The AI Conversation Business Leaders Keep Avoiding

On Tuesday, October 20, AI Tech Pros will take the stage at the Atlanta Business League's 42nd Annual Super Tuesday Conference. Our Co-Founder and CEO, Nehemiah Harvard, was selected as a 2026 speaker for Session One: AI, Innovation & the Future of Business, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.

The panel brings together operators who are putting AI to work inside real organizations. Nehemiah will be joined by DJ Lewis, Director of AI at The Coca-Cola Company; Apryl Beverly, Founder of Ask AI; and Wesley Almeida, Assistant General Manager for Technology & Digital Experience and Chief Technology Officer at HJAIA. The session will be moderated by Dr. Kimberly West, CEO of Magnum Opus Consulting, and facilitated by Davonne Reaves, President of Vestrr.

What we will bring to the conversation

Our co-founder spent twenty years building Zero Trust architectures for the Department of Defense, including DISA's Thunderdome, plus the IRS, Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of State. He has seen what happens when AI enters environments where failure is not an option. The question business leaders should be asking is not "how do we use AI." It is "how do we prove it works, prove it is secure, and prove it is worth the risk."

That is the operator's view AI Tech Pros will bring to the panel. Most AI conversations in business right now are about possibility. The harder conversation is about evidence: measurable outcomes, documented controls, and the discipline to say no to a deployment that cannot be defended. AI with receipts, not AI with hype.

Why this matters for business leaders

• AI adoption is outpacing AI governance. Companies are deploying tools faster than they are documenting how those tools handle data, make decisions, and fail safely.
• Customers and regulators are asking harder questions. From federal contractors facing CMMC to healthcare organizations handling patient data, the bar for provable security is rising.
• The competitive edge goes to the provable. The companies that can demonstrate what their AI does, and show their work, will win the contracts and the trust.

If you are attending the conference, come find our team after the session. And if your organization is working through AI readiness, cybersecurity compliance, or the path from pilot to production, book a readiness call. We start with evidence, not slides.