Generative AI Week 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Monday, November 10 2025

As enterprises move from experimentation to operationalization, a well-defined AI agent strategy becomes critical. During this interactive workshop, led by Andreas Welsch, best-selling author of the AI Leadership Handbook, unpacks how to align AI agent initiatives with business goals, set realistic expectations, and make informed decisions about build-vs-buy trade-offs.

• Mastering the art of building an AI agent for your business
• Define the business outcomes your AI agent strategy should drive and how to measure success.
• Establish realistic performance and adoption expectations across business units.
• Audit your current vendor capabilities and identify strategic gaps.

Andreas Welsch

Founder and Chief AI Strategist
Intelligence Briefing

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This hands-on executive workshop introduces a proprietary AI Maturity Model built on the 9-Step Framework for AI Product Creation - a framework for building AI products endorsed by leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.

Executives will assess their organization’s AI readiness, benchmark current maturity, and identify the gaps preventing scale. The session walks through a systematic approach to developing AI capabilities - from business case and applied research to responsible, production-grade deployment.

Attendees will walk away with actionable tools, a strategic blueprint, and the clarity to move from fragmented pilots to lasting AI impact across the enterprise.

Shub Agarwal

SVP, AI, U.S. Bank, AI Professor, Bestselling Author
U.S. Bank

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Abby Knowles has a history of leading multi-year, hundred-million dollar technology and business transformations for Verizon. During this session, Abby will share a leadership action plan for moving from scaling Gen AI to Innovating with it, preparing you and your organization for future technology changes. You’ll gain practical strategies to help future-proof your personal leadership and organization to better flow with technology evolution.

• Change resilience: Reviewing the constant change and pressures to scale and innovate
• Implementing a sustainable “Adoption-scale-innovation” framework for scalable technology change
• Creating a Gen AI personal action plan to master key leadership attributes to effectively lead change.
• Visulaizing how these strategies can accelerate your adoption to innovation runway and unlock high performing business value

Abby Knowles

Former Vice President, Global Consumer Technology Planning, Engineering & Transf
Independent

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