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Why do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? In this series by MIT SMR and BCG, we talk to the leaders who've achieved big wins with AI in their companies and learn how they did it. Hear what gets experts from companies like NASA, Shopify, and others excited to do their jobs every day and what they consider the keys to their success.
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Operational Safety With AI: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen from 2023-12-05T08:00
Ellen Nielsen, Chevron’s first chief data officer, sees data as the common thread throughout a career that has spanned systems, digital data, procurement, and supply chain. In her current role, she...
ListenMicro Utility With Gen AI: Shopify's Miqdad Jaffer from 2023-11-21T08:00
Miqdad Jaffer brings a background in engineering to his role as director of product for digital marketplace platform Shopify. Users might recognize the commerce platform as one that enables a fast ...
ListenMarketing With Generative AI: Harvard Business School’s Ayelet Israeli from 2023-11-07T08:00
As an associate professor at Harvard Business School and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the school’s Digital Data Design Institute, Ayelet Israeli’s work is focused on how data and t...
ListenEntrepreneurial AI in the Enterprise: LG Nova's Shilpa Prasad from 2023-10-24T07:00
A former startup employee herself, Shilpa Prasad knows the level of commitment and effort required to begin a new venture. That’s what led her to join LG Nova, electronics manufacturer LG’s innovat...
ListenFueling Interdisciplinary Innovation With AI: Volvo’s Anders Sjögren from 2023-10-10T07:00
Starting a career with the ambition of becoming a medical doctor and ending up a technical leader for a major automaker might seem an unlikely path, but for Anders Sjögren, who leads data and AI in...
ListenProtecting Society From AI Harms: Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija (Part Two) from 2023-09-13T07:00
At Amnesty Tech, a division of human rights organization Amnesty International, Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi leverage their expertise in technology and public policy to examine the use of AI in ...
ListenProtecting Society From AI Harms: Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija (Part One) from 2023-08-29T07:00
Amnesty International brings together more than 10 million staff members and volunteers worldwide to advocate for social justice. Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi work with Amnesty Tech, a division ...
ListenImages and Inspiration With AI: Pinterest’s Jeremy King from 2023-08-15T07:00
Jeremy King leads a team of 1,400 passionate engineers working on the continuous improvement of Pinterest’s image-driven platform. With a background that includes heading up a translation team at e...
ListenLearning From and With AI: Duolingo’s Zan Gilani from 2023-08-01T07:00
When Zan Gilani came to the U.S. from Pakistan to complete his undergraduate studies, he chose to study Chinese because it was rumored to be a difficult language. At the time, the tech industry was...
ListenDetecting the Good and the Bad With AI: Airbnb’s Naba Banerjee from 2023-07-18T07:01
Naba Banerjee’s identity as a “forever learner” led to her become the first female engineer in her family. That curiosity has informed her career choices as well, leading her to companies as varied...
ListenRegulating AI Innovation: Aboitiz Data Innovation’s David Hardoon from 2023-07-05T07:00
As CEO of Aboitiz Data Innovation, David Hardoon oversees the operations of a technology conglomerate focused on using data science and AI to support its businesses in a range of sectors, including...
ListenThe Social Science of AI: Intel’s Elizabeth Anne Watkins from 2023-06-20T07:00
When Elizabeth Anne Watkins started her doctoral program, she landed a research role studying journalists’ use of security and privacy technologies — but she found the security tools confusing and ...
ListenMaking Investments in AI: Samsung’s Hina Dixit from 2023-06-06T07:00
Hina Dixit’s interest in supporting people and solving problems has its roots in her family’s call office business, where she helped people place telephone calls when she was growing up in India. L...
ListenContinuous Learning With AI: Aflac’s Shelia Anderson from 2023-05-23T07:00
Shelia Anderson parlayed a love of learning into studying the emerging field of engineering when she began her undergraduate education. After gaining experience leading IT teams in the technology, ...
ListenTrust and Fraud Detection at Scale: Instagram’s Stephanie Moyerman from 2023-05-09T07:00
Stephanie Moyerman’s background in cosmology and astrophysics — where she worked with large data sets, looking for a signal among what was mostly noise — prepared her well for a career in data scie...
ListenPartnerships in AI Drive Conservation Efforts: WWF’s Dave Thau from 2023-04-25T07:00
Wildlife conservation efforts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning. But Dave Thau, data and technolo...
ListenMaking 600 Billion Decisions With AI: Expedia Group’s Rathi Murthy from 2023-04-11T07:00
Rathi Murthy has always been passionate about technology roles that allow her to drive business transformation and improve customer experience. In her current role as CTO and president of Product&T...
ListenA One-Stop Data Shop: The Lego Group’s Anders Butzbach Christensen from 2023-03-28T07:00
Anders Butzbach Christensen began his career in product management before landing his dream job working for the Lego Group in Denmark. Today, as head of data engineering, he’s leading Lego’s digita...
ListenA Third Path to Talent Development: Delta’s Michelle McCrackin from 2023-03-14T07:00
Michelle McCrackin, senior manager of analytics learning and development at Delta Air Lines, never imagined that she’d be an analytics leader when she first joined the airline as an HR business par...
ListenOut of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd from 2023-02-28T08:00
As a partner with OpenAI — the company that recently wowed the tech world and the general public with its DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot — Microsoft helped to make those generative AI t...
ListenHelping Doctors Make Better Decisions With Data: UC Berkeley's Ziad Obermeyer from 2023-02-14T08:00
When Ziad Obermeyer was a resident in an emergency medicine program, he found himself lying awake at night worrying about the complex elements of patient diagnoses that physicians could miss. He su...
ListenDigital First, Physical Second: Wayfair’s Fiona Tan from 2022-11-08T11:00
With a background in building enterprise platforms for organizations, including Oracle and Walmart, Wayfair CTO Fiona Tan oversees all of the technology initiatives for the Boston-based e-commerce ...
ListenInvesting in the Last Mile: PayPal’s Khatereh Khodavirdi from 2022-10-25T10:00
Khatereh (KK) Khodavirdi is focused on using AI to create better customer experiences — a process she compares to creating an “AI Legoland,” in which various technology components fit together to b...
ListenKeeping Humans in the (Feedback) Loop: Orangetheory Fitness’s Ameen Kazerouni from 2022-10-11T10:00
Ameen Kazerouni, chief data and analytics officer at Orangetheory Fitness (OTF), believes that AI’s role isn’t to replace human experts but rather to help them make better decisions. That’s why OTF...
ListenThe Three Roles of the Chief Data Officer: ADP’s Jack Berkowitz from 2022-09-27T10:00
As chief data officer of payroll and benefits management company ADP, Jack Berkowitz has three primary responsibilities. One is to oversee the organization’s data overall, ensuring that functions l...
ListenFrom Data to Wisdom: Novo Nordisk’s Tonia Sideri from 2022-09-13T10:00
Tonia Sideri was a data scientist herself before taking on her role as head of Novo Nordisk’s AI and Analytics Center of Excellence. Now she’s putting her experience to use helping the Danish pharm...
ListenBig Data in Agriculture: Land O’Lakes’ Teddy Bekele from 2022-08-30T10:00
You might have seen Land O’Lakes’ dairy products on store shelves without giving much thought to how they got there, but that’s something CTO Teddy Bekele thinks about every day. While the farmers ...
ListenInventing the Beauty of the Future: L’Oréal’s Stéphane Lannuzel from 2022-08-16T10:00
Stéphane Lannuzel has worked in the beauty industry for 15 years and now directs the Beauty Tech program at L’Oréal. His team uses artificial intelligence to improve customer experience in a variet...
ListenPrecision Medicine in Pharma: Sanofi’s Frank Nestle from 2022-08-02T10:00
Frank Nestle, Sanofi’s global head of research and chief scientific officer, was inspired to enter the health sciences field after reading an Albert Camus novel and realizing his calling was to hel...
ListenThe Beauty of AI: Estée Lauder's Sowmya Gottipati from 2022-06-14T10:00
It might seem like cosmetics and perfume are products shoppers need to try out in person before buying, but artificial intelligence is opening up new avenues for reaching and understanding consumer...
ListenAI in Aerospace: Boeing’s Helen Lee from 2022-05-31T10:00
As Boeing China’s regional director of airspace and airport programs, Helen Lee is helping the aerospace giant work toward improving airport and airspace operational efficiency and enhancing flight...
ListenTransforming Transactions With Technology: eBay’s Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov from 2022-05-17T10:00
eBay is familiar as an e-commerce site that facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers. But as eBay’s first chief AI officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov is focused on the role artificial intellig...
ListenThe Collaboration Muscle: LinkedIn’s Ya Xu from 2022-05-03T10:00
Over the course of her nine-year tenure at LinkedIn, Ya Xu has held technology roles with increasing responsibility. Today, she heads the data function for the online professional networking platfo...
ListenTurning Sound Into Information: Warner Music Group's Kobi Abayomi from 2022-04-19T10:00
Specialized teams — particularly technology teams — often face challenges as they strive to work cross-functionally, especially at legacy organizations. For Kobi Abayomi, vice president of data sci...
ListenFrom Journalism to Jeans: Levi Strauss&Co.’s Katia Walsh from 2022-04-05T10:00
Katia Walsh began her career as a journalist in her native Bulgaria and is now the global chief strategy and AI officer at retailer Levi Strauss&Co. Over the course of her career, she has developed...
ListenAI in Your Living Room: Peloton’s Sanjay Nichani from 2022-03-22T10:00
Consumers have invited AI into their lives with voice-activated personal assistants like Siri and Alexa, but how do they feel about computer vision technologies that can provide visual coaching and...
ListenExtreme Innovation With AI: Stanley Black and Decker's Mark Maybury from 2022-03-08T11:00
Stanley Black&Decker is best known as the manufacturer of tools for home improvement projects, but it also makes products the average consumer seldom notices, like fasteners to keep car parts secur...
ListenChoreographing Human-Machine Collaboration: Spotify's Sidney Madison Prescott from 2022-02-22T11:00
After earning her undergraduate degree in philosophy, political science, and ethics, with aspirations to become a lawyer, Sidney Madison Prescott was drawn to technology jobs that specifically emph...
ListenImagining Furniture (and the Future) With AI: IKEA Retail’s Barbara Martin Coppola from 2022-02-08T11:00
Drawing on previous experience working in nine countries for organizations like Google and Samsung, Barbara Martin Coppola joined IKEA Retail as its chief digital officer to oversee the furniture r...
ListenTransforming a Technology Organization for the Future: Starbucks’s Gerri Martin-Flickinger from 2022-01-25T11:00
Why does how you describe your team — down to its name — matter? Gerri Martin-Flickinger, former executive vice president and CTO at Starbucks, joins Me, Myself, and AI to describe some of the tech...
ListenAI in the Supply Chain: Cold Chain Technologies’ Ranjeet Banerjee from 2022-01-11T11:00
When Ranjeet Banerjee talks about the work his organization, Cold Chain Technologies (CCT), does to transport vaccines and other biologics that must be temperature controlled, he stresses that the ...
ListenTechnology as a Force for Good: Salesforce’s Paula Goldman from 2021-11-30T11:00
Paula Goldman has been a passionate advocate for the responsible use of technology for her entire career. Since joining Salesforce as its first chief ethical and humane use officer, she’s helped th...
ListenPredicting Volatility and Risk: Nasdaq’s Doug Hamilton from 2021-11-16T11:00
Douglas Hamilton works across business units at Nasdaq to deploy artificial intelligence anywhere the technology can expedite or improve processes related to global trading. In this episode of Me, ...
ListenDeveloping an Appetite for AI: ExxonMobil’s Sarah Karthigan from 2021-11-02T10:00
ExxonMobil is an energy company that’s existed since 1870, well before artificial intelligence. So, what does an AI manager at ExxonMobil do? In the latest episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast...
ListenDemocratizing Data in Hollywood: Jumpcut’s Kartik Hosanagar from 2021-10-19T10:00
Kartik Hosanagar wasn’t your typical Hollywood hopeful. He didn’t pack his life into a sedan, drive to Los Angeles, and work a series of part-time jobs while trying to make it big in the film indus...
ListenAI and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Moderna’s Dave Johnson from 2021-07-13T08:00
"We tend not to be a company of half measures,” notes Dave Johnson, chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Moderna, “so when we decide we’re going to do something, we’re going to do it.”...
ListenStarting Now On Technology Ethics: Elizabeth Renieris from 2021-06-22T08:00
Technology presents many opportunities, but it also comes with risks. Elizabeth Renieris is uniquely positioned to advise the public and private sectors on ethical AI practices, so we invited her t...
ListenNo Need for AI Unicorns: PepsiCo's Colin Lenaghan from 2021-06-08T08:00
Colin Lenaghan says he wakes up every Monday morning looking forward to the week ahead and what he’ll learn as he continues to lead digital transformation and artificial intelligence projects at wo...
ListenDIY With AI: The Home Depot's Huiming Qu from 2021-05-25T08:00
Huiming Qu didn’t plan to work in data science, a nascent field at the time she was pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science, but one course in data mining changed all of that. She started her career i...
ListenPrototypes, Pilots, and Polymers: Cooper Standard’s Chris Couch from 2021-05-11T08:00
Chris Couch has a unique role, serving as senior vice president and CTO of automotive supplier Cooper Standard as well as CEO of Liveline Technologies, a startup born from the CS Open Innovation in...
ListenDesigning a Better Future: Mastercard’s JoAnn Stonier from 2021-04-27T08:00
JoAnn Stonier can’t deny that her role as chief data officer at Mastercard isn’t easy. Advising the company on the mitigation of current and future risk while guiding her team to think critically a...
ListenLearning, Engagement, and Empowerment: 1-800-Flowers’ Amit Shah from 2021-04-13T08:00
1-800-Flowers faces the same cold-start problem any consumer-facing business might face: It doesn’t know exactly what its customers need when they first come to its website. What’s more unique to t...
ListenGames, Teams, and Moonshots: Google Cloud’s Will Grannis from 2021-03-30T08:00
Will Grannis discovered his love for technology playing Tron and Oregon Trail as a child. After attending West Point and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he translated his pass...
ListenLess Algorithm, More Application: Lyft’s Craig Martell from 2021-03-16T08:00
Craig Martell says he won the career lottery. After studying logic, philosophy, political science, and political theory, he completed a Ph.D. in computer science and found his way to machine learni...
ListenTech and Ethics: The World Economic Forum’s Kay Firth-Butterfield on Doing the Right Thing in AI from 2020-11-17T09:00
Kay Firth-Butterfield was teaching AI, ethics, law, and international relations when a chance meeting on an airplane landed her a job as chief AI ethics officer. In 2017, Kay became head of AI and ...
ListenFashion Forecasting: Arti Zeighami on Implementing AI at H&M Group from 2020-11-10T09:00
Arti Zeighami’s interest in artificial intelligence started when he read science fiction as a teen. Yet as head of advanced analytics and AI for global retailer H&M Group, his leadership style focu...
ListenBetter Together: Mattias Ulbrich on Combining Coffee, Business, and Technology at Porsche from 2020-11-03T09:00
Mattias Ulbrich has always been interested in new technology. As CIO of Porsche and CEO of Porsche Digital, he runs a subsidiary focused on the “new stuff” — new ideas, new models, and new opportun...
Listen‘The First Day Is the Worst Day’: DHL’s Gina Chung on How AI Improves Over Time from 2020-10-27T08:00
As vice president of innovation at logistics company DHL, Gina Chung oversees a 28,000-square-foot innovation facility in Chicago. Fascinated with supply chains since college (“I think it’s somethi...
Listen‘The First Day Is the Worst Day’: DHL’s Gina Chung on How AI Improves Over Time from 2020-10-27T08:00
As vice president of innovation at logistics company DHL, Gina Chung oversees a 28,000-square-foot innovation facility in Chicago. Fascinated with supply chains since college (“I think it’s somethi...
ListenThis Crazy Wave We’re Riding: Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra and the Ups and Downs of AI from 2020-10-20T08:00
Prakhar Mehrotra, vice president of machine learning at Walmart, shares his experience and how it prepared him to lead an AI team at a $500B retailer. Tasked with using AI to help with decision-mak...
ListenAdvancing Health Care with AI: Humana’s Slawek Kierner Talks Synthetic Data and Real Lives from 2020-10-20T08:00
Slawek Kierner, senior vice president of enterprise data and analytics at Humana, has been immersed in data for as long as he can remember. His fascination with process simulations began on his fir...
ListenSeason 1 Trailer from 2020-09-23T17:03
Why do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? In this series by MIT SMR and BCG, we talk to the leaders who've achieved big wins with AI in their companies and learn how they did it. Hear what gets...
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