Designing cross-product study sessions in the AI era
yymsdk株式会社ZOZO / ZOZOTOWN開発本部 Androidブロック長
Takahiro TanakaZOZO Android Engineer
In an organization with multiple Android apps, different challenges and practices accumulate in each product. We operated study sessions as a place to share such knowledge across products, but this brought unique difficulties. Precisely because people gather from across products, we wanted to share actual initiatives in each product, not just catch up on the latest technology. On the other hand, preparing for this tended to incur high costs, and presentation-centric structures often turned into passive listening sessions, making it difficult to create speaking opportunities for all participants. Therefore, assuming that AI can quickly generate summaries and draft presentations in a short time, we redesigned the structure of the study sessions itself. We changed the format: at the start of the session, each participant uses AI to organize their content, splits into small groups for presentations and discussions, and finally uses AI to extract key points for overall sharing. As a result, we made it possible to participate without prior preparation, fostered cross-product interaction, and created speaking opportunities for all participants. This is not a talk about using AI to create presentations, but a share of practical experience on how we reviewed the structure and operations to make cross-product study sessions easier to attend and more conducive to dialogue. Table of Contents 1. Why we reviewed cross-product study sessions 2. Issues occurring in presentation-centric study sessions 3. Redesigning into a "place where everyone reflects and engages in dialogue" 4. Mechanism to support on-the-spot organization using AI 5. Grouping techniques to foster cross-product interaction 6. Operational design that withstands fluctuations in attendance 7. Benefits and side effects learned from practice 8. Summary (Translated by the DroidKaigi Committee)
Intended audience
This talk is aimed at people involved in planning and running large study sessions or knowledge-sharing meetings, or participants who feel challenges such as "it easily becomes a passive listening environment" or "speaking opportunities tend to be uneven." In particular, it is intended for those who want to create an environment that is easy to join and fosters dialogue while keeping preparation overhead low.