Good AI, Bad AI… A ‘human’ framework for success!

AI is reshaping every industry, sparking a mix of massive opportunity and excitement alongside real fear and uncertainty. Whether you’re a leader driving AI adoption, a practitioner leveraging AI in your daily workflow, or a product creator building AI-centric tools, you’re likely navigating complex challenges:

• Organisational resistance and process changes
• Trial-and-error experimentation vs. deep learning
• The highs of breakthrough success and the friction of failure

As individuals, you might be wildly enthusiastic about AI, frustrated by current outcomes, or simply feeling overwhelmed by the pace of change.
This session shifts the conversation beyond raw technical capabilities. We’ll introduce a practical framework that re-frames AI through the lens of human relationships, empathy, and collaboration.
You’ll discover how to leverage your existing human instincts and design skills to pinpoint what makes an AI experience feel empowering, frustrating, or downright confusing.

• For product creators & designers: Learn how to focus your energy on the right AI features and understand exactly what drives product adoption and delight.
• For practitioners & users: Gain key insights to build AI-powered workflows that actually work for you, while effectively evaluating tools for your team.
• For humans: Give language to your excitement and frustrations, navigate AI with nuance, and view reactions around you not as delusion or resistance, but as core criteria for success.

Speaker bio: Doug Ollivier is Trimble Inc’s Platform Ecosystem Strategist. He is a design and product leader known for creating strategic frameworks that enable teams to navigate complex decisions with nuance. Across his career as a Design Consultant, UX Director, and Product Leader, Doug has focused on solving socio-technical challenges where human behaviour is often the critical missing piece in the puzzle.

Agenda
5:00pm • Doors open, networking + refreshments
5:30pm • Presentation starts
6:30pm • More networking
7:00pm • Event close

A big thank you to MadeCurious for providing the event space for us to meet - if you’re interested in what they do, check out their LinkedIn page.

MadeCurious HQ information:

• We have x2 mobility car parks available and wheelchair access into the building
• If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know so we can make sure to cater for them
• Limited car parking will be available onsite (MadeCurious. labelled signs) and ample street parking close by the office
• There is a bike shed at the back of the parking lot where you can park your bicycle.

We have a limited capacity, so please only RSVP if you can definitely make it.