Leading Human-AI Collaboration: Creating a Culture of Safety, Wellbeing, and Performance
As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into the workplace, organizations face a critical challenge: ensuring that technology enhances, rather than replaces, human capabilities. This presentation explores how leaders can foster effective human-AI collaboration to create safer, healthier, and higher-performing work environments.
The session will examine the evolving relationship between people and intelligent systems, highlighting practical strategies for building trust, maintaining human oversight, and ensuring ethical and responsible AI adoption. Through real-world examples, participants will learn how organizations are leveraging AI to strengthen safety management, support employee wellbeing, improve decision-making, and boost operational performance while keeping human judgement at the center.
Attendees will gain insights into leadership practices, cultural enablers, workforce readiness, and governance frameworks that help organizations successfully navigate the future of work. The presentation will demonstrate how a balanced partnership between people and technology can drive sustainable performance, resilience, and a strong culture of safety and wellbeing.
Speaker(s)
Eng. Inas Al Khatib, PhD is a distinguished AI and digital transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience driving strategic, operational, and technology transformation across healthcare, manufacturing, humanitarian, and public-sector organizations. She has led over 130 large-scale initiatives in smart manufacturing, digital health, process transformation, and capital investment programs, leveraging artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and innovation to deliver measurable business impact. Her professional background combines executive leadership with consulting experience gained through leading global organizations, including G42, Booz Allen Hamilton, Oliver Wyman, Mercer, Etihad Airways, and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Currently, Eng. Inas serves in several strategic leadership and advisory roles, including AI Strategy and Transformation Leader, Global Operations Director for humanitarian healthcare programs, and Advisory Board Member with the Yale School of Nursing's Precision Wellness Initiative. Her expertise spans AI governance, digital health, operational excellence, enterprise transformation, healthcare innovation, blockchain applications, and organizational resilience. She is also a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, a Chartered Project Manager, and an advocate of responsible AI adoption and sustainable innovation.
A respected thought leader, researcher, and speaker, Eng. Inas has contributed to academic and industry advancements in artificial intelligence, healthcare technology, humanitarian logistics, supply chain management, and industrial engineering. She has served as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the American University of Sharjah and has mentored technology startups and innovation programs internationally. She is also the author of Resilience in Healthcare and Pharma Logistics: Strategies for Navigating Disruptions, reflecting her commitment to strengthening organizational resilience and advancing technology-enabled transformation.
Areas of Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, AI Governance, Strategic Transformation, Operational Excellence, Innovation Management, Healthcare Technology, Lean Six Sigma, Humanitarian Programs, Blockchain Applications, and Enterprise Change Management.
