“Workshop: Onboarding Generative AI: A Hands-On Workshop” by Pennefather
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- Workshop: Onboarding Generative AI: A Hands-On Workshop
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- Generative AI Integration: Understanding capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations in the successful integration of generative AI within work environments.
- Organizational Readiness: Assessing team dynamics, infrastructure, and cultural adaptability for AI adoption.
- Risk Management: Identifying pitfalls like bias, IP concerns, privacy, workforce displacement, with strategies to address them.
- Workflow Optimization: Mapping AI tools to specific tasks (e.g., procedural asset generation, rapid prototyping).
- Future-Proofing: Aligning AI adoption with long-term organizational goals and evolving tech trends.
- Facilitation of the Onboarding Generative AI Canvas (see attachments) to draft team-specific roadmaps.
- Reference to real case studies analyzing successful/unsuccessful AI integration in organizations.
- Role-playing exercises to simulate cross-departmental alignment (e.g., artists vs. IT).
- Ethical debates on AI bringing to the surface challenges in creative ownership and workforce dynamics.
- Actionable Roadmaps: Individuals leave with a clearer plan to bring to their teams on how best to integrate generative AI tools.
- Risk-Aware Mindset: Strategies to preempt ethical, technical, and operational obstacles. Accelerated Adoption: Frameworks to streamline integration minimizing workflow disruptions.
- Collaborative Fluency: Reframing AI lingo to make more informed decisions as to its adoption.
- Innovations & Contributions: This course fills an ongoing gap in AI education for new and more seasoned professionals evaluating its value—the how of implementation versus the promise of solving every existing problem. By focusing on a tangible framework (the Canvas), it enables individuals to collaboratively brainstorm eight dominant considerations that will provide them a reality check on what will be necessary for responsible AI adoption within their organization.
Theme: Empowering individuals within organizations to strategically integrate generative AI into their workflows by creating a clear, actionable roadmap that identifies motivation, benefits and risks, what tool might support workflows and pipelines, ethical guidelines, the support that will be required to be successful, a realistic timeline and implementation strategy.
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- Topic 1: 10 minute introduction
- Topic 2: 10 minute meet and greet ice-breaker
- Topic 3: 10 minute description of Onboarding Gen AI Canvas Tool
- Topic 4: 20 minute filling in of the Canvas (in-person on paper with stickies and/or on Miro) QA During this session.
- Topic 5: 10 minute check-in and sharing
- Topic 6: 20 minute filling in of the Canvas part 2
- Topic 7: 10 minute concluding remarks and further QA
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Prerequisite: None except a fairly good understanding of their own workplace environment, the teams that are part of that workplace and an org chart to understand leadership.
Topics: AI Workflow, Generative AI
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Additional Info: This course introduces the Onboarding Generative AI Canvas to support individuals and teams in organizations to create a road map for understanding how generative AI systems will best support the work that they do, remove obstacles, minimize risks, and accelerate adoption.
