Closing Keynote Speaker. Founder & AI Adoption Consultant


Johannes Sundlo is an AI adoption consultant who helps large organizations move from AI experimentation to real organizational change. With 15+ years of HR leadership experience at companies like Spotify, Kry, Matsmart and Trustly, he now works with clients including IKEA, Volvo Group, H&M, Sandvik and PostNord on building AI capability at scale. He is the creator of the Ambassador Method for AI adoption, runs the FullStack HR newsletter (10,000+ subscribers) and the "AI och HR" podcast, and co-leads humAIn Academy. Johannes is known for a direct, practical style and a core thesis that AI adoption fails because of human and organizational factors, not technology.
Eighty-eight percent of employees use AI at work. Five percent use it in a way that changed how work is designed. That gap is a design problem.
A pilot used to mean you experimented, learned, and decided. Now it means nobody commits, but everybody looks busy.
After 200+ workshops across four countries, this keynote takes apart five myths about AI adoption, shows what a work redesign looks like next to a tool rollout, and ends with four questions you can put to your organization on Monday. You need no budget, no vendor, and nobody's permission.
What you'll leave with:
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