Your First 90 Days as a CAIO: Skills, Signals, and Bets

Hosted by Dalibor Jovic and Hussam Ahmad

Wed, Apr 29, 2026

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CAIO Foundations: Your Path into the Chief AI Officer Role
Dalibor Jovic and Hussam Ahmad
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What you'll learn

See the CAIO role clearly

You understand what strong behavior looks like for a CAIO: how they listen, map the landscape, and decide.

Use a simple 90-day game plan

You leave with a concrete 30/30/30 framework (Listen & Map, Focus & Prioritize, Execute & Signal) that you can adapt.

Identify your smart first moves

You pinpoint your strongest zone and choose 2–3 specific actions you can take to start sending clear CAIO signals.

Why this topic matters

Most “AI leaders” react to tools and trends; future CAIOs act from a deliberate plan. Knowing what to do in your first 90 days, before you even have the title, helps you stand out, reduce chaos, and prove you can own AI responsibly and strategically.

You'll learn from

Dalibor Jovic

Director of AI

Dalibor Jovic is an AI leader with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and shipping technology. He has delivered more than 200 software products for companies ranging from ambitious startups to global brands including HP, Pepsi, Intel, and Swarovski.

As Director of AI, Dalibor’s mission is to turn AI from hype into business outcomes by guiding teams as they adopt AI responsibly, embed it into products, and transform operations end‑to‑end.

“Stepping into this role took me three years of self‑directed learning. I created this course to shorten that journey for others and to openly share the lessons, frameworks, and missteps that shaped mine.

Hussam Ahmad

Leadership & Product Excellence Coach

Hussam has spent 30+ years building high‑performance tech and product teams as CEO, CTO, and CPO. He helps organizations adopt outcome‑driven practices, align around clear OKRs, and deliver customer value faster—with less churn and more trust. His teaching style is practical, empathetic, and relentlessly focused on real‑world application.

“I designed this course because talented leaders don’t struggle for lack of effort; they struggle for lack of clarity and leverage—especially now that everyone expects them to have an ‘AI strategy’. My goal is to help you get both.”

Some companies we have helped

Pepsi
Swarovski
Intel
Schlumberger
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