Speaker
Alex Kouptsov
Transformation Lead
I’m a strategy and operations professional with 10+ years of experience in driving cross-functional business design alignment and managing enterprise-wide business transformation and value creation initiatives within blue-chip companies. I have a proven track-record of collaborating effectively with executive-level stakeholders and managing lean, goal-oriented teams.
SessionS
Setting up an Engineering Team for AI-first Transformation: A Business Architecture Perspective
LeanLeaderSummit 2026
AI at TR has been traditionally focused on product innovation and delivering cutting-edge tools to customers. As demand grew to transform internal business functions using AI, TR pursued a combined top-down and bottom-up approach, including enterprise enablement and upskilling, access to fit-for-purpose AI tools, and the establishment of an AI Centre of Excellence. These efforts unlocked meaningful productivity gains at the individual and team level, but true reimagination of end-to-end workflows remained more difficult. To address this, TR leveraged business architecture thinking to accelerate and improve internal AI-transformation outcomes. This session will delve into TR's approach for identifying and prioritizing most impactful opportunities for AI-first transformation and setting up squads of "Forward Engineers" to partner with domain leaders and rapidly deploy production-grade AI solutions that go beyond automation and drive true reimagination of end-to-end workflows.
Company
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.