Insights from GenAI Summit Riga
The Agenda and Topics AE have selected for the event
• Analysis of industry trends
• Examples how AI being used
• How to unlock business potential
• Tips to make your team GenAI superusers
• Overview "Not the skills of future"
• List of Meta Skills
• Summary of key competencies that help professional growth
• Practical examples of AI roles & skills
• Framework "How to think what AI can"
• Lead research using AI
• AI + automation = DYI tools
• Summary of AI tool ecosystem
• Showcases of issues & offered solutions
• Recruiter AI tools ecosystem
• AI assistants
• Tools with embedded AI
• Simulation of E2E recruitment process
• How to prepare employees for job shifts
• How educational institutions incorporate AI-related courses and programs into their curricula
• How to quantify the value of upskilling and reskilling efforts
• How through AI to encourage lifelong learning beyond formal education
• Measuring impact with AI tools
• AI can help smaller companies
• Aligning AI with business strategy
• Maintaining company value without being an AI expert
• Experience sharing - starting AI journey
• Blooming AI communities - create new or add to existing?
• Unlock AI potential
• Many quit AI due to lack of understanding
• Personal interest and readiness are key
• AI Impact on the Labor Market
• AI Adoption Challenges in Organizations
• Encouraging Employees’ Voluntary AI Education
• Understanding AI Basics - important foundation
• Ethical Considerations - steps organizations take to ensure AI ecosystem is fair, transparent, and unbiased
Event recap videos - featuring highlights of keynotes and panel discussions
Agate Ambulte I Gen AI Specialist & Strategic Advisor I Digital Innovations Park linkedin.com/in/agatea/
Episode #1
Unleashing The Power of GEN AI
Highlight 1: Can it be that 1/5 of world, who has access to internet and using Gen AI is wrong about this tool?
- 4 steps how to integrate usage in your team
- Where to use it and what's next?
Highlight 2: 3 hours of advanced GEN AI session is totally enough to understand it "from zero to hero" to start use it
- When to use ?
- Who and when can create with it?
- Functions in use and where can integrate Gen AI tools
- How this technology can speed up all the processes
Highlight 3: Choose your speed and superpowers!
It's quite rare to encounter a technology that places everyone at the same starting line. Generative AI is one of those remarkable technologies!
Episode #2
Emerging skills in Gen AI
Highlight 1: Prompt Engineering or just Prompting?
- What are you really engineering? What do you plan to engineer?
- Is Generalist new ultimate skill?
- New role name "Code philosopher"?
Highlight 2: Learn how to learn. Learn how to learn fast.
- Demanding areas in AI future
- Will you be replaced by someone, who can use AI better than you?
Highlight 3: The future of work is a choice, not a destiny!
Instead of "How will AI affect work?" the question should be:
"How do we want AI to affect work"?
Andrejs Karpovs I Head of Oracle Cloud & Oracle GenAI I Tietoevry
linkedin.com/in/andrejskarpovs
Episode #3
Embedding AI Business Operation and Sales
Highlight 1: AI's superpower isn't just generating new content - it's also structuring unstructured data
- AI = pattern recognition & ability to generate new content
- Automation can help integrate AI into business processes
Highlight 2: Sales - think in functions, not on an industry level
- Understand context and meaning
- Generate new content
- AI structures unstructured data
Hyperscan Demo: AI Solutions for Linkedin data
- No-code workflow automation tools
- Lead research with AI gives search superpower and unlocks true personalization
- Jungle of titles > Use AI to filter suitable leads
- Industry filters too wide > Use AI to identify suitable companies based on keywords
- Keyword search is limited or giving too narrow results > Hyperscan has a solution
Episode #4
Leveraging AI in Recruitment
Highlight 1: Meet our New Recruiter: Artifitial Intelligence
- Hi Chat GPT, I need a back-end developer in my team
- Hi there again Chat GPT, can you provide me the appropriate filters and search strings?
- Where AI will replace me?
Highlight 2: - The goal is to "fire myself
- Where did AI replace me?
- AI as unstructured data processor
- Transparancy and data control
- What did I do myself?
Hyperscan Demo: AI Solutions to revolutionize recruitment process
- Ever received 3000 applications?
- Automate outreach
- Interview recordings, transcripts and summaries
- Interview brief in 1 min
Juris Baums I Founder & CGO Hyperscan I Founder & Lecturer AI Academy
linkedin.com/in/juris-baums/
Janis Kreilis I Founder & CEO Hyperscan I Founder & Lecturer AI Academy
linkedin.com/in/kreilis/
Claudio Rivera I Agate Ambulte I Laura Kaire
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"The important role of universities and academia is to develop this talent, to give them a broad side of opportunities, to connect them with a right people, right mentors, right specialists, good examples. To give them all the tools necessary, to develop their talent".
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"There is a deficit of soft skills in graduates and in job market, but to do that you need a certain level of inter disciplinarity of projects, these are educational experiences where you connect people from different programs or between industry programs".
Episode #5
Workforce Transformation and Job Shifts.
Fostering new Wave of Talents
AI has changed the job market. Now, job titles like "AI ethicist" and "ML engineer" are not just buzzwords, but crucial positions. Nowadays, you need to be as familiar with AI as you are with office coffee machines; who knew "talking to robots" would be part of the job description?
Decates ago you have graduated university, which graduated your father, and now, there are non Academic institutions, that offer Master Degree in GenAI or Master Degree in Prompt Engineering, etc. Explore academic sector take on this.
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"We are looking for global mindset, we are looking for people that can collaborate across cultures, and rather soft skills. Because, let's be honest, if we talk about hard skills & Gen AI it's so fresh. You rather take someone who you can train and grow together, learn with them, apply those learnings into your organization, then hire "know it all" .
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"Yes, we do changes in university programs, but it's very slow. And generally, universities are not prepared for disciplinary programs. We are not made for that. We are made to produce people, quickly on certain skills. This is a challenge, very interesting challenge. And you need interdisciplinarity to foster certain skills" .
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"We might be focusing a lot on academic integrity, how much AI will help our students to do autonomous work. If we are on defense, we're not going to come up with the right strategy".
Episode #6
AI Value & Contributors
Highlight 1: If you're not building new startup, what are you doing?
- Where you gonna invest in next 5 years?
- Find "good candidates" and have measurment system set up - that's the easy part, and the hard part is....
Highlight 2: Whatever tool you're using - Lean, Automation, IT, they have ways how they wanna measure impact
- The AI is ONE Of the Tools
- Where AI can level up smaller companies, by start using it?
- It's up to the person to be interested and ready?
You will explore:
- How to keep relevant skills for leadership in this changing environment?
- How to navigate in keeping company value, even you're not AI Guru (yet)?
- Where does AI play a big role?
- How can companies align AI initiatives with their overall business strategy?
- How can professionals continuously update their skills to stay relevant in an AI-driven world ?
Jarune Preiksaite I Janis Kreilis I Janis Paksis
Episode #8
AI Literacy at the Workplace. What it means for the Labor Market.
Highlight 1: First step from organization - provide their stands on AI
- What's the strategy for AI for the company
- What low hanging fruits we are looking at
- Look at different use case
- Encourage employees to become AI Influencers
Highlight 2: Documentation and guidelines are important
- Who's is responsible? Who's taking risks on incorrectly applied AI and data leaks?
- Your employee never received policies, guidelines, etc. from management but already started to use GEN AI tools. Does it happen in your company?
- Risk awareness and user manuals, guidelines for entire organization about tools approved to use, apply and trainings needs
Highlight 3: What is AI literacy?
-Always check the outputs from models, not over rely on them.
-If you're not SME you can drive yourself and organization into big risks.
"What is first step we're expecting from our leaders, is to dimistify it for the rest of the organizations. For example in R&D organizations make majority of employees tech savy and easy to talk to. And for HR sometimes we need to translate it to "human words"".
"It's also about competiveness about the company. If noone knows we're using AI, maybe some candidates loose interest to apply. And we can't afford that".
It's imporant to understand how it benefits for you function to actually get hook and to that, what are next trainings you want to do, or what are next skills and certifications you'd like to get".
Andrejs Karpovs I Edite Lidaka I Laura Kaire
Episode #9
Navigating New Frontiers
Highlight 1: Experience Sharing
Where and how to begin AI journey?
The Imporance of growing AI knowledge within employees
Highlight 2: Blooming communities
- Shall we create new one, of add a new topic to already existing?
- Split the big goals into smaller actions
- Community itself can't generate content out of nothing, key elements are...
- Communities can be also in post comments within AI 'influencer' articles in social media
Highlight 3: Unlock AI Potential
- How many people, who tried AI once or twice and quit, due to not understanding potential of AI
- Be an educator and increase awareness of the technology and it's opportunities to make more efficient and effective daily routines and experiences
Ilze Zukova I Juris Baums I Megan Martinson
Claudio Rivera
Director and Associated Professor, Riga Business School
“This is technology, which we don't full understand yet and that's why we be to be together, sit together, and discuss it.”
Janis Kreilis
CEO and Founder Hyperscan
“Once we understand where AI lies, how it can help us, how do we get started? So that's is a big question. How do we get started, how do we show to people right tools.?”
Jarune Preiksaite
CEO and Founder Women Go Tech
“AI is not another technical revolution, it's a huge push to all humanity. People interested in the topics from different angles: ethics, skill building, involvement of woman in AI, and how we gonna create new technologies?”
Juris Baums
CGO and Co-Founder Hyperscan
“It's easy, because AI is hyped and people are curious about it, at the same time it's hard, as AI is kind of blank canvas "problem". First we have to educate and give framework so they understand how to implement that. ”