Rochester - Mastering Tech Adoption and Legal Considerations

Change is inevitable. Your employee’s adaptiveness to change isn’t. You want to build resilient teams that embrace disruption instead of running from it. Using the backdrop of disruptive technology (like AI), this workshop tackles  the timeless need of helping teams adapt and collaborate amidst uncertainty. Participants will work through their hesitance and learn technology best practices. Each participant will leave the session understanding the blockers to adoption that they experience and how to forge ahead into new tech.

Kate McClung from Bond, Schoeneck and King will share Artificial Intelligence (AI) legal compliance best practices during the last 30 minutes of the program.

Program Objectives

• Participants will identify their unique Tech Type and analyze how their comfort level, mindset, and approach to technology influence communication, collaboration, and overall effectiveness within their teams.
• Determine one specific action or focus area that leverages their Tech Type strengths to improve team efficiency, engagement, or innovation.
• Gain insight into common behavioral and organizational barriers to tech adoption, and develop strategies to overcome resistance and foster a culture of learning and digital readiness.
• Explore emerging regulations and best practices related to AI in HR (e.g., data privacy, bias mitigation, and transparency), ensuring their use of technology complies with employment law and ethical standards.
• Be able to identify key risk areas in AI.

Program Agenda:

• 7:30am-8:00am: Networking, Breakfast
• 8:00am-8:05am: Welcome, Opening Remarks- NHRA President, Rochester Affiliate
• 8:05am-9:00am: Mastering Tech Adoption, Andrew Biernat from Andrew Biernat Consulting
• and Facilitation
• 9:00am-9:25am: Artificial Intelligence Legal Update, Kate McClung from Bond Schroeneck,
• & King
• 9:25am-9:30am: Closing Remarks/Wrap Up- NHRA President, Rochester Affiliate

Meet our Presenters:

Andrew Biernat

Andrew Biernat is a strategic business consultant and team dynamics specialist who equips leadership teams and managers with practical frameworks to transform workplace engagement and enable cross-functional collaboration. Drawing on his diverse business background across sales, marketing, account management, and project management, he helps teams identify hidden talent patterns and redesign work processes to align with natural strengths. Leaders appreciate his business-minded approach to people development, while individual contributors value the immediate applicability of his methods that improve both job satisfaction and team effectiveness.

Kate McClung

Kate McClung is the Deputy Co-Chair of the Labor and Employment group and the Co-Chair of the Class and Collective Action practice at Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC.  She regularly advises employers on a wide variety of labor and employment law matters, including addressing employee absences, accommodation requests, wage issues, employee performance issues, discrimination/harassment concerns, and whistleblower complaints. Kate provides training on many employment topics, including harassment, compliance with drug/alcohol policies, and supervisory best practices.  Kate also handles class and collective actions, as well as individual litigation, in state and federal courts and administrative claims before state and federal government agencies.