AI4PI Award Showcase: Real-World AI That Improves Performance

AI4PI Award Showcase: Real-World AI That Improves Performance (Agenda)

Welcome & AI4PI Award Introduction (5 min)

• What is the AI4PI Award?
• How AI4PI recognizes responsible, results-driven AI innovation

Award-Winning Case Study: Secure Local AI for Organizational Performance (Carlos Menendez) (10 min)

How can organizations adopt AI while keeping their data secure?

• The organizational performance challenge
• Why a locally hosted LLM became the solution
• Implementation approach
• Business outcomes:
  • Secure, private enterprise AI
  • Lower implementation costs
  • Faster, customizable AI capabilities
  • A scalable model for responsible AI
• Lessons learned

From AI Tools to AI Performance: The AI4PI Journey (Lynne MacBain) — 10 min

How can AI address a performance challenge without becoming the starting point?

• The performance challenge and how it was diagnosed
• Why AI became part of the solution
• How AI was used as a performance intervention, rather than the starting point
• What happened in practice and lessons learned

Interactive Discussion & Audience Q&A (30 min)

Bring your questions and SUBMIT THEM HERE:

• Selecting the right AI opportunities
• Responsible AI governance and human oversight
• Enterprise AI implementation
• Lessons learned from AI4PI award-winning work
• Practical advice for getting started

Closing (5 min)

• Key takeaways
• AI4PI resources and next steps 
  
  
  

  Carlos Alberto Menendez Torre is a Product Manager at Speedgoat with extensive experience in product management, analytics, telecommunications, and emerging technologies. Previously, he spent more than seven years at Rohde & Schwarz, including six years leading its Analytics product line. Carlos brings deep technical expertise in mobile communications, cloud computing, machine learning, and AI, combined with strong product and project management experience. He holds a Master’s in Telecommunication Engineering and an MBA in Business and Managerial Economics, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to applying technology and AI to real-world business and performance challenges.

  
  
  

Dr. Lynne MacBain, CPT, CAIT, is President of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), Founder of PivotPoint Strategies, and an adjunct instructor in the University of West Florida’s Instructional Performance Technology program. Her work focuses on organizational strategy, performance improvement, and the use of emerging technologies to solve complex performance challenges.

Dr. MacBain is the developer of the Performance Intelligence Framework®, a diagnostic approach that applies systems thinking and performance analysis to organizational strategy. Her work also includes advancing the application of artificial intelligence within performance improvement as co-architect of ISPI’s AI4PI initiative. Her application of the AI4PI Framework to a real-world performance challenge earned her an ISPI Presidential Citation.