Ryan Resch breaks down the reality of AI adoption in sports and enterprise in 2026. Organizations that win with AI don't treat it as a novel tech stack. They treat it strictly as operations transformation. True ROI comes down to ingesting massive data streams, synthesizing the information rapidly, and executing decisions at scale, whether for daily logistics or high-stakes capital allocation.
Key Insights:
• The AI landscape remains in its early formation stage across most industries.
• Top-performing companies view AI integration fundamentally as an operations challenge.
• The ultimate utility of AI is synthesizing immense data volumes to drive immediate and actionable decisions at all company levels
Ryan spent nearly a decade in the Phoenix Suns front office, rising from intern to Assistant General Manager and VP of Basketball Operations, and now leads data and AI work in private equity. From his conversation with guest host Jimmy Soni on Infinite Loops.
Ryan Resch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-resch-4a9498130/
Jimmy Soni: https://x.com/jimmyasoni
