Leading in the era of AI : how leadership, teams and careers are changing
As AI becomes part of everyday work, leaders are facing some important, and sometimes uncomfortable questions:
• How do you develop and lead people when AI takes over parts of their work? • How do you manage teams of people and AI agents, and what does good performance look like? • How do you navigate the organisational change and uncertainty AI brings? • How are career paths into leadership evolving? • And when AI makes everyone sound knowledgeable, how do you distinguish genuine expertise from a well-generated answer?
The idea is to have an open, down to earth conversation about the challenges leaders are already navigating and practical approaches at your disposal, rather than another discussion about AI's potential.
Speakers
Gina is a marketing leader with 18+ years of experience at leading tech companies, including Miro, Microsoft, SoSafe, and Unbabel. She is currently CMO at Designverse, an engineering context layer platform helping teams connect engineering knowledge and context to accelerate software development. Named one of the Top 100 Future B2B CMOs, Gina specializes in go-to-market strategy, product adoption, and global growth across AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise technology. She also mentors startups on go-to-market strategy and product-market fit.
Mira is a digital transformation and AI leader with 15 years of experience across global B2B sales, operations, and technology, including channel sales for HP, Cisco, and AVG and leadership of large operational teams. She is currently leading Digital Transformation at Concentrix, owning the B2B sales technology roadmap, driving AI adoption, automation, and the integration of AI agents into commercial operations. Her work spans technology strategy, solution evaluation, vendor negotiations, security and compliance, and pilot execution, combining external AI solutions with collaboration across internal product teams to develop and enhance existing capabilities. Mira specialises in AI readiness, AI agents, technology adoption, and organisational change, with a focus on how people, AI, and automation work together in real business environments.
Hugo França is a product and design leader with 19 years of experience across web, mobile and digital product, including Mokriya, Portugal Telecom’s SAPO and ZON. He is currently Managing Director for Portugal at Nagarro and Director of Product Design in its Product Studio, where he supports a global team of designers. He works on business growth, operational efficiency and building high-performing teams, with a focus on AI, product strategy and product experience.
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Kátia Sidorenko is a tech community builder and event host with 10+ years of experience across HR, recruitment and software development, including Grape Up, Intersog and Hillel IT School. She is currently Senior Frontend Developer at DataArt, Connection Advocate for the D2 collective, a community of 6,000+ tech professionals, and Vice-President of the General Assembly at the 351 Portuguese Startup Association. She moved into software after five years in HR, including heading an HR department and coaching IT recruiters, and mentors junior developers with a focus on healthy team dynamics.