Transforming for Excellence: Navigating the AI Landscape

Event description

AI is reshaping traditional business strategies and transforming organizations through its unparalleled capacity for learning and adaptation via advanced algorithms and machine learning models. In 2024, trends like generative AI, micro-interactions, and enhanced personalization are making it more accessible and scalable across various business functions, from customer engagement to internal operations.

However, many organizations struggle to keep pace with this technology due to uncertainties about its applications, what it can and cannot do, potential disruptions, the fear of missing out, and the evolving competitive landscape. While AI excels in providing data-driven insights and automation, organizations must understand its limitations and address the ethical considerations of AI adoption, ensuring transparency, fairness, and accountability.

As digital transformation becomes integral to everyday life, AI increases the complexity and speed of these processes, challenging organizations to meet the changing expectations of customers, employees, executives, investors, and suppliers. This demands organizations to lead effective transformations and foster a culture of continuous learning for ongoing adaptability.

Rather than dwelling on the current, this seminar equips you for what is yet to come. It conveys key success factors of ongoing transformations in a very compact form and gives you concrete tools. You will be empowered,

·       Gain a deeper understanding of AI and how it impacts your organization.

·       Experience, reflect, and transfer the meaning and potential of AI to your organization

·       Delve into future scenarios of AI and its implications for transformations.

·       Develop an appetite and culture to seize the opportunities of AI 

·       Design digital transformation processes for effective implementation

Presented By:

Vineetha Menon, Ph.D., is a Dr. Terence Reed Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Big Data Analytics lab at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Menon has over a decade of expertise in multidisciplinary Data Science research domains, including Gen AI, bias and transparency in large language models (LLMs), deep learning, AI-driven drug discovery, cybersecurity, explainable AI for better transparency in evolutionary human-AI autonomous system interaction and human-AI trust domains. She is an expert in big data analytics and has consulted for local, defense, and global clients on topics spanning human-AI teaming, human performance modeling, organizational performance prediction based on the Baldrige model, and lean Six Sigma models, AI adoption and risk mitigation frameworks for organizations. Dr. Menon is a world-recognized IEEE/ACM  mentor, AI tech visionary and invited speaker for technical conferences, defense symposiums, and executive summits to local news outlets. She is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Young Professional award, the 2022 IEEE Huntsville Young Professional of the Year award, and the 2021 IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Outstanding Young Professional award for her exemplary contributions to multidisciplinary Big Data applications research, global leadership, mentoring, community impact.

Kristin Weger, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Industrial Organizational Psychology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Founder and CEO of Cirkle LLC, which provides practical solutions to help clients develop the skills they need to succeed in their professional roles. Kristin specializes in lean and agile leadership development, organizational transformation, operations management, daily and shop floor management, emotional intelligence and behavioral change, and optimizing and digitalizing regulatory processes. With over a decade of consulting experience, she has worked with global clients spanning diverse sectors such as automotive, aerospace, defense, construction, manufacturing, processing, and oil and gas. Kristin is recognized globally for her expertise as a consultant, trainer, and coach in process and leadership excellence. She has trained more than +500 team leaders, supervisors, managers, and executives. As a global master coach, she implements internal coaching programs and develops skills in individuals from the system level to C-level, contributing directly to their professional growth and the success of their organizations.