The IA FORUM is NOT like other similar business communities.
The IA FORUM is a highly curated, vendor-free, exclusive, invitation-only, private community for U.S. & global enterprise C-Suites, senior-level executives, accomplished professionals, and rising stars across artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation (IA), technology, operational excellence, and digital & business transformation.
The community consists of professional across artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation (IA), technology, CoE, GBS, shared services, governance, and functional domains - spanning those that build, design, and manage technology initiatives, those that govern and oversee them, and the functional leaders responsible for driving its adoption and business impact.
IA FORUM members are directly accountable for advancing enterprise-wide initiatives - spanning strategy, architecture, engineering, and execution - within some of the world’s most recognized organizations. Their work sits at the intersection of innovation and operations, where decisions have measurable business impact and transformation must be delivered at scale.
Designed for Busy Enterprise Executives & Professionals
All IA FORUM members are exceptionally busy enterprise executives and professionals with highly demanding careers, responsibilities, and schedules.
That's why every IA FORUM program, event, and engagement opportunity is intentionally designed to provide maximum business and career value - while giving members complete flexibility over how, when, and where they participate. Members participate entirely at their own pace and convenience - choosing only the programs, events, relationships, introductions, and opportunities that best align with their business and career goals, priorities, interests, and availability.
With the IA FORUM's highly flexible member engagement model, even the busiest enterprise executives can easily take advantage of the community’s programs designed for members to benchmark, collaborate, and build impactful business relationships with peers outside their organization; strengthen their professional visibility; optimize their current and ongoing business initiatives; boost their job market value; and accelerate their short & long-term career trajectories.
Who Joins
Enterprise professionals across:
AI & Agentic AI
Engineering & Architecture
Data & Data Governance
IT & Technology
Intelligent Automation
Digital & Business Transformation
CoE, GBS & Shared Services
Process Improvement & Operational Excellence
Functional Business Lines
Members’ organizations include, yet are not limited to:
AbbVie, Amazon, American Express, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Barclays, Chevron Phillips Chemical, CIA, Citi, DuPont, Facebook, Fannie Mae, FBI, Ford Motor Company, Google, HSBC, Humana, London Stock Exchange, McDonald's, Meta, MetLife, Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, NASA, New York Life Insurance Company, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Standard Chartered, Truist, Uber, Visa, Walmart - And Much More!
Technology professionals working in sales, marketing, business development, or client-facing vendor roles are not eligible for membership.
Why Enterprise Leaders Join the IA FORUM
The most successful enterprise leaders are continuously:
Benchmarking strategies, initiatives, and outcomes with peers outside their organization.
Learning from - and collaborating with - industry peers facing similar challenges.
Developing new skills, perspectives, and leadership capabilities.
Developing strategic business relationships with peers outside their organization.
Increasing their industry visibility and credibility.
Creating opportunities BEFORE they need them.
The IA FORUM exists to help make that possible.
What We Do
The IA FORUM is designed to provide its members with immediate, ongoing, and long-term business and career value, enhanced thought leadership positioning & visibility - and to enable them to benchmark, collaborate, and develop impactful business relationships with peers outside their organization. As a result, members are better equipped to drive meaningful business impact back into their enterprise organizations, optimize their current and ongoing project initiatives, boost their job market value, and accelerate their short & long-term career trajectories.
Members gain direct access to peer insights, real-world perspectives, and collaborative discussions - alongside high-impact community programs that deepen practical knowledge sharing and application.
Additionally, all members are highly encouraged to contribute content to the IA FORUM Magazine and speak on events - and there’s unlimited opportunities for every member to do so. Furthermore, once someone becomes a member, they’re immediately welcomed into the community via our very robust new member onboarding programs.
How the IA FORUM Is Different
The IA FORUM is NOT like other similar business communities.
The IA FORUM is a highly curated, boutique, intimate, high-touch, Founder-facilitated professional community - rather than a static, volume-driven corporate-led community for passive networking, static member directories, or low-engagement community participation.
A Boutique, High-Touch Experience: The IA FORUM is intentionally designed as a boutique, intimate, high-touch, member-centric professional community focused on meaningful peer collaboration and strategic relationship building - not a volume-driven networking model centered around passive participation and static member directories.
Member 1:1 Introductions & Matchmaking: 25+ upon joining and 150+ within 1-year's time - with peers that are carefully selected to become high-value, strategic, intimate, and long-term professional relationships rather than superficial "fluff" networking connections.
Highly Curated & Vendor-Free Community: Membership is selectively extended to enterprise practitioner leaders, accomplished professionals, and rising stars actively leading and/or significantly contributing to large-scale AI, intelligent automation, technology, operational excellence, and digital & business transformation initiatives.
Built for Real-World Enterprise Delivery Excellence: Members collaborate around real-world enterprise challenges, implementation strategies, lessons learned, benchmarking, delivery approaches, and measurable business impact outcomes.
How the IA FORUM Delivers Immediate, Ongoing & Long-Term Measurable Business & Career Value, Results & ROI
Members gain access to a highly personalized ecosystem of programs, resources, relationships, and opportunities designed to support their immediate, evolving, and long-term business and career objectives.
Community Programs, Value & Benefits
Peer Benchmarking & Collaboration
Thought Leadership Positioning & Visibility
Ongoing, Founder-Facilitated Member Introductions & Matchmaking
Continuous, Strategic & Impactful Business Relationship Building & Networking
IA FORUM Magazine Publishing Opportunities
Unlimited Event Speaking Opportunities
Highly Interactive & Collaborative Virtual Events
Local Member In-Person Social & Activity-Based Events
Peer Partnerships & Mentorships
Technical & NON-Technical Continuous Learning & Skills Development
Technology & Business Upskilling
“In Transition” Career Support & Strategic Member Introductions
