ATC April Roundtable Breakfast

Navigating the Intersection of Human Intent and AI Agency (The Workplace Angle). In an era of “tool overload,” leaders face a high-stakes balancing act between driving efficiency and preserving the human ingenuity that defines their brand. This session provides a roadmap for managers to integrate agentic AI without eroding team morale or sacrificing critical thinking.

Closing Takeaway

“The goal of AI integration isn’t to remove the human from the loop, but to elevate the human to a higher loop.” The audience should leave understanding that the “right choice” isn’t about which tool has the best API, but which tool reinforces their team’s sense of agency and expertise rather than replacing it.

Speaker: Sridhar Sudarsan

Sridhar Sudarsan, Chief AI Strategist at EX Squared, is a distinguished technologist, executive leader, entrepreneur, investor, and AI futurist, currently serving as the founder of an advisory practice helping organizations deploy AI at scale and drive transformational business outcomes. Over the past three decades, he has led intrapreneurial initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and scaled AI start-ups. As the former CTO at IBM Watson Platform and Partnerships and Avathon, Sudarsan has pioneered AI strategies across energy, manufacturing, aerospace and defense and health sectors.  He also serves as Adjunct Professor for Machine Learning at the University of Southampton.