Where enterprise AI leaders figure it out together
A peer community for AI CoE leaders focused on governance,
operating models, and bringing AI initiatives to life.
What is the Ai CoE Collective?
An open-source AI Operating Model — built session by session, by the people running enterprise AI.
Founded by Rehgan Bleile, Co-Founder and CEO of AlignAI, and Joe Stinchcomb of Slalom, the AI CoE Collective is where enterprise AI leaders come together to figure out what it actually takes to run a successful AI program.
Each month, members tackle real challenges, share what's working, and contribute to an open-source AI Operating Model that gets sharper with every session.
AT A GLANCE
Who it's for
Built for the people running
AI programs inside enterprises
AI CoE Leads
You're partnering with risk, legal, and compliance to navigate the AI risk ecosystem, and own the framework that holds it together.
Heads of AI
You're translating C-suite ambition into actual shipped initiatives.
Risk + Compliance
You're the gate, but you don't want to be the bottleneck.
AI Operations & Governance Owners
You've inherited "figure out AI" and need peers who get it.
The Collective is closed to anyone looking to pitch or present services so the room stays a practitioner-only conversation.
Why Participate
Set the standard for how
enterprise AI gets done
Real talk with real practitioners
Peer-driven roundtables where you share challenges and get unfiltered input from people in similar industries and situations.
Don’t just follow best practices, set them
Session insights feed an open-source AI Operating Model so your real-world experience shapes a living resource the whole community benefits from.
Stay connected as the field evolves
Monthly virtual sessions and quarterly in-person events keep you on top of the latest as the community and AI industry continues to grow and change.
What We Talk About
Topics we tackle
Below are starting points, with members voting on topics based on
what their own questions, programs, and experiences are.
01
How are you governing AI right now?
Frameworks, councils, decision rights, and the awkward middle stage between "we're figuring it out" and "we have a policy."
02
Build vs. buy: how teams are actually making the call
The real factors that flip decisions: vendor lock-in, model drift, the cost of "good enough," and stakeholder politics.
03
Risk, trust, and the approval process — who owns it?
When risk says no and product says yes, how does it actually get resolved? Share escalation paths and approval workflows.
04
AI and the PMO
How AI initiatives slot (or don't) into existing portfolio processes, and the operating models that are starting to win.
Example Session Agenda
What 60 minutes looks like
0:00
Agenda Setting
Intro to topic of discussion, what’s on agenda, welcome new members.
0:05
Peer-driven insights presentation
A selected practitioner shares new AI capabilities, insights, or use case.
0:15
Working session on this month's challenge
Practicum with a presented challenge followed by group discussion.
0:50
Takeaways & planning next month
Members surface takeaways, follow-ups, and decide next month’s topic.
WHO'S IN THE ROOM
A snapshot of who you'd be sitting with
Director, AI Center of Excellence
Top-10 US bank · ~80,000 employees
Head of Responsible AI
Multinational asset manager · regulated
VP, Enterprise AI
Global health insurance carrier · Fortune 100
Chief AI Officer
Pharma R&D · 50k+ employees
Director, Risk + Model Governance
Tier-1 retail bank · global
Sr. Director, AI PMO
Industrial conglomerate · publicly listed
Who it's for
How to participate
Once you’re accepted you can attend sessions, propose topics, and invite others to join, too.
Sign up for an invite
Tell us about yourself and your role. We'll confirm fit and add you to the next session.
Attend monthly virtual + hybrid quarterly
We host virtual monthly roundtables and quarterly hybrid workshops. Join in person or be in the room remotely.
Share challenges & best practices
On-the-record contributions feed the open-source AI Operating Model. Off-the-record talks stay in the room, but have impacts beyond its walls.
Grow the collective
Refer a peer who'd bring something to the table and enjoy the takeaways. It’s the best way to grow our impact.
REQUEST AN INVITE
Get in the room.
Tell us a little about your role and what you're working on. We'll confirm fit and send you an invite forI the next session.
Free for qualifying members
Practitioners only — no vendor pitches
Quarterly in-person + monthly virtual