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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Partnering with AI: Building Future-Ready Teams

Daria Rudnik

Is your team becoming passive operators of AI? Discover how to design intentional workflows that protect critical thinking, maintain engagement, and build future-ready organizations.

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#1 about 2 min

Understanding the human gap in AI return on investment

The gap between AI adoption and business value stems from human behavior rather than technological limitations.

#2 about 2 min

How over-automation leads to team disengagement and loss of meaning

A customer success team loses connection to their clients and work motivation after fully automating workflows with AI.

#3 about 3 min

Addressing the emotional layers of workplace AI transformation

Understanding how excitement, anxiety, and fear of missing out drive resistance or reckless adoption of AI tools.

#4 about 4 min

Maintaining cognitive engagement and preventing homogeneous team thinking

Consuming AI outputs first lowers brain activity and creates a convergence of language that destroys diverse perspectives.

#5 about 2 min

Implementing the principle of forming human perspectives before AI

Recording human thoughts before generating AI summaries forces engagement and maintains connection to core work values.

#6 about 3 min

Defining team norms for acceptable AI usage behaviors

Establishing clear boundaries around acceptable AI usage prevents blind copy-pasting and ensures humans own the final understanding.

#7 about 3 min

Evaluating AI and human ideas through anonymous feedback rounds

Randomly assigning unmarked ideas for team members to advocate ensures thorough scrutiny of all proposals regardless of origin.

#8 about 3 min

Scaling AI adoption across disconnected software quality assurance teams

Fragmented tool choices and conflicting success metrics prevent a large organization from moving beyond initial AI pilot stages.

#9 about 4 min

Building resilient teams with the five-pillar CLICK framework

Aligning teams on shared purpose, integrated work, and collaborative decisions enables them to adapt to rapid technological disruptions.

#10 about 6 min

Distributing decision-making authority between humans and AI agents

Using a structured human agency scale prevents harmful over-automation by strictly defining the boundaries of AI autonomy.

#11 about 4 min

Developing interpersonal skills for the future of AI collaboration

Cultivating empathy, critical thinking, and facilitation allows teams to excel at tasks that AI cannot process.

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Essential AI and human skills for future teams

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Building superhuman human resources capabilities with artificial intelligence

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Overcoming common barriers to implementing collaborative AI

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Balancing AI regulation with technological innovation in human resources

Rudi Bauer Rudi Bauer +1 · Cappuccino with HR

2:51 min

Developing critical leadership skills for AI integration

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