AI Learning Academy Webinar Series: A Roadmap for Organizational AI Adoption

The AI Learning Academy is more than just a monthly webinar series; it is a strategic customer journey designed to guide organizations from initial AI curiosity to deep, tangible business capability. By attending, clients gain access to an “AI Influencer” that rallies internal teams and acts as a force multiplier for resource-constrained innovators. Whether you lack a dedicated AI head or your existing team is overwhelmed by the pace of change, the academy provides the structured governance and tactical execution needed to move your organization from ad-hoc usage to a secure, strategic asset.

To stay ahead of the AI curve, mark your calendars: the AI Learning Academy meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 11 am ET. Don’t miss our next session live on February 18, 2026!

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1. Navigating the “AI Adoption Cave of the Unknown.”

Session Topic: Is Your AI Investment Paying Off? A Data-Driven Guide to Gemini ROI

The first session addressed a critical problem: organizations feel they have a powerful tool but don’t understand its impact. I introduced the “AI adoption cave of the unknown,” where leaders struggle to manage what they cannot measure.

Key Insights & Tactics:

• The 28-Day Reporting Window: The Google Workspace Admin Console provides a rolling 28-day view of active users and usage trends. This data serves as your baseline to determine if your adoption is 5% of your organization or 50%.
• Mining User-Level Counts: By downloading usage counts, you can definitively identify your internal power users. These “champions” are your future trainers and early adopters who can show others how to find success.
• Strategic Segmentation: The console allows you to filter usage by Organizational Unit (OU), helping you build a targeted strategy department by department—identifying, for example, your “engineering king of AI” versus your marketing users.

Why It Matters: 72% of companies already report a positive ROI from AI, but many still wait for “perfect” technical integration. This session proved that measuring efficiency—the #1 driver of ROI—is possible today using existing console data.

Resource Spotlight: Attendees received a data-driven form to internally gauge team usage. Watch On-Demand

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Join the discussion even if you can’t attend! Answer each short monthly poll to crowdsource AI development, needs, and processes! The latest poll can be found HERE!

Here’s an example of a recent poll:

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2. Bridging the Gap with Event-Driven AI Agents

Session Topic: Workspace Studio 101: Creating Your First “Digital Co-Worker”

Session two focused on Google Workspace Studio (formerly Flows), a new tool bridging the chasm between executive AI optimism and employee reality. While leaders are bullish on AI, many employees feel stuck, lacking clear use cases for their daily workflows.

Key Insights & Tactics:

• Event-Driven vs. Passive AI: Unlike standard Gems that sit waiting for a human prompt, Studio agents are event-driven. They can be triggered automatically by an incoming email, a change in a Google Sheet, or a specific calendar schedule.
• No-Code Automation: Attendees learned how to build multi-step workflows without engineering resources. A featured demo showed how to create an agent that scans emails for action items and automatically applies a “to respond” label, organizing your inbox instantly.
• Tracking Activity: Workspace Studio includes an activity log that tracks every time an agent runs. This allows employees to measure exactly how many manual tasks their digital co-workers are handling each week.

Why It Matters: Efficiency is not the finish line; it is the fuel for innovation. By empowering every employee to build their own automations, organizations can shift from experimental AI to measurable impact.

Resource Spotlight: Attendees walked away with a set of templates to build their first automated workflows. Access the Replay

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3. Turning Gemini into a Surgical Tool

Session Topic: From Casual User to Power User: 10x Your Productivity with Advanced Gems

The third session marked a shift from the “wow phase” of generative AI to the “work phase,” focusing on turning Gemini into a set of specialized, surgical tools.

Key Insights & Tactics:

• The Default Tool Revolution: A new update allows you to hard-lock a Gem to a specific capability using a default tool drop-down. Instead of a generalist chatbot, you can create a dedicated “Deep Research Gem” or an “Image Generator Gem” using Nanobanana.
• NotebookLM Integration: In a groundbreaking live demo, we showed how to add an entire NotebookLM as a knowledge source for a Gem. This allows the Gem to reference up to 300 specialized sources—such as customer transcripts or project notes—while still having access to real-time internet search.
• Canvas for Instant Deliverables: The Canvas tool was demoed for its ability to generate whole, editable 12-page slide decks and web code based on specific brand color palettes and hex codes provided in the Gem’s instructions.

Why It Matters: Poll results shared during the session revealed that while 44% of organizations find the greatest value in software development, over half still lack a formal AI security policy. Advanced Gems allow teams to build highly customized, secure workflows that drive 10x productivity while staying within the protected Google Workspace environment.

Resource Spotlight: We shared Google’s latest AI Playbook for Sustainability Reporting. Watch Session 3

Ready to Unlock Your Agentic Potential?

Every AI journey is unique—from navigating the initial “AI adoption cave of the unknown” to building a fleet of specialized digital co-workers. Whether you are looking to identify your internal power users through the Admin Console or are ready to deploy surgical, event-driven agents, you don’t have to build your roadmap alone.

Let Wursta help you optimize your workflows, transition from ad-hoc usage to a secure, strategic asset, and bridge the gap between AI optimism and tangible business capabilities.

Contact us today to start your transformation.

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Don’t Miss Our Next Session!

The AI Learning Academy is a strategic journey that meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 11 am ET.

Get Involved: Join the discussion even if you can’t attend by answering our monthly polls to help crowdsource the future of AI development.

Next Live Session: February 18, 2026.