What poses the greater threat to organizational resilience today: a lack of artificial intelligence technologies, or a lack of people who know how to adapt to them? If you were forced today to choose between doubling your investment in artificial intelligence and doubling your investment in employee development, which would you choose to strengthen your organization’s resilience? These were the questions that opened the 15th Industry–Academia Conference at Braude Academic College of Engineering, dedicated this year to “Artificial Intelligence and Human Capital: Organizational Resilience in a New Era.”

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming nearly every aspect of our lives. It is reshaping the way we innovate, engineer solutions, manage organizations, and make decisions. The scale of this shift is without precedent. In a little over two years, the share of organizations using AI in at least one business function has jumped from roughly half to close to nine in ten. Generative AI adoption alone has more than doubled year over year since 2023, and global AI investment has surged past half a trillion dollars in 2026 — a pace of adoption faster than any enterprise technology before it, including the internet and mobile computing. What was experimental three years ago is now baseline........

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