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A few days ago we had the pleasure of running another session of our AI-First Teams training with Hellenic American Educational Foundation Athens College - Psychico College (HAEF Athens College - Psychico College), where the teams are not just experimenting with AI but are committed to becoming AI-First. We were honoured that President Professor Spyros N. Pollalis attended and are grateful for the warm welcome.

One thing became evident: real GenAI adoption requires something that lives after the programme ends.

On many occasions the lifecycle of a training programme is as follows: announcement, preparation, training, post-session survey, follow-up email. Done. The team and participants move on. The habits don’t form because habits require repetition. And this is wrongly linked to individual motivation although it is a structural problem. One-off experiences do not produce new behaviour they produce awareness, and enthusiasm which unfortunately fades away as urgency of actual work takes over.

Real adoption requires something that lives after the programme ends. A system that keeps running. An infrastructure that complements the new behaviour and makes it an organic part of your daily routine. One that is lightweight enough to maintain but also structured enough to matter.

This is where our infrastructure layer comes into play through wiserwork; our AI meeting agent that keeps the new behavior active, tracks what’s working and adapts as workflows evolve. The tool that not only records your meetings, but helps you act on your action items with the power or GenAISkills.

Share your latest AI training experience in the comments 👇
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June SoG Recap This month we covered:

-Model race: Claude 3.8 vs. Gemini 3.5 & Alibaba’s Qwen breakthrough
- Agents & Multi-agent orchestration: Managed agents in Google AI Studio & MIT’s Project Wiser
- Skills as repeatable AI workflows: Converting meeting insights into design briefs via wiserwork.ai Skills
- Edge AI & models running locally: NVIDIA & Snapdragon’s push for high-performance Local AI Inference
- AI-native design tools: Rapid prototyping using v0.app and wiserwork.ai integration
- Security gaps & hallucinations: Meta’s chatbot exploit and Claude 3.8’s accuracy gains
- AI economics & IPO signals: Anthropic’s confidential SEC filing and SpaceX/XAI partnerships
- AI Ethics & Robotics: Pope Francis’s “Humanitas” guidelines and Figure AI’s humanoid mass production

Key insights:
👉 We’re shifting from manual prompting to “Skill-based” orchestration, where workflows are pre-packaged for the team.
👉 Local Inference is becoming a reality, reducing reliance on the cloud for sensitive or heavy tasks.
👉 Security must remain human-centric; automated agents in sensitive areas (like password resets) remain a major risk.

Which trend impressed you the most? Comment below 👇

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At Panathēnea, "From 10x individuals to 10x teams." our CEO, Yiorgos Nikoletakis, shared what is really happening inside organisations navigating GenAI adoption today.

In almost every organization going through GenAI adoption right now, the same pattern emerges. A handful of people, maybe 20%, maybe fewer, figure it out early. They experiment, they develop real fluency, they start getting disproportionate results. They become the AI-first employees everyone else knows by reputation.

The rest of the team watches. Some try to keep up. Some disengage entirely. Most land somewhere in the middle: aware that AI exists, occasionally using it, never really integrating it.

At the 4th GenAI Summit, 24 out of 50 participating managers ranked this problem "a few 10x individuals doesn't translate into 10x teams" as the most critical challenge they were facing. The uneven distribution of AI capability inside their own organizations.

The less-discussed cost of this gap: the 10x individuals don't stay. They look left and right, see that the system doesn't match their level, and eventually move to environments that do. You invest in developing high performers and the gap you failed to close drives them away.

Through wiserwork.ai the skills of the best people on the team get systematized into shared workflows and skill libraries that everyone can use. The 10x individual stops being a person and becomes a system.

If you are interested in building AI-first teams, book a meeting with Yiorgos directly: https://meetings.hubspot.com/yiorgos/meet-yiorgos?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--otsdhezgdMYKdsJFa4gbKw7YlT7l8RTkLh1dqiwKOJKmJWxepgM8a56E7SpaVf-vefw82&uuid=3d99ddf7-571f-460b-bbde-eb82018c0d7e&utm_campaign=45714821-AI-First%20teams%20-%20Meet%20with%20Yiorgos&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Photos: Mark Pitsilos Photography (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markpitsilosphotography/)

The 100mentors, Gen AI Summit SE Europe, and wiserwork.ai team is showing up at Panathēnea 2026.

We'll be on the ground at Zappeion, as ecosystem partners of Panathēnea.

Our CEO Yiorgos Nikoletakis takes the stage on Friday, May 29th at 16:30, to share findings from a 3-month beta with companies from the Summit community and introduce the Build AI-First Teams program.

Come talk AI-first teams with us.

Book a meeting with us via the Panathēnea app or find us on the ground, we're available for on-the-spot conversations!

From left to right:
Irina Gkini | Gen Manager, 100mentors & Gen AI Summit SE Europe,
Joanna Taouki | Head of GenAI Academy, 100mentors
Paraskevi Kivroglou | Product Manager, 100mentors & wiserwork.ai
Vicky Pechlivani | Head of Growth, 100mentors & wiserwork.ai

GenAI is moving fast. Here's how we keep up.

Every month, the State of GenAI (SoG) community gathers to break down what's actually happening in Generative AI, no fluff, just signal.

📅 June Edition:
🟣 Top stories shaping the space
🟣 How inference actually works
🟣 "A Modern Product Design Workflow": live demo of Ask Wiser, wiserwork.ai’s latest feature

🗓 Thursday, 4 June ⏰ 17:30 EET | Online

🎤 Hosted by
Mark Pitsilos, Software Architect 100mentors & wiserwork.ai
Paraskevi Kivroglou, Product Manager 100mentors& wiserwork.ai

Featuring:
George A. Pappas, Product Designer 100mentors & wiserwork.ai

Register here: https://form.typeform.com/to/IW5gjL8J?utm_campaign=44805700-SoG%20June&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social