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FQ AI Summit 2026

Which Meetings to Keep Even When AI Can Summarize Them

My notes from attending the FQ AI Summit in New York, November 10, 2026.

Culture, Rollouts and Learning at Work

Which meetings should we keep even if AI can summarize the information?

The culture panel talked about how people experience work as well as how tasks move. Before you swap a meeting for an automated update, work out what else that meeting does: a decision, learning, coordination or a relationship.

Those purposes can overlap. A summary can pass along information and still leave a junior colleague with nowhere to ask a question. Ask the people who attend what would be lost and what feels wasteful. I wouldn't keep a meeting just because it's familiar. A shorter conversation, a different group or a separate learning slot might serve better.

If you change the format, keep the function

Give people another route for whatever you want to keep. A written update might need a discussion window. A canceled check-in might need a private way to raise a concern.

Look at the change again after people have lived with it. The test is whether the team can still do the work and keep the relationships it needs. Cutting meeting time is a good possibility, and one change can't cover every purpose a meeting has.