AE event - From digital & AI ambition to measurable EBITDA impact

For private equity firms, technologies such as AI, data platforms, automation, smart applications and cloud offer significant opportunities to improve efficiency and unlock growth.

In practice, however, private equity firms often receive fragmented advice on isolated technologies or initiatives, with limited connection to the broader value creation agenda.

What is missing is a coherent, business-wide perspective, supported by partners who connect strategy and execution to deliver measurable business impact.

In this session for private equity and portfolio professionals , LDS Advisory and AE bring this perspective together and will show how private equity firms and their portfolio companies can approach digital transformation strategically across the entire investment lifecycle, from due diligence to exit.

Through practical insights and real-world cases, we will demonstrate how AI and hyperautomation can act as a structured value creation lever, driving measurable impact.

How private equity firms unlock portfolio value through data, AI and Hyperautomation

A joint approach

LDS Advisory and AE combine complementary strengths to support private equity firms and portfolio companies
across the entire investment lifecycle.

Where LDS Advisory focuses on business strategy and transformation within the industry, AE brings deep expertise in digital strategy and execution. Together, we provide a holistic, end-to-end approach that connects business priorities with practical implementation.

This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to support clients as a long-term partner, combining strategic insight
where transformation creates the most value, with hands-on delivery to drive consistent, end-to-end value creation.

This workshop will provide you with value if:

→ You are wondering if you need a data & AI strategy, or if you can just start with use-cases.

→ You want to know which skills or roles you need to valorise your data & AI investments.

→ You are struggeling with how you can get ROI out of data & AI.

→ You are unsure data & AI can mean for your type of business.

→ You are interested in creating a data & AI roadmap.

13h15 - 14h00

About becoming Data & AI driven and pragmatically creating value.

An inspiration session on what works and what doesn’t. An approach which allows you to focus on business value.

14h15 – 15h15

Interactive data capability assessment

Heavy assessments have their time and place. But our goal here is to map your current initiatives so you have a bird's-eye view of everything that is going on. In a fun and interactive way using a card game we developed in-house.

Outcome

You'll receive the card game and all the insights that we collected during the session.

15h30 – 16h45

Choose your data adventure

Together with our experts, we will take some time to deep-dive into one of these topics:

Data & AI Strategy
How do I align my business objectives with my data & AI investments?
Data & AI Portfolio / cases
How do I identify and prioritize data & AI use cases to support my business?
Data & AI Product working
How do I focus on business value creation without large investments?
Data & AI Capabilities
How do I solve specific data & AI related challenges, such as data quality, data management, data literacy, …

Outcome

An executive summary of improvement steps for your challenges ahead by AE experts.