Preface × INSEAD: Building Agentic Organisations with Strategy and Hands-On AI
Meta Description: Discover key takeaways from the Preface x INSEAD AI Organisational Transformation Programme on agentic workflows, workforce redesign, and enterprise AI governance.
Purchasing software licenses alone will not future-proof an enterprise. Sustainable ROI requires structural transformation: moving past isolated prompts to architecting scalable, agentic organisations.
To bridge boardroom strategy with technical execution, senior leaders across banking, insurance, aviation, architecture, and education joined the two-day Preface x INSEAD AI Organisational Transformation Programme at The Langham Hotel, Hong Kong.
Day 1: Strategic Leadership with INSEAD’s Professor Jason Davis
Professor Jason Davis, enterprise innovation authority from INSEAD, opened the masterclass by dissecting the operational friction behind digital transformation:
Beyond Baseline Tooling: Why conversational chatbots yield diminishing returns without direct workflow integration.
Organisational Architecture: Redesigning team structures to support hybrid human-agent ecosystems.
Executive Foresight: Identifying high-impact business units where autonomous decision loops create lasting competitive advantage.
Day 2: Lab Prototyping, Agent Workflows, and Governance with Tommie Lo
Led by Preface Founder and CEO Tommie Lo, Day 2 moved participants from theory into hands-on lab engineering:
From Chatbots to Agentic Systems: Architecting multi-step autonomous workflows rather than single-prompt queries.
Obsidian Knowledge Mapping: Transforming siloed documentation into a queryable, connected knowledge graph.
Human-AI Collaboration via OpenClaw: Live demonstrations showing real-time task orchestration between human teams and AI agents.
Enterprise Guardrails & FDEs: Enforcing safety, data governance, and deterministic guardrails.
Media Feature: The Role of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)
A central insight of the programme was that closing the AI execution gap requires technical specialists embedded directly on the operational front line.
External Feature: Read the full Economic Digest (經濟一週) cover story detailing Preface’s joint initiative with INSEAD and the strategic role of Forward Deployed Engineers in modern enterprise architecture:
Special thanks to our venue partner, The Langham Hotel, for their hospitality and the lunch at Three-Michelin-starred T’ang Court.
Explore the full agenda, executive perspectives, and live session Q&As at www.preface.ai/insead-2026.
