CASE STUDY · #AI #NETWORKING
From businesses experimenting with AI in isolation to a community learning together
CLIENT
Idee Nuove
SECTOR
Innovation and local development
PARTICIPANTS
40 participants from 18 businesses in Emilia
Objective
Bring together businesses at different stages of experience with artificial intelligence, so they could share what they were trying, explore opportunities, risks and organisational implications, and turn discussion into peer learning and practical action.
Key activities
01
Sharing experiences and practical examples of AI use across different businesses and sectors
02
Exploring opportunities, risks, resistance and organisational implications
03
Sharing problems, learning and approaches developed in different organisations
04
Identifying common ground and differences across experiences
05
Turning discussion into guidance and possible actions for organisations to apply
Outcomes
Experiences and practices relating to AI shared by businesses from different sectors
Opportunities, risks and resistance identified through real experiences
Initial shared guidance for using AI more thoughtfully in organisations
Practical ideas and actions to take back to each business
New connections between businesses, providing a basis for continuing the conversation beyond the event
New capabilities
Learning from other organisations’ experience, including those in different sectors
Turning networking into peer learning
Approaching transformation without starting from predetermined answers
Building collective knowledge from people’s experience
Seeing AI as an organisational and cultural transformation, not just a technological one
Building a local community able to learn and innovate together
Technologies change quickly. Learning together helps turn them into shared value.
TESTIMONIAL
The value of the workshop was in comparing notes with businesses very different from ours and discovering that, when it comes to artificial intelligence, many of our questions, opportunities and difficulties were shared. Bringing real experiences together helped us see the subject from new perspectives and take away ideas we could apply in our own organisation.
Participant
Business based in Parma
It wasn’t the usual networking event: the discussion became an opportunity to learn from one another. We shared what we were already trying with AI, as well as our doubts, resistance and mistakes, turning different experiences into ideas and practical actions to take back to our organisation.
Participant
Business based in Parma
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