‘Done’ is a claim. ‘Proven’ is a standard.
Why an AI-generated status is only a claim until governed evidence backs it, and how leaders build the discipline to say “not proven” and name an owner.
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Enterprise AI that holds up in front of the board and in production.
I speak to executives, boards and technology leaders about what it takes to make AI accountable: clear owners, real evidence and economics a CFO can stand behind. Every talk comes from work I am doing now, not from a framework.
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An AI strategy your board can hold you to
Moving an AI portfolio from automating tasks to the outcomes boards actually expect: sound economics and measurable results.
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Most AI failures come down to ownership, decision rights and the operating model. The three questions leaders should ask before they fund the next pilot.
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Governed, deterministic AI for regulated enterprises, and where tightly scoped agents earn their place.
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June 2025
Modernizing COBOL with AI
AWS Ambassador Global Summit
AWS Headquarters, Seattle
June 2024
Using AWS to Create AI-Generated Art
AWS Ambassador Global Summit Lightning Talk
AWS Headquarters, Seattle
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Todd Bernson is Chief AI Officer at BSC Analytics, where he sets companywide AI strategy and enterprise architecture and leads the company’s shift to a product-led business. He is a Forbes Technology Council member, a top-ranked AWS Ambassador and a U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran.
Todd Bernson is Chief AI Officer at BSC Analytics and a member of its executive leadership team. He sets companywide AI strategy and enterprise architecture, is accountable for product direction, and leads about 30 people across Product and Solution Architecture. He advises C-suite leaders and technical teams in regulated financial services, payments, insurance and healthcare. Todd led the customer relationship and go-to-market work behind two enterprise AI product agreements worth more than $20 million in contracted value, and he started BSC’s Solution Architecture function and grew it from one architect to nine. He writes on accountable enterprise AI for the Forbes Technology Council and has spoken at the AWS Ambassador Global Summit. Todd holds an MBA from Winthrop University, is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Todd Bernson is Chief AI Officer at BSC Analytics (formerly Blue Sentry Cloud) and a member of its executive leadership team. He is the company’s final decision-maker on AI strategy and enterprise architecture, and he is leading its shift to a product-led business built on a governed enterprise execution platform. He leads about 30 people across Product and Solution Architecture.
Todd joined BSC as an engineer in 2018 and advanced through DevOps leadership and enterprise architecture to Chief Technical Officer in 2022, then Chief AI Officer in 2025. Along the way he grew a strategic financial-services engagement from two concurrent delivery teams to 11, started the Solution Architecture function and grew it from one architect to nine, and led the customer relationship and go-to-market work behind two enterprise AI product agreements totaling more than $20 million in contracted value.
He works with CFOs, C-suite leaders and engineering teams in regulated financial services, payments, insurance and healthcare, explaining AI and architecture decisions in terms of cost, risk, ROI and what the team can actually deliver. He coauthored AWS-published guidance for a Fortune 500 platform running 72 Amazon EKS clusters, and he writes on accountable enterprise AI for the Forbes Technology Council.
Todd was named the #1 AWS Ambassador in North America in 2022, #2 globally in 2023 and a top North America Ambassador in 2024, and has spoken at the AWS Ambassador Global Summit. Before technology, he founded and ran fitness businesses for 15 years. He is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran, meritoriously promoted twice, holds an MBA from Winthrop University and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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