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AI and You: Building a Strategy for the Future

The companies that win with AI aren’t the ones that race to cut costs. They’re the ones that use AI to make their people exponentially more valuable. The choice every leader faces is binary: extraction or amplification — and the data on which path compounds is already in.

 

The Human Advantage in the AI Era

Boards are demanding faster AI deployment. Employees are terrified of being replaced. Most companies are racing forward to embrace a technology nobody fully understands yet — what Steve calls the Future of Work Mirage.

In this keynote, Steve Cadigan shares the Human Advantage framework — a strategic approach for redesigning how humans create value with AI, drawing on real organizations doing this work today: Ericsson’s AI Skills Discovery (“AI didn’t threaten me. It saw me”), Novartis’s “what can you become?” reframe, and Lemonade’s process-versus-promise split.

Attendees leave with a clear, contrarian point of view on where to invest, what to cut, and how to turn AI into a capability that compounds rather than a cost-cut that diminishes.

 

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Key Takeaways

  • The Future of Work Mirage — why most AI strategies fail and what to do instead.
  • The Human Advantage framework: three shifts that turn AI from threat into competitive edge.
  • Concrete patterns from Ericsson, Novartis, and Lemonade on amplifying human capability with AI.
  • How to make the case to your board for augmentation over replacement — with the numbers to back it up.
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