AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact

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The presentation titled AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact by Jyothi Nookula provides a comprehensive framework for turning GenAI enthusiasm within organizations into tangible productivity gains. Key points discussed include:

  • Scalable Integration: Emphasizes the difference between experimenting with GenAI and scaling it for meaningful business impact. Many organizations confuse activity with progress, mistaking GenAI adoption for productivity.
  • Challenges: Organizations are often stuck in initial implementation stages without progressing to true scaling and measuring impacts effectively while balancing activity with tangible outcomes.
  • Productivity Blueprint: Introduces a five-step framework for implementing AI-driven productivity. This includes identifying high-leverage opportunities, quantifying ROI, prototyping with safeguards, measuring real-world impact, and scaling through storytelling.
  • Automation vs. Augmentation: Stresses the importance of discerning when to automate tasks completely and when to augment human capabilities with AI, each requiring different strategies.
  • Evaluation and Adaptation: Stresses the need for structured frameworks like the Developer Productivity Index to measure organizational productivity across multiple dimensions including speed, quality, satisfaction, and sustainability.

Jyothi concludes with a reflection, urging organizations to assess processes that can be transformed to be not just faster, but smarter through AI, emphasizing accountability and measurable results.

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Abstract

In this session you'll learn how product leaders turn GenAI enthusiasm into an enterprise-ready blueprint for real productivity gains. You’ll discover a pragmatic framework for sizing ROI, ranking high-leverage use cases, weaving in responsible-AI guardrails, and crafting an internal narrative that energizes engineers, architects, and executives. Walk away with ready-made canvases, business-case worksheets, AI-aware scoring matrices, and go-to-market playbooks, that empower you to launch AI initiatives with confidence and clarity.


Speaker

Jyothi Nookula

Product Leader Director with 13+ Years Driving AI Product & Platform Innovation, Previously @Meta, @Amazon, and @Etsy

Jyothi Nookula is a seasoned Product Leader Director with over 13 years of experience driving AI product and platform innovation across leading tech companies including Netflix, Meta, Amazon (AWS), and Etsy.

A prolific innovator and thought leader, she holds 12 patents in machine learning and AI. In addition to her product leadership, Jyothi has mentored more than 1,500 product managers, helping them transition into AI-focused roles through hands-on training and strategic portfolio building. She founded NextGen Product Manager, an educational platform where she teaches AI product management courses that are praised for their practical, high-impact approach.

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Date

Wednesday Nov 19 / 02:45PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

Topics

AI/ML Product Management Developer Platforms

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