Events

The AI Stewardship Layer

Event Date:
Oct 13, 2026
Time:
1800-2100
Location:
Netherlands
Venue:
Zoku Amsterdam, Weesperstraat 105, 1018 VN Amsterdam, Netherlands

Where governance and operating model meet and local wins compound.

AI is already delivering real productivity gains. We see quicker engineers and sharper analysts, personal and individual team wins that are real and visible day to day.

The shift from local efficiency to results that compound across teams happens when the foundation is right. It takes stewardship.

Stewardship shapes a target operating model where teams organise around value, follow agile practices where they help, and put the human in the loop as orchestrator within the automated flow. It takes governance that moves at the pace of the work, enabling rather than slowing it down, and a deliberate focus on turning individual momentum into results that scale beyond one team.

Join the Equal Experts Benelux team at Zoku Amsterdam, where we’ll share how to build stewardship the Equal Experts way: evolutionary, grounded in practice, and built to help you scale AI adoption within your own sphere of influence. We’ll also show how AI can support product discovery, using an established framework to understand where AI needs to earn your trust, and where human judgement stays essential.

You’ll leave with a practical view of how to structure your own approach to scaling AI, grounded in what we’ve seen work across enterprise engagements.

What to expect:

  • A practical approach to stewardship, target operating model and governance that scales AI adoption within your own sphere of influence
  • A walkthrough of how AI can take on the heavy lifting in product discovery – building business models, planning research, running experiments with synthetic users.
  • A concrete framework for putting the human in the loop as orchestrator, giving your team room to move while keeping the shape and visibility you need as a leader

Who this is for: Engineering Leads, Heads of Engineering, Heads of Delivery and Heads of Transformation in enterprise organisations ready to turn individual AI productivity gains into team-wide and organisational impact.

Agenda: 

  • 1800-1830 — Welcome Drinks & Light Bites
  • 1830-1930 — The AI Stewardship Layer: Building a Target Operating Model the Equal Experts Way
  • 1930-1945 — Break
  • 1945-2015 — AI in Product Discovery: From Business Models to Synthetic User Experiments
  • 2015-2130 — Networking & Light Bites