Building AI-Ready Teams with NIX at MTLC

During Boston AI Week, Evgen Temchenko, NIX’s Head of Enterprise Engineering, joined an esteemed panel at the MTLC conference for the session “AI Adapted Workforce: A Panel Discussion.” Moderated by Drew Fortin, Founder of Lever Talent, the discussion focused on how AI is transforming team structures, workflows, and leadership approaches across organizations. In other words, what happens when humans and AI stop competing and start collaborating.

The session offered a practical look at AI adoption inside tech companies, showing how teams are being reorganized, roles redefined, and workflows redesigned to keep up with a world where AI doesn’t sleep, take coffee breaks, or miss deadlines.

Attendees heard from a diverse group of leaders, including HR executives, data and engineering managers, and enterprise technology heads, who are actively reorganizing teams, redefining roles, and introducing entirely new ways of working.

Topics included how organizations decide which work stays with humans and which tasks shift to AI agents, how functions like engineering and operations or data and product are merging under an AI lens, and how to maintain culture, trust, and performance while AI chips in. 

Speakers also shared lessons from companies further along their AI journey, highlighting both breakthroughs and those familiar “well, that didn’t work” moments every innovation path brings.

Key themes covered during the session included:

• How leading tech organizations are incorporating AI to structure teams effectively.
  
  
• Real-world examples of merging functions and teams, such as engineering and operations or data and product, under an AI lens.
  
  
• Balancing human and AI contributions to maintain trust, culture, and performance.
  
  
• Lessons from companies further along the AI journey, highlighting strategies that succeeded and challenges that emerged.
  
  

Evgen shared insights from NIX’s client work, emphasizing common misconceptions about AI adoption and practical strategies to manage expectations. He noted the shift for developers from writing code to reviewing AI-generated outputs, stressing the importance of building confidence in AI-assisted workflows. Because, let’s be honest, nobody wants to debug an AI’s “creative interpretation” of your logic.

His participation showcased NIX’s thought leadership in guiding organizations to embrace AI responsibly and strategically. It has also contributed to the broader Boston AI Week, which featured over 100 sessions, workshops, panels, and meetups for executives, engineers, investors, researchers, and tech enthusiasts.

This was NIX’s second session with MTLC, the Mass Technology Leadership Council, a tech community that connects local and global disruptive leaders and anyone curious enough to ask, “Wait, can AI do that too?” MTLC emphasizes meaningful engagement, strategic networking, and practical takeaways, empowering attendees to lead confidently in a fast-evolving AI landscape.

We’re already looking forward to the next conversation. Stay curious, keep learning, and maybe we’ll see you there too.