EVP & GM, Ecolab Digital, Ecolab
David Bingenheimer
Over the last 25 years … we've seen the role of infrastructure in its traditional kind of definition evolve from a back office kind of operational capability to really a platform that's delivering business capability today.”
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Drives Business
Infrastructure
Transformation
CTO, Google Cloud
Will Grannis
Being able to take how people learn, and a variety of inputs, a variety of processing methods, and deliver really curated knowledge … this is going to accelerate this re-skilling that all organizations are facing.”
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Education And Training
AI-Driven
The Power Of
Global Security Leader, Kyndryl
Kris Lovejoy
Nation states … are moving away from the U.S. from a technical dependency perspective … They’re building their own technology infrastructure kind of overnight using AI … These organizations are inadvertently introducing vulnerability into the ecosystem, which we in the States … are beginning to ingest.”
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Supply Chain Security
The Importance Of
Director, Technology, AWS Global Sales, Amazon Web Services
Shaown Nandi
I spend a lot of time telling folks to think big with their ideas, but start small … Go and build those small use cases out now. Test the ROI with real metrics and data, and fail fast if it’s not right, and scale fast if it is.”
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To Have A
[AI] is so democratized that people can start using it really quickly … So the more we're using it, the less you have to train, and people can start applying it to their work.”
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CDTO, Honeywell
Sheila Jordan
The data that we're seeing is that consumers that come through LLMs to a brand are much higher intent, much higher value, have potentially much greater lifetime value.”
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Cofounder & CEO, New Generation
Adam Behrens
It's actually a misconception that we know what our models can do … But we evaluate aggressively, we evaluate continuously … It's just like a constant arms race of evaluation.”
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VP Of AI Models & IBM Director Of The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM
David Cox
It’s not about just giving the tools to the people … It's how leadership leans in with intention … and talks about how they're leveraging these technologies … and being a role model, really, for the workforce.”
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CIO, Asana
Saket Srivastava
I don't think there could be a more exciting time to be a CIO than right now … You’re no longer just in charge of technology … You’re engaged in even decisions of what does the organization look like?”
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SVP & CIO, Enterprise Business And Digital Transformation, Lockheed Martin
Maria Demaree
We’re all learning … and our workforce has a huge responsibility to also educate others, including our leaders. It’s a combination of learning, agility, mindset, curiosity and really learning and leading by example for that.”
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Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Customer Development, Unilever
Prashaant Huria
BIG Impact
Start Small
At the Forbes CIO Summit, leaders networked and discussed newsworthy topics including agentic AI, cybersecurity and the future of information technology.