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A conversation, not a webinar. · 24 Sep 2026, 11:30am AEST · 60 min · live

🥋Master Black BeltLean Six Sigma
💬Live Q&A60 min · free
30+ yearsof experience
Parth Bommakanti, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Parth BommakantiExecutive Director, Vative
The burning question this month

What do we actually do about AI?

The pressure to “do something about AI” is real — and being rushed into it is how it goes wrong. So that’s where we’re starting this month. It’s still an AMA, so bring any question, AI or not — but it’s the one in every room right now.

The real problem

You’re not behind. You’re being rushed.

Here’s what nobody in your feed will admit: most of them are guessing too. The tools are new, the confident takes are mostly noise, and the fear of missing out is doing a lot of the talking.

So let’s put the real thing on the table. AI doesn’t succeed or fail on the technology. It succeeds or fails on the process underneath it. Bolt a clever tool onto a broken process and all you get is an expensive version of the same mess. Sort the process out first, and even simple automation starts paying for itself.

Parth has said it the same way for years. It’s not a slogan — it’s the difference between the businesses that get a return on AI and the ones quietly writing off the spend.

The session

What the hour actually looks like.

Parth, live and unscripted
Your real problem, worked on the spot
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What you’ll walk away with

A way to make the call yourself.

Every wave of new technology makes the same promise — ERP, SAP, automation, and now AI — and most rollouts quietly underdeliver for the same reason. Over 30 years, Parth built a way to know, before you spend a dollar, whether one will actually land or die on the vine. He’s now turned it into the 7 Gates to AI: seven checkpoints every AI decision has to clear before it’s worth your time.

Miss a gate, and no amount of budget saves the project. Clear all seven, and you’re one of the few who’ll actually see a return.

On the day, Parth walks you through the gates and runs your real situation against them, live — ending on a straight verdict, anywhere from “don’t” to “take it to the board.” You won’t leave with an opinion to agree or disagree with. You’ll leave with a process you can use on this decision, and the next one, and the one after that.

Who’s answering

Thirty years in, and still gives it to you straight.

Parth Bommakanti
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Parth Bommakanti

Executive Director, Vative

Parth led teams at Ford Motor Company across quality, customer satisfaction and manufacturing, then ran the Australian arm of Japanese multinational Sumitomo as General Manager. Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Certified Lean Master, NLP Master Practitioner.

Has he run your AI project? No — and be wary of anyone claiming a decade of AI results this early; the tools haven’t existed that long. What Parth has spent 30 years doing is the part that actually decides whether AI works: taking complex change and making it survive contact with real teams and real operations. That’s the expertise the whole AI conversation keeps skipping — and the reason his answers hold up.

You need to spend time to make time. His line, and fair warning for the session.
Show up once

Leave with three things.

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The framework

The 7 Gates

Parth’s framework for pressure-testing any AI decision — walked through live, run against your real situation.

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Your question

A straight answer

Worked the way it would be for a client. The most-voted questions go first.

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Afterwards

The full recording

Can’t make it live? Register anyway — the recording comes to you.

How it works

Four steps, ten seconds to start.

1

Register

Free. Name, email and where you work.

2

Add your question

Then upvote the ones others have put forward.

3

Join live

Parth works the top-voted questions and the 7 Gates, 60 min.

4

Keep the recording

Sent to everyone registered, live or not.

The method behind this is trusted by teams at
Lockheed Martin Bosch Coles Australia Post New Balance Jetstar Novartis Olympus Fonterra Callaway Golf Saint-Gobain Kmart Toll
What people say

Trusted by people who don’t hand out praise easily.

~390 Google reviews at 4.9 stars — most naming the facilitator who changed how they see their work.
Verified Google reviews · Vative
★★★★★
The workshop facilitation by Parth was amazing, and the follow-up coaching while we completed our projects helped connect any missing dots.
Courtney TempletonGreen Belt graduate
★★★★★
An amazing instructor. I found the content and style very engaging, with real world examples I know the team will benefit from.
Sabina NadeemYellow Belt
★★★★★
The tools I learnt have allowed me to successfully problem solve a variety of issues at work. Felt engaged and supported all the way through.
Jordan SykesGreen Belt graduate
The board

Still with us? Put your question in.

Real questions people have already put forward. Recognise a few? You’re not the only one. Upvote what you’d want answered — the most-voted lead the session on the day.

Register (free) to add your question or vote.

Read-first — no need to speak or be seen. Vote counts set the running order on the day.

Bring your question. Get a real answer.

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WhenThu 24 Sep 2026, 11:30am to 12:30pm AEST
Length60 min, live
CostFree

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