The Architecture of AI Adoption: Why Your HR Pilots Stall and How to Fix It

21 Oct 2026
Mega Session
Most HR AI pilots die between proof-of-concept and production—not because the technology fails, but because leaders are solving the wrong problem. The barrier isn't technical capability. It's architectural alignment.

This workshop reveals the five structural barriers that doom AI initiatives before they scale, using diagnostic frameworks developed from driving AI adoption at Cloudflare's People Operations (zero compliance violations, measurable operational impact) and training implementation teams at Vox Media.

Attendees will diagnose their own AI implementations using hands-on exercises and leave with actionable tools to move from experimentation to production deployment.

This is not another AI trends presentation. It's an implementation playbook for HR technology leaders who need to move AI from pilot purgatory to production scale.
Speakers
Vic Akosile
Vic Akosile, Head of AI Transformation & People Strategy - Cloudflare

Category

Organizational Agility & Transformation

Learning Objective 1

Diagnose structural barriers (Coordination Tax, Ownership Vacuum, Sequencing Trap, Adoption Fallacy, Measurement Mismatch) preventing AI pilots from scaling to production using a diagnostic scorecard framework.

Learning Objective 2

Apply the build/buy/wait decision matrix to evaluate AI use cases and determine which initiatives have architectural readiness for production versus which will remain zombie pilots consuming budget without delivering value.

Learning Objective 3

Implement the Permission Architecture framework to establish clear decision authority, eliminate stakeholder coordination overhead, and create the structural alignment required for sustainable AI adoption in HR operations.

Access Type

Conference Pass