Managing AI adoption in organisations: research and real world practices
Friday 30 May 2025, 11:30am to 4:30pm
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Digital Security Hub (DiSH) , Manchester, United Kingdom, M2 5LEOpen to
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Event Details
This workshop combines academics and businesses to explore drivers of AI adoption for employees and for organisations.
The aim of this workshop is to relate latest thinking and research on AI adoption with practical issues experienced by businesses today. We have two panels. One focused on employee perspective on adoption of AI to support their day-to-day work. The second panel focuses on business and structural factors driving AI adoption in organisations. The two panels include time to debate relevance of research in informing practice and aim to capture opportunities to better link the two. We also have networking opportunities over lunch and extended coffee breaks.
Joao Baptista (LUMS, based in Management Science)
Agenda
- 11:30-12:00: Registration
- 12:00-13:00: Light Lunch
- 13:00-14:30: Panel focused on employee view on AI adoption
(Each speaker to talk for 15 mins followed by debate – focus on why and how employees use AI to support what they do when they are at work, their motivations and anxieties with integrating AI in work processes and activities)
- Malar Hirudayaraj (RIT in USA, based in Human Resources)
- Anthony Hesketh (LUMS, based in Organisation Work and Technology)
- Elisavet Christou (LUMS, based in Organisation Work and Technology)
- Sarah Schlobohm (Chief AI Officer at Zally.com)
- Open debate on relevance of research to inform practice
- 14:30-15:00: Refreshment Break
- 15:00-16:00: Panel focused on business and structural drivers of AI adoption
(Each speaker to talk for 15 mins followed by debate – focus on business drivers of adoption of AI within organisations, and wider structural conditions related to dominant platforms, governance and standards)
- Will Venters (London School of Economics, based in Management IS)
- Martin Spring (LUMS, based in Management Science)
- Storm Rae (Cranfield, based in Applied Digital Technologies)
- Open debate on relevance of research to inform practice
16:00-16:30: Conclusion on how academic research on AI adoption can better reflect and inform real world issues and practices by businesses
Speakers
Organisation Work and Technology, Lancaster University
My primary interest lies in understanding the changing ways in which we value “value”. I work at the intersection between people, leadership and accounting across different organisational settings using complementary methodologies.
Organisation Work and Technology, Lancaster University
Inter and transdisciplinary researcher and educator in design, management, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), evaluation, digital media, and sustainability. My research focuses on the development of inter and transdisciplinary theory and practice aimed at exploring and addressing a broad spectrum of contemporary challenges of living in a technologically-mediated world.
Management Science, Lancaster University
My research captures effects of digital media and modern technologies in the workplace, with an emphasis on long terms effects in the formal and social fabric of organisations. This has included studies looking at the emergence of Human/AI collaborations and configurations, role of technology as a carrier of strategic intent, the development of new capabilities to manage the opening up of decision making, and the role of technology in EDI and open collaboration.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Lancaster University
Martin Spring is Professor of Operations Management at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), UK. He is also Principal Investigator of TiPS (Technology in Professional Services) Accelerator for digital adoption in law and accountancy firms and Director of the School’s Centre for Productivity & Innovation.
University of Cranfield
Passionate about leveraging technology, design thinking and data analytics to create next-generation, gamified learning experiences that make complex technical concepts accessible and drive engagement.
London School of Economics
Will has an international reputation for his research in Cloud Computing, Digital Platforms and Agile innovation approaches. He speaks regularly at practitioner conferences on various digital business issues; has briefed European government policy makers and various company executives; and undertakes consultancy in IT strategy. He has researched the organisation of distributed work and systems in various organisations including government-related organisations, the construction industry, financi
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