The IA FORUM (IA = intelligent automation) is an invitation-only, exclusive community consisting of global C-Suites, senior-level executives, accomplished professionals, and rising stars across the intelligent automation (IA), artificial intelligence (AI), technology, CoE, GBS, shared services, and digital & business transformation fields - and functional area leaders utilizing automation and technology to enhance their functional area operations - from such organizations as the FBI, Meta, Amazon, CIA, Walmart, Google, Citi, Microsoft, NASA, McDonald’s, DuPont, Visa, Procter & Gamble, and much more.

The IA FORUM is a trusted hub where community members can enhance their thought leadership positioning within the community and externally - as well as benchmark, collaborate, and network with other senior-level executives spearheading a wide array of technology, digital & business transformation, and functional area initiatives - in turn enabling them to optimize their market value and drive innovation and enhanced business impact back into their organizations.

What We Do

The community provides its members with the opportunity to potentially attend 100+ highly engaging, interactive & collaborative virtual and in-person events annually - and the community’s robust Slack workspace provides members with 24/7, mobile-friendly opportunities to stay connected with the community and its global members - to network, benchmark, and collaborate with their peers; obtain highly valuable peer-to-peer and industry insights/content; enhance their skill sets; and expand their professional network - anytime, anywhere. Plus much more!

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How the IA FORUM Is Different

The IA FORUM was designed and is managed as a boutique, human-centered, and relationship-driven community - not a corporate-run, volume-based, impersonal network.

Real, Strategic, Meaningful & Long-Lasting Business Relationships

The IA FORUM provides a wide array of high-touch programs that enable members to build real, strategic, meaningful, and long-lasting business relationships with peers who truly align with their business and career challenges, goals, and priorities - delivering relevant, impactful, and sustainable professional value.

High-Touch, Personalized Support & Direct Founder Access

The IA FORUM delivers high-touch, personalized, and founder-led membership experiences. Every member receives direct access to the community’s founder for 1:1 member introductions, ongoing support, guidance, and strategic insight - ensuring each member feels welcomed, supported, and fully engaged.

From day one, members benefit from hands-on onboarding, curated 1:1 member introductions, tailored recommendations, and responsive support designed to help them quickly integrate, build relationships, and unlock value across the global community.

Whether assisting members as they navigate the community, identifying relevant peers and opportunities, offering personalized advice, or providing fast, attentive customer service - the IA FORUM’s white-glove, high-touch approach ensures every member feels supported, seen, and genuinely valued from day one and onward.

Top Reasons to Join the IA FORUM

Year-Round, No Travel Required Opportunities to:

• Benchmark & Collaborate with Leaders Outside Your Organization: Access 100+ member-led virtual events throughout the year - while benchmarking and networking with peers outside your organization - giving you and your organization scalable, cost-effective, supplementary, and alternative learning & development and leadership training programs and resources options.

• Obtain Practical & Actionable Insights on Digital & Business Transformation Best Practices, Business Use Cases & Real-World Lessons Learned: Translate visionary concepts into execution-ready strategies - learning from peers and experts who have navigated the same transformation challenges to achieve measurable performance, efficiency, and growth outcomes.

• Secure Highly Valuable Industry & Peer Insights to Propel Your Career Forward: Benchmark, collaborate, and exchange ideas with peers outside your organization to strengthen your leadership impact, decision-making and technical skills, and your personal value to your organization - protecting your role and advancing your long-term career.

• Access Premium Member & Industry Content: Unlock exclusive access to IA FORUM members’ Thought Leadership interviews, industry and real-life use cases, articles, blogs, reports, podcasts - and the IA FORUM YouTube Channel, Slack Workspace, and much more!

• Build & Expand Your Professional Network: Connect and stay engaged with a global network of C-Suites, senior-level executives, SMEs, thought leaders, authors, academics, and the top voices in the IA (intelligent automation), AI, technology, CoE, GBS, shared services, and business & digital transformation spaces.

• Enhance Your Thought Leadership Positioning & Visibility: Showcase your expertise across the IA FORUM community and its various platforms and external channels - including speaking on events and contributing Thought Leadership special content - reaching hundreds of IA FORUM members and thousands of technology and functional area C-Suites and senior-level executives and decision-makers across the globe.

• Stay Relevant in a Rapidly Changing Job Market: Strengthen your business and technical skills; business use case acumen; practical strategy, roadmapping, implementation, and management expertise of a wide array of technology and business & digital transformation initiatives designed to drive innovation and business value back into your organization - as well as elevate your thought leadership and personal brand exposure.