From Generative to Collaborative AI: Exploring HR Applications To Talent Acquisition, Retention, and Inclusion Practices
Mar 27, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM PT
Within the past several years, there has been a transformative shift from fear and displacement as brought about through the effects of generative AI toward understanding how to integrate it as synergistic to human collaboration and HR practice. This emphasis on harmonization, also known as Collaborative AI, is less known but is of increasing interest and demands deeper critical thinking and creative decision-making skills needed to use this technology by HR professionals. In this session, we will discuss this newer trajectory and specifically focus on how Collaborative AI may rapidly transform but also enhance the importance of HR practice as still a human-centric and not just as a technology-influenced practice via AI.
As part of this session, we will specifically showcase how Collaborative AI can be embedded with design thinking principles and sample tools that can address ongoing ethical and inclusion practices as related to talent acquisition and retention. We will also demonstrate how participants can engage and create their own understanding and applications with this technology through “live” demonstration and hands-on practice for participants taking them from reactive to innovative users with this technology.
Location
Golden Gate University
San Francisco, CA
Program cost starting at:
Member: $40
Non-Member: $80
Learning Goals and Outcomes
Upon completion of this workshop session, participants will be able to do the following:
- Understand the differences between generative AI and collaborative AI
- Explore thinking and design approaches with collaborative AI needed by HR practitioners
- Explore and understand sample cases, tools, and applications beyond vendor packages in the direct utilization of this technology
- Experiment with the technology with applications to inclusion practices and to improve talent acquisition and retention
Workshop Facilitators and Presenters
- Nicole C. Jackson, PhD
- Dr. Shalini Gopalkrishnan
- Luka Samkharadze
About Our Presenters
Nicole C. Jackson, PhD
Vice Provost, Golden Gate University
Management Expert with over 15 years of diversified program management related experience including in business process improvement, organizational design and alignment, training, and risk mitigation for education, government, non-profit and private sectors. Demonstrated effectiveness in the design and delivery including the creation of IT to HR and academic programs and their alignment. Experience includes academic research and instruction positioned to mid and senior executive audiences in HR, Organizational and Leadership methods and practices, as well as program and risk assessments with a specific emphasis on organizational and leadership ambidexterity development (i.e., the balance between innovation and competency development) - critical to the digital transformation economy. Prior to graduate academia, five-years of experience as an IT Business Process Consultant, Training Manager, and Product Manager in both high compliance-driven client engagements and start-up environments. Extensive training in strategic stakeholder assessments, change management methodologies, curriculum design including external policy reviews, benchmarking, and use of quantitative and qualitative data collection such as surveys and interview methods for organizational change and design work.
Dr. Shalini S Gopalkrishnan
AI Strategist at SFBU
Her research interests include Technology and analytics to build and accelerate social enterprises, public policy in entrepreneurship, women leadership and impact investing. She is the author of forthcoming book on" The World Remade with Artificial Intelligence"
Dr. Gopalkrishnan has presented at conferences across the globe and has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. In addition, Dr. Gopalkrishnan was the winner of the Global Brainstorm Challenge “Global Women’s Leadership Alliance: 5 Million Women Change Agents Improving Our World in 5 Years."
Dr. Gopalkrishnan is a judge at UC Berkeley LAUNCH and BIG IDEAS competition. She has founded startups such as freelancemoms.com, Introspect and Lexion Global and worked as a consultant with A F Ferguson (then part of KPMG) and worked on projects with USAID, Fortune 500 firms and the government.
Luka Samkharadze
Currently Founding Software Engineer with rich hands-on experience and diverse portfolio of projects. Starting carrier as individual contributor but soon transitioned into higher levels roles responsible for managing teams, mentoring people and setting reasonable goals in a company. Worked in various environments, from dynamic startups to robust enterprise-grade applications, from team sizes of one to hundreds.