Private Executive Bites
Small table. Big question. Strong opinions encouraged.
Invitation-only conversations for senior leaders navigating consequential data and AI decisions. Ten to fourteen people at one table, one question worth arguing about, and nobody selling anything.
You leave with your thinking tested by people who carry the same consequences.
Next tables: Atlanta, November 2026 and Chicago, February 2027
Private Executive Bites
Chicago, 29 September 2026
Tonight's questions
- Where does bad data show up on your AI bill?
- Who should pay to clean it: the team that made the mess, or the team that wants to use it?
- If you had to cut your AI run-cost by a third tomorrow, would you fix the model, the data or the process first?
The question is the product. Dinner is the format.
Most consequential data and AI decisions are still unsettled when leaders have to make them. Each table argues one of them in private, before it hardens into a roadmap, a budget or an RFP.
From the Table
The question each table argued, and the article that came out of it. Nobody is quoted or named without their written permission.
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Chicago 29 September 2026
What does AI actually cost once it meets real enterprise data, and who ends up paying?
The article: Measuring AI cost in the wrong place
Related: Data Readiness, Value & Economics
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Chicago 11 August 2026
What has to be true before the agent works?
The article: Ungoverned data is now an AI cost
Related: Value & Economics, Governance & Accountability
Upcoming tables
The city and the month are public. The date and the question go to the invitation list first.
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Private Executive Bites
Atlanta
November 2026
The first Atlanta table. Ten to fourteen seats; the question goes to the invitation list first.
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Private Executive Bites
Chicago
February 2027
The third Chicago table. Ten to fourteen seats; the question goes to the invitation list first.
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Private Executive Bites
The next table
City and month to be announced
New tables are announced here first. Tell us where you are and the question you would bring, and we will write when a table near you is set.
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How the table works
At the table: CIOs, CDOs, AI and data leaders and the business executives who fund the work. Seniority matters less than responsibility; everyone there carries the outcome of the question.
One consequential question
Three prompts on the card, argued in turn.
Curated for useful disagreement
Operating executives who live with the decision, plus one or two voices who make the question harder.
Private by default
Ideas may leave the room; attribution does not, unless you agree in writing.
No panels. No presentations. No published guest list. No attribution without written agreement.
Questions guests ask first
Why does Data Products convene these?
The decisions we work on, what to fund, what it will cost and who owns the outcome, are argued best among the people who carry them, before they harden into a budget. The tables give that argument a room; the articles give it back to everyone else.
Who is at the table?
Ten to fourteen senior leaders, most of them operating executives who live with the question, plus one or two voices who sharpen the argument. We never publish a guest list.
Is anything I say attributed?
No. Ideas may leave the room; attribution does not, unless you agree in writing.
Does requesting an invitation guarantee a seat?
No. Tables are deliberately small and curated, so requesting an invitation does not guarantee a seat. It subscribes you to nothing.
What comes out of a table?
An article on the argument the table had, published here under From the Table. It names no one without their written permission, and it ends with the business question it bears on, such as what AI is worth and what it will cost.
When and where is the next one?
Every announced table is under Upcoming tables: the city and the month are public, and the date and the question go to the invitation list first. Chicago hosts about one table a quarter, with tables in other cities between.
What question belongs on the table?
Private Executive Bites tables are deliberately small and curated. Tell us your city, industry or function, and the question you think belongs on the table. Requesting an invitation does not guarantee a seat.
Read only by the people who curate each table. It subscribes you to nothing.
Suggest a table. A city, an industry, a function or a question we should convene around. Suggestions shape where the next tables sit. Suggest a table
Partners. A partner can underwrite a table and suggest guests. We keep the topic, the guest list, the moderation and the article; there is no pitch, demo or presentation, and no guest's details are shared without their consent. Talk about sponsoring
Not at the table yet? Read Executive Bytes, the case studies or our articles, or take a free assessment.
Atlanta in November. Chicago in February. Tell us the question you would put on the table.
