The Real Foundations of AI-Ready Teams
The technology is dazzling, but your AI strategy is failing because of people, not algorithms. Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Education, Linux Foundation, delivers a counterintuitive argument: in an age of unprecedented AI capability, breadth matters more than depth, and upskilling your existing workforce (five months to productivity) beats hiring external talent (eight and a half months) every time.
Drawing on the Linux Foundation’s 2025 State of Tech Talent Report, Seepersad outlines the human fundamentals that separate successful AI implementations from expensive failures: cross-training teams across the full technology stack, cultivating critical thinking skills that create guardrails around powerful systems, developing soft skills that surface implicit institutional knowledge, and remembering that no organization has ever shrunk its way to greatness.
