エイトレッド and Workflow Research Institute will hold the online conference AI Ready Summit on 15 and 16 October 2026, presenting AI as a new employee joining an organization. The event will explore organizational design for AI use and blueprints for business transformation.
エイトレッド, a workflow solutions provider, and Workflow Research Institute announced that they will hold the online conference AI Ready Summit: The Blueprint for a Company Where AI Works — A Practical Guide to the New Employee “AI” on Thursday, 15 October and Friday, 16 October 2026. The event positions AI not merely as a tool but as a new employee joining an organization, and aims to explain the structures and blueprints that enable AI to perform effectively.
The timetable is divided into morning and afternoon sessions: organization in the morning and data in the afternoon on the 15th, followed by systems in the morning and business operations in the afternoon on the 16th. A total of 27 leading practitioners with expertise in AI use are scheduled to speak.
In the keynote, Yoshihisa Aono (青野慶久) of Cybozu will discuss collaboration between people and AI and organizational culture in the age of autonomous AI agents. Toshinori Sasatani (笹谷俊徳) will discuss approaches taken by AI-native companies that lead to financial results. On the 16th, Kazunari Ito (伊東和成) and Yasuhiro Maekawa (前川泰宏) will discuss the future of next-generation infrastructure, while AX consultant Junya Takahashi (高橋淳也) will share practical insights based on results from AI investment and back-office workload reduction.
エイトレッド is the organizer. Through AgileWorks and X-point Cloud, it provides the digitalization of application and approval processes, while Workflow Research Institute disseminates information from a business-process perspective. The article is based on an announcement by エイトレッド.