The “fog of AI” is thick right now. But inaction is not an option—AI is already redefining nearly every part of the economy. To excel in AI leadership, make informed decisions, and drive meaningful AI transformations within your organization, you have to navigate unknown lands. But you don't need to be technical—just visionary.

In this session, we'll explore what it means to be an AI Explorer—shaping the future of AI, pivoting your career, and driving sustainable business success.

• Understand how to set direction for yourself and your team—even when a clear destination can't be seen yet

• Learn how to quickly synchronize your thinking with your colleagues by creating powerful thought partnerships

• Distinguish between hype and reality in AI claims

• Discuss how to set expectations—and measure success—for both incremental and exponential gains in AI

This will be an interactive session with plenty of opportunities for discussion. We look forward to your participation!

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¡El invitado especial ChatGPT se une a nosotros! ¿Contratarías a ChatGPT o Bard? Los sistemas de IA conversacionales y generativos son como compañeros de trabajo súper conocedores que prometen enormes beneficios. Sin embargo, también tienen otras señales de alerta que no toleraríamos en un ser humano, como alucinaciones con apariencia de confianza sobre temas que no comprenden, plagio y falta de pensamiento crítico. Ha llegado el momento de examinar detenidamente esta nueva clase de herramientas y sus implicaciones en el trabajo, la vida, la educación y más, y lo haremos en una conversación con el propio ChatGPT.

• Comprender cómo los LLM (Modelos de Lenguaje Grandes) 'aprenden' —o no—

• Explorar las primeras aplicaciones disruptivas de los sistemas de IA conversacionales y generativos

• Discutir qué es realista esperar de la tecnología de aprendizaje automático ahora y en un futuro cercano.

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Generative AI tools go beyond Q&A with ChatGPT. Major brands like Adobe, Shutterstock, and Canva are joining the ranks of labs like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Deep Agency to revolutionize how everyday people can bring their ideas to life in illustration, 3D worlds, video, and music. Education is also confronted by the possibilities and risks of generative AI tools for research assistance, writing support, and more. How do we think through the impact of entire creative and education domains suddenly undergoing an explosion of content? And what will our culture value most about education and art as these fields transform?

Join Create Labs Founder (and OpenAI Ambassador) Abran Maldonado and Cyborg Anthropologist/Digital Fluency expert MJ Petroni for a colorful discussion on what we need to learn and unlearn in the AI age.

• Learn about key tools disrupting education and art fields

• Try on new mental models for thinking about generative AI

• Explore new interpretations of familiar concepts 'creativity,' 'art,' and 'learning'

• See tangible examples of generative AI tools and their outputs—including those you can explore now

• Prepare yourself and your colleagues with 'what' and 'now what' discussion prompts you can apply immediately

Every corner office is filled with conversations about AI strategy, it seems. However, AI in the enterprise is only as good as the data in the company. To get more than incremental gains from AI (and to avoid huge liabilities), companies have to level up their data fluency across the board, not just on data science teams.

Data fluency in a company means that digital champions, explorers, and makers all can work together to go beyond buzzwords and vaporware into real value creation. In this session, we'll cover what data fluency means in practice, how to get started, and who to include.

Join DataScience.Salon Founder Anna Anisin and Cyborg Anthropologist/Digital Fluency Leader MJ Petroni for a juicy discussion of making Data Fluency real:

• An accessible 'data supply chain' concept

• 100- and 365-day goals for data fluency programs

• The impact of data fluency on AI strategy and integration

• Common pitfalls and key opportunities for 'a-ha' moments to drive understanding

• Storylines to help people prioritize enterprise data management needs

We know what a coworker is. But what's a machine coworker? Would it mean robots taking over jobs and artificial intelligence making cold, calculated decisions? The reality could be a lot more human-friendly: digital tools that support, rather than replace, their squishy biological colleagues. Leading organizations are moving beyond just automating rote tasks into an era of augmenting human intelligence with machines. Tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are shaking the foundations of how we think about work.

As soon as we shift from a competitive mindset to a collaborative one, we unlock a powerful way of thinking that has the potential to change the experience of work for the better. Explore the future of work in the digital era and imagine a workplace where machines deal with the boring stuff so you can focus on what's important.

How do we conceive of, coordinate, and partner with machine coworkers? What kind of work best suits the union of machines and humans? And what could we create if we had more 'human' capacity in our organizations?

• A new way to think about machines in business: 'machine coworkers'
• The connection between thinking styles and machine coworkers
• Current digital capabilities which map to human thinking styles
• Practical tools for creating machine coworkers, like conversational AI (ChatGPT), API integration, low/no-code and automation tools
• How robotic process automation, machine learning, and related tech trends enable 'machine coworkers'
• The relationship of AI and quantum computing to the next generations of machine coworkers; what it means for jobs, and the nature of human work

(NOTE UPDATED TIME: 11a PT/2p ET)

Conversational AIs like ChatGPT, BARD, and others are making headlines—sometimes literally—everywhere right now, but implementing these new tools in an organization isn't as simple as creating a free account and asking a few questions.
Intellectual property, ethics, regulation, governance, business models, digital fluency, and adoption must be a consideration for any humans involved.

Radhika Venkatraman, Former CIO at Credit Suisse & Verizon; Board Member & Strategic Adviser, joins MJ Petroni, Futurist and Cyborg Anthropologist, to:

• Identify conversational AI opportunities for large organizations

• Explore enterprise-specific use cases

• Discuss the implications of 'who owns' an AI's Large Language Model (LLM)

• Consider organizational change and digital fluency needs for true conversational AI adoption

Special guest ChatGPT joins us! Would you hire ChatGPT or Bard? Conversational AIs are like super-knowledgeable coworkers promising massive benefits. However, they have other red flags we wouldn't tolerate in a human, like confident BS about subjects they don't understand, plagiarism, and a lack of critical thinking. It's time we look carefully at this new class of tools and their implications for work, life, education, and more—and we'll do it in a conversation with ChatGPT itself.

Join futurist and cyborg anthropologist MJ Petroni for this lively and engaging discussion, crafted to enable you to:

• Understand how LLMs (Large Language Models) 'learn'—or don't

• Explore early, disruptive applications of conversational AIs

• Discuss what's realistic to expect from machine learning tech now and in the near future

If you're unsure or can't make it, sign up anyway—it's free and we'll send you a recording of the session afterward for you to absorb in your own time.

Think Like a Futurist: How to Spot the Next ChatGPT

Change feels agonizingly slow—until it’s overwhelmingly fast. 

Futurists are big-picture thinkers who can scan a vast landscape of possibilities and find relevant trends. Sound like your job, too? Leaders have to predict what's next for their customers and stakeholders in a world changing at an unprecedented pace. As organizations become increasingly digital, it is more important than ever to identify and reality-check trends so that you invest resources wisely.

If you're unsure or can't make it, sign up anyway—it's free and we'll send you a recording of the session afterward for you to absorb in your own time.

Whether you're looking to move up and move on, or just want to bring more to the table in your current role, this lively and engaging session will deepen your understanding and enable you to offer more value in any digital business role.'
Join futurist and cyborg Anthropologist MJ Petroni on Jan 12th at 8am PT as they explain the five pillars forming the basis of Digital Fluency, why this matters for you and your team, and how to get from where you are to where you want to be.
The interactive session will be held on Zoom—handy if your company doesn't allow social media at work—with a live stream on LinkedInLive.

If you're unsure or can't make it, sign up anyway—it's free, and we'll send you a recording of the session afterward for you to absorb in your own time.

What does the phrase "machine coworkers" bring to mind? Perhaps robots taking over jobs, and artificial intelligence making cold, calculated decisions. The reality, however, is a lot more human-friendly: digital tools that support, rather than replace, their squishy biological colleagues.
As soon as we shift from a competitive mindset to a collaborative one, we unlock a powerful way of thinking that has the potential to change the experience of work for the better.
Join futurist and cyborg anthropologist MJ Petroni for an interactive webinar that explores the future of work in the digital era and imagines a workplace where machines deal with the boring stuff so you can focus on what's important.
You can join the interactive Zoom session by registering here: http://bit.ly/3F1kwv5 or watch on LinkedIn Live.
If you can't make it, sign up anyway—it's completely free, and we'll send you a link to a recording of the event to watch at your leisure.

Transforming part of your company to remote work will have an impact but it doesn't mean you won't be able to reach your goals. In fact, you may be surprised at how the benefits of a remote workforce can outweigh the risks. It's a matter of ensuring new ways to bring transparency and accountability to teams moving from a shared physical office to a virtual one. With the right 'digital fluency' around metrics and outcomes, your remote teams can be as or even more productive than when they were in the office.

Join the digital experts from Causeit who will guide you in the best practices to get the most out of your newly minted remote efforts.

The mental models of remote work are not the same as working in person. We need to change what we do day to day, of course, but we also need to "unlearn" our thinking about accountability, synchronizing and managing projects, and how to meaningfully meet with each other and our customers. If we just swap desks for kitchen tables without changing how we think, we'll endanger our companies and our teams. Yet, ultimately, crises that force us to reconsider on-location work are also opportunities to up our 'digital fluency' and network our teams.

You'll leave this interactive session with the outline of key communications for your stakeholders and direct reports.

Coronavirus mean you need to move your large event online? Here’s how to do more than ‘conference TV.’

Many organizations are moving away from in-person meetings. The reasons for this trend include ecological sustainability, a desire for increased total attendance, travel logistics challenges and costs, pandemics or other health concerns, disruption to regular work, and life/work balance. But most organizations—and external presenters, facilitators, consultants and coaches—don’t do well with digital ‘telepresence,’ or replicating the richness of in-person experiences.

Join engagement facilitators and cyborg anthropologists (!) from Causeit as we share new thinking & best practices and help you create your own 'principles for great virtual meetings.'

Going remote isn’t as easy as just working from your couch. Effective remote work happens with a plan around a virtual office. What tools should team members use? How do you know who is ‘available’? What is the best way for everyone to collaborate? A remote team works best with a clear plan in place that communicates expectations for success. Teams with ‘digital fluency’ can do their jobs as productively as home as they did in the office. 

Join this Causeit session to learn about virtual offices and craft your remote workplan for your team—you’ll have a draft by the end of the call.

Many companies have already thought about how to access files or have meetings when someone works from home because we often think about it as 'phoning into the office.' But few companies have devoted the same degree of thinking to how to create 'online offices' which support collaboration and focus, allow teams to synchronize with each other and provide the opportunities for social interaction that make work worth coming to. 

Join culture experts and cyborg anthropologists (!) from Causeit as we share findings from the field, best practices and easy first steps to shifting 'working from home' from a morale-killer to an opportunity for culture transformation.

The mental models of remote work are not the same as working in person. We need to change what we do day to day, of course, but we also need to "unlearn" our thinking about accountability, synchronizing and managing projects, and how to meaningfully meet with each other and our customers. If we just swap desks for kitchen tables without changing how we think, we'll endanger our companies and our teams. Yet, ultimately, crises that force us to reconsider on-location work are also opportunities to up our 'digital fluency' and network our teams.

You'll leave this interactive session with the outline of key communications for your stakeholders and direct reports.

Coronavirus mean you need to move your large event online? Here’s how to do more than ‘conference TV.’

Many organizations are moving away from in-person meetings. The reasons for this trend include ecological sustainability, a desire for increased total attendance, travel logistics challenges and costs, pandemics or other health concerns, disruption to regular work, and life/work balance. But most organizations—and external presenters, facilitators, consultants and coaches—don’t do well with digital ‘telepresence,’ or replicating the richness of in-person experiences.

Join engagement facilitators and cyborg anthropologists (!) from Causeit as we share new thinking & best practices and help you create your own 'principles for great virtual meetings.'

Going remote isn’t as easy as just working from your couch. Effective remote work happens with a plan around a virtual office. What tools should team members use? How do you know who is ‘available’? What is the best way for everyone to collaborate? A remote team works best with a clear plan in place that communicates expectations for success. Teams with ‘digital fluency’ can do their jobs as productively as home as they did in the office. 

Join this Causeit session to learn about virtual offices and craft your remote workplan for your team—you’ll have a draft by the end of the call.

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