Leadership roundtable - Skills pathways for fast flow
Explore practical strategies for creating a joined-up approach to innovation, skills uplift, and practice-sharing across teams.
AI adoption brings a new set of must-have skills, teams upskilling in isolation, and a fresh risk of investing in capabilities that are obsolete within a year, blocking the fast flow of value. This roundtable gives leaders a joined-up approach to skills uplift and practice sharing, building lasting, adaptable capability rather than chasing every new trend.
Product Code: P657a
“We, like many organizations, seek ways to maximize our AI opportunities while maintaining organizational flow. The discussions on maintaining domain fidelity, democratizing GenAI skills, and avoiding new hand-offs provided valuable insights.”
— Iago Martínez, Director of Engineering at FundApps
The business impact
Organizations implementing connected skills pathways aligned with fast flow principles report improvements in team effectiveness and business outcomes.
By focusing on empowerment and avoiding the creation of new silos, technology leaders can expect to:
Reduce duplication of learning efforts across teams
Accelerate AI adoption while maintaining quality
Enhance team autonomy and innovation capacity
Build sustainable capabilities rather than chasing trends
Improve team engagement through meaningful development
Sustain fast flow during rapid technological change
Accelerate innovation, skills uplift, and practice-sharing across teams
With AI accelerating higher-level abstractions such as prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted delivery, technology leaders face tough questions: How can organizations upskill effectively without chasing short-lived trends or investing in soon-to-be-obsolete skills?
Explore practical strategies for creating a joined-up approach to AI adoption, skills development, and practice-sharing across teams.
Discover ways to avoid wasteful duplication of effort and make upskilling more collaborative and aligned across departments.
Debate techniques for guiding upskilling that balance staying ahead of AI-driven change with building adaptable skills, while generating excitement and alignment throughout the organization.
This roundtable provides practical ideas for fostering skill development that prepares teams for meaningful AI adoption while avoiding the pitfalls of chasing new tech fads.
Deep insights from real-world implementations
Curated by Matthew Skelton, CEO at Conflux and co-author of Team Topologies, and Renee Hawkins, COO at Conflux, and Woman of the Year at the 2021 Women in Tech Excellence awards, this leadership roundtable shares insights and proven approaches from global customer engagements.
Who this is for
Technology leaders navigating AI adoption
Leaders focused on sustainable capability development that enhances fast flow
Managers interested in effective routes to upskilling and cross-skilling
What you'll gain
Drawing on perspectives from COOs, CTOs/CIOs, and HR, we explore mindsets and techniques for distinguishing meaningful, transformative technologies from trends, fads, and red herrings, and guide you through approaches that generate genuine enthusiasm and broad alignment.
Explore the implications of AI for current technology practitioners in areas such as specifying safety and domain constraints, and configuring agentic workflows.
Learn effective routes to upskilling and cross-skilling, and understand how to avoid investing in skills that will become obsolete within 12 months.
Gain a coherent approach to innovation, skills uplift, and sharing practices to avoid wasteful duplication of effort across isolated teams, making upskilling less individualistic and more joined-up.
What’s included
With half-day formats that are perfect for enterprises seeking to enhance their leadership offsite days, our expert facilitators deliver deep strategic discussions and thorough collaborative problem-solving.
Preparation and in-person roundtable:
2 × 45-minute online preparation sessions - We’ll meet your team and outline your challenges in order to tailor your roundtable
3-hour in-person roundtable (at your location) - Debating and exploring your specific opportunities and shaping your solutions
1 × 45-minute online follow-up session - Feedback and recommendations from our experts
Meet your facilitators
Renee Hawkins is a technology leader and transformation practitioner with over 25 years of international technology consulting experience. She has passion for optimising business value through organisation design, building a strong culture, leadership development strategies, career development and competency modelling, as well as, all the data driven operations needed to align supply and demand in a hyper growth company.
Matthew Skelton is the CEO/CTO of Conflux and co-author of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019). This book has become the go-to reference for organizations worldwide seeking business agility and adaptability with software-enriched services.
Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organizational dynamics for fast flow, supporting organizations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.