🚀 Driving Scalable AI Adoption
According to Hugo Hamad, now Head of AI/Gen AI Factory at AXA en France and former Director of AI at Decathlon, successfully scaling AI adoption isn’t about luck; it’s about building the right enablers.
Drawing from his experience leading AI initiatives at Decathlon and now AXA en France, he highlights two crucial factors for success: Industrial Mindset & Products and Business Ambassadors.
In short, the key to AI adoption lies in industrial execution and human advocacy, not just algorithms and data. 💡
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🌍AI Regulation Needs a Global Standard
Matthew Blakemore, CEO at AI Caramba!, raises an important concern about the imbalanced regulatory landscape in AI development. As the EU AI Act introduces stringent frameworks, many innovative businesses might choose to develop their tools in less regulated markets, taking advantage of greater flexibility before bringing those same tools to more restricted regions like the EU.
Without a globally accepted regulatory standard, the future of AI ethics risks being shaped not by law, but by the values and integrity of individual companies. ⚖️🤖
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"Money with Context, The Magic of Managing Clients and Cash Together"
For Oz Alon, Co-founder & CEO, HoneyBook, true business clarity begins when creatives manage clients and cash in one place. 💼💰
At HoneyBook, this integration turns numbers into insight, giving service-based professionals a complete view of their business and the confidence to make smarter decisions.
He describes every business as being built around the four C’s: Clients, Cash, Calendar, and Craft. While HoneyBook takes care of the first three, helping users manage relationships, finances, and time, the fourth C, Craft, remains yours. That’s your superpower, your creativity, your talent, your art. 🎨⚡
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Andy Hood is Vice President of Emerging Technologies at WPP, where he leads innovation across 100,000+ creative professionals through the WPP Open AI platform. A night owl who discovered creative technology at 28, Andy has spent 25 years at the intersection of creativity and emerging tech, from his early days at AKQA to serving as jury president at Cannes Lions 2017.
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🌐 "Building a Truly Interoperable Smart Home Future", Kai Hackbarth, Head of Product & Solutions, Bosch
The smart home industry has evolved from isolated systems to collaborative ecosystems. For Kai Hackbarth, this marks a turning point, a step closer to seamless connectivity across all devices. 🔗
He also highlights the growing role of energy management technologies in enabling devices at home to communicate intelligently. With Bosch IoT Edge services, the future of connected living is not just smart, but sustainable and scalable. ⚡🏠
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💬 “A Company Is a Living Body, Not a Machine”
In an age of constant change, Sophie Heller, COO of BNP Paribas, believes that true leadership isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about empathy. 🧠💚
She trained as a therapist to better understand human behavior, mental health, and how organizations function like living systems. To her, every company is like a body; when one part suffers, the whole reacts.
Her insight is a timely reminder:
👉 Fixing one problem in isolation can often create another.
👉 Sustainable leadership starts with a systemic view and with caring for people’s mental well-being as deeply as we care for performance.
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#Leadership #MentalHealth #BNPParibas #SustainableLeadership #CorporateCulture #FutureOfWork #PeopleFirst
🎯 Turning Search Trends into Product Growth | The VEED Way
Samuel Beek, Chief Product Officer at @veedstudio, reveals how the company’s explosive growth is powered by one simple strategy: connecting growth channels directly to product development.
By analyzing what people are searching for on Google, like “how to generate a podcast,” VEED builds those exact tools into its platform. The result? Instant relevance, organic distribution, and products that meet real demand before anyone else does.
This isn’t just growth hacking, it’s growth listening. 👂🚀 Listen to the full podcast now - https://premade.outgrow.us/interview-with-Samuel-Beek?utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=matthew_blakemore&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mom-spotify
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💡 Scaling Trust in the Financial Ecosystem
Pavan Bachwal, VP & Head of Financial Services at Ericsson, shares how the company’s technology powers massive transaction volumes for customers across financial ecosystems.
It all comes down to three pillars: Scalability. Stability. Security.
By building platforms that combine these strengths, Ericsson is helping financial institutions not only handle complex operations but also unlock faster growth, improved efficiency, and smarter revenue models.
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⚖️ The EU AI Act’s Biggest Hurdle: Regulating AI That’s Already in Use
Matthew Blakemore, CEO at AI Caramba!, highlights a pressing challenge with the EU AI Act. While the framework does a strong job of classifying AI projects into risk categories, it faces a dilemma with tools that are already in widespread public use.
Many existing systems, some of which likely fall into high-risk categories, have already been trained and adopted by millions. The question becomes: should they be withdrawn, despite their popularity, or adapted under new rules?
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #AICompliance #AIInnovation #AITransformation
Rollo Goldstaub is the Global Head of Sports Partnerships at TikTok. Rollo oversees Sports Content Partnership, Business Development, Strategy, and Operations, harnessing the power of TikTok for the largest Sports partners in the world. The Sports Partnerships team at TikTok excels in strategic management of the largest leagues, teams, federations, and broadcasters, supporting them in discovering their next generation of fans.
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Igor Mikhalev, Partner and Head of Emerging Technologies Strategy, EY-Parthenon, emphasizes that while AI has traditionally been used to optimize tasks like refining marketing messages or improving conversion strategies, its real potential lies in augmenting human creativity rather than replacing it.
He advocates for a balance where AI supports experimentation and exploration, enabling teams to dream bigger and envision possibilities beyond what the raw data suggests.
AI becomes an innovation partner, enhancing human ingenuity instead of constraining it.
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#AI #HumanCreativity #Innovation #DataDriven #MarketingTech #IgorMikhalev #Outgrow"
Mareme on Green Innovation & Entrepreneurship Culture
Mareme Dieng, Partner at 500 Global and a Forbes Afrique 30 Under 30 honoree, explains, “How do we let green ignite excitement in the world, even by itself?”
She believes that culture plays a crucial role in shaping entrepreneurship:
"In the U.S., young people are taught early to spot opportunities. It’s not just about building companies, it’s about recognizing why and how you build them."
🌍✨ Supporting this culture is key to making innovation sustainable and impactful globally.
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Matthew Blakemore, CEO at AI Caramba!, reflects on the recent debates around AI regulation with a healthy dose of scepticism. He highlights how companies like OpenAI, having already secured a competitive advantage through their vast training data, may now be pushing for regulation not purely from an ethical standpoint, but as a way to protect their lead and limit competition.
He acknowledges the importance of frameworks like the upcoming EU AI Act, which will play a critical role in shaping how AI is built and deployed in the future.
The real test is ensuring safety and accountability without stifling innovation and fair competition.
Listen to the full podcast now- https://bit.ly/40GZ9bw
#AI #EUAIAct #MatthewBlakemore #TechRegulation #ArtificialIntelligence #Outgrow
Igor Mikhalev, Partner and Head of Emerging Technologies Strategy, EY-Parthenon, explains that creating innovative solutions is both an art and a science.
Science provides the data, a clear, centered perspective of where the world is and where it was just days ago.
But true breakthroughs, he says, come from human creativity and ingenuity, stretching the limits of what’s possible.
""The symbiosis of data and human imagination is where the real magic happens,"" Igor emphasizes.
✨ Data guides us. Creativity drives us forward.
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Kai Hackbarth, Head of Product and Solutions at Bosch, shares that he has been a strong believer in open standards because they are what bring communities together and enable the growth of ecosystems.
He explains that alongside open standards, open source plays a crucial role. At Bosch, this has been a long-standing commitment, with the company actively promoting initiatives like the Eclipse Foundation and building open-source projects that form the foundation of their IoT platform.
🤝 Collaboration. 🌐 Ecosystems. 🔓 Open Source.
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Tanis Jorge, Founder of The Cofounder's Hub and Trulioo, reflects on the natural evolution every founder experiences. In the early days, she explains, entrepreneurs must be a jack of all trades, handling everything from marketing and bookkeeping to, as she humorously puts it, “being the janitor in your food room.”
""Specialization happens eventually, and that’s healthy. Founders need to discover where they’re best suited in their own business and let go of the rest,"" Tanis emphasizes.
Growth requires evolution.
Listen to the full podcast now- https://bit.ly/4m4OyA4
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Eric Tak, Head of Division, Digital Euro - Product Proposition, European Central Bank, emphasizes that while most people today have few problems paying digitally, there are still challenges for those without modern smartphones or who prefer not to use them. “We see these pockets where people struggle,” he explains.
Eric adds, “Privacy remains the biggest concern for more than 50% of people when paying digitally. That’s why we aim to offer not just high privacy, but even cash-like anonymity for offline digital euro transactions.”
“We want to make sure these transactions can never be stored, retrieved, or seen by anyone else,” Eric says.
🔐 Privacy. Anonymity. Freedom of Choice.
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Rolandas Juteika, CEO & Chairman of the Board at Revolut Securities Europe and Head of Wealth and Trading at Revolut, explains, “FinTech companies are faster, more flexible, and cheaper compared to traditional banks.”
He says, “They don’t struggle with old, inflexible core systems. Instead, they’re plug-and-play businesses, easily integrating new services.”
⚡💡 The real game-changer is the speed of innovation and adoption of new technologies, giving FinTechs a huge competitive advantage.
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Samuel Beek is the Chief Product Officer at VEED.IO, one of the world’s fastest-growing online video editing platforms. With a strong background in engineering and design, Sam combines creativity with strategic thinking to build tools that empower millions of content creators globally.
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1. Creative pragmatism philosophy in product decision-making
2. AI-first approach to video editing innovation
3. Growth hacking through Google search trend analysis
4. Building VEED's ChatGPT store integration success
5. Cross-departmental collaboration between product, engineering, and marketing
6. Social media addiction challenges for tech leaders
7. Future vision for AI-generated versus human-created content
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Hugo Hamad, Head of AI/Gen AI Factory, AXA en France, ex-director of AI, Decathlon, points out a common pitfall in how organizations approach AI adoption. “Many companies invest in platforms, clusters, and big data without realizing that what we truly need are data engineers, ML engineers, and AI experts,” he explains.
He continues, “Some businesses focus only on hiring data scientists. But in reality, we need much more than data scientists alone to deliver real value and build AI solutions.”
According to Hugo, tech companies often emphasize practice and talent but neglect implementing the right AI technologies and tools. “To succeed, we must concentrate on three pillars: process, platform, and people. Only then can we deliver meaningful AI solutions, whether for clients or internal teams.”
⚡ The AI equation isn’t complete without balance: People + Process + Platform.
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