Building a True Human-Digital Workforce

Explore how to build a practical human-digital workforce at this interactive AI breakfast session in Leeds on 23 September 2026. Hosted by The Nimble Hub: Data & AI Community as part of Leeds Digital Festival, this two-hour session tackles the challenge facing organisations after the initial wave of generative AI experimentation: how to turn promising pilots into meaningful, safe and sustainable business adoption. Rather than concentrating on individual AI tools or better prompting, the discussion will examine the wider operating model needed to create a cohesive workforce in which people and digital agents collaborate effectively. Nimble, industry partners and guest speakers will explore why success requires technology, data, workflows and organisational culture to evolve together. ## What the session will cover - Data foundations: How semantic layers and ontologies can help organisations evolve their infrastructure and make business data genuinely agent-ready. - Engineered context: Why digital agents need specific business context to perform tasks safely and accurately—and why this layer is missing from many AI strategies. - Cultural adaptation: How to redesign workflows and prepare human teams to interact with, oversee and trust digital colleagues. - AI operating models: What a human-digital workforce could look like in practice, with a focus on moving beyond isolated experiments towards functioning organisational systems. The interactive breakfast format offers an opportunity to engage with systems-level questions rather than simply listen to another high-level AI presentation. Attendees can expect practical insights into managing data, designing work and preparing people for a new model of collaboration. ## Who should attend? This event is designed for senior decision-makers and practitioners responsible for technology, data, product or organisational change, including: - CIOs, CTOs and Heads of Data & AI - Digital, technology and engineering leaders - Enterprise architects - Transformation and change leaders - Product and delivery leaders - Innovation leaders - Business leaders assessing AI adoption The session runs from 8:00am to 10:00am BST on Wednesday 23 September 2026. The Leeds venue is still to be confirmed. It forms part of Leeds Digital Festival, described as the UK’s largest