The Wild Wild West of AI

AI is moving fast, and most public sector leaders are finding themselves playing catch-up. You don't have to feel bad about that. But you do need to understand AI well enough to make decisions about what's coming, rather than have it just happen to you.

In this session, we'll walk through a practical framework for planning your agency's approach to AI, including how to evaluate risk, how to set limits without choking out innovation, and how to choose, pilot, and evaluate AI use cases. You'll also get a quick, hands-on check of where your organization stands today across four areas: direction, decisions, people, and learning.

What you'll learn:

• How to evaluate risk before adopting a new AI tool or use case

• How to set guardrails without stifling innovation

• A practical process for choosing, piloting, and evaluating AI use cases

• How to assess your organization's readiness across direction, decisions, people, and learning

• How to move from reacting to AI, to planning for it

  
  

What you'll walk away with:

• AI Readiness Quick Check: a one-page worksheet to rate your organization as Strong, Developing, or Unclear in each of the four areas, and spot your biggest gap

• Reference Guide: indicator checklists and "what ready looks like" descriptions for each area

• AI Use Case Process Map: a step-by-step path for choosing, piloting, and evaluating AI use cases

• Your one next move: a concrete action to start within 30 days

This session is led by Ryan Hunter, co-founder of PPI, who has helped dozens of cities and counties nationwide streamline processes and lead organizational transformation.