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Reinventing Your Tech Career in the Age of AI

This session explores what career reinvention looks like in a world where generative AI, automation, data platforms, and intelligent workflows are becoming foundational capabilities. 

 - 12:00 pm CT
Virtual

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Description

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future trend. It is reshaping roles, redefining value, and accelerating change across every function in the enterprise. For technology leaders and practitioners, the question is not whether AI will impact your career. The question is how you will evolve alongside it.

This session explores what career reinvention looks like in a world where generative AI, automation, data platforms, and intelligent workflows are becoming foundational capabilities. We will move beyond hype and fear to focus on practical strategy: how to reposition your skills, expand your influence, and stay relevant as AI reshapes the technology landscape.

Participants will examine:

  • How AI is changing the structure of IT organizations and shifting expectations for CIOs, architects, developers, analysts, and security leaders

  • The emerging capabilities that differentiate high-impact professionals, including systems thinking, data fluency, governance literacy, and human-centered design

  • How to move from “tool user” to “AI orchestrator,” designing workflows that combine human judgment with machine intelligence

  • What it means to build credibility and career resilience when technical skills have shorter half-lives

  • How to develop a reinvention roadmap without abandoning the expertise you have spent years building

This will be a candid, strategy-focused conversation designed for experienced professionals who want to lead change rather than react to it. Whether you are early in your leadership journey or a seasoned executive navigating workforce transformation, you will leave with a clearer framework for positioning yourself and your teams for long-term relevance.

The age of AI does not eliminate careers. It reframes them. The leaders who thrive will be those who intentionally reinvent.

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Evaluate how AI is reshaping their role and market value
    Identify the structural shifts AI is driving across IT, data, security, and digital functions.

  • Distinguish durable leadership capabilities from automatable tasks
    Clarify which skills increase in value in AI-enabled enterprises and which are rapidly commoditizing.

  • Develop a practical career reinvention roadmap
    Define specific actions to reposition their expertise, expand influence, and remain strategically relevant.

  • Lead team evolution in an AI-augmented environment
    Apply frameworks to guide workforce adaptation, governance readiness, and responsible AI integration.

Audience

This session is designed for CIOs, IT and data leaders, architects, and senior technology professionals who want to proactively evolve their careers and lead confidently in an AI-driven enterprise environment.