AI may be high on the boardroom agenda—but many initiatives lose momentum after the initial proof-of-concept phase. Why?

Because there’s a critical disconnect between expectation and execution.

While leadership expects enterprise-grade, production-ready AI at speed, the teams on the ground face a different reality:

• It’s hard to find the right talent for the job—sometimes because there’s a hiring freeze, not enough skilled workers, or uncertainty about who exactly is needed.

• Teams aren’t always on the same page—business departments might not be involved enough or don’t fully support the project.

• The timing is off—projects and business goals aren’t aligned, so the value doesn’t show up when it’s needed.

Talent shortage among top obstacles in scaling

A 2024 MIT Sloan article quotes a study revealing that there's a big discrepancy in leadership's perception on this matter. 74% of CEOs think their teams are well-equipped for generative AI, but only 29% of their C-suite feels the same.

Deloitte reports that talent shortages remain a top barrier to scaling. Sure, proving a concept with AI can be fast. But taking it to production? That’s where the real work begins.

Succesfull AI implementation demands dedicated data and machine learning engineering, involvement of business units and their active collaboration with the project, and skilled AI product management to guide the process.

Where is the mistake?

Many companies still treat pilots like plug-and-play projects—without the right team, structure, or buy-in. And that’s a recipe for stalled outcomes and disappointed executives.

At ExpertHub, we help businesses bridge the gap in skills and understanding—so their promising AI pilot projects don’t just stop at testing, but turn into real, working solutions.

In the upcoming blog around the AI Talent in Enterprise we will discover what roles truly power the AI projects in business. Trust our hint: It’s not just about hiring one data scientist.

Have you experienced this expectation gap in your organization? How do you bridge it? Let us know at hello@joinexperthub.com or message us on LinkedIn!

Here we are, hopping on the GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) trend sweeping social media these days. But the image of the imagined ICT Expert made us reflect on the pitfalls of using this technology and the avenues we can take to mitigate them. 

GenAI: Fun or none?

GenAI produces content that can appear human-made by analyzing and learning from large amounts of existing data, including text and images found online. Generating content with AI tools, like the popular “dolls”, entails consequences, though – for the social and environmental sustainability, privacy, security, law, and even culture.  

Data centers created to maintain AI machinery began to impact the environment to a significant degree. Copyright concerns are constantly raised, too. On top of that, GenAI is powered by biased data. That is why our Expert Doll is a young, able-bodied, and white male, even though, through our prompt, we aimed to create simply a ‘human’. The representation problem is still persistent in the field, leading us to question the fairness in AI governance.  

But we still can use GenAI ethically and wisely, by reflecting on and then aiming to adjust how we use it, build it, and finance it. And by trusting in the real-life (non-doll) Experts.  

The need for expertise in operationalizing AI ethically and safely…

…is apparent in the multitude of new job positions. Larger enterprises implementing this technology not only have separate AI teams, but within those, there are groups specifically focused on AI Ethics or Responsible AI (RAI). AI Ethics is a growing, multidisciplinary area, and the job titles can vary a lot depending on the company and the focus of the team (like research, policy, product, fairness, or said governance).  

1️⃣ AI Ethicist / AI Ethics Specialist: Focuses on ethical implications of AI use, algorithmic fairness, bias mitigation, and social impacts. Might conduct risk assessments, draft ethical guidelines, or advise on responsible AI design. 

2️⃣ Responsible AI / Ethical AI Researcher: Focuses on academic-style research on fairness, explainability, privacy, and bias in AI systems. Typically has a background in AI/ML and philosophy, sociology, or law. 

3️⃣ AI Policy & Governance Specialist: Focuses on developing AI governance frameworks, compliance with laws (like EU AI Act, etc.), and internal policies. Works on aligning AI systems with ethical and legal standards. 

4️⃣ AI Fairness / Bias Analyst: Focuses on technical and non-technical audits of models for bias, fairness, and explainability. Often involved in creating bias detection pipelines or fairness dashboards. 

5️⃣ AI Risk Manager / AI Risk & Compliance Officer: Focuses on identifying, monitoring, and managing risks associated with AI systems. Bridges legal, ethical, and technical considerations in AI deployment. 

6️⃣ Human-Centered AI / UX Researcher: May focus on studying human interaction with AI systems to ensure they’re ethical, inclusive, and user-friendly. May run studies on how different groups are impacted by AI outcomes. 

7️⃣ AI Product Ethicist / Responsible AI Product Manager: Focuses on ensuring AI products align with ethical guidelines through the product development lifecycle. Works between ethics, engineering, and product teams. 

8️⃣ AI Ethics Program Manager: Focuses on overseeing AI ethics initiatives, workshops, training programs, and compliance tracking. 

9️⃣ AI Explainability Engineer: Focuses on designing and implementing systems to make AI decisions transparent and understandable to stakeholders. 

The list does not end here, but extends to positions like AI Ethics Legal Counsel, Ethical Data Scientist, Algorithmic Accountability Auditor, Responsible AI Evangelist, or even Trust & Safety Analyst.  

Considering the multitude of different concerns you may face when building your AI project team, feel free to reach out to us. 

While AI adoption surges, the gap between pilot projects and scalable/productized solutions remains significant: A 2024 McKinsey report reveals that while 72% of organizations have initiated AI projects, only 23% have successfully scaled them. Furthermore, Gartner predicts up to 85% of AI initiatives fail to deliver tangible business value.

Why is there a disconnect?

Successful AI deployment goes beyond data science and model selection. It demands a complete ecosystem of talent and strategic frameworks.

Companies are discovering that impactful AI requires:

• Strategic Product Owners who grasp AI's limitations and potential

• Robust Data Engineers who construct reliable data pipelines.

• Ethical AI Stewards who guide responsible and unbiased AI usage.

• Aligned Business Stakeholders who translate AI solutions into concrete business outcomes.

A mission to close the gap in AI Projects

At ExpertHub, we aim to close this critical talent gap, connecting enterprises with top-tier AI professionals and startups swiftly.

This post kicks off our series on AI Talent in the Enterprise, exploring pivotal roles, talent shortages, and the future of the implementation of AI.

We are also curious to know: What is the most pressing talent challenge your organization faces in building or scaling AI? Let us know at hello@joinexperthub.com or message us on LinkedIn!

As previously reflected upon, even though competition and collaboration must go hand in hand in quality work, the classic networking may be wearying, confusing, and difficult to execute on one’s own. An alternative avenue lies in joining and building a professional community, as it provides the same range of perks while being more reliable, structured, and support-oriented. 

On the other hand, not everyone has equal opportunities to join a professional community. It is, among other things, due to the diverse nature of industries and job types. Especially the individuals working outside of the collectives, such as entrepreneurs and freelancers, may struggle to find beneficial fellowships.

The “I” and “C” in ICT

Freelancing experience in the ICT sector is one representation of this struggle. While the 'T' (Technology) stands tall, the 'I' and 'C' (Information & Communication) often fade into the background, not in work per se, but in professional life. 

Choosing freelancing over company-based employment is a decision commonly related to the need for independence. But being part of a broader community of specialists doesn’t have to undermine that independence. On the contrary, coming together on a shared platform to exchange knowledge and ideas strengthens your skills and helps maintain the quality of your individual work.

The Hub in ExpertHub

That’s why we emphasize the Hub in ExpertHub just as much as we emphasize the Expertise. Beyond professional opportunities, we see the community as a safe space to thrive, grow, and connect over shared interests as ICT Experts. It helps us explore and embrace the benefits of being part of a collective while allowing us to maintain full autonomy.

You are welcome to become a part of our Hub, not just to connect with the right customers, but also with fellow specialists. By building community together, we want to facilitate your growth, provide a platform to share your insights, and offer assistance in navigating the challenges of being an ICT specialist. Here, we want to create an environment where you’ll find a space to exchange perspectives, tackle dilemmas, and discuss your passions. Our goal is to establish the sense of community that ICT freelancers miss out on, and we invite you to help us in this mission.

We have prepared an overview of the most exciting tech events coming up this month!

Some of them are worth attending, others produce invaluable knowledge, or provide us with up-to-date insights into the tech world.

Focusing on the areas that most of our Experts reside in, we begin our list with interesting events happening across Poland and Türkiye, moving on to large European and North American conferences.

Poland and Türkiye

Eurasia Technology Week, Istanbul, April 17-19

Two major tech events known as the Mobilefest Technology Fair and Conference and the Agora Fintech Financial Technologies Fair are now to be implemented under one umbrella of Eurasia Technology Week! The fair focuses on Telecommunications, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, E-Mobility, and Financial Technologies. It will include conference programs, B2B meetings, and networking events.

Data and AI Warsaw Tech Summit, Warsaw, April 9-10

Another event that changes its name after several editions (previously Big Data Technology Summit), but as the organizers claim, “the quality stays the same”. The change highlights the shift of focus towards AI. Check it out.

Polish Conference on Artificial Intelligence, April 7-9

The conference also focuses on the importance of AI, but it does so from a scientific point of view. Researchers will gather to discuss the academic perspective on AI development. There are some international plenary speakers you would definitely want to hear.

Europe

IGNITE ON TOUR, several locations (Milan, April 3; Madrid, April 10; Vienna, April 24)

Ignite is a global conference that transformed into a road show. Interesting, right?  This year’s theme is AI & cybersecurity. Come check how the “AI is changing the face of cyberthreats and revolutionizing the way we safeguard our digital landscapes”.

Empower by N-able, Berlin, April 7-9

A large event organized around N-able products, focused on developing MSP (managed service provision, a business model for providing information-technology services, outsourcing IT services), and discovering the dynamic IT landscape from many angles. In the programme: bootcamps, expo, and even a pub crawl.

QCon, London, April 7-10

QCon is simply a paradise (though a costly one) for software developers, engineers and architects, being among the most prominent happenings in the software field across the globe.

North America

Miami Tech Week 2025, Miami, April 6-13

Community-oriented, creative, and merging technology with culture – that is what we like about TechWeek Miami. Such a versatile range of events. Check out their calendar.

World Summit AI Canada, Montréal, April 15-16

The largest World Summit around artificial intelligence comes to Canada this year, gathering the biggest and the brightest global “AI Brains”, including: Tech companies, AI Tech Startups & Scaleups, Academics, Investors & Students, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, Founders, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Officers & Chief Digital Officers, VPs, Directors, Heads of AI Machine Learning Data Science Technology Innovation Applied AI, Scientists, Engineers & Developers, and even Clinicians and Healthcare professionals. The key themes of the 2025 edition include: Enterprise use cases of AI in action; Responsible AI & governance; Agents & autonomy; and AI infrastructure.

Techspo, Los Angeles, April 3-4

Techspo is another Technology-based Expo operating in an ‘on tour’ mode. From this year on, it will be present at more and more cities across the world. The LA edition happens this April, but for example in September, Techspo will come to Amsterdam. So you can already learn if it is worth attending!

What an exciting and busy spring!

Previously, we focused on the human need to be supported by others to truly thrive at work. Especially as the peer support, knowledge exchange, and meaningful connections—a bit paradoxically—enhance rather than hinder our competitive potential in today’s fast-paced job market. We delved into the idea of joining and co-building a professional community as a neat alternative to the tiresome networking, a term and process that many grew weary of.

The dissolving social aspect of work

Firstly, it is relatively harder in general to form connections around work-related issues than, for example, around a hobby. Even though work is a major part of life, and throughout centuries, our identities have been built around our professions, nowadays we strive to separate it from our private affairs and maintain a healthier work-life balance. This trend, positive in general, may at times go hand in hand with less eagerness to engage in collaborative and social activities at work. This, in turn, lowers overall work quality.

Secondly, joining and contributing to a community is not equally easy for professionals in all industries and types of work. For instance, in corporations, increasingly hybrid and remote office spaces cause limited informal interactions between colleagues. In our view, despite a range of benefits, such circumstances negatively affect the team spirit. Yes, mechanisms to handle it are put in place, and we become more and more comfortable working online. However, many new developments pose equally many new challenges in extracting the benefits of the work’s social aspects. 

Company without a company?

Still, a corporation is a company. And it is not a coincidence that the word “company” describes a working collective. It signals the presence of others, closer or further, nonetheless, certain. The presence of a team. But what about the entrepreneurs and… freelancers? Especially at the beginning of their careers or when they try individual work for the first time? What are their options to build a peer-professional community? (If they wish so.)

Community-oriented platforms for professionals in specific sectors prove that freelancing work does not need to be free from the company. Freelancers might need the assistance of others even more, as they are left on their own in arranging formalities, commencing business activities, looking for development opportunities, or finding avenues for interaction with fellow experts. 

If the hobby-oriented hubs or fanbases remain enjoyable and accessible communities for independent individuals, why not form the common ground of the community on the will to professionally develop and exchange opportunities? In the upcoming blog post, we will explore how the ExpertHub addresses this question, especially within the ICT sector.

In the meantime, why not joinExpertHub already? 

Did you know that ExpertHub is about to embark on an exciting journey into the realm of AI Solutions for enterprises? All of this thanks to our strategic partnership with SolveStack.ai.

The platform aims to connect top enterprises with AI startups, integrating these two to facilitate their growth. SolveStack matches businesses with AI solutions to their specific problems, while at the same time providing visibility, recognition, and opportunities for AI-driven innovators.

SolveStack.ai will be launched in June 2025. We have already started building the database of AI use-cases, which you can join now.

The job market has one outstanding paradoxical feature. While it is increasingly fast-paced and competitive, much emphasis is still put on the power of meaningful connections within industries and with one’s professional peers. And it is not just ‘knowing people’ that matters. Branded as engaging in healthy competition, we strive to outgrow our colleagues while (and by any means, through) maintaining support-based collaboration. 

Mutual benefits

Such collaboration needs to remain mutually beneficial. The networking specialists warn: don’t exploit your connections exclusively for your benefit, keeping them shallow and self-interested. Rather, create and uphold a dialogue that will strengthen both sides. Even if you are content with your position, you should maintain the quality of your professional relationships, give as much as you take, and invest time in your professional social media profiles. But why?

Even though it may initially sound like additional work, forming relationships with fellow professionals is among the needs of working humans. It makes work more interesting, provides broader perspectives, inspires ideas, fosters collaboration, enhances problem-solving, builds a supportive network, opens up career opportunities, boosts motivation, and creates a sense of belonging in the workplace. Other people, even though sometimes “hell” in Sartre’s terms,  enhance our chances, the quality of our work, and the long-term enjoyment of it.

Pitfalls of classic networking

Not everyone is suited for or eager to engage in the wearying networking efforts, and not everyone can do that easily, for example, due to the nature of their work. Many have become fed up with the term “networking” itself–admittedly blurred and often charged with negative associations such as awkwardness, tediousness, or excessive flattery. 

On top of that, networking is not necessarily always a well-facilitated process. First of all, it happens majorly through the autonomous efforts of individuals. And second of all, if someone eventually attempts to bring people together to network, it is often done without the appropriate tools and no methodology whatsoever. After all, what are we really supposed to do after hearing the command “now network”?

A neat alternative

There is a more profound alternative, which also contributes to the sense of belonging, supports one’s professional development, offers peer support avenues, and utilizes the social perks of peer-expert exchange, namely joining a professional community. But hey! Isn’t that just another form of networking?

It is more than that. Finding a thriving community of like-minded professionals is not like any other networking. It offers a more structured and stable framework for collaboration, exchange, learning, and socializing. By joining a community revolving around a common professional interest, product, or service, one immediately becomes part of an organic network with a shared ground. And once one becomes an active member, the blurred and unclear term of “networking” is replaced by something more transparent, specific, and goal-oriented, namely, building community together. 

Another reason why joining and building the community is more than networking is that it is not merely a process of encountering fellow professionals, but it focuses on bringing this encounter to further levels - union, collaboration, exchange, learning, and fun.  In the upcoming articles, we will explore our thoughts on the perks of community building within the ICT sector and dive deeper into the community vision of ExpertHub!

You can joinExpertHub already now, though. 💡

ExpertHub joined the 2025 edition of Tech of Tomorrow in Poznań, Poland.

The event was an excellent opportunity to network, create future partnerships, get the freshest updates on new tech trends, and meet other inspiring tech freaks. Alongside the crowds of tech enthusiasts, ToT gathered nearly 70 international speakers specializing in various technological fields, including people ranging from diplomats, scientists, and businessmen to media figures and influencers.

Tech of Tomorrow unfolded across two panel days. On Wednesday, March 19th, we dived into:

• Accelerating innovation: Driving Growth and Investment in Poland & CEE

• Innovation Hubs: Investment Black Hole or Game Changer?

• Unlocking the innovation at the intersection of blockchain, AI, and IoT in the Automotive industry

• Future-ready foundations: Equipping the next generation for tomorrow’s challenges

On Thursday, March 20th, we discovered themes such as:

• New finance - bringing decentralization to the financial industry

• Industrial Reconstruction Ukraine: Exclusive Insights and Partnership Opportunities in Smart Tech and the Industrial Metaverse

• Smart Cities/Smart Spaces - using interconnected technologies for better interactions with the physical & digital environments

• Digital Product Passports - defining the value for businesses and customers

  
  
  

  

We look forward to the following year's edition, and you can't miss it either!