I still think Kaggle's Titanic Survivability remains the best ML demo. Something everyone can relate to, surely. Find a challenge on Kaggle or AI Crowd that relates to your vertical and the business case will be obvious ;)
If you want to do a "live" demo, load custom data into Google Cloud AutoML, auto generate models and start querying. Everyone I've shown this to is amazed and immediately begins brainstorming!
Tackling High-Value Business Problems Using AutoML on Structured Data
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions
https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges
If you want to do a "live" demo, load custom data into Google Cloud AutoML, auto generate models and start querying. Everyone I've shown this to is amazed and immediately begins brainstorming!
Tackling High-Value Business Problems Using AutoML on Structured Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO_L9nIOWM