AI adoption depends on more than technology—it requires employees to have the right tools, experiences, and devices to make AI part of everyday work. Join Sally Lowery, Adam Howes, Director, Global ThinkPad Product Management at Lenovo, and Rick Gayle, Director, Worldwide Design-In at AMD, as they explore what it takes to build an AI-ready workplace and enable productivity at scale.
Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction: Creating an AI-Ready Workplace
00:43 – Overcoming User Adoption & Consumer AI Security Risks
02:00 – Selecting the Right Tools & Avoiding Employee Overwhelm
03:12 – Training End Users & Targeting Grudge Work
04:23 – Embedding AI Tools Seamlessly into Daily Workflows
05:05 – Defining the Endpoint User Experience & Hardware Inflection Points
06:27 – Enterprise Data Security: On-Device vs. Cloud Compute
07:58 – Defining an AI PC, NPUs & Hybrid Compute Engines
08:49 – Offloading Security Workloads & Creative Performance Demands
09:45 – Investing in AI PCs: Future-Proofing vs. Legacy Hardware Gaps
12:00 – Standardizing the AI Infrastructure & Reducing Friction
14:02 – Final Thoughts: Personalization, Voice Interfaces & Agentic AI
16:15 – Grassroots Adoption, Continuous Training & Wrap-Up
