Denise
Cardenas Lopez
VP Strategic Capability and Integrated Delivery at Amentum
"AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale"
"AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale"
Tue May 12 - 8:30 AM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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"AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale"
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"AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale"
"AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale"
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Session: AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale
Artificial intelligence is no longer a technical initiative, it is a C-suite capability imperative. While leaders like Tristan Harris warn of cognitive overload and organisational turbulence, Satya Nadella highlights AI as the greatest amplifier of human capability in our lifetime. This keynote introduces Cognitive Lift™, the measurable rise in an organisation’s intelligence when AI frees human cognitive bandwidth and elevates decision-making.Denise Cárdenas López reframes AI as a core organisational capability, not a set of tools. Drawing from her Systems of Capability™ framework and over 18 years leading transformation across complex, high-reliability engineering and nuclear environments, she shows how AI-enabled capability stacks reshape how executives think, lead, and scale.
Attendees will learn how to identify cognitive bottlenecks, design intelligence-centred operating models, and build organisations where AI becomes a strategic multiplier rather than a source of overwhelm.
Key Takeaways
- Understand Cognitive Lift™ and how AI can elevate human and organisational intelligence rather than overwhelm it.
- Learn how to identify cognitive bottlenecks that limit decision-making, performance, and strategic execution.
- Discover how AI-enabled capability stacks transform leadership, governance, and C-suite decision velocity.
- Gain a practical framework for designing intelligence-centred operating models in complex, high-reliability environments.
- Understand the role of the C-suite in shaping AI as a capability multiplier, safeguarding both performance and resilience.
Bio
Denise Cárdenas López is a senior engineering and transformation leader recognised as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering 2025. With over 18 years’ experience across nuclear, defence, energy, and complex engineering environments, she specialises in capability strategy, organisational systems, and future-ready operating models. Denise is the creator of Cognitive Lift™, a leadership paradigm that explores how AI elevates human and organisational intelligence. A systems thinker and founder of The Future of Engineering, she works at the intersection of technology, capability, and leadership, helping organisations build the intelligence and resilience needed to thrive in an age of accelerated change.