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Watch this Kelley Executive Education webinar and explore how to integrate AI as a trusted copilot across your organization. Gain clarity on the capabilities of research agents, coding agents, voice agents, and agent orchestration models, and learn how these tools can streamline workflows, enhance decision-making, and extend your team’s capacity. 

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Hello.

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And welcome, everyone.

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This is Paul Acito, coming
to you live from Minneapolis.

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And there we go again.

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And welcome to the
Kelley ExecEd Programs.

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This is a free webinar.

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But there's really
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that I wanted you to be
transparently aware of.

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One is that we do these
in order to create demand

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for our other courses,
in particular,

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a course called AI Applications
in Marketing, which we're

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doing for the fourth time.

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We've had about 100 executives
go through this program already.

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So it's a very
successful program.

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We'd invite you to
join us starting May 6.

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We still have some room.

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I think we're about 70% full.

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So act quickly.

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This is an online
course, instructor led.

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And we'll talk more
about it at the end,

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but I wanted to get
that out of the way

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because I know many of
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and I wanted to
put that in there.

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But here's an offer
that I don't think Kim--

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Dr. Allison-- knows that I
was going to make this offer.

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But if you can, text to Kim what
the name of the music school

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is, the top-ranked music
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but what the
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for years and years and years,
probably before most of you

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were born?

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Some of these you can't.

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But anyway, a little bit of fun.

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And Kim's got a
deal for you if get

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any of those right at the end.

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So we're here to discuss AI
agents and agentic workflows.

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And there's clearly a great
deal of discussion around

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what are AI agents.

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So I thought we would get
that cleared up right away.

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- So what are AI agents?

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- What is an AI agent?

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- What's an agent?

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- What is that and
what does it mean?

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So what is an AI agent?

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- What are AI agents and how are
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- What exactly are AI
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talking about them?

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- What are AI agents and why is
everybody talking about them?

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- Agents are the new app.

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- AI agents are
simply programs--

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- Cool.

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Let's talk about
generative AI agents.

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Kevin threw this
statement up earlier.

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- No one seems to agree
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So if you have questions
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you've come to the right place,
but you're also not alone.

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This is a definition
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This is off of a
brand new publication

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that if you click
through, Kim will

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have this available to you
on the Kelley ExecEd site.

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This is OpenAI's A Practical
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and this is how they start out.

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Page one title.

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So AI agents are systems that
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on your behalf.

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So these are what we will
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of AI agents today.

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A little more granularity
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It is a goal-driven
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That's hugely important.

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Plan and take action.

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planning, and acting.

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This is very different
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a simple agent at the very end.

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An agent is a dynamic
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adapts based on your input,
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It's a bridge between tools.

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This is critical.

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It uses tools.

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It can write, analyze,
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and in some cases, even
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It's a co-pilot, not
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but a co-worker who works with
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but importantly,
multistep problems.

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and it can get better over time.

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An AI agent is not simple.

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It's not a macro.

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It's not an assistant.

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what we're used to using
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It's not siloed.

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It performs with sometimes
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It's not a digital admin
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without judgment or escalation.

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One of the defining
features of an AI agent

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is that it makes
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sometimes without asking.

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when you get into this

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that you start to guardrail
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It's not a
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If anyone has tried this type
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hey, it'd be nice if I
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on a Tuesday and no need to send
a draft to my inbox, watch out.

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I did that and it was sending
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but just real repetitive stuff.

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So it's something
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being targeted with AI
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especially if you're on
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I don't know if I love this
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And this is from Jensen
Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA.

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The IT department
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is going to be the HR department
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I don't believe that because
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for the IT department?

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The HR department.

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But let's take a look at one of
his most recent annual meetings

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- AI has been advancing
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AIs that can perceive,
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Reason, plan, and act.

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Sounds familiar.

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And this is a friend of mine.

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I'm not sure if
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She's in European
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new course, probably
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And Nufar and I are putting that
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here at the Kelley School.

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in a second.

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But let's see what Nufar says
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- I brought a quote that I find
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He said in the last CES keynote
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someone will need to manage
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we manage a human employees.

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is to talk about some--
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near future of work, and stuff
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various elements of
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in the not-so-far
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that you need to have the
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believe that human oversight
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and remains very important.

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points and what are the things
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and what are the things that we
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So those are communication
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your goals, your ability
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for you and for
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now is the right time to
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that you're becoming an
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We're deploying agents, and we
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which will evolve, but is that
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automations, and even APIs
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agent that will
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But the good news is that you're
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time out, or improve the
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So what I thought
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So we're going to roll down and
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Some of you are going to
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coding agents, voice
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It's Gemini Deep Research.

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agentic workflows, and
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and we'll have an example at
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kind of stink at math, but
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to translate your English
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I hope it lives up
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is this was create
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It wasn't around a year ago.

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Here's an agent that
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some data on our students and
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report on an assessment
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by an artificial intelligence.

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This is my recorded
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- Hello.

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This is Bianca.

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Thanks for calling.

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To whom do I have the pleasure
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- This is Paul.

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- Hi.

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We are looking forward to
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We have seven
questions we'd like

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to ask to help us better tailor
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goals.

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Let's get started, Paul.

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So first off, why
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about how you're thinking
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these days?

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Are you excited, worried,
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regarding the prospects of AI?

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- Well, it's always
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of excited and worried.

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It's unstoppable technical
force, which is troubling.

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of the possibilities.

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--you get back to your day.

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What, if anything else,
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- Just excited about the course.

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Looking forward to
meeting everyone.

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- You too.

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Talk soon, Paul.

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So the data are captured.

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The data are
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A report based on
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is generated, formatted,
and emailed to the student

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without a human in the loop.

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Now, I just got through teaching
a principled leadership course,

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and one of my messages to them
was to be the human in the loop.

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You do not want to delegate
this stuff first try.

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on these agentic workflows
and incorporating these

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into your work.

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But for the first time,
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just like automations have.

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We've got some
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Just like automations have, have
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area and now can be deployed
at the individual level

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to improve your own
personal workflows.

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Next, I want to call your
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called agent orchestration.

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that come from
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and a company called Manus,
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and orchestrate other agents.

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I've been very impressed.

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I have found some use cases.

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I think you'll have to noodle
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what the use cases are.

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And I will tell you that the
OpenAI access to their OpenAI

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Operator is only available to
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level.

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but I was fortunate enough
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and I've been impressed.

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I've been impressed.

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Let's take a look.

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So this is Operator.

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And here, we're talking
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of course, our interview agent.

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I used that name a lot.

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Turns out Bianca is easily
recognized by the AI voice.

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And I said, go sign her up
for a Kelley ExecEd course.

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That's all I said.

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And at this point,
thankfully, it

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can get all the way to when you
got to put your credit card in.

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asks you for permission.

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You know and I know
that'll change.

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I can remember when
one click on Amazon

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was new behavior
that we wouldn't

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trust an online vendor to
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doing that on a pretty
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but how impatient have we
gotten with this technology?

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How quickly have we incorporated
it into our day-to-day workflows

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to point where we don't
want to wait around

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for 15 minutes
for something that

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would have taken us two weeks,
or an hour, or some other thing?

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So this is part and parcel of
the experience with these apps

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as they come out.

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We are on the jagged
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but they're coming fast.

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And as you can see, every
company is focused on these.

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on marketing jobs, and the like.

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So long story short on this,
it does a pretty good job

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of handling this.

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So this is OpenAI Operator.

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I'll let it finish up here.

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And you'll see that
it terminates in--

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oh, I can't go any further,
which again, is a positive.

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This is Manus.

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And here, I said, look, I've
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I want you to generate
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And I said, take a look at
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summarize them and
analyze it and tell me

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where you think AI is--

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excuse me-- Sam Altman
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You can ask it to generate
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on each blog post, do the
analysis, all with a click.

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Go get a coffee, come
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As Sam Altman
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going to need to get
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clicking around the internet
without supervision.

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So that's agent orchestration.

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That's OpenAI Operator,
and that's Manus.

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Let's take a look
at agent building.

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Now, this is the promised
demonstration that I've got.

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And there's a couple
of different things

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we can talk about here.

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My favorite, my recommendation
to you for today

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is to start with
Anthropic's Claude.

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And you can see what we
can do here is-- again,

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these LLMs are not great at math
but they're perfect at English,

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and they really excel
at writing code.

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So they provide that bridge,
which, if you think about it,

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is what's been going
on all the time.

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It's just been
static up til now.

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and go execute some function.

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You put in a prompt in English,
ask it to do something, perhaps

455
00:22:10.020 --> 00:22:14.160
math, and it goes off,
writes the Python code--

456
00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:16.180
and you should be aware of this.

457
00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:18.360
Every time you ask
it to do something,

458
00:22:18.360 --> 00:22:22.140
it's writing the Python
code over and over again.

459
00:22:22.140 --> 00:22:26.140
So you may try this and get
a really good result at first

460
00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:28.940
and go to show
somebody, do it again,

461
00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:31.460
and get a different result,
maybe not substantially

462
00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:32.160
different.

463
00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.980
And then the third
time, it may come back

464
00:22:33.980 --> 00:22:36.220
and say, yeah, I got hung
up, I made a mistake.

465
00:22:36.220 --> 00:22:37.620
Do you want me to fix it?

466
00:22:37.620 --> 00:22:39.660
So again, it's
trying to write code,

467
00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:42.300
and it's like an eager
intern right now.

468
00:22:42.300 --> 00:22:45.320
The predictions are
that 90% of all code

469
00:22:45.320 --> 00:22:48.000
will be done, within
three to six months,

470
00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.200
by these AI coding agents.

471
00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:54.580
And Dario Amodei, the Chief
Technical Officer at Anthropic,

472
00:22:54.580 --> 00:22:58.400
predicts that within 12 months
to two years, that almost

473
00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:00.000
and essentially all
of the code will

474
00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:01.700
be written by these AI agents.

475
00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:04.500
Let's take a look at one
that you can build at home,

476
00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:05.620
and I'll show you how.

477
00:23:05.620 --> 00:23:08.240

478
00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.740
So I'll give you a
flash warning here.

479
00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:17.560
I started this so early in the
morning that when it came on,

480
00:23:17.560 --> 00:23:20.520
the screen shifts
to bright white

481
00:23:20.520 --> 00:23:22.500
because it was dark
when I started.

482
00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:23.860
So I had a dark screen.

483
00:23:23.860 --> 00:23:24.940
So that's not a glitch.

484
00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:26.732
That's just me
being up, probably,

485
00:23:26.732 --> 00:23:28.940
and working on this stuff
earlier than I should have.

486
00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:32.000

487
00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.160
But here, you can
see the thinking.

488
00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.000
These are called artifacts.

489
00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.157
And this is a little
accelerated, but not by much.

490
00:23:40.157 --> 00:23:41.240
And it's writing the code.

491
00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.230
There, you can see
my computer woke up.

492
00:23:44.230 --> 00:23:46.950
And look at the beautiful
graphic user interface

493
00:23:46.950 --> 00:23:48.590
that it produces.

494
00:23:48.590 --> 00:23:54.350
And this you can publish and
share with others instantly.

495
00:23:54.350 --> 00:23:57.510
So if you have an app you've
always wanted to write,

496
00:23:57.510 --> 00:23:59.150
it's the way to do it.

497
00:23:59.150 --> 00:24:00.650
And you can see the
pull-down menus.

498
00:24:00.650 --> 00:24:02.270
Everything works fine.

499
00:24:02.270 --> 00:24:07.410
And it's not a coincidence
that I chose this Machines

500
00:24:07.410 --> 00:24:08.770
of Beauty and Grace.

501
00:24:08.770 --> 00:24:12.910
One is because it's
a 16,000-word essay.

502
00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:15.270
Some might call it a manifesto.

503
00:24:15.270 --> 00:24:17.570
And the other is
that, of course,

504
00:24:17.570 --> 00:24:21.010
Dario Amodei is the Chief
Technical Officer at Anthropic,

505
00:24:21.010 --> 00:24:26.230
which is a fantastic AI company
and brings you that capability.

506
00:24:26.230 --> 00:24:28.590
And try it yourself.

507
00:24:28.590 --> 00:24:35.070
So this is a link, I
think, to that app.

508
00:24:35.070 --> 00:24:39.550
And you can go on
to Anthropic Claude

509
00:24:39.550 --> 00:24:41.768
and try to build your
own agent just like that.

510
00:24:41.768 --> 00:24:44.060
Give it an English prompt,
tell it what you want to do.

511
00:24:44.060 --> 00:24:46.900
And you can figure
out how to publish up

512
00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:52.860
in the upper right hand corner
and develop an AI agent app.

513
00:24:52.860 --> 00:24:57.420
So some advice as you venture
out and create your first AI

514
00:24:57.420 --> 00:24:58.860
agents.

515
00:24:58.860 --> 00:25:01.660
If you don't have a
process written down,

516
00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:03.520
you don't understand
your workflows,

517
00:25:03.520 --> 00:25:07.580
or Mary and Joe have
been doing this for years

518
00:25:07.580 --> 00:25:09.380
and it's all in their
head, you probably

519
00:25:09.380 --> 00:25:10.760
are going to need a process map.

520
00:25:10.760 --> 00:25:12.940
So companies that don't
have good process discipline

521
00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:15.360
and process excellence are
going to be caught off.

522
00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:17.420
But those who understand
their process,

523
00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:21.340
are constantly improving
their processes are really

524
00:25:21.340 --> 00:25:25.180
in good shape to start
off with creating

525
00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:29.380
agentic workflows within
their important processes.

526
00:25:29.380 --> 00:25:35.540
Don't start off with an entire
organizational chart of agents.

527
00:25:35.540 --> 00:25:37.540
Start with one.

528
00:25:37.540 --> 00:25:39.160
Keep the human in the loop.

529
00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:42.420
In other words, don't just
have it go out and publish,

530
00:25:42.420 --> 00:25:46.200
even though things like
Make.com make that very easy.

531
00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:48.840
They also make it very easy for
it to put a draft in your inbox

532
00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:52.320
or send you an email before
you hit click and publish.

533
00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:53.900
Stay internal at first.

534
00:25:53.900 --> 00:25:56.260
Why expose your customers
to your experimentation?

535
00:25:56.260 --> 00:25:59.480
I just think this is
good alpha testing.

536
00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:02.560
And it's a great
idea in terms of how

537
00:26:02.560 --> 00:26:08.240
to work your way up the
ladder of expertise in agents.

538
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.640
And try to balance
that lowest risk.

539
00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:13.977
Don't put your financial
data and your Social Security

540
00:26:13.977 --> 00:26:15.060
number and all that stuff.

541
00:26:15.060 --> 00:26:18.440
Have it do something simple,
like summarize a report

542
00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:21.720
or do some analysis.

543
00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:24.600
I've done a very good job using
this in some of the classes

544
00:26:24.600 --> 00:26:27.180
I teach, where it can
help me grade essays,

545
00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:29.840
but I remain the
human in the loop.

546
00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:31.340
But it helps me organize.

547
00:26:31.340 --> 00:26:34.160
It'll put all the
essays, like, 38 of them

548
00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.080
into a single Excel
spreadsheet, each one getting

549
00:26:37.080 --> 00:26:39.520
its own worksheet,
and then give me

550
00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:41.920
preliminary thoughts
and grades, which

551
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.070
turn out to be, more
cases than not, right.

552
00:26:45.070 --> 00:26:47.412
So where can you get quick wins?

553
00:26:47.412 --> 00:26:48.870
You can demonstrate
internally what

554
00:26:48.870 --> 00:26:54.030
the value of these agents
on what are low-risk ideas.

555
00:26:54.030 --> 00:26:57.510
So with that, I'm going to
pitch once again-- so bookmark

556
00:26:57.510 --> 00:27:01.070
or bookend, I guess, the Kelley
ExecEd Program, AI Applications

557
00:27:01.070 --> 00:27:01.730
in Marketing.

558
00:27:01.730 --> 00:27:03.570
This QR code will
take you there.

559
00:27:03.570 --> 00:27:04.990
We start May 6.

560
00:27:04.990 --> 00:27:09.270
And I'm going to show you the
exciting faculty that we've got.

561
00:27:09.270 --> 00:27:11.070
It's online, instructor led.

562
00:27:11.070 --> 00:27:12.110
And I don't know--

563
00:27:12.110 --> 00:27:15.590
I'm sure there are some
of my former students--

564
00:27:15.590 --> 00:27:18.730
we call them executive learners
because they are, in many cases,

565
00:27:18.730 --> 00:27:21.510
chief marketing officers,
marketing directors,

566
00:27:21.510 --> 00:27:26.430
and online marketing leaders.

567
00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:27.930
And we meet Tuesdays
and Thursdays.

568
00:27:27.930 --> 00:27:30.190
It's at 6 to 7:30 p.m.

569
00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:31.170
Eastern time.

570
00:27:31.170 --> 00:27:34.010
And take a look at this faculty.

571
00:27:34.010 --> 00:27:36.410
So we just left
Caroline Ylitalo,

572
00:27:36.410 --> 00:27:38.490
who is the 3M
scientist-- or excuse me,

573
00:27:38.490 --> 00:27:40.830
the Minnesota
Scientist of the Year.

574
00:27:40.830 --> 00:27:43.720
Just gave a luncheon speech
at our principal's class

575
00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.600
here, is one of the speakers.

576
00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:47.840
And she's fascinating.

577
00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:51.160
Over 126 patents because--
she just told us that.

578
00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:53.440
And I thought it
was 100 patents,

579
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.220
but, apparently, she's
got 26 more already.

580
00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:58.900
And Tim Lemper, an
expert on copyright law.

581
00:27:58.900 --> 00:28:02.420
We have Sarah Bellamy, who
comes in and talks about justice

582
00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:06.020
and what she sees from a
humanity standpoint on this.

583
00:28:06.020 --> 00:28:10.080
Alain Barker, who is a
PhD flutist or flautist.

584
00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:11.860
I'm not sure which
way that goes.

585
00:28:11.860 --> 00:28:14.340
And some very, very
special new additions

586
00:28:14.340 --> 00:28:16.500
that we used last
time that were a huge

587
00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:18.880
hit and handle an entire module.

588
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.260
Darin Patterson from Make.ai.

589
00:28:22.260 --> 00:28:25.420
This is one of the engines,
and they have a brand new agent

590
00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:26.480
product out there.

591
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:28.000
And I know he's excited.

592
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:29.952
In fact, it wasn't
even released when he

593
00:28:29.952 --> 00:28:31.160
presented at our last course.

594
00:28:31.160 --> 00:28:33.110
So he'll be giving
some new material.

595
00:28:33.110 --> 00:28:34.860
Mark Beitz, who is
Chief Marketing Officer

596
00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:36.900
here in Minnesota at fun.com.

597
00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:39.620
Nufar Gaspar, who
you may know already

598
00:28:39.620 --> 00:28:42.000
from some of her podcasts.

599
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.760
She is the former director
of AI Everywhere for Intel.

600
00:28:45.760 --> 00:28:50.120
Cailin Rogers and Kelly King are
both founders of ad agencies.

601
00:28:50.120 --> 00:28:52.560
Danielle Amfahr, longtime
colleague and former VP

602
00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:54.400
of Strategy from 3M.

603
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.840
And Frank Acito--
and yes, there's

604
00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:59.080
a resemblance there-- professor
emeritus of business analytics

605
00:28:59.080 --> 00:29:02.520
and marketing at
Indiana University.

606
00:29:02.520 --> 00:29:06.840
And a little plug here,
there's Nufar and Nathaniel

607
00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:09.000
from the AI Daily Brief.

608
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:10.540
There's a link to her podcast.

609
00:29:10.540 --> 00:29:14.440
And she's got, I think, a double
episode out there right now

610
00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:17.520
where she talks about some of
the do's and don'ts and the

611
00:29:17.520 --> 00:29:21.440
risks and what she's seeing in
the field on agentic workflow

612
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.840
and agent deployment.

613
00:29:23.840 --> 00:29:26.547
And one other link, I thought--
again, if you're anxious to get

614
00:29:26.547 --> 00:29:28.880
started and you can't wait
to get into our course, where

615
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:32.240
you'll learn way
more than this, this

616
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:37.240
is a link to Make.com, which
is a powerhouse, in my view,

617
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.670
and very, very much
in reach on things.

618
00:29:40.670 --> 00:29:43.090
So with that, Kim,
that's what I had.

619
00:29:43.090 --> 00:29:47.390
I said I'd be done by
1:30 and it's 1:28.

620
00:29:47.390 --> 00:29:48.590
Oh, 1:29.

621
00:29:48.590 --> 00:29:50.210
So I think I did my job.

622
00:29:50.210 --> 00:29:51.990
Why don't you take us home?

623
00:29:51.990 --> 00:29:52.490
OK.

624
00:29:52.490 --> 00:29:53.070
Sure.

625
00:29:53.070 --> 00:29:55.870
Paul, if you don't mind, we
do have a couple of questions

626
00:29:55.870 --> 00:29:58.890
that came in that
I'd love to address,

627
00:29:58.890 --> 00:30:00.790
if you want to cover
them for a few minutes

628
00:30:00.790 --> 00:30:01.890
before we wrap it up.

629
00:30:01.890 --> 00:30:06.030

630
00:30:06.030 --> 00:30:06.870
OK.

631
00:30:06.870 --> 00:30:09.710
So the first
question that came in

632
00:30:09.710 --> 00:30:12.910
was, which industries
are you seeing the most

633
00:30:12.910 --> 00:30:16.790
value from deploying AI agents?

634
00:30:16.790 --> 00:30:18.990
So the way I'd
answer that, Kim, is

635
00:30:18.990 --> 00:30:21.550
that I would look
at it as industry

636
00:30:21.550 --> 00:30:24.510
and I would look
at it as function.

637
00:30:24.510 --> 00:30:28.210
And this is not new thinking,
but it's also somewhat obvious.

638
00:30:28.210 --> 00:30:31.510
So if you look at functions,
the McKinsey reports

639
00:30:31.510 --> 00:30:36.830
and plus what we're seeing, is
that customer service, coding--

640
00:30:36.830 --> 00:30:40.170
obviously, if they're
predicting coding

641
00:30:40.170 --> 00:30:43.630
is going to be hit
with 90% replacement.

642
00:30:43.630 --> 00:30:46.530
Now, again, don't worry
your friends and family

643
00:30:46.530 --> 00:30:48.888
who are studying
coding or are coders.

644
00:30:48.888 --> 00:30:50.430
There's always going
to be-- in fact,

645
00:30:50.430 --> 00:30:55.410
there's a surge of an improved
demand for really good coders.

646
00:30:55.410 --> 00:30:57.450
But those are the
kinds of functions that

647
00:30:57.450 --> 00:31:00.170
are getting treated right now.

648
00:31:00.170 --> 00:31:02.570
It will blanket every function.

649
00:31:02.570 --> 00:31:05.450
And the order in
which that will happen

650
00:31:05.450 --> 00:31:11.530
is, how risky is the
privacy and the security

651
00:31:11.530 --> 00:31:13.370
concern around the data?

652
00:31:13.370 --> 00:31:17.130
So if you're a bank where you
have some banking clients,

653
00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:20.690
you're probably not going
to be experimenting with AI

654
00:31:20.690 --> 00:31:23.770
internally, deploying it
to everyone because you've

655
00:31:23.770 --> 00:31:26.490
got very sensitive information.

656
00:31:26.490 --> 00:31:28.290
If you are a
healthcare organization

657
00:31:28.290 --> 00:31:30.650
with a lot of HIPAA
data, you're probably

658
00:31:30.650 --> 00:31:33.410
not going to be doing a
lot of experimentation.

659
00:31:33.410 --> 00:31:35.410
Will it affect those industries?

660
00:31:35.410 --> 00:31:36.170
Absolutely.

661
00:31:36.170 --> 00:31:38.010
But there's a lot
of work being done

662
00:31:38.010 --> 00:31:41.200
in a number of
different countries

663
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:42.780
around some of those risks.

664
00:31:42.780 --> 00:31:47.040
So I see that for
now, the types of--

665
00:31:47.040 --> 00:31:50.680
certainly, tech is an early
adopter on all of this stuff.

666
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.240
Anywhere where you
have generative,

667
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.120
predictive, data-driven,
or repetitive workflows,

668
00:31:57.120 --> 00:32:00.360
you're going to see AI.

669
00:32:00.360 --> 00:32:00.880
Fantastic.

670
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.280
Thank you.

671
00:32:02.280 --> 00:32:04.840
One other really great
question that came through

672
00:32:04.840 --> 00:32:07.800
was, can you share
real-world examples

673
00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:12.240
of how AI agents can improve
operational efficiency

674
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:14.140
and decision-making?

675
00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:14.640
Yeah.

676
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.500
So the way that I look at
operational efficiency,

677
00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:19.740
and for those of you who--

678
00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:21.740
I didn't really spend any
time on my background.

679
00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:23.532
That's not what you
came here, but I'm also

680
00:32:23.532 --> 00:32:25.800
a certified Lean Six
Sigma Master Black

681
00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:29.360
Belt. So everything I do goes
through a filter of cost, cash,

682
00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:30.080
growth.

683
00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:33.960
So I'm constantly looking for,
how do these improve processes

684
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:36.440
and how do they
improve efficiencies?

685
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.710
So for growth, which is
usually the last place

686
00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:43.150
that these technologies
are applied to,

687
00:32:43.150 --> 00:32:46.710
it just enables you, especially
in marketing, sales, customer

688
00:32:46.710 --> 00:32:50.510
service, to accelerate
your customer engagement

689
00:32:50.510 --> 00:32:52.870
and really double down on it.

690
00:32:52.870 --> 00:32:58.430
For cost-- and it's obvious--
if you're removing or augmenting

691
00:32:58.430 --> 00:33:02.750
humans in their
workflows with AI agents,

692
00:33:02.750 --> 00:33:03.930
you can take costs out.

693
00:33:03.930 --> 00:33:09.710
Now, that agent may in
fact handle and hand off

694
00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:10.750
to the human.

695
00:33:10.750 --> 00:33:12.730
And where we've seen
successful case studies--

696
00:33:12.730 --> 00:33:16.850
and I'm going to draw a blank
on the famous case studies,

697
00:33:16.850 --> 00:33:21.270
but there have been reports of
companies reducing 700 customer

698
00:33:21.270 --> 00:33:22.310
service agents.

699
00:33:22.310 --> 00:33:25.350
I can promise you this is going
to be one of the first areas.

700
00:33:25.350 --> 00:33:31.390
And the reason that is is
because the agentic voice agents

701
00:33:31.390 --> 00:33:35.470
and the workflows that are being
put in place can in many times

702
00:33:35.470 --> 00:33:39.050
improve customer
satisfaction with that as you

703
00:33:39.050 --> 00:33:41.170
remove or augment humans.

704
00:33:41.170 --> 00:33:43.630
So those are big ones.

705
00:33:43.630 --> 00:33:47.230
And then in terms of
cash or cycle time,

706
00:33:47.230 --> 00:33:49.410
just think about response
rates and how much faster

707
00:33:49.410 --> 00:33:51.090
you can get things done.

708
00:33:51.090 --> 00:33:53.870
So with agents, they
don't take Fridays off.

709
00:33:53.870 --> 00:33:55.350
They don't take weekends off.

710
00:33:55.350 --> 00:34:00.550
They don't sleep, so you
can improve things 24/7.

711
00:34:00.550 --> 00:34:06.010
So even with small businesses
like healthcare services,

712
00:34:06.010 --> 00:34:10.170
offices, appointment setting
is a huge application.

713
00:34:10.170 --> 00:34:11.929
Callbacks.

714
00:34:11.929 --> 00:34:14.927
I tend to not recommend
the outbound calls

715
00:34:14.927 --> 00:34:16.969
where certainly you can
do prospecting and things

716
00:34:16.969 --> 00:34:19.090
like that, but there's
probably no better way

717
00:34:19.090 --> 00:34:22.770
to put your customers off than
to have a bot give them a phone

718
00:34:22.770 --> 00:34:23.610
call.

719
00:34:23.610 --> 00:34:25.139
So I think those
are the answers.

720
00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:27.389
Again, that's probably more
than you were looking for,

721
00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:29.310
but in terms of
real-life answers,

722
00:34:29.310 --> 00:34:35.590
I would Google it or frankly, go
ask ChatGPT to search for you.

723
00:34:35.590 --> 00:34:36.090
Great.

724
00:34:36.090 --> 00:34:37.120
Thank you.

725
00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:43.060
Paul, another question regarding
the AI Agent voice recording.

726
00:34:43.060 --> 00:34:45.739
Someone was wondering,
is that an AI agent,

727
00:34:45.739 --> 00:34:48.040
the voice that we heard
in the voice recording?

728
00:34:48.040 --> 00:34:50.600
Was it actually an AI agent,
and can you expand a little bit

729
00:34:50.600 --> 00:34:53.159
about that technology?

730
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:53.800
Yeah.

731
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.739
So these are agents
that talk to you.

732
00:34:55.739 --> 00:34:58.880
That was a recording because
my colleagues don't like

733
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.960
me to do live demos because--

734
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:03.260
you ever heard of Murphy's law?

735
00:35:03.260 --> 00:35:06.020
What can go wrong will go wrong?

736
00:35:06.020 --> 00:35:08.320
So that was not a live
demo, but it just as easily

737
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:09.140
could have been.

738
00:35:09.140 --> 00:35:12.220
So I could give you a
phone number right now.

739
00:35:12.220 --> 00:35:17.320
You could call Bianca, as
we affectionately call her--

740
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:22.000
it-- and she'll pick up, ask
you a bunch of questions.

741
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.320
And what makes that agentic?

742
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:27.280
You've already had
these interactions,

743
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.780
and it could have
been a recording.

744
00:35:28.780 --> 00:35:30.360
What makes it
agentic is that she

745
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.240
will change her questioning
based on your instructions

746
00:35:35.240 --> 00:35:39.310
and dig deeper
into the questions.

747
00:35:39.310 --> 00:35:42.870
And one of the challenges
here that we've solved

748
00:35:42.870 --> 00:35:45.950
is they can't ask a lot.

749
00:35:45.950 --> 00:35:47.830
They don't do a very
good job natively

750
00:35:47.830 --> 00:35:51.110
on multiple-choice questions
and scales and things like that.

751
00:35:51.110 --> 00:35:52.950
But on open-ended,
they do a great job.

752
00:35:52.950 --> 00:35:55.870
We've figured out how to do
multiple choice and scales

753
00:35:55.870 --> 00:35:56.870
and things.

754
00:35:56.870 --> 00:35:59.790
But that's reserved for
our clients at this point.

755
00:35:59.790 --> 00:36:06.630
And the idea is that these
expand on that question that's

756
00:36:06.630 --> 00:36:08.270
then transcribed.

757
00:36:08.270 --> 00:36:11.370
I suppose it's recorded too,
but it's really a transcription,

758
00:36:11.370 --> 00:36:13.670
meaning it's voice to text.

759
00:36:13.670 --> 00:36:17.230
That's then put in to
another agentic step, which

760
00:36:17.230 --> 00:36:20.690
is the analysis by a
language model which says,

761
00:36:20.690 --> 00:36:23.110
hey, here's the
sentiment analysis

762
00:36:23.110 --> 00:36:25.690
of how Paul was
feeling about AI.

763
00:36:25.690 --> 00:36:28.950
He was both excited and
not excited about it.

764
00:36:28.950 --> 00:36:33.870
And then it made some decisions
on recommended further reading

765
00:36:33.870 --> 00:36:37.470
for that coursework before
they get to our class.

766
00:36:37.470 --> 00:36:41.250

767
00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:41.910
Wonderful.

768
00:36:41.910 --> 00:36:43.210
Thank you guys.

769
00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:44.630
Any other questions?

770
00:36:44.630 --> 00:36:46.290
Just looking in the
chat real quick.

771
00:36:46.290 --> 00:36:47.350
One second.

772
00:36:47.350 --> 00:36:52.410

773
00:36:52.410 --> 00:36:55.050
Are there any examples
outside of customer

774
00:36:55.050 --> 00:36:56.890
outreach where AI
agents should be

775
00:36:56.890 --> 00:37:01.370
avoided that you can think of?

776
00:37:01.370 --> 00:37:01.870
Oh, boy.

777
00:37:01.870 --> 00:37:03.230
Yeah, I can think of a lot.

778
00:37:03.230 --> 00:37:06.530

779
00:37:06.530 --> 00:37:09.050
There's two levels
to think about this.

780
00:37:09.050 --> 00:37:10.630
It's like the health
of the industry.

781
00:37:10.630 --> 00:37:12.270
If we spoil it before
we get a chance,

782
00:37:12.270 --> 00:37:14.010
we're going to get
regulated out of the--

783
00:37:14.010 --> 00:37:17.890
I mean, it's already very
difficult for those of you

784
00:37:17.890 --> 00:37:20.370
who know about customer
outreach to get access

785
00:37:20.370 --> 00:37:26.230
to these VoIP protocols
and phone numbers

786
00:37:26.230 --> 00:37:29.290
to do outreach or texting.

787
00:37:29.290 --> 00:37:36.280
And I would just urge you not to
spam people with these requests.

788
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:39.680
But anytime there is PII,
personal identification

789
00:37:39.680 --> 00:37:42.560
information, anytime
there's HIPAA information,

790
00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:47.920
anytime that you have a lot
of ambient, competitive noise

791
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:50.460
in the background, you're not
going to get a good result.

792
00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:52.200
So there's still a
good deal of work

793
00:37:52.200 --> 00:37:55.940
to be done around the
agent technical capability.

794
00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:59.040
But in terms of use cases, the
way I would look at it, again,

795
00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:02.400
is with that filter of what's
the lowest risk, highest

796
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.600
probability of success, because
you're probably at some point

797
00:38:06.600 --> 00:38:09.120
selling this to
your organization

798
00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:12.500
or to your customers in
terms of how you use it.

799
00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:18.680
But for generative, repetitive,
data-driven, and predictive

800
00:38:18.680 --> 00:38:23.760
workflows, this can
be very powerful.

801
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:25.440
Great, great.

802
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:26.000
All right.

803
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.360
I think that's most
of the questions.

804
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:29.940
One more.

805
00:38:29.940 --> 00:38:33.460
What are your thoughts on AI
and the augmented connected

806
00:38:33.460 --> 00:38:34.280
workforce?

807
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:38.180

808
00:38:38.180 --> 00:38:38.700
Yeah.

809
00:38:38.700 --> 00:38:41.363

810
00:38:41.363 --> 00:38:42.780
The first thing
is, if you haven't

811
00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:47.380
tried some of these
note-taking AIs like Fireflies,

812
00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:52.720
Otter, and others, literally,
you can agentically just say,

813
00:38:52.720 --> 00:38:54.260
attend all my meetings.

814
00:38:54.260 --> 00:38:58.700
I had one where I clicked
the wrong menu button

815
00:38:58.700 --> 00:39:01.800
and I got a call while I
was doing something else.

816
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:05.720
And they said, it shows
that you're on the meeting,

817
00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:07.400
but you don't
appear to be there.

818
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:08.200
What's happening?

819
00:39:08.200 --> 00:39:11.360
So my Fireflies app
attended a meeting for me,

820
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:14.500
took and summarized
notes, and sent it to me.

821
00:39:14.500 --> 00:39:17.700
You can literally be in
more than one place at once.

822
00:39:17.700 --> 00:39:22.340
So for remote work,
augmented work--

823
00:39:22.340 --> 00:39:26.220
mark my words, you will be
going into ChatGPT or Claude

824
00:39:26.220 --> 00:39:29.500
or Copilot in 12 to 18
months more than you're

825
00:39:29.500 --> 00:39:31.960
going into Microsoft Office.

826
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:37.090

827
00:39:37.090 --> 00:39:39.610
This will be a tool-- just like
as you moved up the learning

828
00:39:39.610 --> 00:39:42.570
curve to expert level
on Excel and PowerPoint

829
00:39:42.570 --> 00:39:45.250
and Word and your company ERP.

830
00:39:45.250 --> 00:39:47.490
This will be a similar
kind of a lever

831
00:39:47.490 --> 00:39:51.530
in your day-to-day productivity.

832
00:39:51.530 --> 00:39:52.070
Great.

833
00:39:52.070 --> 00:39:53.410
Thank you so much.

834
00:39:53.410 --> 00:39:53.910
All right.

835
00:39:53.910 --> 00:39:56.810
So I think that's
most of the questions.

836
00:39:56.810 --> 00:39:58.410
You all can feel
free to email me

837
00:39:58.410 --> 00:40:00.170
if you have any
specific questions

838
00:40:00.170 --> 00:40:02.910
or if you need
additional information.

839
00:40:02.910 --> 00:40:05.250
We'll do our best
to provide that.

840
00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:08.790
But I just wanted to thank
you all for attending today.

841
00:40:08.790 --> 00:40:10.890
We hope you enjoyed
this session.

842
00:40:10.890 --> 00:40:12.110
My name is Kim Allison.

843
00:40:12.110 --> 00:40:14.847
I'm with the Kelley School of
Business Executive Education.

844
00:40:14.847 --> 00:40:16.430
If you're not familiar
with our group,

845
00:40:16.430 --> 00:40:19.130
we provide a wide range
of courses and certificate

846
00:40:19.130 --> 00:40:24.170
programs designed for working
professionals and organizations.

847
00:40:24.170 --> 00:40:26.690
Our courses cover
a number of topics

848
00:40:26.690 --> 00:40:29.650
such as AI, leadership
and management,

849
00:40:29.650 --> 00:40:33.120
operational excellence,
finance, and more.

850
00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:35.960
If you have any questions,
you can reach out to me.

851
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.240
If you want to learn more
about the AI applications

852
00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:40.360
for marketing course,
which Paul was discussing

853
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:42.600
a little bit during
this session,

854
00:40:42.600 --> 00:40:45.440
we have a QR code
here that you can

855
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.920
scan for detailed information.

856
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:50.320
But it launches May 6.

857
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.560
It's completely online with
meetings Tuesdays and Thursday

858
00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:55.300
evenings.

859
00:40:55.300 --> 00:40:58.440
It's instructor
led, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

860
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.440
We have about 10 seats
left for this session.

861
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:05.078
And we'll be opening
another one in the fall too.

862
00:41:05.078 --> 00:41:06.620
If you have any
questions about that,

863
00:41:06.620 --> 00:41:09.040
feel free to reach
out to either of us.

864
00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:12.080
For attending this
session, we are giving you

865
00:41:12.080 --> 00:41:16.720
guys a discount code to
register for the course.

866
00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:19.665
So I'll put that into the
chat, and that will give you

867
00:41:19.665 --> 00:41:21.040
a little bit of
a discount if you

868
00:41:21.040 --> 00:41:24.230
want to register ahead of time.

869
00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:26.480
I'm trying to think if there's
any other information I

870
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.400
can share.

871
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:32.200
Any other questions
before we wrap it up?

872
00:41:32.200 --> 00:41:34.720
Kim, I'd just like to
give a special welcome.

873
00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:37.960
We tend to overindex on
IU and Kelley alumni.

874
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.260
Thank you, everyone, for coming.

875
00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:43.300
And if you've got
any questions, you

876
00:41:43.300 --> 00:41:47.700
can reach out to me on LinkedIn
or, obviously, reach out to Kim.

877
00:41:47.700 --> 00:41:49.400
This is a great
course coming up.

878
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:50.940
We have a lot of fun.

879
00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:53.740
And believe it or not,
a lot of our students

880
00:41:53.740 --> 00:41:56.678
say, when can we do this again?

881
00:41:56.678 --> 00:41:57.720
They don't want to leave.

882
00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:59.940
Boy, that went by
fast, which is,

883
00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:01.680
in my view, a very
high compliment.

884
00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:03.580
So thank you all for
your kind attention,

885
00:42:03.580 --> 00:42:07.980
and hope to see you
in the online course.

886
00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:08.480
Great.

887
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:08.960
Thank you all.

888
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.543
If you have any questions, we'll
hang around for a few minutes

889
00:42:11.543 --> 00:42:13.400
so that we can answer
as best we can.

890
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.020
But thank you all
for your time today,

891
00:42:15.020 --> 00:42:17.940
and we appreciate
you being here.

892
00:42:17.940 --> 00:42:18.520
Take care.

893
00:42:18.520 --> 00:42:20.070
Bye.

894
00:42:20.070 --> 00:42:32.000

Course outline

  • 1 hour
  • Why “prompting” is yesterday’s news and why autonomous agents are tomorrow’s operating system
  • Core agent architectures
  • The four capabilities every business leader must demand: reasoning, memory, action, and guardrails

  • 1.5 hours
  • How retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) turns LLMs into relentless analysts
  • Plug‑and‑play toolchain: Perplexity API, BrowserOps, ChatGPT “Browse” mode, plus PDF ingestion
  • Setting up source‑citing output

  • 1 hour
  • Natural dialog: phone, Zoom, and website voice bots that don’t sound robotic
  • Vapi + ElevenLabs + OpenAI Assistants stack—no code, just configuration
  • Capturing call transcripts, diarization, and sentiment for instant CRM updates

  • 1 hour
  • Agents that write thought‑leadership, press releases, and SEO blogs
  • Brand‑tone conditioning and fact‑checking loops
  • Automating cross‑channel distribution—WordPress, LinkedIn, email—via Make/Zapier

  • 1.5 hours
  • “Explain, generate, refactor” cycles—how agents produce code
  • Triggering real‑world actions (email, Slack, database updates) safely

  • 1 hour
  • Feeding raw CSV/Excel into GPT‑4o for instant exploratory data analysis
  • Auto‑generating narrative insights and charts faster than junior analysts ever could
  • Pushing results straight into Slides or dashboards

  • 1 hour
  • Why “generate a deck” beats “open PowerPoint”
  • Agents that draft, format, and version‑control documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
  • Live demo—your AI coworker co‑creates a board deck while you watch

  • 0.5 hour
  • Cutting through scare tactics: hallucinations, data leakage, bias, IP, and regulatory heat maps
  • Governance Model: policy, tooling, monitoring

  • 0.5 hour
  • Multi‑agent orchestration and shared memory
  • Role‑based access, API metering, and observability dashboards
  • Organizing Centers of Excellence without bottlenecking innovation

  • 1 hour
  • Combine everything you’ve learned into one production agent

Hands-on, high-impact learning

If you're curious about the future of AI in your organization or are already evaluating MBA programs in AI and machine learning, this course will help you make confident AI investment decisions; lead smarter, more autonomous teams; understand AI governance, risk, and ethical design; and stand out in a competitive executive market.

You'll get access to:

  • Interactive video lessons and guided build-along labs
  • Discussion boards and optional office hours
  • Bianca, your AI-powered, personalized co-worker
  • Tools to create your digital twin or automate workflows across functions

  • Taught by practitioners at the Kelley School of Business
  • Focuses on real-world applications in finance, marketing, HR, and strategy
  • Provides a LinkedIn-ready digital badge upon completion of the course
  • Includes tools and licenses you’ll need to launch your first AI agent
  • Designed to complement other programs like the Wharton AI course, Coursera AI for Business, or Udacity AI for Trading

  • Build an AI voice agent tailored to your business case
  • Gain working knowledge of AI in finance, AI in digital marketing, or AI in operations
  • Apply no-code/low-code tools to solve real business problems
  • Join a growing group of AIS for business leaders shaping the future of work
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Paul Acito

Paul Acito is CEO of Lyftbridge, an AI-infused marketing agency, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota and St. Catherine University. Previously, he worked at 3M, where he began as a marketing intern and rose to the position of chief marketing officer. In his time at 3M, he worked in the United States, Thailand, Belgium, and Japan. Paul was also a vice president for the medical device manufacturer Medtronic, an instructor at the University of Minnesota, and an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University. He earned his MBA from the Kelley School.

Nufar Gaspar

Nufar Gaspar is a globally recognized AI consultant and trainer with over 14 years of experience building and leading AI solutions and communities for organizations of all sizes. Nufar has led AI initiatives impacting over 12,000 professionals worldwide, providing strategic insights, practical training, and transformative results. Her work helps organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies accelerate AI adoption through hands-on strategies, actionable insights, and expert guidance.

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