Norwest Kinetic is built to keep portfolio leaders at the forefront of what’s possible.
Turn AI ambition into value.
Through practitioner-led workshops, intensive bootcamps, and an ongoing peer community, Kinetic brings together the CPOs, CTOs, and AI leaders driving Product, AI, and Technology decisions across the Norwest portfolio. Sessions are led by operators building solutions today and designed around actionable takeaways to help leaders move faster and build smarter.
How Kinetic works
Benchmarking & Assessment
Surface portfolio-wide priorities and measure progress over time.
Lunch & Learns
Focused peer sessions led by practitioners and built for immediate application.
Bootcamps
Immersive, hands-on learning designed around real-world challenges.
Peer Community
An ongoing network of CPOs, CTOs, and AI leaders sharing ideas, resources, and lessons learned.
Applied AI that moves the business.
Enterprise Adoption
& Readiness
Build the frameworks, guardrails, and leadership practices needed to scale AI across the organization.
Embedded AI
& Agents
Design products and workflows for a world where software increasingly takes action.
AI-Native
Software Delivery
Rethink how software is built, shipped, and optimized with AI at the core.
Physical
AI
Turn AI into measurable impact across physical operations and environments.
AI
Disruption
Understand how AI is reshaping your competitive landscape, operating model, and long-term strategy.
Led by operators.
Built for operators.
The biggest barrier to AI-driven growth isn’t access to tools — it’s knowing how to lead through the transformation. Leaders knowing how to turn new capabilities into practical change across products, teams, and operations.
Ken leads Norwest Kinetic, bringing together portfolio leaders and experienced practitioners to tackle the Product, AI, and Technology challenges companies are navigating now. Through Kinetic, he connects leaders with peers, practical expertise, and ideas they can put to work inside their organizations.
From the Kinetic Community.
5 Questions with Ken Yagen: Turning AI Ambition Into Value with Norwest Kinetic 
Norwest Expands Its AI Impact with New Technical Leadership 
The Financial Blind Spots in Autonomous AI revenium.ai 
The AI Spend Report by SpendHound spendhound.com 
How to Evaluate a Voice Provider: A Field Guide from Cartesia and Coval coval.ai 
Just-in-Time Agentic OCR llamaindex.ai 
ENT-IPI Bench: Enterprise Indirect Prompt Injection Benchmark alice.io Learn from practitioners
who have built through it.
Kinetic sessions are led by practitioners building and deploying solutions today, bringing real-world perspective to the challenges portfolio leaders are navigating now.
