Session catalog · July 2026

Keynotes & teaching sessions.

The full catalog, by category. Every session lists the formats it can be delivered in, who it’s for, and what the room walks away with. Each can be combined into half-day, full-day, and multi-day programs.

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AI-Driven Enterprises

How AI-native businesses are reshaping the competitive landscape, and how established organizations respond.

Intro to AI-Driven Enterprises: Competing in the Age of Autonomous Business

The 30-Minute Startup: Zero to Launch with AI

Reverse Engineering the Threat: How an Entrepreneur Could Outrun You with Jetpack

Sourcery: Engineering the Second Org Brain

AIDE Organization Audit

AI Competitive Intelligence Analysis

AIDE Opportunity Assessment

AIDE Live Challenges: The AI Innovation Arena

AI Fundamentals: Decoding the Stack and the History of Now

Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering: Getting the Most from AI

AIDE Executive Simulation: Project New Car Smell

State of the Art Org Chart: Embedding AI Agents in Your Company's Org Chart

Dear C-Suite, An Integrated Approach to AI: Transforming Your Organization to an AIDE

Agentic AI: From Tools to Teammates

Understanding AI Risks: Definitions of Emerging Threats

AI in the Public Sector: Building the Responsive State

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Entrepreneurship in Large Organizations

Building and scaling new ventures inside the enterprise, on existing strengths.

Strategic Growth Levers: Scaling on Strengths, Not Speculation

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building New Ventures Inside the Enterprise

Beyond the Sandbox: Compressing Enterprise Innovation with Autonomous AI

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HR & People Leadership in the AI-Driven Enterprise

Keynotes, half-day, and full-day formats for CHROs, Chief People Officers, and HR leadership teams. Every session below is new to this catalog and can be combined into multi-day curricula for executive offsites, leadership academies, and learning & education programs.

Node Resources: A Transition from Human Resources in the AIDE Era

AI Fluency for HR Leaders: Literacy, Fluency, and Advocacy

The End of Human Time: What No One Works Here Means for HR and the Chief Node Officer

The Captain to Architect Transition: Redefining Leadership in the AIDE Era

The Architect's Manifesto: A Commitment for HR Leaders

Org Design & Workforce Architecture

Carbon and Silicon: Redesigning the Org Chart for the AIDE Era

The Node Architecture: Rethinking the People Function as a Network

Introducing the VP of Agents: Building Your AI Workforce Function

From ARR/FTE to Revenue per Node: New Metrics for the People Function

Headcount Decoupled: Modeling the AIDE Workforce 5 Years Out

Talent: Hiring, Job Design, and Development

The Competency & Culture Audit: Are You Hiring for the World That No Longer Exists?

Writing AI-Ready Job Descriptions: The New Standard for Every Role

Decomposing Roles, Not Automating Jobs: The Four Axes of AI Task Suitability

The AI Talent Development Plan: Tiered Upskilling for the Whole Organization

Force-Ranking Your AI Priorities: The 12 Tensions Every Executive Has to Resolve

The Tradeoff Workshop: Where Does Your Organization Actually Stand?

Embedding AI Fluency in Onboarding: Day-One Capability for New Hires

Closing the Learning Ladder Gap: How to Develop Junior Talent When Agents Do the First Draft

Hiring Your First Ten Agents: The Procurement-Meets-HR Workflow

People Operations in the AIDE Era

Performance Management When Half Your Team Is Silicon

The Autonomy Worksheet: Building Guardrails for People Decisions

AI Governance for People Leaders: Risk, Audit, and Accountability

The Honest Messaging Workshop: How to Tell Your People What's Coming

HR Strategy & The Architect's Role

The Superhuman Mission: Rewriting Your People Strategy for an AI-Augmented Workforce

The HR Function's Own AI Audit: Where Are You Hypocritical?

Peer Benchmarking: How Your Competitors Are Reshaping Their Workforces

AI-Native Culture: The Five Traits HR Has to Engineer

Start with You: AI Fluency for the HR Leader

Future-of-Work Keynote

Ctrl+Alt+Company: The Post-Human People Function

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Startup Tactics

The execution playbook from strategy and metrics through to hiring your first team.

Startup Strategy & Metrics: Charting Your Venture's GPS

Branding & Asset Development for Startups

Persona Validation Through Digital Advertising

Early Customer Traction: Outbound Sales & Pipeline Design

Tactical Iteration Workshop: Aligning Strategy with Execution

Product Roadmapping: From Insights to MVBP

User-Centered Design: MVBP UX and Testing Strategy

From Design to Development: Building Your MVP Without a Tech Team

Fundraising Strategy & Execution for Early Ventures

Hiring Your First Team & Leveraging Stakeholders

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Entrepreneurship Foundations

The disciplined entrepreneurship fundamentals, from segmentation to the minimum viable business product.

Market Segmentation and Opportunity Discovery

Market Research Deep Dive

Persona & Value Proposition Design

Competitive Positioning & Early Customer Pipeline

Business Models, Pricing, and LTV

Testing Key Assumptions with Experiments

Defining the Minimum Viable Business Product (MVBP)

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Public Speaking and Communication for Leaders & Engineers

High-impact content and delivery, from managing fear to the board-ready pitch.

Emotions in Public Speaking

High-Impact Communication: Content & Delivery

Storytelling for Influence

Executive Presence Foundations

Executive Pitch Practice

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