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AI + HI Conference 2025
 

Learn how to craft a compelling business vision for AI integration that aligns with your organizational goals. This interactive session will guide attendees through identifying opportunities for AI-driven transformation and developing a roadmap for leadership buy-in and strategic alignment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the importance of a clear business vision for AI adoption.

2. Identify organizational goals that AI can enhance or transform.

3. Draft a high-level roadmap to align AI initiatives with business objectives.

 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 10:15am to 11:15am
Presenter: 
Mickey McManus
AI Faculty
Boston Consulting Group
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Mickey McManus is a serial entrepreneur, Senior Advisor, executive coach, and BCG-U faculty member at BCG (Boston Consulting Group) and a research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO.  He is a pioneer in design futures, augmented collective intelligence (ACI), and high performance human/AI teaming and culture building. At BCGU he helped build an executive development workshop for Google's AI offering for their customers and teaches an 8-week Harvard business school style executive education course co-developed by Karim Lahkani at HBS and BCG.  Mickey holds 12 patents in the area of connected products, environments, vehicles and services and co-authored the Carnegie Science Award winning book, Trillions – Thriving in the Information Ecology. In Trillions he and his co-authors posit that in a deeply interconnected world unbounded malignant complexity will be one of the most significant challenges. Taming complexity will be a super power for individuals and organizations. His design innovation & digital transformation lab/startup studio, MAYA, was sold to BCG in 2017 and became a foundational part of their global design and build offering called BCG X. The educational institute he co-founded and helped build, LUMA Institute, has taught design thinking and co-creating with people to over 100,000 people globally and is now a core part of Mural's co-creation operating system.

SESSIONS:
Nichol Bradford
Executive-in-Residence for AI + HI
SHRM
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Nichol Bradford is a futurist, investor, and technology executive
dedicated to amplifying human potential through the thoughtful
integration of AI. As SHRM's AI + HI Executive-in-Residence, she
shapes global strategies impacting 362 million workers through
340,000 HR professionals across 180 countries. She is the Co-Founder
of Niremia Collective, a venture fund investing in the future of human
potential.

With over two decades of experience in technology and human
development, Bradford specializes in strengthening mental, emotional,
and social health (MESH) to drive innovation. She reaches over
100,000 people annually through thought leadership and speaking
engagements, including TEDx talks. Her unique approach combines
psychology, neuroscience, and organizational change to guide
companies through human-centered AI adoption.

Bradford's impressive track record includes operating World of Warcraft
in China, co-founding TransformativeTech.org, and building the largest
global network for human potential technology spanning 450+ cities.
Through her $22.5M venture fund, she targets the $8.5 trillion human
potential market. Her mission is clear: creating a future where AI
enhances human capabilities while strengthening social cohesion and
well-being.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Venetian Room
Session Type: 
Breakout Session
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