Microsoft is increasing its CoPilot capability with the introduction of Security CoPilot Agents, including hooks into Purview, Defender as well as extending its capabilities to the Microsoft Partner ecosystem.

Patrick and Giles discuss the impact and importance of these new capabilities along with some new(ish) AI based "co-hosts" from Google's NotebookLM technology.

Lastly, we conclude on how useful NotebookLM has been in producing this episode.

Join us as we speak with Doug Ware (Elumenotion.com) about the realities of developing AI based solutions for reliable, consistent results to drive real business value.

For this episode we review the World Economic Forum - Future of Jobs report and how that is going to affect various industries between 2025 and 2030. Furthermore, we discuss the report's recommendations to see how to stay relevant in the rapidly changing technology landscape now that AI, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and others are a daily part of our lives.

Join your hosts Patrick and Giles as they wrap up 2024, discuss their new year's resolutions and predict how Artificial Intelligence will evolve throughout 2025.

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!