Post-Industrial Summit Spring 2024:
The AI Transformation

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Informal dinner in SRI’s historic Dining Hall.

Enterprises face a unique combination of circumstances. Our geopolitical situation is worrisome, inflation and interest rate hikes have impacted growth, and the transition to hybrid work continues to challenge many firms. At the same time, AI holds the promise of revolutionizing productivity, transforming industries, and impacting virtually every area of human endeavor. How can leaders better understand and navigate the risks and opportunities in this landscape?

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Decentralization and AI will fundamentally change how organizations are designed, led, and developed. What will future organizations look like and how do we get there?

What industries will see the most visible impact by AI in the next few years, which ones may be laggards, and where are the biggest opportunities for using AI to reinvent industries? We will discuss how to play defense (if your core industry is being disrupted) and offense (how to use AI to outpace competitors).

We will explore the capabilities we can expect from AI platforms over the next few years:
• promises and limits of LLMs
• hybrid approaches
• linking LLMs to other components
• hardware architectures
• AI and Edge Computing
• What comes after Generative AI?

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In this session we will explore the major leadership challenges that executives face as AI begins to change the way we work. How do we move quickly enough to retain or improve our competitive position? How do we communicate clearly and set motivating goals? How does AI fit into the overall transformation of the enterprise?

It is becoming clear that AIs will increasingly act as the face of the enterprise, from customer acquisition to support. What’s possible today, what are the downsides, and where will we be in three years? What are early adopters doing to manage the risks?

In this session, we will explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in boosting innovation and accelerating product development. What is the upper limit of productivity enhancements? Can AI offer novel solutions that transcend human imagination?

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The economic and cultural impact of AI will be far more dramatic than what most people can imagine today. We will hear about how AI will accelerate human productivity, yield huge breakthroughs in R&D, and change how we work and live.

Enterprises face a shortage of AI talent and AI literacy challenges as well. We will discuss how ensure that employees and managers are prepared to exploit the full potential of AI tools. We will also look at strategies for recruiting AI talent in today’s competitive landscape.

In this session, we will explore what happens when we use Generative AI to dramatically accelerate new venture incubation. AI will be used both to improve the productivity of the venture development process and as a key component in the product or service itself.

In this session we will explore the impact of AI Agents on the decentralization of work and organizations. AI Agents represent a dramatic advance beyond AI Assistants/Copilots. They will be able to work with goals, generate plans, execute them, and revise them based on experience. Agents will utilize external services and may recruit other AI Agents and even humans as they pursue their objectives. The Internet and the Covid-19 pandemic has already contributed to a dramatic decentralization of work, with as many as 27% of workdays now being performed at home. Enterprises are still struggling with “hybrid work” to find the right mix. How will AI Agents shape the post-industrial work landscape?

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In this keynote, we will dive into research on the transformation efforts of large enterprises. What are the most important factors influencing their efforts? What are their goals and priorities? Their biggest failures and successes? How are technologies like Generative AI influencing transformations?

In this final session, we will put the pieces together and discuss how to combine the various elements into an actionable strategy for transforming the enterprise using AI.

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