Christian Stegh, CTO and VP of Strategy at eGroup Enabling Technologies. gettyJust as GenAI begins to show significant ROI, a new layer of complexity enters the equation. After hooking users with unlimited access, AI providers are implementing consumption-based billing for advanced capabilities such as coding assistants and AI agents. The AI subsidy era has ended,…
Erik Clarke is a business executive and chief financial officer from Denver, Colorado. gettyOne of the most common management mistakes in large organizations is confusing broad participation through collaboration with clear accountability and executive decision-making. Major initiatives often begin by assembling representatives from finance, operations, technology, legal and other functions. That collaboration is usually necessary,…
Gopi Duddi is Chief Technology Officer at Couchbase, where he leads engineering for the company’s operational data platform for Ai. gettyMost enterprise AI planning sessions today center on foundation models, orchestration frameworks and GPUs. The data architecture underneath and whether it can handle agentic AI in production barely comes up. Teams get the model right,…
Kevan Yalowitz, Accenture Software and Platforms Industry Lead. gettyGenerational differences are driving distinct adoption patterns in consumer AI. The same tools are being used across age groups, but the reasons people use them, the trust thresholds they apply and what they consider “worth paying for” vary sharply. If you want adoption to drive revenue and…
Nada Usina is CEO & Co-Founder of NU Advisory Partners. gettyIn working with private equity (PE) leaders for the last few decades, I’ve noticed one surprising area where their interest and money has begun to pop up quite frequently: college sports. This growing interest in college athletics brings a welcome new source of capital to…
Pankaj Prasoon is senior director of CFO systems at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams. gettyThe hardest part of AI transformation isn’t getting people to trust AI. It’s getting great people to let go of the things that made them great. Between the world wars, every major navy could see…
Healthcare consumers routinely confront an experience that would seem unacceptable in almost any other industry: they commit to a service without knowing what it will cost, shuttle information among disconnected organizations and often shoulder the burden of coordinating their own care. Nathan Frank, Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Aetna, has made eliminating that friction
TOPSHOT – A raccoon (Procyon lotor) iAFP via Getty ImagesOne of the big things that artificial intelligence may be able to help us with, in general, is better analysis of massively complex systems that hide all kinds of fraud, smuggling, poaching and other malfeasance. Specifically, the technologies that we are discovering now will have big…
gettyAs artificial intelligence becomes embedded across products and operations, more companies are adding a chief AI officer to the executive team. But creating a new C-suite role doesn’t automatically establish what that leader owns, how the position fits alongside existing technology leadership, or where decision-making authority begins and ends. Without clearly defined responsibilities and reporting…
Nicole Radziwill, Chief AI Officer at Team-X | International Academy of Quality (IAQ) | AI Quality & the future of work. gettyIn 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that a single person with a laptop commanding an army of AI agents would soon build a billion-dollar company. This is a captivating idea for so many…





