PIONEER Workshop: My New Teammate Called AI — Lessons from the Sports Arena

Imagine you're playing an important match: today, a new teammate joins the team — AI. Where do we position it? How can it help? How do we lead this hybrid team? In this keynote, we’ll explore how AI can become an effective member of the project management team, freeing people to focus on creativity, leadership, and transformation. We’ll define the vision together and explore how AI supports precision, ideation, and adaptive innovation — while leaving empathy, ethics, and decision-making in human hands. Attendees will leave inspired with actionable insights to confidently lead projects into the AI-powered future.

Learning goals summary:

Attendees should learn the following by attending the session:

• Understand how to integrate AI as a team member in projects.
• Learn leadership skills to coach human-AI hybrid teams.
• Explore how AI supports precision, creativity, and innovation while preserving human leadership

Biography

Lorenzo Vetrano.

Lorenzo Vetrano is a seasoned Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and international speaker with a unique approach that blends project management, sports coaching, and team psychology. With extensive experience leading multicultural teams across industries and working both on-site and remotely, he specializes in helping organizations build high-performing teams that embrace innovation and adaptive leadership. Drawing from his background in sports, Lorenzo brings a deep dedication to collaboration, shared success, and guiding teams into the "zone" enabling them to deliver greater value within their specific contexts. Passionate about the future of work, he supports project managers in developing the leadership and power skills needed to guide hybrid human-AI teams toward peak performance.

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