What happens when AI begins to shape how decisions about people are made, often invisibly and at scale?

In this opening session, Bill Jensen coauthor of “Humanity: Leading the Powershift”, will explore how AI is fundamentally shifting power in the workplace and not just accelerating tasks. From hiring and performance to access, opportunity, and voice, the systems we design today will determine whether human potential is amplified or eroded.

Drawing from the books Bill of Human Rights for the AI Era and the concept of a Human Capital Operating System, this session will challenge leaders to rethink how work is designed, how decisions are made, and what must change to ensure dignity, agency, and fairness in an AI-shaped world.

Expect bold ideas, uncomfortable questions, and moments that shift how you see the future of work.

Throughout the Summit, participants will engage with Actually during dedicated reflection periods to process ideas emerging from provocations, Hackathon Circles, dialogue sessions, and personal leadership challenges. The experience synthesizes themes, insights, and emerging patterns from each conversation, creating a reflective artifact participants can revisit beyond the Summit.

Collective reflections and themes emerging from participant interactions will also help inform end-of-day synthesis conversations. Participant responses are private. Collective insights are anonymized.

Actually explores a central Summit question:

What happens when AI moves beyond automation and becomes a partner in reflection, dialogue, and meaning-making?

Navigating 100 Years of Innovation
The world often feels like it’s moving faster than we can keep up. While technology changes at breakneck speed, the core of leadership doesn’t. Connecting with people, building trust, and navigating uncertainty remains a deeply human function.

Join Curt Meinhold, founder of LilyList and The Flux AI Consulting and Education for an interactive, hands-on workshop where we take a step back from the hype and ground ourselves for the future. We’ll take a journey through decades of tech history to understand how leaders engaged with the "new" and the "unknown," ultimately finding ways to lead through challenging times.

You’ll work with others to research and understand the past using modern tools, explore the emotional side of change through visual reflection, and discover the timeless leadership traits that keep us grounded when everything else is shifting.

Generative AI agents are powerful, but power without structure leads to drift, bias, and outcomes no one intended. Ken introduces a proven framework, Plan-Do-Check-Act, adapted for human-agent collaboration to keep you accountable, aware, and in control.

Originally developed to manage complex adaptive systems in manufacturing and design and refined through decades of lean practice, PDCA maps naturally onto how we should work with AI:

• Plan: Give the agent full context and have it build an explicit execution plan before it acts
• Do: Step through the work with human oversight at the moments that matter
• Check: Require the agent to validate outcomes against your original objectives and its plan, not just report completion
• Act: Retrospect using the interaction transcript to improve how you collaborate next time

You don't need to be a developer to apply this. Whether you're using AI to draft communications, run a hiring process, or design an organizational initiative, the same questions apply: What must a human always decide? Where is a mistake hard to undo? What can you learn from this cycle to do it better next time?

This session will give you a mental model you can use immediately, regardless of which tools you work with.

Hackathon Circles are designed to help participants explore meaningful leadership tensions, challenges, and questions emerging in the Age of Intelligence.

Over three days, participants will reflect, discuss, experiment, and advance their thinking together in collaborative groups. Rather than focusing on rapid technical solutions, the Hackathon Circles are centered on leadership, human behavior, decision-making, culture, accountability, and personal evolution in an AI-enabled world.

Each group will share key insights, tensions, and proposed ideas on Day 3.

Participants who wish to continue conversations beyond the Summit may choose to explore small experiments, pilot ideas, or ongoing dialogue together after the event.

Purpose of Hackathon Circles

• Explore a leadership challenge deeply
• Generate frameworks, ideas, and experiments
• Advance collective thinking
• Create Day 3 outputs and insights
• Identify experiments worth testing beyond the Summit

Hackathon Circles are open to both in-person and virtual participants.

In-person participants remain part of their Hub throughout the Summit experience while also participating in a Hackathon Circle.

Hubs may naturally choose to explore a shared Hackathon topic together based on common interests and emerging tensions.

However, participants are also welcome to join a different Hackathon Circle if another topic resonates more strongly with their interests, questions, or leadership challenges.