Hosted by Mariella Borghi, Elisabetta Alicino and Valentina Di Michele
Who trains your future leaders when AI does the junior work?
Cohabiting with AI: hybrid workflows, governance, and the leaders of tomorrow
Every company is being pushed to move at machine speed. Almost none are asking what that speed will cost them in five years.
Two years into the AI era, the question is no longer whether to use AI but how to live with it. Cohabitation means treating AI agents as teammates: they draft, they analyze, they execute at a pace no human team can match. But it hides a paradox no productivity dashboard will show you. The tasks AI now absorbs are the same tasks that used to train your juniors. Automate the bottom of the ladder and you quietly remove the rungs your future experts were meant to climb.
The strategic question gets uncomfortable: if the machine does the apprenticeship, who becomes the expert?
This panel is built for founders and leaders who have to answer that now. Three practitioners who work inside real companies, on the decisions that actually matter.
What's in it for you: a way to read your own AI adoption not as a cost-cutting move but as a decision about who runs your company in five years. A governance lens you can put to work Monday morning, and a concrete method to grow a workforce now shared with machines.
You don't get to opt out of the AI revolution. You do get to choose how you dance with it.
About Mariella Borghi
Mariella Borghi is an interpreter of AI complexity, reading AI from Europe. She has worked with artificial intelligence since 2011, well before the generative wave, and brings twenty-five years of strategic marketing to the way she interprets it today. TEDx speaker and LinkedIn Top Voice for Artificial Intelligence, co-founder of AIDEA and Aziende Vincenti, she advises Italian and European corporates, helping leadership teams turn AI from a technological pressure into a governed decision: what to adopt, what to refuse, how to redesign work around it, where human judgment remains the strategic asset.
About Elisabetta Alicino
Elisabetta Alicino is brand strategist and creative director, working at the intersection of brand, visual culture, and generative AI. Among the first in Italy to bring AI into the creative industry, she is the founder of Brand Genesi, co-founder of AiMAZE and AIDEA. Working across cultures, she advises mid-to-large companies and speaks internationally on brand strategy, generative AI, and creative direction.
About Valentina Di Michele
Valentina Di Michele has spent over twenty years exploring the intersection of language, technology, and ethics. As founder and CEO of Officina Microtesti, Italy's first AI Content design and UX Writing agency, she built authority becoming a reference point across Italian digital culture and innovation. She is the author of bestselling books Emotion Driven Design (Apogeo Feltrinelli, 2020) and Scrivi e lascia vivere (Flaco Edizioni group, 2022), teaches at LUISS Business School, and directs DiParola Festival, Italy's first festival dedicated to clear language.
