Building a True Human-Digital Workforce

Discover how to create 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 addresses the challenges organisations face after the initial wave of generative AI experimentation: how to transform promising pilots into meaningful, safe and sustainable business adoption. Instead of focusing on individual AI tools or better prompting, the discussion will explore the broader operating model necessary to create a cohesive workforce where humans and digital agents can collaborate effectively. Nimble, industry partners and guest speakers will delve into why success necessitates the evolution of technology, data, workflows, and organisational culture together. ## What the session will cover - Data foundations: How semantic layers and ontologies can aid organisations in advancing their infrastructure and making business data genuinely agent-ready. - Engineered context: Why digital agents require specific business context to perform tasks safely and accurately—and why this layer is often absent from many AI strategies. - Cultural adaptation: How to re-engineer 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 an emphasis on progressing beyond isolated experiments towards functioning organisational systems. The interactive breakfast format provides an opportunity to engage with systems-level questions rather than merely listening to another high-level AI presentation. Attendees can anticipate practical insights into managing data, designing work, and preparing people for a new model of collaboration. ## Who should attend? This event is tailored 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 evaluating AI adoption The session will take place from 8:00am to 10:00am BST on Wednesday 23 September 2026. The Leeds venue is yet to be confirmed. It is part of Leeds Digital Festival, described as the UK’s largest