Modern CTO How AI Will Collapse, Blur, and Rebuild Tech Teams with Kevin Adams, CIO at Edward Jones
Feb 12, 2026
Kevin Adams, CIO at Edward Jones with 30+ years in financial services tech, explains how AI will reshape teams and work. He discusses humans moving up the stack while AI handles execution. He covers outcome-focused teams, platforms and guardrails for safe AI, pacing adoption in regulated industries, and legacy modernization accelerated by AI.
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Humans Move Up; AI Handles Execution
- Kevin Adams argues AI will shift humans up the stack to define intent, judgment, and risk while AI handles execution and toil.
- This collaboration changes operating models more than just tooling or code generation.
Treat AI As A Production System
- Treat AI as an enterprise production system requiring resilience, explainability, and safety at scale.
- Design for edge cases and failure modes because consequences in finance are severe.
AI Disrupts Vertical Org Charts
- AI tooling works horizontally across domains and won't respect existing vertical org charts.
- Kevin predicts durable outcome-focused teams and shared platform services will replace project-centric verticals.