The AI Reality Check: What It Takes to Scale and the Future of Leadership
16:00, Wednesday 4 February, Room CC4.1 - FREE TO ATTEND
The AI Reality Check: What It Takes to Scale and the Future of Leadership will take a deep dive into how AI is no longer just a buzzword – it’s a battlefield of hype, half-truths, and hard realities. Executives are under pressure to act quickly, yet many make decisions based on noise rather than fact.
In this ISE Keynote, AI trailblazer Sol Rashidi will cut through the fiction to reveal what’s truly happening in the AI marketplace, sharing frameworks, models, and the essential role of AI governance and cybersecurity as core enablers for scaling. Drawing on her experience, she will outline how to evaluate AI initiatives and safeguard data, workforce, and competitive advantage.
Widely known for her groundbreaking work in the field of business innovation and technology, Sol’s career has spanned four C-suite roles across Fortune 500 companies. She played a pivotal role in developing and launching IBM’s Watson in 2011 and now has over 200 deployments under her belt.
As the world’s first Chief AI Officer for enterprise in 2016, she led AI and data initiatives at Sony Music, Merck and Estee Lauder, before moving to Amazon as the company’s tech executive. She holds 10 patents and is the best-selling author of Your AI Survival Guide. Her three TEDx speaker sessions have accumulated views of over 1 million.
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