Turn AI Access Into Workforce Adoption | Boston AI Week 2026
Boston AI Week Official 2026 Event
The Kendall Project

Turn AI Access Into
Workforce Adoption and Business Results

A hands-on working session for executives leading AI adoption, workforce upskilling, and organizational change. Learn why AI usage stalls after the initial rollout, apply the Kendall Framework to a real challenge from your organization, and leave with a practical plan for helping teams use AI safely, effectively, and consistently.

Date
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Part of Boston AI Week 2026
Time
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET
A five-hour executive working session, lunch included
Location
Cambridge Innovation Center
245 Main St, Cambridge MA
Investment
$149 per seat
Includes lunch and workshop materials
Limited to 50 participants for an interactive working session.
About this workshop

Giving people AI tools is not the same as building AI capability.

Most organizations have introduced AI tools, awareness programs, or experimentation initiatives. Adoption often settles into an uneven pattern: a small group of enthusiastic daily users, and a much larger group whose day-to-day work has not yet connected to AI.

This is not simply a training problem. Sustained AI adoption requires leadership alignment, manager support, relevant skills, clearly defined workflows, organizational context, appropriate governance, and meaningful measures of progress. The Kendall Project helps organizations connect those pieces so that training becomes habit, experimentation becomes execution, and usage becomes measurable value.

During this five-hour executive working session, you will learn and apply the Kendall Framework, a problem-first method for moving from scattered AI activity to sustained organizational capability. Bring a real AI adoption or workforce challenge from your organization. You will work on it throughout the day.

Who should attend

  • Workforce AI adoption and upskilling
  • Enterprise transformation and operating-model change
  • Technology adoption and responsible AI
  • Organizational effectiveness and workforce performance
  • Redesigning business processes and knowledge-intensive work
  • Converting AI investments into measurable organizational value

Participants may include CHROs, Chief People Officers, Chief Learning Officers, CIOs, Chief Digital Officers, COOs, transformation executives, business unit leaders, functional executives, and senior HR and L&D leaders. No technical background is required. This is a leadership and operating-model workshop, not a software demonstration.

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What you will learn

A problem-first method for turning AI activity into AI capability.

During this interactive working session, you will:

01

Diagnose why workforce AI adoption is stalling

Evaluate the leadership, skills, workflows, context, governance, and measurement conditions that determine whether AI becomes part of everyday work.

02

Move beyond one-time tool training

Learn how to build durable AI judgment and problem-solving capability that remains useful as models and tools change.

03

Find the work where AI can create real value

Use Kendall's problem-first methodology to identify and prioritize high-value opportunities across functions and workflows.

04

Close the Context Gap

Understand the difference between what AI knows generally and what it must know about your organization — its roles, policies, processes, decisions, and institutional knowledge — to perform reliably.

05

Establish cross-functional ownership

Clarify how executive leadership, business functions, IT, HR, L&D, and managers each contribute to successful adoption.

06

Build an actionable path forward

Turn what you learn into a focused 90-day plan for improving AI usage, engagement, and organizational value.

Reserve Your Seat Limited to 50 participants. November 10, Cambridge MA
What you take back to your organization

Leave with a diagnostic, a plan, and a framework you can use immediately.

01

An AI Workforce Adoption Diagnostic: a clear read on the leadership, skills, workflow, and governance conditions shaping adoption inside your organization.

02

A prioritized AI opportunity drawn from your organization: identified and scoped using the Kendall problem-first methodology.

03

A map of the skills, workflow, and context gaps affecting that opportunity, so you know exactly what needs to close before AI can perform reliably.

04

A cross-functional ownership checklist: clarity on how leadership, business functions, IT, HR, and L&D each contribute to adoption.

05

A practical 90-day action plan: immediate actions, ownership, and measures you can bring back to your leadership team.

06

The Kendall Framework: a repeatable method for continuing the work with your team long after the workshop ends.

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Agenda

A five-hour executive working session.

Every session is interactive. You will work on a real challenge from your own organization throughout the day, and leave with a plan you can act on.

10:00 AM
From AI Access to AI Adoption
Why workforce adoption stalls, and what leadership must do differently.
10:30 AM
The Kendall Framework
A practical introduction to problem-first AI, the Accuracy Ceiling, and the Context Gap.
11:30 AM
Diagnose Your Adoption System
Evaluate leadership, skills, manager support, workflows, context, and measurement in your organization.
12:15 PM
Identify and Prioritize Opportunities
Apply the Kendall methodology to a real workflow or business problem.
12:45 PM
Lunch & Facilitated Peer Discussion
A working lunch with fellow executives working through the same challenges.
1:30 PM
Build Organizational AI Capability
Connect upskilling, workflow redesign, organizational context, and governance.
2:15 PM
Build Your 90-Day Action Plan
Define immediate actions, ownership, measures, and next decisions.
3:00 PM
Adjourn

Bring a Real Challenge.
Leave With a Plan.

Join executives from across the region who are working through the same question: how do we help more of our people use AI effectively, and turn that usage into meaningful business results?

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET, lunch included
Cambridge Innovation Center, 245 Main St, Cambridge MA
$149 per seat, including lunch and workshop materials
Questions? info@kendallai.org

Reserve Your Seat

50 seats total. Space is limited.

Complete the form below to register for the November 10 workshop. $149 per seat, including lunch and workshop materials.

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