The basic idea of the workshop is to elaborate on the potential of AI-based technologies and apps in small and
medium-sized enterprises to improve their productivity, ergonomics, and well-being. There is significant
technological potential to reach improvements in these central development fields of industrial organizations.
In the workshop, companies are called for discussions and dialogues.

At the beginning of the workshop, the challenges of the "Productivity and Well-being through Digital
Competencies (DigiCompetent)" project are outlined and discussed. After this introduction, some small expert
notes on AI tools and methods are presented. In the workshop, a mapping study of available tools and methods is outlined in a robust way. The AI mapping study is linked to the main challenges of the workshop, which are productivity, ergonomics, and well-being. Some AI tools, of course, are integrated into all these development domains.

Typical AI tools are linked to natural language processing (tokenization, entity recognition, sentiment analysis,
machine translation, and speech recognition), learning (supervised learning, unsupervised learning,
reinforcement learning, and deep learning), and visual image control (object detection, facial recognition,
image segmentation, and pose estimation). These 17 AI-technology fields are creating huge potential for
industrial organizations. Some of these technologies are already mature, while others are still in the pioneering
development space.

One discussion in the workshop is about where the most promising AI-based solutions to improve productivity,
ergonomics, and well-being are. In the workshop, some expert-based mini-Delphi assessments are performed
to reach a preliminary consensus on AI solution priorities. The workshop provides a learning-by-doing
experience of the use of the mini-Delphi method. Before the workshop, top experts of DigiCompetent make
AI-technology app lists for discussing already available AI-based apps for productivity improvements,
ergonomics improvements, and well-being improvements.

The key results of the workshop will be a joint technology roadmap for AI-based solutions for industrial
productivity, ergonomics, and well-being. Because of fast developments in AI technologies, we do not expect
this draft AI-Prod-Well-being-Ergo roadmap to be 100% comprehensive or the “final truth.” We aim to develop
a “good enough” technology roadmap for the needs of the Finnish SME industries. The idea is that we later update and discuss more about the AI-Prod-Well-being-Ergo technology roadmap. Thus, the workshop is
practice-oriented and serves the vital interests of Finnish SME industries. The workshop is open to interested
practitioners and developers. The workshop aims to promote lifelong learning of digitalization experts and
professionals, including HEF experts.