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How Do We Bring the Organization Along? – Culture, Policy, Skills, and Responsible Experimentation

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📅 November 18, 2026 | 11 AM–12 PM CST |📍Virtual | English | Free

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About this Webinar

Many organizations have moved beyond asking whether AI matters. The harder questions are where to begin, what must be in place, and how to turn promising pilots into sustainable business practice.

 

This Webinar focuses on how can an organization encourage employees to experiment with AI while building the judgment and guardrails needed to use it responsibly?

What participants will gain

A practical adoption approach that supports learning and experimentation without creating unmanaged risk.

What we will explore

1. Treat AI implementation as organizational change 

  • Address how roles, workflows, expectations, and employee concerns change when AI enters daily work. 
  • Align HR, IT, business leadership, and process owners around shared responsibilities and decision rights. 

 

2. Create useful policies—and room to experiment 

  • Define approved and prohibited uses, confidential-data handling, human review, and a simple approval path for new experiments. 
  • Provide safe spaces for low-risk experimentation so employees can learn within clear boundaries. 

 

3. Build collective judgment and trust 

  • Teach employees to question outputs, recognize limitations, and know when human expertise must prevail. 
  • Learn from near misses and failures without shutting down experimentation; bridge differing U.S. and German expectations around experimentation and documentation. 

Speakers

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    Barbara Wittmann

    President​ GACC - CO Chapter​, CEO IT Zeitgeist Barbara Wittmann is the founder of Digital Wisdom Collective™ and President of the German American Chamber of Commerce, Colorado Chapter. She is the neutral voice in the room when a decade-defining tech decision is on the line - building the human capability the success of the investment depends on. She rescued broken technology transformations for 25 years and was part of SAP's Office of the CEO innovation team under Hasso Plattner before starting her own company, which she rebuilt on AI in 2026. Author of Meetings in Moccasins; Global Peter Drucker Forum speaker.

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    Geoffrey Somary

    CEO - Ipsen Group Geoffrey Somary oversees the global companies of Ipsen based in the US, Germany, China, India and Japan. Ipsen manufactures and services heat treatment systems that transform metals and alloys into super-performing materials used in mission critical applications. Geoffrey began working for Ipsen in 2005 and has supported Ipsen’s expansion into diverse global markets including Aviation, Space Launch, Energy and Defense while emphasizing the aftermarket business, which is now more than half of annual revenues.   Geoffrey began his career near Stuttgart, Germany while working for a German builder of automotive assembly plants. He then continued with that company based in the US until 2004.  Geoffrey serves on the board of Directors of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest and volunteers in several community organizations. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Veranstaltung

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📅 September 30, 2026 | 11 AM–12 PM CDT |📍Virtual | English | Free

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Veranstaltung

How Do We Bring the Organization Along? – Culture, Policy, Skills, and Responsible Experimentation

📅 November 18, 2026 | 11 AM–12 PM CST |📍Virtual | English | Free

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