Matthew Alverson

Partner

IA Collaborative

Matt Alverson is a Partner and AI Lead at IA Collaborative, a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps Fortune 100 companies embrace what he calls Collaborative Intelligence. Matt and the team at IA Collaborative build AI workbenches for enterprise teams, design consumer-facing experiences for the agentic web, and lead AI-native organizational strategy. His clients at IA include Airbnb, FedEx, Audi, J&J, and Lilly. Matt has been recognized as an Innovation Visionary by IFA Germany, and his work at IA has help earn accolades from Fast Company, SXSW, IDEA, and Red Dot. He has spoken at events including Mayo Clinic Transform, Chicago Ideas Week, UX Synergies: AI Futures, and AIGA’s Design in the Age of AI. For over 15 years, Matt has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, where he teaches innovation and growth strategy.

Sessions

Apr 29

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

Blue Stage

AI & Research Workflows

Healthcare

Leadership & Talent

Collaborative Intelligence: The Research Future at Eli Lilly

In an era of AI experimentation and uneven ROI, Lilly’s research innovators and IA Collaborative built one of the company’s most impactful AI platforms — an AI ecosystem of tools designed to augment insight. Discover how AI workflows delivered on hard metrics — elevating researchers’ role with executives and establishing them as trusted AI guides.
Key Takeaways:
1. Understand how AI elevated researchers’ strategic influence & led to a seat at the executive table.
2. Learn how to turn AI skepticism into enthusiasm through purposeful workflow integration.
3. Discuss hard-won lessons on scaling AI solutions responsibly across complex organizations.

Also speaking

Andrew Embry

Sr. Director of Insights Innovation and Capabilities Lilly Market Research, Eli Lilly

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