AI
Future Lab
AI-Powered Digital HRM
4-hour interactive primer · Sri Lanka HRM students

AI-Powered Digital HRM Future Lab

A visually rich, consulting-style workshop microsite for introducing generative AI, social media, gamification, IoT, vibe coding, and AI media platforms to future HR professionals.

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Generative AI

AI copilots, agents, HR use cases, and safe prompt habits.

Digital Experience

Social recruiting, gamified onboarding, and IoT ethics.

Vibe Coding

Prompt-to-prototype HR websites and app concepts.

AI Creative Studio

Canva AI, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, images, voice, and video.

Workshop operating model

Build, critique, safeguard, present.

The session uses a sprint-based flow. Students do not merely watch AI tools; they design a prototype pack and explain the human, ethical, and HRM logic behind it.

Prompt libraryScenario cardsTemplates
Scenario selector

Choose a Sri Lankan HRM context.

Teams pick one fictional organization and use it across all four hours. This keeps the workshop coherent and locally grounded.

Selected team case

🏨 GalleWave Hotels

Seasonal onboarding, service training, multilingual employee support.

Session studio

Four one-hour sessions.

Use the left rail to move between sessions. Toggle Instructor Mode for facilitation notes, timing, and teaching cues.

Session 1 · AI-HRM Opportunity Map

Generative AI Trends in Digital HRM

From HR assistant to AI-augmented HR professional.

Strategic question: How is generative AI changing HRM work, and what should future HR professionals learn first?
Local hook

Sri Lanka scenario

Ruhunu University wants to help final-year HRM students prepare CVs, interview practice plans, and career pathways without creating generic or misleading advice.

Student deliverable

AI-HRM Opportunity Map

Teams choose one Sri Lankan sector and create a six-row opportunity map: HR area, pain point, AI idea, benefit, risk, and human review point.

Learning outcomes
  • ✓Explain core GenAI trends in HRM
  • ✓Map AI opportunities across the HR lifecycle
  • ✓Separate useful augmentation from risky automation
  • ✓Identify where human review is required
Trend briefing
  • ↗AI copilots for daily HR work
  • ↗AI agents for workflow execution
  • ↗People analytics moving from reporting to recommendations
  • ↗Synthetic media for HR communication
  • ↗Human-in-the-loop governance becoming core HR literacy
Regional inspiration
  • ★Sri Lanka–Singapore AI collaboration and capacity building
  • ★Singapore agentic AI governance
  • ★IndiaAI skilling ecosystem
  • ★WEF future-of-work reskilling agenda
Session 1 demo prompt
Act as an HR digital transformation advisor.

Create an AI opportunity map for a Sri Lankan hotel chain with 500 employees across Colombo, Galle, Ella, and Kandy.

Map AI opportunities across recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, employee engagement, performance support, and HR operations.

For each opportunity include: HR pain point, AI use case, benefit, risk, and human oversight needed.
Minute-by-minute flow
  • •0–5 Pulse check
  • •5–12 Trend briefing
  • •12–22 HR lifecycle demo
  • •22–35 Team sprint
  • •35–45 Output critique
  • •45–55 Human-in-the-loop challenge
  • •55–60 Exit ticket
Ethics checkpoint
  • !Do not rank real students or employees
  • !Avoid uploading real CVs or personal records
  • !Treat AI recommendations as draft analysis, not final HR decisions
  • !Require human review for hiring, promotion, discipline, and termination
Knowledge check

Which HR activity is most suitable for AI augmentation rather than full automation?

Team canvas
Responsible AI gate

Complete before the final pitch.

This checklist reinforces the core workshop principle: use AI to augment HR work without compromising privacy, fairness, consent, or dignity.

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Gamified badges

Workshop badge board

  • 1AI-HRM Explorer — opportunity map completed
  • 2Digital Experience Designer — social/gameful/IoT blueprint
  • 3Prototype Builder — HR app or website concept
  • 4AI Media Creator — campaign kit
  • 5Ethics Guardian — strongest risk and safeguard
Final showcase

60-second team pitch.

Each team presents the prototype pack: problem, idea, tools, benefit, risk, safeguard, and next step.

Final pitch timer
01:00

Use for each team’s 60-second prototype pitch.

Pitch structure
  1. Our fictional organization is…
  2. The HR problem we selected is…
  3. Our AI/digital solution is…
  4. The tools we used or would use are…
  5. The benefit for HR and employees is…
  6. The main risk is…
  7. Our safeguard is…
Source library and resource pages

Evidence, tools, and readable workshop assets.

Resource materials now open as polished web pages generated from editable Markdown. The source library uses official and practitioner sources as anchors; replace or add links as your university requires.

Instructor guideStudent workbookPrompt libraryCanvases and templatesScenario cardsQA checklist
SHRM — The State of AI in HR 2026

Current HR adoption snapshot: AI in HR is growing but concentrated in recruiting, HR tech, L&D, and employee experience.

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Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Sri Lanka and Singapore AI Collaboration MoU

Local/regional anchor for Sri Lanka’s AI capacity-building and governance direction.

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World Economic Forum — Future of Jobs Report 2025

Future-of-work context for AI, digital access, skills disruption, and reskilling.

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NIST — AI Risk Management Framework

Governance backbone for responsible AI use: risk, trustworthiness, and evaluation.

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Singapore IMDA — Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

Practical inspiration for agentic AI controls, human accountability, and bounded autonomy.

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Canva AI

Design, writing, templates, Canva Code, and interactive educational asset creation.

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HeyGen AI Video Avatars

Avatar video, localization, and training/social video workflows.

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ElevenLabs Text to Speech

AI voiceover and multilingual speech generation for HR media prototypes.

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Vercel Git Deployments

Hosting workflow for GitHub-connected deployments and preview branches.

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