ODC WEBINAR
The Organizational Design Community (ODC) invites you to the following webinar:
Old Bottle, New Wine: Org Design for AI-Native Teams
Sunil Setlur
Chief People Officer at Mindtickle
--- 27th August 2026, Thursday at 9am EST/3pm CET ---
In this ODC presentation, Sunil Setlur will discuss how AI-native teams are organized and argue that this is not a new organizational form. Rather, it is the small, senior, low-hierarchy expert team that socio-technical systems theory described in the 1950s, now newly affordable. Organization design has always been about managing coordination costs and information-processing load. AI raises the capability of each node while lowering the cost of coordinating between them, so the optimal team predictably shrinks and grows more senior. Sunil will examine this through four lenses: how AI use actually changes people, the aspirational AI-native team, its correspondence to small expert organizations, and field observation. The bottle is old; the wine inside it is not.
About the Speaker:
Sunil Setlur leads People & Culture as Chief People Officer at Mindtickle (a leading AI-powered revenue productivity platform) and is a Founder and Managing Director of Cognisen, an advisory practice focused on organizational strategy, culture, and the people decisions that drive business outcomes. Sunil has also held CPO and senior people leadership roles at Gojek (through its $26B IPO), Google, Amazon, and Accenture leading people functions across organizations ranging from high-growth startups to companies of 100,000+ employees across Asia, India, and globally. He believes the best version of the future is one where technology makes people more human, and has spent two decades building organizations that operate that way. A self-confessed Star Trek nerd, he has always believed the most powerful thing on any starship is a crew that knows exactly why they’re out there — and applies that conviction to every organization he touches.
Register here: https://orgdesigncomm.com/events
Registration closes on 26 August 2026 at 9 am EST.
The live webinar is open to the public. The recorded webinar is only available for ODC members.
Come join us!
Arianna Marchetti
Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University
