Workshops

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09:00–09:30 | Introductions & Welcome

 

9:30 - 11:00 min | Transforming into an AI-Powered Leader / Understanding AI: Tools, Capabilities, Limitations & Strategic Opportunities

• AI-First Thinking

• 8 Tools in Action – hands-on demo with use cases and prompts:

• AI Use Cases

• AI in Business - What other businesses are doing?

• AI Use Cases in Different Business Functions

• Leaders AI Booster Map – build a personal AI toolkit

 

11:00-11:15 | Break

 

11:15 - 12:45 | Stepping up as a leader to the age of AI

AI is not only transforming how we work — it’s also reshaping what it means to lead. In this session, we’ll explore the personal dimension of change: how AI challenges our sense of identity, relevance, and purpose as leaders. This is an invitation to pause, reflect, and consciously evolve your leadership in a world where certainty, control, and technical expertise are no longer the core of your value.

• What shifts when AI enters the picture — in ourselves, our leadership, and our sense of value

• Reframing relevance: the leadership qualities that remain distinctly human — and indispensable

• Redefining your leadership identity with intention and beyond fear, ego, and outdated expectations

• Lessons from the past: adaptability, perspective, and the cost of resistance

• Conscious leadership in the AI era — from managing tasks to holding vision, ethics, and culture

 

12:45–13:45 | Lunch break

 

13:45- 15:15 | AI For Your Business

• How to integrate AI into your Business?

• A Holistic approach to AI Transformation

• AI Adoption Strategies

• Interactive activity: AI Use Case Canvas

• AI Strategy Framework

• Overview of AI risk areas: bias, hallucination, over-reliance, IP/data privacy, security

• Human-in-the-loop safeguards and validation routines

• Ethics-by-design and practical governance tips for small teams

 

15:15-15:30 | Break

 

15:30-17:00 | Redefining Leadership For Augmented Teams

As AI transforms roles and ways of working, the role of the leader is no longer to drive productivity through oversight — but to unlock potential through trust, creativity, and vision. In this session, we’ll explore how to guide teams through uncertainty, reimagine roles, and support skill development with clarity, compassion, and strategic foresight.

• The evolving world of work: hybrid roles, agent-based workflows, and augmented teams

• Essential human and leadership skills: creativity, meaning-making, relational intelligence

• From hyperspecialisation to multipotentiality: embracing diverse strengths

• Leading with clarity through ambiguity: communication, courage, and calm

• Addressing resistance and skill anxiety: building psychological safety and a culture of growth

 

17:00–17:30 | Closing Remarks

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Speakers

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Cecile Hemery is a leadership and career coach, hypnotherapist, supervisor, trainer, and speaker who helps thoughtful professionals reclaim their confidence and impact, without pretending to be someone they’re not.

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With 15 years’ experience in product and marketing in the Tech and Gaming industry, Cecile combines coaching, psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, and mindfulness with a deep understanding of workplace dynamics in fast-paced, data-driven environments. She supports clients as they navigate the curveballs of career progression and leadership challenges and other transitions - bringing clarity, confidence, and calm. Her approach blends practical structure, emotional insight, and gentle challenge - always delivered with empathy and the occasional dash of humour.

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As a values-driven woman who has led teams and major projects, Cecile knows how disorienting it can feel to lose your footing or face challenges, especially when you’re the one others rely on. She helps her clients find their centre again, so they can lead with integrity, create a vision strategically and connect meaningfully, and make a difference on their own terms.

Her mission is simple: to help human-centred leaders show up with authenticity and have impact in their careers, and in their lives.

 

Dr. Emine Gokce Phillips is an accomplished entrepreneur, project manager, and AI strategist with a strong track record of building and leading technology ventures. She is the founder of Projesium and CryptoIndexSeries, where she has led innovative projects at the intersection of fintech, blockchain, and AI.

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With a passion for community building and thought leadership, Dr. Phillips has organised landmark events such as Turkey’s first large-scale Blockchain Summit. She has also participated in leading accelerator programs including Tenity and the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, securing investment from European and U.S.-based VCs.

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Her expertise spans the practical applications of AI—particularly Generative AI—in business transformation. She has led internal AI initiatives, delivered seminars in AI masterclasses for project managers, and advises startups and mid-size companies on AI strategy, roadmap development, and implementation.

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Dr. Phillips recently contributed a chapter titled "Transforming Startups with Gen AI" to the Springer-published book Tomorrow's Data Empowered Project Management. Now based in Oxford, she is the driving force behind the AI for Business – Oxford event series, helping companies across industries turn AI potential into practical outcomes.

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