About the Event:
Did you miss our live virtual briefing on AI in the workplace? You can now watch it on demand! Gain insights from top innovators and AI specialists as they discuss AMA’s latest survey findings on how AI is transforming today’s workforce. Our expert panel includes Blade Kotelly of MIT School of Engineering, John Da Silva, MBA, Cornell University, and Jeremy Utley of Stanford University.
With AI technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, AMA sought to understand how well organizations, leaders, and teams are keeping up. Our survey results reveal significant shifts in AI awareness, knowledge, strategies, and applications over the past year. In this exclusive briefing, our panelists break down these findings and explore what they mean for businesses today.
Join us and discover:
- Survey findings comparing employee and organizational engagement in AI over the past year—and if businesses are responding the way they need to
- Insights on how managers, leaders and skill development can support the success of AI in your organization
- How to reframe mindsets that may be holding you back—and leverage strategies to improve your comfort level with AI
In this 1-hour webcast, you will gain actionable insights to help you break down “the AI wall,” hear from leading experts on where organizations are and need to be in their AI journey, and much more.
Agenda:
- AMA introduction
- Meet the Panelists
- Survey background and results
- Discussion
Panelists:
Blade Kotelly
Innovation & Design-Thinking and User Experience Expert
Senior Lecturer, MIT School of Engineering
Blade Kotelly is an innovation and user-experience expert who provides expertise to the Fortune 1000 in rapidly improving innovation outcomes for traditional innovation and AI innovation. Blade Kotelly Inc. offers innovation training as well as hands-on innovation product/service consulting to top brands including Anheuser-Busch, Google, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Schneider Electric, Hasbro, the U.S. Department of Defense and others. Blade is also a Senior Lecturer at the MIT School of Engineering teaching undergraduates and professionals through MIT Professional Education, speaking on the topics of Design-Thinking, Innovation and AI.
Blade’s work and thoughts have been featured in top publications including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and on media including TechTV, NPR, the BBC and MIT Sloan Management Review.
John Da Silva
Director of Operations, dentsu
AMA Faculty, AI
MBA, Cornell University
John Da Silva brings over 15 years of experience in leading, coordinating, and supporting teams and business units across multiple industry sectors including advanced manufacturing, construction, academia, and energy while working at Siemens, Bombardier, and Suncor Energy. He has also been an adjunct professor in the Electro-Mechanical Technology Program at Humber College.
John holds an Advanced Diploma in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology from Humber College, a Bachelor of Engineering from School of Mechanical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University, and an MBA from Cornell University. He is a licensed Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Jeremy Utley
Innovation Expert, Practical AI Specialist, Best selling Author
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Jeremy Utley is a leading expert on creativity and has taught more than a million students of innovation at Stanford and beyond. He advises venture-backed founders and Fortune 500 CEOs on cultivating environments where human creativity can flourish to drive business impact. He hosts the “Beyond the Prompt: How to Use AI in Your Company,” podcast featuring leading GenAI experts and practitioners. Jeremy’s work at the intersection of GenAI, innovation, and creativity has been featured by Harvard Business Review, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and others.
Jeremy is a best selling author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters selected by the Next Big Idea Club as a "Must Read".
Moderator:
Lauren McNally
VP, Marketing Communications
American Management Association
Lauren McNally Lauren McNally serves as the Vice President of Marketing Communications at the American Management Association (AMA), overseeing brand development, communications strategies, corporate learning marketing and creative services. Lauren also leads AMA’s Women’s Leadership Center.