This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
DisrupTV Episode 349: Leading with Allyship & Inclusion
In DisrupTV Episode 349, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests who offer profound insights into the evolving landscape of leadership and organizational transformation:
Smartphones are increasingly about foundational models, generative AI features and the ability to leverage AI locally. The latest example is Samsung's Galaxy S24 launch, which also served as a showcase for Google's Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 on Vertex AI.
DisrupTV Special Edition – Live from Davos 2024: Rebuilding Trust in a Transforming World
In a world marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting geopolitical landscapes, trust has become a cornerstone of effective leadership and organizational success.
Quantinuum raised $300 million in equity investment putting the quantum computing company's valuation at $5 billion.
Honeywell merged its quantum unit with Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2021 and launched Quantinuum as a stand-alone company. Honeywell remains Quantinuum's largest shareholder.
Hitachi Vantara has named Octavian Tanase as chief product officer effectively immediately. Tanase will report to Hitachi Vantara CEO Sheila Rohra.
Tanase was most recently senior vice president of hybrid cloud engineering at NetApp where he integrated the company’s software portfolio with offerings from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
At Hitachi Vantara, a Constellation Insights underwriter, Tanase will oversee the storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management company's product vision, strategy, development and execution.
When it comes to artificial intelligence and generative AI enterprises are still weighing options, trying to scale pilots and balance short-term returns and efficiency with long-term business transformation. These businesses are also wrestling with generative AI hype vs. reality.
In 2023, generative AI was top of mind and vendors raced to build out offerings. Now the question is how quickly enterprises will scale up generative AI.
Enter AI And The Real Fourth Industrial Revolution
Running out of ideas to inspire, a false fourth industrial revolution was coined by the World Economic Forum. The move to digitization and digital transformation was a necessary half-step to the move towards AI. While some will now profess that the Fifth Industrial revolution is AI, AI is more exponential than the internet or the fake fourth industrial revolution. The dawn of the fourth industrial revolution begins with AI. This Cognitive Era will be with us for decades to come. Constellation Research has seen a projected CAGR of 19.8% in global AI IT spending from $151 billion to $490.6 billion by 2030.
The World Economic Forum's Four Themes Seek To Rebuild Trust
The 54th annual convening at Davos brings 2700 delegates from over 130 countries to officially attend the World Economic Forum’s event. Meanwhile, an additional 5000 individuals join events around Davos in a series of programing known as UnDavos. This year’s official Davos proceedings center on four main themes:
DisrupTV Episode 348: Evolutionary Intelligence – AI, Society & the Future of Human Cognition
In DisrupTV Episode 348, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a thought-provoking discussion with three distinguished guests who delve into the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence:
Matt Abrahams, a Stanford University Graduate School of Business professor and author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter, argues that everyone can become better at spontaneous conversation, master small talk and learn the art of paraphrasing and apologizing.
Speaking on DisrupTV Episode 347, Abrahams laid out some tips from his book to ponder. Here's a look at the takeaways.
Infosys' third quarter earnings highlight enterprise interest in generative AI, large deals and clients that are navigating an uncertain economic picture.
Many organizations have performed classical cost-benefit analyses to determine the impact of business technology projects. Although these approaches account for the quantifiable metrics, they often fail to capture key attributes such as probability of success and level of difficulty in project type.
Google Cloud said it will offer free network data transfer to customers that move to another cloud provider or migrate on-premises.
In a blog post, Google Cloud outlined the changes. Data transfer fees have been under scrutiny by customers as well as regulators. Google Cloud's move also puts pressure on Microsoft Azure and AWS to do the same.
OpenAI launched its GPT Store for custom versions of ChatGPT as well as plans for business and enterprise users. In the first quarter, OpenAI will launch a revenue share program for developers based on engagement with payment details to follow.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it will acquire Juniper Networks in a deal valued at $14 billion, or $40 per Juniper share. HPE said the purchase will strengthen its networking business and complement its edge-to-cloud strategy.
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1:10 - Tech News Update: Analysts Dion Hinchcliffe, Doug Henschen and Larry Dignan cover the new Apple Vision Pro, Q4 earnings, and #generativeAI ethics.
11:29 - Sustainability Outlook for 2024: Doug shares what changed for ESG in 2023 and why organizations should be looking beyond compliance and reporting.
The most popular AI use cases include automation of IT processes, security and threat detection, governance and business analytics or intelligence, according to an IBM survey.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon highlighted the retailing giant's approach to adaptive retail and how it is applying generative AI across its company and to customers.
Speaking at CES 2024, McMillon said: "We love what technology can do, but we're building it in a way that creates better careers at the same time. It creates better customer experiences and a stronger business."
Medtronic has formed an AI center of excellence as the company aims to advance AI-enabled healthcare based on data from its medical devices.
Speaking at the JP Morgan Stanley 42nd Annual Healthcare conference, Medtronic CEO Geoffrey Martha outlined the company's plans in AI. Martha said the company's move to create an AI center of excellence is aimed at centralizing key data assets including millions of patient datasets, regulatory experience, analytics knowhow, and medical device expertise.