AI and Organizational Intelligence: Building Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
AI agents are being deployed in enterprises to automate knowledge work and improve productivity. This transformation is still in its early stages, but we are already seeing agents take on coordination work as well. Organizations are flattening as they lay off middle managers. The post-industrial world of work will be one of dynamic networks of humans and AI agents.
Yet efficiency gains alone are not sufficient to maintain a competitive advantage. In a world of accelerating chaos and complexity, firms must dramatically speed up their response to emerging threats and opportunities. This requires more than empowering individual employees with AI. It demands that the organization as a whole becomes more intelligent.
We will discuss:
Why AI for Productivity is not enough
Organizational Intelligence versus Individual (and Augmented) Intelligence
Organization Intelligence in strategy, growth, R&D, and operations
How AI agents can help us sense outside threats and opportunities
Harvesting tacit human knowledge using AI
AI+Human sense-making and decision-making
Organizational structures for faster adaptation
The role of workforce transformation for organizational intelligence
Assessing and measuring Organizational Intelligence
Obstacles to progress and strategies for rapid improvement
Speakers
Jacob Liberman, Director, Enterprise Product, NVIDIA
Frode L. Odegard, CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu. GM, Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh, Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab, Hitachi America Ltd.
Stefan Petzov, VP of Innovation and Technology, Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Member-only program
2:30pm-5pm Workshop on organizational intelligence
(in-person and online)
Public program:
5:00pm-6:00pm: Networking and refreshments
6:00pm-6:05pm: Welcome
6:05pm-6:30pm: Introduction to Organizational Intelligence (Frode Odegard)
6:30pm: Panelist presentations, discussion, Q&A
8:00pm: Close
Our host: This event is kindly sponsored by our friends at SRI, a pioneer in AI research since the 1960s. Some of the earliest work on AI agents was done at SRI.
About the Post-Industrial Forum
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original PII research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
Speaker bios
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company.
In his 8 years at Hitachi, Dipanjan has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
Jacob Liberman
Director of Enterprise Product Management
NVIDIA
Jacob will discuss the use of agents within NVIDIA and its enterprise customers. NVIDIA has also been a famously flat organization for some time. making it an interesting case study for a decentralized, AI-enabled environment. Here is a recent podcast interview with Jacob.
Stefan Petzov
VP of Innovation and Technology
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
Stefan Petzov leads Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.
Frode L. Odegard
Founder and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Frode is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent research organization developing strategy and tools for the organizations of the future.
Frode founded his first startup in high school in Norway, M2CS, which built a next-generation development environment for embedded systems programming. He joined an ISO standards committee for the Modula-2 programming language while still in his teens, and served on the board of the Sun Microsystems User Group as the European representative soon after.
Frode immigrated to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and founded an independent R&D lab, Odegard Labs, which worked with enterprise customers to solve difficult problems in software architecture, quality, and reengineering. Odegard Labs also did pathbreaking work in formal methods and language design.
In 2004 Frode founded the Post-Industrial Institute with the mission to develop a new school of management science for the post-industrial era. In 2019 he also founded the Post-Industrial Forum, a community for visionary leaders building the organizations of the future.