About this episode This episode of the Coffee With Digital Trailblazers was sponsored by Appian. Speakers Isaac Sacolick – President of StarCIO. Bestselling author. 1,000+ articles on StarCIO, CIO.com, and InfoWorld. Keynote speaker. CIO and Digital Transformation influencer. Thinkers360 top IT, DevOps, and Agile Leader. Mike Beckley – CTO and founder of Appian Joanne Friedman – CEO/Principal of Smart Manufacturing at Comnnektedminds Inc, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation Coach Joe Puglisi – Chairman, North Andover Investors. Veteran CIO in construction and manufacturing John Patrick Luethe – Product management, DevOps,  service delivery leader Liz Martinez – MD at The PMO Whisperer About the Coffee With Digital Trailblazers The event is hosted by Isaac Sacolick on LinkedIn Fridays at 11 am ET. The event attacts digitial transformation leaders, from CXOs to team leaders, who learn from experts on driving change in their organizations. Every week we explore a topic and share lessons learned, and all are welcom to attend. Visit https://starcio.com/coffee/next-event which will redirect to the next event. Recordings of the events are available to StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community members .Review the community’s advisory, leadernng, and leadership programs. Episode Transcript Isaac Sacolick: Mike, I’m glad you’re here. We can get started now. Welcome everyone to this week’s Coffee with Digital Trailblazers. We are excited to have this week a session on why AI is boring in 2025 and how all of you can learn a little bit about how to accelerate your transformation programs. Today’s session is brought to you by Appian, a software company that orchestrates business processes, and I want to thank Mike Beckley for joining us today and being our guest speaker. Welcome John, Joe and Joanne to the floor. And Mike, we can give it a few more seconds just to get some more people to join. It’s usually like 1104 or five where I really get started with everybody, so everybody should be getting ready for in the US getting ready for your Thanksgiving weekends. I’m really excited. I’ll be doing some travel this week to go visit my son in Arizona, so if any of you’re in Arizona and want to meet up with me, I’ll be in Phoenix for a day and I will be in Tucson for a few days and happy to say hello to anybody who is around again. Today we’re talking about why AI is boring in 2025 and how to accelerate transformation. Again, today’s session is brought to you by Appian, a software company that orchestrates business processes. Mike, it’s so good to have you on stage despite our few hiccups. I want to give you a form first, tell us why you think AI is going to be boring in 2025. Mike Beckley: Yeah, thank you Isaac. So glad to be here and to get past our firewalls. Finally. So what’s boring about AI is that it’s going mainstream, but it’s how it’s going mainstream that’s uniquely boring. The most powerful and effective use cases for generative AI are simply not flashy and exciting the way they have been in the past year. Regenerative ai, we’ve all gotten to see how amazing it is at drawing pictures, at painting, at generating photos and images, and it’s incredible at that. It’s a...