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Re-Imagining Modern Work: The AI-Powered Workplace Evolution — Global Forum.

As AI becomes embedded into everyday work, organizations are moving beyond experimentation and into real-world deployment. The question is no longer if AI will shape the workplace, but how it will be designed, implemented, and scaled responsibly.

Re-imagining Modern Work: The AI-Powered Workplace Evolution is a global forum bringing together technology leaders, partners, and workplace strategists to explore how AI is transforming the employee experience, collaboration, and intelligent spaces.

Through expert insights, real-world examples, and peer-level dialogue, each forum examines how AI can enable more inclusive, efficient, and human-centred ways of working — today and into the future.

Hosted across key cities worldwide, the Global Forum provides a platform to share perspectives, challenge assumptions, and discuss what it truly means to evolve modern work in an AI-powered world.

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TORONTO SERIES

Key Topics

  • How AI is reshaping modern work, collaboration, and workplace experience - what leaders need to focus on now and next.

  • Why ecosystem collaboration and interoperability are critical to delivering consistent, AI-enabled meeting experiences.

  • The direction of Microsoft Teams and AI in the workplace, and what it means for meeting rooms and collaboration strategy.

  • How Cisco devices enhance Teams Rooms through simplicity, interoperability, and enterprise-ready design.
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Take Aways

  • How to translate AI hype into real workplace decisions (what to do now vs later), especially in meeting rooms and collaboration spaces.

  • How to connect your platform and AI roadmap to room experience — how AI affects equity, automation, operations, and user experience.

  • Understand more about interoperability and operational readiness: how to deploy/standardize/scale across multiple office locations while staying centrally supported.
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Agenda

12:00 pm - Arrival
A light lunch ahead of presentations

1:00 pm - Kick-off

  • Welcome & Introductions
  • Microsoft AI Powered Workplace: Teams Roadmap and other updates
  • Why Cisco MTR Elevates Microsoft Room Experiences
  • Cisco MTR Demo and Deep Dive
  • Connecting the Dots with Deployment
  • Executive Panel - Microsoft, Cisco and Applied Electronics | GPA
  • Q & A

3:00 pm - Network with Peers & Happy Hour

  • Stay for an hour or so to meet other like-minded peers and connect with key team members from Microsoft, Cisco and Applied Electronics | GPA.
  • Get a private tour of the Cisco Innovation Center and the new Cisco AI-powered Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Speakers

Re-Imagining Modern Work: The AI-Powered Workplace Evolution — Global Forum
TORONTO SERIES

MICROSOFT

Jimmy Vaughan

Jimmy Vaughan is the Senior Partner Enablement Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Calling and Devices at Microsoft.

APPLIED ELECTRONICS | GPA Canada

Sue Stechly

Sue Stechly is the Vice President, Operations at Applied Electronics | GPA Canada and a board member on the GPA Board of Directors.

CISCO SYSTEMS

Pratik Chanda

Pratik Chanda is the Worldwide Partner Sales Leader for Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) at Cisco Systems.

CISCO SYSTEMS

Darren Lapierre

Darren Lapierre is the Workplace Field CTO at Cisco Systems Canada.

CISCO SYSTEMS

Tony Reyes

Tony Reyes is the Cisco Solutions Engineer, Collaboration at Cisco Systems.

APPLIED ELECTRONICS | GPA Canada

Mike Dalton

Mike Dalton is the Vice President, Audio Visual Systems Division at Applied Electronics | GPA Canada.

FORTÉ | GPA

Peggy Martinus

Peggy Martinus is the Senior Director, Global Microsoft Sales & Alliance for FORTÉ | GPA.

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