Keeping the Human in HR: How AI and Technology Change Everything

2019 Annual Conference & Exposition
Don’t underestimate the scope and pace of exponential change in automation and artificial intelligence (AI); know the benefits and risks, and how HR can make change work.

The robots aren't coming, they're here—jumping off the pages of science fiction into the workplace, disrupting jobs and changing the environment. Automation, AI, machine learning and other technologies allow humans to work on high-value tasks, which can significantly boost productivity, reduce errors and waste, and promote employee engagement . But what are the ethical traps that organizations and individuals face? How can HR lead the way?

Learning Objectives:

  • A crash course in the future of work.
  • Good versus evil outcomes from AI and other technologies.
  • What HR must do to keep the human in HR.
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Monday, June 24, 2019 - 7:15am to 8:15am
Presenter: 

Ira S. Wolfe

Ira S.
Wolfe

Ira S Wolfe is a “Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body” and president of Poised for the Future Company, founder of Success Performance Solutions, a TEDx Speaker, Certified AQai Practitioner, Top 5 Global Thought Leader on Future of Work and HR (Thinkers360), and host of Geeks Geezers Googlization podcast (selected as one of the top 50 podcasts to listen to in 2021).  His most recent book Recruiting in the Age of Googlization was selected as one of the top 50 books to read in 2021 by Thinkers360 and recognized as one of the best Recruiting books of all-time by Book Authority. He is also Chief Googlization Officer and founder of the Googlization Nation community.

Location: 
LVCC N201-204
Amount of Credit: 
1.00
Credit Type: 
SHRM PDCs
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Ethical Practice
HR Expertise
Leadership & Navigation
Intended Audience: 
Senior-Level
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