Curran Brugger

• How can a fast‑growing biopharma organization invest in AI and technology while simultaneously strengthening talent development, inclusion, and leadership capability during periods of rapid change?
• Discover how Gilead Sciences is building a multi year, AI enabled growth ecosystem, including a single “front door” to development, skills intelligence, and manager-led growth conversations, to integrate learning, talent mobility and future skills directly into everyday work rather than treating development as a separate activity
• Learn how success is being measured as a business initiative, with clear lead and lag indicators including improved employee perceptions of growth, increased internal mobility versus external hiring, stronger utilization of internal skills, and long‑term cost and agility gains as the organization prepares its workforce for the future of AI

This interactive Q&A explores the gap between AI investment and real adoption, and what HR leaders can do to close it.

Drawing on the experiences shared in both Discover sessions, participants will examine the behavioral, cultural, and structural changes needed to make AI a sustainable part of how HR and talent teams work.

• What is the single biggest barrier to AI adoption in your people function, and how are others overcoming it?
• How do you build manager capability and psychological safety alongside AI tool deployment?
• What does a genuinely people-centered AI growth ecosystem look like in practice?
• How do you measure the ROI of AI adoption in HR without reducing it to efficiency metrics?