When I think about unstructured data, I see my colleague Rob Gerbrandt (an information governance genius) walking into a customer’s conference room where tubes of core samples line three walls. Each contains carefully extracted and preserved layers of planet Earth that differ in color and texture. While most of us would see dirt and rock,…
Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, continues to reinvent how we run our businesses and shape the ways people work. With Gartner finding more than 80 percent of enterprises using generative AI application programming interfaces (APIs) or models, and/or deploying generative AI-enabled applications in production environments by 2026, we know there is vast opportunity ahead of…
Technology never stops evolving or constantly experiencing changes and improvements. Technology is becoming more and more relevant in our daily tasks and every year new technologies promise to change the paradigm of our reality. Shumon Zaman, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Ali&Sons explains to CIO Middle East what are the top 7 technologies that…
Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. These executives can help lead their organizations toward increased efficiencies and improved performance through strategic implementation of the right products and services. They are among the most important hires organizations are…
Anthony Battle is leaning heavily on AI and IA — artificial intelligence and intelligent automation — to deliver digital transformation at luxury auto maker Jaguar Land Rover. Battle joined JLR as group chief digital and information officer in February 2022, after a long career managing IT for a succession of oil companies. The auto maker,…
I first heard the phrase, “Find a need and fill it,” some years ago at an “art of selling” presentation by a super salesman. Why was I at this presentation, you ask? Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. Sitting in this selling seminar,…
Nell’era della data economy e della democratizzazione dell’Information Technology c’è un cambiamento epocale che si prospetta per il CIO: occuparsi specificamente di data governance e fornire agli utenti aziendali gli strumenti tecnologici per gestire e analizzare i dati in autonomia. Come afferma Luca Seravalli, CIO di Duferco Energia (commercio di energia elettrica e gas nel…
Austria’s technology and AI landscape is located in much smaller places than the typical international hubs. The capital of Upper Austria, Linz, is the perfect example. At the core of the Linz AI ecosystem is the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), where Austrian AI pioneer Sepp Hochreiter and his team…
I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.” Well, when it comes to a nationwide automotive group in the world’s largest automotive market, that proverb about a hundred could be hundreds of thousands. Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., Ltd. (CGA) is China’s leading…
The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. The bill will turn into an EU law once it is approved by the European Parliament at a vote scheduled for…