The Bridge Is Missing: Choosing a Human-Centered AI Future

“Which AI tool should I learn so I don’t get left behind?” Angelique hears this question constantly—from recent graduates entering a difficult job market to experienced designers navigating layoffs and wondering whether AI has replaced their role. Her answer: We’re asking the wrong question. AI models keep evolving. The skills keep shifting. By the time you become certified in one tool, another may have already taken its place. This session won’t give you another list of tools to master. It will give you a map for deciding where you want to go. Designers stand on one side, practicing human-centered design with AI as another tool in the box. Enterprise AI strategy stands on the other, often optimizing for efficiency while treating the human as whatever the agent leaves behind. Somewhere in the middle, we began augmenting the machine instead of being augmented by it. The bridge is missing. Human-centered AI adoption can fill that gap. The same challenge that stalls an organization’s AI transformation can also stall a career: not a missing skill, but a missing vision of where you’re going. What to expect This 90-minute session is a co-creation, not a lecture. Through live polls and interactive activities, the room’s responses will become the material we explore together. You’ll leave with a clearer way to think about your relationship with AI, your next career move, and the future you want to help create. Human-centered AI isn’t a principle you adopt once. It’s a direction you have to keep choosing. Open to all. Just bring the next move you’re stuck on. About the speaker https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanjoulee/ Wan-Jou (Angelique) Lee is a Human + AI Experience Strategist at EY Studio+. She is a certified Microsoft AI Transformation Leader, a Futures School-trained foresight practitioner, and an ADPList Top 50 Mentor in Graphic Design. At EY, Angelique develops human-centered AI adoption frameworks and experience strategies for enterprise clients across U.S. industries. She has also led scenario-based executive AI experiences presented at global industry forums. Her work centers on strategic foresight, scenario planning, and helping people and organizations consider which future they are moving toward before it finishes happening to them. Angelique holds an MBA in Design Strategy from CCA—which means she once sat exactly where you’re sitting, asking the same question about a different technology.