Drawing Up the Plans: “Selecting use cases and choosing partners”

Date: 3 December 2026 – 9am to 2pm

Speakers: Kris Watkins (IC9), Bill Wilson (IC9), David Hancox (CIOB), Bluelight representative

CIOB had 25 AI use cases and had to choose six. Getting that decision wrong would have cost them everything that followed. This session gives you the framework to make the same call in your own organisation and how to get it right.

What you’ll do in this session

CIOB’s decision to work with Bluelight’s agentic platform did not happen by accident.

During this session, you will apply Intercloud9’s use case scoring framework to your own shortlisted opportunities, work through a structured partner evaluation exercise, and get honest about what good data readiness looks like before any AI goes near it. The most overlooked risk in any AI implementation is the data it runs on. This session also introduces the 365 Data Optimiser and shows you what data readiness actually means – because if your D365 data is bloated, ungoverned, and costly to maintain, your AI strategy is built on the wrong foundation.

Key takeaways

In session two, you see first-hand how they got there, and what questions you need to be asking before your business commits to any implementation partner. You leave with a scored use case shortlist and a partner evaluation framework that you can actively use.

Join the series

You can join the complete journey with all four sessions for just £195. Here you will follow CIOB’s implementation from the very beginning and build your own roadmap alongside it. Each session runs from 09:30 to 14:15 and includes refreshments and lunch.

If you’re only able to make a couple of the dates, sessions can also be purchased individually for just £60 if space permits. Each will provide a unique insight into another step of the CIOB AI journey.