Your audience is drowning in AI hype. Kevin gives them a way out.

Session 01

Don't Automate Chaos: A Practical Framework for AI Readiness

What it solves

Someone on your attendee list has already tried to automate something and watched it fail in production. They know the pilot worked. They do not know why the real thing did not. This session answers that question and gives them a diagnostic framework they can apply before the next initiative starts. Built from 30 years of implementation experience, it walks through exactly what foundational work looks like, why it gets skipped, and what it costs when it does.

They leave able to

• Assess whether a workflow is actually ready to automate before investing in any tool
• Identify the operational gaps that pilots miss but production exposes
• Build the internal case for foundational work as a prerequisite to AI investment

Session 02

The Age of Discernment: What AI Actually Changes About Your Job

What it solves

Your attendees have heard that AI will replace them, augment them, or make them irrelevant. None of those framings help them decide what to do on Monday morning. The research tells a clearer story: AI access is now table stakes, and a competitive divide is opening between people who bring strong judgment to AI output and people who accept it uncritically. This session names that divide, explains what it means for professional value, and gives attendees a concrete practice for landing on the right side of it.

They leave able to

• Explain the shift from knowing to judging as the core professional value in an AI-enabled environment
• Apply a discernment practice to AI output in their own workflow
• Identify where their team's competitive advantage now lives, and where it is eroding

Session 03

Stop Microwaving Your AI: How to Build AI Practices That Actually Work

What it solves

Most of your attendees are already using AI. Most of them are not getting consistent results. They retype the same prompts, get unpredictable outputs, and feel more tired at the end of the day, not less. Research from Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard Business Review confirms it: AI without structure does not save time, it intensifies the work and accelerates burnout. This session gives attendees a concrete path from casual use to structured, sustainable AI fluency, the level where the productivity gains actually show up.

They leave able to

• Build persistent AI workspaces that eliminate repeated setup and context loss
• Identify which tasks in their workflow benefit most from structured AI practices
• Move from prompting to a repeatable AI system that compounds value over time

Session 04

Where AI Actually Is (And Where It Isn't)

What it solves

Half your attendees think AI is about to replace half the workforce. The other half think it is mostly hype. Both camps are making decisions based on a map that does not match the territory. This session delivers a grounded, current picture of where AI capability actually stands, updated to the week of your event, drawing on the same research synthesis Kevin publishes every week in his newsletter. Attendees leave with an accurate map. That alone makes every subsequent AI decision faster and more confident.

They leave able to

• Separate AI's genuine current capabilities from vendor-amplified claims
• Use the Jagged Frontier concept to match tasks to tools more accurately
• Ask the governance and trust questions that most AI deployments skip

This session is updated for each engagement, drawing on Kevin's weekly newsletter and iS2 Digital's insights library to reflect the current state of the field, not last year's headlines.