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AI & the Workforce:

The Adoption Gap

November 14, 2024, New York City

AI isn’t the hard part.

Adoption is.

But this isn’t disillusionment. It’s a challenge to leaders.

Valence's 2025 virtual summit explored how to close the gap for real AI impact at work.

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Free Virtual Summit

June 5, 2025

9:00 ET / 15:00 CET

Fortune 500 CHROs and leading technologists shared how to build a roadmap to AI results.

Speakers

Ethan Mollick

Professor of Entrepreneurship,  The Wharton School

Geoffrey Hinton

Nobel Laureate in Physics, “Godfather of AI”

Reid Hoffman

Co- Founder of LinkedIn, Partner at Greylock

Gillian Tett

Editorial Board Chair at the Financial Times

Colleen Sugrue

Head of Global Learning and Organizational Capability at AGCO

Diane Gherson

Board Member, Kraft Heinz;
Former CHRO, IBM

Hein Knaapen

Former CHRO, ING;
Managing Partner at CEO.works

Jennifer Carpenter

VP, Global Head of Talent at Analog Devices

Jeff Dalton

Head of AI and Chief Scientist at Valence

Jonathan Crookall

Chief People Officer at Costa Coffee

Larry Emond

Senior Partner, Modern Executive Solutions

Lindsay Pattison

Chief People Officer at WPP

Lucien Alziari

Former CHRO at Prudential Financial

Lisette Danesi

Global Corporate People Lead at WPP

Maree Prendergast

Global Chief People Officer at VML

Paula Landmann

Chief Talent and Development Officer at Novartis

Parker Mitchell

Chief Executive Officer of Valence

Tim Gregory

Managing Director of HR Innovation & WorkforceTechnology at Delta

THE PROGRAM

Part 1: Unpacking the AI Hype

People love to make bold promises about what AI will do. What's hype and what's not? Technology leaders on what you need to understand about AI and a human+AI world.

9:00am EST

Founder Welcome: The Future of AI in the Workplace

Any big technology leap comes with a central promise and a lot of rough edges. With AI, the central promise is personal assistants and coaches who support us in every part of our lives — including at work. So, how will work change as more workers have an AI coach?

Parker Mitchell, CEO & Founder of Valence

9:15am EST

Fireside Chat: HR is now R&D

HR is now R&D, and the biggest difference between AI leaders and AI laggards is whether the C-suite have adopted the technology. Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI explains how leaders should be thinking about and (more importantly) using AI.

Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at The Wharton School and author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Parker Mitchell, CEO & Founder of Valence

9:50am EST

Fireside Chat: AI: The Untold Story

When it comes to AI, it can be hard to get past buzzy headlines to the real story. Reid Hoffman and Gillian Tett discuss the story we’re hearing about AI and its economic and workforce impact – and the important stories that are being overlooked.

Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder at LinkedIn, Manas AI, and Inflection AI

Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, US of The Financial Times

Part 2: Perspectives on the AI Roadmap

Current and former CHROs on what AI means for HR, what HR leaders need to unlock the impact and ROI of AI, and how to build a roadmap to get there.

10:20am EST

Panel: HR When AI Joins the Org Chart

We keep hearing that AI is joining the org chart, but what exactly does that mean? Former CHROs explore how AI is becoming a new part of how work gets done, how the best leaders are onboarding AI into their organizations, and what the future of talent looks like.

Lucien Alziari, CHRO at Prudential

Diane Gherson, former CHRO at IBM

Larry Emond, Senior Partner at Modern Executive Solutions

11:00am EST

Panel: Why AI Impact Starts with Managers

If you want to maximize AI’s impact at your company, start with managers. HR executives unpack the new AI toolkit to support managers, unlock capacity, and ultimately drive organizational performance.

Hein Knaapen, Managing Partner at CEO.Works

Lindsay Pattison, Chief People Officer at WPP

Paula Landmann, Chief Talent & Development Partner at Novartis

Part 3: Innovating Talent

How AI coaching is changing learning at work, talent management, career development, and leadership as we know it.

11:30am EST

Panel: How to Successfully Deploy an AI Coach

It’s one thing to buy seats for an AI tool, but it’s another thing entirely to successfully integrate it into your organization. Learn how some of the world’s top companies have rolled out Nadia and lessons learned on the path to global adoption.

Maree Prendergast, Global Chief People Officer at VML

Jennifer Carpenter, Global Head of Talent at ADI

Jonathan Crookall, Chief People Officer at Costa Coffee

12:05pm EST

Fireside Chat: What Leaders Need to Understand About AI

What’s the most overused word when it comes to AI? According to Geoffrey Hinton, one of the inventors of the modern LLM, it’s hype and AI is under, not overhyped. He explains the power of AI coaches and assistants in healthcare, education, and the workplaces and what leaders most need to understand about the technology.

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and deep learning expert, in conversation with Parker Mitchell

12:30pm EST

Final Remarks

Parker Mitchell, CEO & Founder of Valence

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Feedback from our 2024 Summit speaks for itself

“The fast-paced development of AI in the workforce will change the way we think about personalization, upskilling, and work excellence, as well as what is possible for the talent function of tomorrow.”

“An energizing opportunity to exchange on the possibilities of AI to shape work and the workforce of tomorrow.”

“Thank you for ushering in this new era so magnificently.

Nadia may be the most prolific coach in the world right now ...”

Valence’s flagship virtual summit went beyond the headlines to explore how…

AI is joining the org chart

How the Fortune 500 are using Valence’s coach Nadia to change work for over 2M employees and growing.‍

Adoption comes before productivity

CHROs on what does and doesn’t work to drive adoption, based on real initiatives.

Leaders are proving out ROI in real-time

AI playbooks to unlock performance and deliver bottom line results.

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Valence’s

AI & the Workforce  Series

November 14, 2024, New York City

Talent leaders at the frontier of work share how AI coaching is transforming the largest organizations, with detailed use cases and learnings.

AI is changing the way we work.

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AI & the Workforce:

The Adoption Gap

AI isn’t the hard part.

Adoption is.

Why Attend?

This isn't theory — it’s what’s working now.

Hear from CHROs and innovators leading AI transformation.

Learn how to scale AI coaching, unlock talent capacity, and tie AI to real performance.

Fortune 500 CHROs and leading technologists shared how to build a roadmap to AI results.