FCSI THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE 2026 KEYNOTE SPEAKER


AI: HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE PROBABILITY MACHINE


FCSI Te Americas Conference 2026 keynote speaker Dan Chuparkoff is an expert on innovation and AI. He discusses the topic of reinventing work with the power of AI for success and growth with Michael Jones


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an Chuparkoff is a man who can get very enthusiastic very quickly on the topic of AI. And with good


reason. Trough working at companies including Google, McKinsey, and Atlassian, Chuparkoff has been watching the impact of innovation on teams for 30 years. Tat's given him unique insights and practical methods to help businesses to build real products that solve real-world problems. For the conference, his aim


is to show attendees how AI is a “practical and understandable” technology that can help


them in the workplace. “Te first thing I want people to understand is how AI actually works and what AI is going to be good at, and not good at. Most people think about AI as if it’s this really smart human, except better in all measures. And that’s actually false,” he says. “I’m going to help people understand that AI is a probability machine. It’s great at stuff that there is a lot of evidence for. But it’s going to fail spectacularly at things that are intricate, niche, and expert driven. What I help people do is first understand that fork in the


road with AI’s capabilities.” Te next stage, says


Chuparkoff, is to then “turn the lens back” on the kind of work being done by the attendees, and to divide “between the stuff that’s really niche, specific and expert driven, and the stuff that’s more commodity work.” Tese latter aspects, such as taking notes in a meeting for example, AI can help with. But for an expert design consultant “trying to design a new kitchen that’s got some very weird properties? Tere are not hundreds of thousands of examples of that for AI to learn from, so you, as the expert in


that space, will always be better at those kinds of things,” he explains. Te impact of AI in all sectors is exponential, so how does Chuparkoff see the future of work changing? To predict that, he refers to an experience he had 16 years ago, when he was working for the software company Atlassian developing tools including Jira and Trello that helped people to track their workflow. Tat development taught Chuparkoff there are six levels to the ‘hierarchy of work’ that everyone does in their jobs, and that these can be viewed >


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