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Friday, January 5, 2024
Business Leaders Gather for 1st Chief AI Officer Summit at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Happy new year!
Thanks to all who joined us for the 10th CDAO Summit and the world's first Chief AI Officer summit hosted by the Institute for Experiential AI and the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston MA in December, 2023!
The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern recently published a write-up of the Chief AI Officer event, which can be found here. I also posted an abstract of their write up below.
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Thanks to all the journalists who covered the Summits and to all of you who made social posts and comments during the events, especially Neil Parekh and Sree Sreenivasan.
Promotion is not over, its just beginning! Next steps:
We have the photos from the CDAO Summit. We expect photos from the CAIO Summit today. We will add them to Google Drive and give you access.
We will edit the videos this week and add them to our video archive
We will create blog posts with a re-cap of both events.
Once the photos/videos are loaded and the blog posts are ready, we will send a survey to all registrants. You will be able to access the photos after you take the survey.
We will promote the blog post + photos for the CDAO and CAIO Summit Boston over the next few weeks.
Chief AI Officers Are Making News! See these recent articles that mentioned us - and you:
We had some great press coverage at our recent summits in December, and expect write-ups from CIO.com, CIO.gov, Higher Ed, more.
Two weeks ago I interviewed with the New York Times, and the reporter requested to speak with the CAIOs Daniel Hulme at WPP, Shawn Wang at Elevance, and Ambica Rajagopol at Michelin. We expect that article to be published next week.
Below are more articles that have been recently published about our recent initiatives:
• 01/04/24 (Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern Univ): Business Leaders Gather For World’s First Chief AI Officer Summit "As companies in every industry scramble to develop an AI strategy, a new — sometimes unenviable — job title has emerged: Chief AI Officer (CAIO).
CAIOs have been charged with leading their organizations’ transition into the brave new world of AI. But inflated ideas about AI’s capabilities mean CAIOs are often battling unrealistic expectations and inadequate organizational support.
To help CAIOs navigate those challenges, the Institute for Experiential AI partnered with the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Club to host the world’s first Chief AI Officer Summit at Northeastern University. The Dec. 14, 2023 event brought together CAIOs and other top executives to share their experience working on the front lines of the AI transformation.
Along the way, attendees broke down their most successful strategies for embedding AI into their businesses to supercharge operations and boost bottom lines.
“The economic impact of generative AI will be huge,” Institute Executive Director Usama Fayyad said in his keynote talk. “People estimate it will accelerate 15 to 80 percent of knowledge worker tasks... If you have something that can accelerate those tasks by even one percent, it will have a huge impact — and I think it will have a much larger impact than that."
• 01/02/24 (Forbes): From The Classroom to The Economy: Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI Accelerates Real-World AI Transformation "The CDO/CAIO Summit was held at the EAI facilities and featured industry speakers including past, present, and newly appointed CDOs and CAIOs from leading industry companies and organizations including Bon Secours Mercy Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dell Technologies, Elevance Health, Estee Lauder, Thrivent, T-Mobile, Sanofi, the United States Air Force and Army, and Verizon, among others."
• 11/27/23 (Axios): DC's Hottest New Job: The Chief AI Officer "Hundreds of agencies across the federal government are scrambling to find more than 400 chief AI officers by the end of the year. Why it matters: The requirement, one of the edicts of President Biden's recent AI executive order, aims to make sure every arm of government has a top exec who is ready to deal with AI. Driving the news: The Office of Management and Budget has released guidance to federal agencies on how to implement Biden's AI executive order — and how to hire a chief AI officer (CAIO) is on top of that list. The Executive Office of the President is also required to hire a Chief AI Officer."
• 11/15/23 (Tanium): The Chief AI Officer is Here. It's Time to Make Room in the C-Suite "President Biden’s executive order on AI requires all federal agencies to hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) to coordinate the adoption of AI, following a handful of companies that have established the role in recent years. The White House mandate is expected to prompt a wave of new hires across the private sector, as an increasing number of companies consider the value of a CAIO and the role this new figure will play in the boardroom. Having an AI expert in the C-suite – someone who understands both its risks and its potential – is imperative now..."
• 10/ 29/23 (Forbes): The Case for the Chief AI Officer - A Role Whose Time Has Come "Lately, there has been chatter about organizations creating chief AI officer roles, charged with advocating for safe and productive AI practices. David Mathison, founder and chairman of the CDO Club, reports that he is now tracking the "chief AI officer" title in his monthly jobs updates, with seven new chief AI officers being added since September 1st. “While the base of CAIOs worldwide is still small, we continue to see growth in new hires,” he reports."
Thanks to the journalists and analysts who are covering this critical new role.
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"Great conference, David Mathison! The topics were relevant, the panelists and speakers top notch, the setting was intimate, and the connections were truly valuable for any senior executive in the digital space. Thanks for pulling it together. I really look forward to attending next year.” Lisa Choi Owens: Chief Revenue Officer and Director at TED
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"I was absolutely delighted to be one of the speakers at the IBM CDO/CTO summit in Boston. Thought leadership comes from saying what we think outside of our own spaces and inviting the thoughts of others who may disagree. Great respect to Inderpal Bhandari and David Mathison and so many others for creating this wonderful holding environment for fresh thinking and perspective. Kudos for all of the effort it took to make this happen!" Anthony Scriffignano: SVP,Chief Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet
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