Ali Hollingshead became CTO with an acquisition to integrate and an AI strategy to write, setting out what the firm could look like in three years. One year on, this TechTalk shares what doing both has taught her: why your data strategy is your AI strategy, and why the hard work lies in the data itself rather than the platform it sits on. Why guardrails need to be in place before adoption scales, not wound back afterwards. And how the democratisation of technology is reshaping the relationship between the business and the technology function.