Enterprise-Level Efficiency at Scale
Operational Levers and workforce augmentation and automation.
Supply chain and operational optimization. and practical risks
Tie efficiency gains to sustainable enterprise value, not one-time savings.
4. Ethical, Security & Regulatory Realities
Ethics & Trust
Brand reputation and societal expectations.
Security & Quantum Risk
New AI attack surfaces and imminent quantum decryption challenges.
Global Regulation: U.S.: FTC, SEC, and federal AI directives/ EU: The AI Act.
Asia: China’s emerging regulatory frameworks.
Leaders move from reactive compliance to proactive governance.
5. The C-Suite Playbook for the AI–Quantum Era
Strategic Leadership aligning AI investments with long-term strategy.
Balance growth ambition with risk posture.
Governance & Oversight
Enterprise-wide AI and quantum risk frameworks.
C-suite orchestration: CEO, CFO, CIO/CTO, CCO, CHRO.
Engaged, informed boards.
Attraction and retention of AI-native talent.
6. The Path Ahead
Near-Term Priorities
Scale responsible, high-impact pilots.
Embed governance from inception.
Provide board-ready transparency dashboards.
Long-Term Mandate
Lead with trust, resilience, and security.
Position the enterprise as both a bold innovator and a responsible steward of AI and quantum technologies.
Who Should Attend
CEOs, Board Directors & Chairs
CIOs, CTOs & Chief Digital Officers
CFOs & Strategy Leaders
CHROs, Chief Compliance Officers & Risk Executives
Global innovators shaping the future of technology
Key Takeaways
- AI Fluency is Now a Leadership Competency Executives must be well-versed in AI’s opportunities and risks to enable enterprise success. For middle managers, AI literacy and comfort with data-driven decision-making are increasingly prerequisites for promota
- Boards must have real time competency on AI, Agentic, and Quantum to create growth and efficiencies and also protect all data systems
Bio
Julie Gilbert is a globally recognized technology and growth strategist, honored as a 2025 “Top Private Board Directors to Watch” by Private Company Director. She is a trust board advisor and director due to her deep proven operator leadership and success in a wide-range of industries. She is a four-time multi-unicorn founder and early AI founder and former McKinsey Partner, Senior Vice President of Growth at Best Buy, Senior Manager at Deloitte in corporate taxation, she specializes in building highly disruptive and financially lucrative AI-enabled, cyber-protected growth engines for public companies, private equity portfolios, and global enterprises.She is a trusted board partner and advisor and partners as a team member directly with CEOs, C-suites, and boards to design new businesses, scale data and AI platforms, strengthen governance, and drive secure, sustainable revenue and NOPAT expansion. A sought-after expert in AI, 'in the journey' quantum leader, cybersecurity, disruptive growth, and board risk management, she is a frequent keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies and leading institutions including Amazon, Microsoft, Verizon, PNC, EXL, London Financial Times, Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg, the U.S. Military, IMD Switzerland, NYU, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, TEDx.
Known for building high-performance leadership cultures and delivering significant stock accretion, she combines deep technical expertise with a proven record of transforming organizations from start-up scale, multigenerational family businesses and family offices, private equity owned to Fortune 500 globally.
