With the growing pace of artificial intelligence technology, the EU is putting regulation in place to ensure the robot hoards do not take over the human race!

Patrick and Giles discuss this new regulation, why it is important to take note and ensure that AI it utilized for the benefit of all.

Research for this episode came from:

EU Artificial Intelligence Act: https://tinyurl.com/EUAIAct2024 Podcast: Diary of a CEO - CEO of Microsoft AI: https://tinyurl.com/CEOofMicrosoftAI

Podcast: Diary of a CEO - Ex-Google Office speaks out: https://tinyurl.com/DangersOfAI-ExGoogleOfficer

The technology focus for new innovation currently leans towards artificial intelligence in its various forms.

Microsoft, Google, AWS and IBM all have their platforms; but how is the industry looking to take advantage of this capability to bring a further competitive edge to their businesses?

Patrick (via CoPilot) found a great article with CEO's quoting how they see AI improving their business and customer offerings over at Fast Company's Modern CEO blog.

Join Patrick and Giles as they provide thoughts and commentary on how the industry is viewing AI and a huge thank you to Stephanie Mehta (CEO - Mansueto Ventures) for writing a great article and providing us with this month's content.

Article: https://www.fastcompany.com/91122101/the-leaders-of-ikea-servicenow-coursera-and-publicis-sapient-offer-different-visions-of-how-ai-will-impact-their-companies

Author: Stephanie Mehta (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-mehta-53814a3/)

What do people say about you when you are not in the room?

In this episode we are joined by Lee Reed, Global Product Manager and Technology Evangelist. Lee shares his thoughts on the importance of building a "personal brand" inside your organization with the aim of realizing your goals.

Lee has a passion for communicating about technology and sharing video content to demonstrate his unique and practical approaches to using technology.

Follow Lee on his YouTube channel where he shares tips on how to leverage AI to build your personal brand and other practical uses.

Welcome listeners to Season 2 of the Enterprise Influencers Podcast. The long awaited and completely unannounced new season.

In this episode Patrick and Giles catch up after a long and somewhat unexpected hiatus. What can we say, life got in the way, between intra-state moves and graduating seniors, we got busy.

We're back and ready to tackle all of the topics of the day impacting enterprise technology on a semi-regular cadence. Welcome to Season 2!

In recent weeks Microsoft have made a multitude of announcements related to their upcoming AI offerings collectively known as Microsoft Copilot, a suite of tools that will impact almost every area of Microsoft's Enterprise technology offerings.

We catch up with Microsoft MVP, John Moore to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of Enterprise Assistive AI and get an overview of some of the more impactful announcements from the recent Microsoft Build conference.

John Moore's links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-moore4/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-toiSESCQwFqIJug0b3gA
• MVP Profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003745

Will AI forever change the landscape of Enterprise collaboration and automation? Do the promises of productivity gains and process automation outweigh the risks to data privacy and reputation? Will AI ultimately replace knowledge workers or allow us to reach a higher plane, more focused on the things we're good at? Alex Babin, co-founder and CEO of ZERO Systems joins us to discuss the rapidly evolving world of AI, ChatGPT, and LLM's in the enterprise, where there are more questions than answers.  

About the company (https://zerosystems.com)

ZERO Systems uses AI technologies to augment and automate high-value processes for enterprises. In 2022, the company was recognized as a “Gartner Cool Vendor” in Data-Centric AI as it revolutionizes the legal, financial, insurance and consulting industries by integrating generative AI and LLMs solutions into their processes. Zero works with Fortune 500 companies, to help them automate their business processes. 

About the guest: 

Alex Babin is the co-founder and CEO of ZERO Systems. He is a serial founder and seasoned CEO with over 20 years of experience in Automotive, SaaS and AI.  He started his first company at 24, a hybrid vehicle company funded by DFJ. Alex founded ZERO to deliver effective productivity solutions to knowledge workers leveraging AI.

Are you building the right features into your product? Are your priorities aligned with your customer's needs?  These are the types of questions that User Research can help you answer. In this episode we're joined by Toni Saylor, Senior User Researcher with Microsoft's SharePoint and OneDrive team. We discuss the importance of leveraging User Research to drive product strategy and working at enterprise scale.

About Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Exchange, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Office programs. With over 50 million subscribers and 250M users, Microsoft 365 is one of the largest enterprise SaaS offerings in the world.