AICoThinkers in Hyderabad | Meetup #5

Ai-Cothinkers Meetup #5The Economics of AI: Where Is the ROI? AI may be the strangest technology investment of our time. At one end of the conversation, some of the people building frontier AI are warning about systems becoming powerful enough to pose catastrophic - even existential - risks. At the other, enterprises investing millions in AI are still asking a much more immediate question: Where is the ROI? Between those two extremes lies the reality most organisations are navigating today. Copilots, agents, models and AI infrastructure are proliferating. Experiments are everywhere. Expectations are enormous. But what is the economic value being created? For the September edition of AI Co-Thinkers, we’re bringing together practitioners and enterprise leaders for a candid conversation about the economics of AI. We’ll explore questions such as: Where are organisations actually seeing measurable returns from AI? Is the value coming from productivity, revenue growth, cost reduction? Or, increased capacity? Are AI agents meaningfully changing the economics of work? What happens to the ROI equation once we include models, tokens, infrastructure, integration and human oversight? Are we underestimating the value of AI? Or, overestimating how quickly that value will arrive? And how do you build a business case for a technology whose capabilities are changing every few months? This isn’t a conversation about whether AI matters. It’s about what it costs, what it creates, what it changes, and whether the numbers add up. Expect practitioner perspectives, real-world examples, disagreement, and an open discussion with the community. AI Co-Thinkers is a practitioner-led, company-agnostic community bringing together people working at the intersection of AI, enterprise and the future of work. Come curious. Leave with better questions.