---
title: "Tokenomics: From AI Spend to AI Value"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "11:00am-12:00pm"
track: "CTO Circle"
room: "Leadership Lounge"
speakers: ["Martin Harrysson", "Matt Linderman", "Prakhar Dixit"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "CTO Circle"
scheduleRoom: "Leadership Lounge"
scheduleLabels: ["CTO Circle", "Leadership Lounge", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Tokenomics: From AI Spend to AI Value

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:00am-12:00pm
- Track/room: CTO Circle · Leadership Lounge
- Speaker(s): Martin Harrysson, Matt Linderman, Prakhar Dixit
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: CTO Circle
- Room: Leadership Lounge
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
*Facilitated, peer-to-peer, under the Chatham House Rule — not recorded.* As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, token spend is scaling faster than value realization. We address i) how to make decisions amid unclear cost and value dynamics, ii) how to shift from token-level to workflow-level analysis, and iii) how to manage downstream behavior implications on AI usage.

## Media Evidence
[Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZStlIhyTCY) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]] — 16 visible slide image(s); 16 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-003.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-004.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides|Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: agile, methodologies, software, tech, breakthrough, mainframes, mobile, cloud.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: agile, methodologies, software, tech, breakthrough, mainframes, mobile, cloud.
- Evidence links for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY]], [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]], [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[martin-harrysson]]
- [[matt-linderman]]
- [[prakhar-dixit]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Attendance Visibility
No high-confidence attendance icon signal is shown for this talk. The sampled video evidence was either low confidence, source-proxy-only, or did not expose a clear audience view.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Tokenomics: From AI Spend to AI Value ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:00am-12:00pm - Track/room: CTO Circle · Leadership Lounge - Speaker(s): Martin Harrysson, Matt Linderman, Prakhar Dixit - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: CTO Circle - Room: Leadership Lounge - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description *Facilitated, peer-to-peer, under the Chatham House Rule — not recorded.* As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, token spend is scaling faster than value realization. We address i) how to make decisions amid unclear cost and value dynamics, ii) how to shift from token-level to workflow-level analysis, and iii) how to manage downstream behavior implications on AI usage. ## Media Evidence [Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZStlIhyTCY) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY` - Slide deck: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]] — 16 visible slide image(s); 16 HTML recreation(s).

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[martin-harrysson|Martin Harrysson]] — Senior Partner at [[mckinsey-and-company|McKinsey & Company]].
- [[matt-linderman|Matt Linderman]] — Partner, Technology Practice at [[mckinsey-and-company|McKinsey & Company]].
- [[prakhar-dixit|Prakhar Dixit]] — Partner at [[mckinsey|McKinsey]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.