Where IT Leaders Find Strength and Opportunity in the Age of AI
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Fractional CTO Niraj Bhatt discusses AI strategies for startups and enterprises moving to production.
Niraj Bhatt, a three-time CIO 100 award recipient, advises both startups and Fortune 500 companies on leveraging AI effectively. He emphasizes that understanding AI fundamentals, from token prediction to agentic systems, cuts through hype and enables better decisions.
Key challenges include managing costs as usage scales, moving beyond proofs of concept to production, and democratizing AI across entire organizations.
Bhatt stresses that successful AI adoption requires collaboration across leadership, clear talent strategies, and proper infrastructure planning beyond simple copilot implementations.