{"id":126420,"date":"2026-11-04T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=126420"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:13:57","slug":"europe-ai-ambition-difficult-part","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/insights\/blog\/europe-ai-ambition-difficult-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe has plenty of AI ambition. Now comes the difficult part."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"126420\" class=\"elementor elementor-126420\" data-elementor-post-type=\"insights\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14e0407 gg-article-content gg-standard-article-template gg-simple-text gg-container-tiny elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14e0407\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5bfebd\" data-id=\"c5bfebd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc8ddc0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"fc8ddc0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2002edb elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2002edb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-5fdb498\" data-id=\"5fdb498\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29a7886 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"29a7886\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rebecca-keenan-speaker.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-80278\" alt=\"Professional headshot of Rebecca Keenan smiling woman wearing a pink blazer over a black top, with medium-length brown hair, posed against a light beige background.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rebecca-keenan-speaker.jpg 300w, https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rebecca-keenan-speaker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-05caefb\" data-id=\"05caefb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b35fd82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b35fd82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"gg-bold-text\">By Rebecca Keenan<br \/>Solutions Director \u2013 AI &amp; automation at Expleo<\/span><\/p><p>In the space of 24 hours in October 2026, Dublin hosted two major conversations about artificial intelligence. At the Analytics &amp; AI Summit on 13 October, the room was full of people trying to make data and AI work inside their organisations. A day later, at the International AI Summit at the RDS, the conversation moved up a level: competitiveness, investment, infrastructure, and how Europe gives itself a home advantage. The mood was creation over regulation, scale over fragmentation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9b08bdc gg-article-content gg-standard-article-template gg-simple-text gg-container-tiny elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9b08bdc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fbbacab\" data-id=\"fbbacab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22c60d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22c60d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Having sat in both rooms, I came away more convinced that the space between them is where one of the biggest questions about AI now sits.<\/p><p>Europe does not have an AI ambition problem. Organisations are not short of strategies, pilots, licences or enthusiasm. The question is whether we can turn that activity into measurable organisational performance. AI activity has become easy to generate. AI value has not.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01a5615 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"01a5615\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whats-your-number_inpage-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-126763\" alt=\"Text on a purple background reads: 500 licences, 42 pilots, 1,200 people trained, 10,000 hours \u2018saved\u2019 (all crossed out), followed by \u201cWhat\u2019s your number?\u201d with a blank line for input, and \u201cNot how much AI you\u2019re doing. What difference it\u2019s making.\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whats-your-number_inpage-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whats-your-number_inpage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whats-your-number_inpage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whats-your-number_inpage.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89af0b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89af0b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Having sat in both rooms, I came away more convinced that the space between them is where one of the biggest questions about AI now sits.<\/p><p>Europe does not have an AI ambition problem. Organisations are not short of strategies, pilots, licences or enthusiasm. The question is whether we can turn that activity into measurable organisational performance. AI activity has become easy to generate. AI value has not.<\/p><p>I spend much of my working life with organisations trying to move AI from experiment to something embedded in how the business operates. Increasingly, the constraint is not the technology. It is everything around it.<\/p><p>The data exists, but nobody is completely confident. The process being automated has never really been mapped. A pilot has a sponsor, but nobody owns the operational number that is supposed to move if it succeeds. The technology works, but the roles and ways of working around it remain exactly as they were.<\/p><p>These are not glamorous AI problems. They are, however, the problems that will determine whether the current investment cycle delivers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd57e68 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd57e68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">AI activity is not AI value\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a69c11a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a69c11a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One question I increasingly ask organisations is simple: <strong>what number are you using to tell me your AI programme is working?<\/strong><\/p><p>Too often the answer is licences deployed, pilots underway or hours theoretically saved. Those numbers can be useful, but they are not value. Licences tell me about access, not about whether work has changed. A portfolio of eleven pilots is not eleven-elevenths of a transformation; sometimes it means nobody has decided to stop ten and industrialise the one that matters.<\/p><p>Even hours saved needs interrogation. Hours saved into what? Giving a team back four hours per person a week may be genuinely worthwhile. But unless we decide what that capacity is for and measure the outcome, we should be careful about presenting it as financial return.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55a4651 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"55a4651\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">AI strategy is operating-model strategy\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8a1a93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8a1a93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This is why we need to stop treating AI strategy primarily as technology strategy. It is operating-model strategy.<\/p><p>A useful test is to ask whether you can name a process in your organisation that has materially changed because of AI. Has the sequence of work changed? Have hand-offs disappeared? Has the point at which a human intervenes moved? Has cost-to-serve moved? If you cannot point to something like that, you may have deployed AI. You have not adopted it.<\/p><p>That distinction matters for Europe as much as for individual organisations. There is an important debate underway about the conditions Europe needs to compete: infrastructure, compute, investment, regulation, skills and sovereignty. Those things create the conditions for adoption. They do not guarantee it. Europe will not become more competitive simply because European organisations have access to more AI. The prize comes when thousands of businesses and public bodies use it to redesign work, make better decisions and become materially more productive.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b85424b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b85424b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ireland has an opportunity to lead\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17cf628 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17cf628\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>That is why Ireland has an interesting opportunity. We sit at the intersection of global technology, highly regulated industries, a significant public and semi-state sector and a workforce already adapting quickly. We also have much of what makes adoption difficult: legacy systems, regulation, governance requirements and established ways of working. That could be read as a disadvantage. I think it could become an advantage. If we can show how AI is implemented responsibly and at scale inside real organisations, Ireland can contribute something more valuable to the European conversation than another statement of ambition.<\/p><p>That requires less exciting work: mapping the processes underneath the technology, getting serious about data, establishing the baseline before claiming the improvement, deciding who owns the outcome. Most importantly, it requires distinguishing activity from value.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08fd752 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"08fd752\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The next phase will be about proof\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4aa2b53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4aa2b53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The next phase of AI will be less forgiving. Boards will ask what they got for the money. Pilots that were exciting in 2025 will need a path to production. That is healthy, because the organisations that win with AI will not be the ones that moved first or bought the most technology. They will be the ones that worked out how to make it change something that matters.<\/p><p>Europe has no shortage of AI ambition. Now comes the difficult part: proving it works.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/itbrief.ie\/story\/europe-has-plenty-of-ai-ambition-now-comes-the-difficult-part\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">* This article first appeared in IT Brief Ireland.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d87cfd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d87cfd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4d8e7e elementor-align-center gg-button-v8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"c4d8e7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/expleo.com\/global\/en\/insights\/campaigns\/ai-automation-data\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Find out more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca KeenanSolutions Director \u2013 AI &amp; automation at Expleo In the space of 24 hours in October 2026, Dublin hosted two major conversations about artificial intelligence. 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