This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
CrowdStrike is using generative AI to tap into its Falcon platform and deliver natural language answers and recommendations on cybersecurity.
According to CrowdStrike, the generative AI rollout called Charlotte AI, is designed to turn everyone into a cybersecurity power user. The company said Charlotte AI can also close cybersecurity skills gaps and speed response time.
Lenovo launched an all-in-one virtual reality headset, ThinkReality VRX, that's aimed at enterprise use cases including employee training, collaboration and design. Lenovo's announcement lands days ahead of Apple's mixed reality headset that will reportedly launch at WWDC June 5.
While Apple's headset for developers is likely to garner headlines next week, enterprise VR will be a core topic at the AWE USA conference this week.
Niraj Patel, CIO of multifamily lender Greystone, has a knack for bringing digital transformation to the financial services and real estate industries.
This week's big announcements at Microsoft Build 2023 mostly centered, as one might expect these days, around the adoption of artificial intelligence across Microsoft's various products. And by AI, specifically it's generative AI based on vast foundation models that is the focus these days.
Workday reported better-than-expected fiscal first quarter results and named Zane Rowe, formerly of VMware, as CFO effective June 12.
The finance and HR software provider reported a breakeven first quarter on revenue of $1.68 billion, up 17.4% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.31 a share.
Wall Street was expecting Workday to report non-GAAP earnings of $1.12 a share on revenue of $1.58 billion.
Snowflake's first quarter earnings results were solid, but the company's outlook fell short of expectations. What followed were questions about demand vs. cost optimization. Snowflake's responses highlighted the moving parts in IT spending at the moment.
The company projected fiscal year revenue to be about $2.6 billion, below Wall Street estimates of $2.71 billion. Snowflake cut its outlook last quarter too.
Here's a look at the takeaways.
Nvidia, which is considered one of the primary infrastructure plays for artificial intelligence, reported a better-than-expected first quarter and raised its outlook.
The company reported first quarter earnings of 82 cents a share on revenue of $7.19 billion, down 13% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.09 a share. Wall Street was expecting Nvidia to report first quarter non-GAAP earnings of 92 cents a share on revenue of $6.53 billion.
📽 The latest episode of ConstellationTV just dropped! Here's what episode 58 includes...
00:00: Introduction with co-hosts Liz Miller and Holer Mueller
00:37: #tech news, including SAP's Sapphire conference & Meta's recent fines around #data regulation.
11:20: Liz interviews Rob Walker, VP of Decisioning and Analytics for Pegasystems about #ai's role in #sales, service, and growth. Rob defines the autonomous enterprise, and how #cxos can aim for it.
Don't miss Day 2 updates from Holger Mueller of #ibm's Quantum Partner Forum in Paris.
Today, Holger interviews Sean Dudley, Chief Research Information Officer & Associate VP of Arizona State University. Sean shares the #quantum initiatives happening at #ASU, namely the Quantum Collaborative, which explores how to be effective with quantum in #research.
Constellation analyst Holger Mueller gives key takeaways from day 3 of #IBM's #quantum Partner Innovation Forum in Paris, including 2023 announcements, making quantum #skills training accessible & bringing quantum into different fields, such as #healthcare.
Generative AI is a topic du jour among companies reporting #earnings, launching #products and holding court with customers.
Here are a few themes that seem to be popping up.
1. We've been doing this for ages and #generativeai is just one more tool. You'll hear this from technology vendors often trying to sell you stuff. The general idea is that these companies are #ai savvy and just layering in a new engine. In some cases, tech vendors are accurate.
Co-hosts R "Ray" Wang, founder of Constellation Research and Teresa Barreira, CMO of Publicis Sapient discuss the impact of #generativeai on people and businesses, and hear how the following industry leaders are using technology to empower their people:
Get the latest interview with Adobe's Ely Greenfield and Constellation Research founder R "Ray" Wang on Adobe Firefly, the Generative AI release from Adobe launched at Adobe Summit on March 21, 2023.
IBM invited its partners for three days to the IBM Innovation Lab in Paris, to share progress in quantum as well as provide partners the chance to educate each other, share the progress and state of their projects as well as ample network opportunities.
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said generative AI has boosted productivity but also can present security risks.
Speaking on Palo Alto Networks' third quarter earnings conference call, Arora said:
Learning to fire is way more important than hiring, according to Uri Levine, a two-time unicorn builder with Waze & Moovit and author of "Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution."
Speaking on the latest edition of DisrupTV, Levine outlined how it's critical for entrepreneurs to bring the right people into an organization. "Firing is more important. Hiring is the easy decision, and you have to learn how to make hard decisions," said Levine.
OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman said industry specific use cases as well as developers adding on top of models will drive more value from generative AI.
Brockman, speaking at Microsoft Build, said "the technology (ChatGPT, generative AI) is getting better and better, but the value is going into specific domains and understand how they work there." Brockman referenced the legal industry as one area where developers can add a lot of value.
Generative AI will have a tremendous impact on workers and likely impact 40 of the working hours across industries, but that doesn't mean 40% of jobs will go away, said Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty, who was the 1,000th guest on Constellation Research's DisrupTV.
Microsoft launched Microsoft Fabric, a unified analytics platform that combines technologies like Data Factory, Synapse and PowerBI. Microsoft's pitch: Convince enterprises to go with one integrated AI-powered analytics platform instead of integrating multiple vendors and services.
ServiceNow made some notable announcements at the Knowledge23 conference and a big one was the overhaul of its observability (o11y) solution to be competitive against other major observability players.
Previously:
Zoom Video Communications' first quarter results were better than expected and CEO Eric Yuan said the company will continue to invest in AI "to help make interactions more meaningful and communications more effective."
Constellation Research's Healthcare Transformation Summit pulls together healthcare CXOs, analysts, startups, and big thinkers to share ideas under Chatham House rules. As a result, these takeaways are anonymized and high-level observations.
Here's a look at some of the key items from the Healthcare Transformation Summit.
Dell Technologies updated its Dell APEX multicloud platform with Microsoft and Red Hat offerings, storage and data mobility services and compute and PC-as-a-service updates. Dell Technologies said it will connect its on-premises object storage with Databricks' Lakehouse Platform.
The APEX updates, announced at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, came as Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and co-chief operating officer Chuck Whitten walked through the company's portfolio, innovation and customers including the likes of Hyundai.
DisrupTV Episode 323: Navigating Innovation and Leadership in a Rapidly Evolving World
In this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with four thought leaders pushing boundaries across technology, media, and leadership:
Paul Daugherty – Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Accenture