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For 150 years, HOCHTIEF has provided construction and engineering services for customers around the world. Today, they’re using AI and next-generation technologies to create new business models and revenue streams through start-up-like environments.

To unlock the potential of AI, leaders must have a vision that inspires their company, put steps in place to achieve that goal and then execute. Host David Carmona speaks with leaders to share best practices for a long-term AI strategy.

Jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP and President of Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations, introduces the masterclass series built in partnership with INSEAD to share real experience and insights into transforming your business and your industry.

Mondelēz International has iconic snack brands like OREO, Cadbury and more. To increase their ability to delight customers, they embrace AI across their organisation – from research and development, to marketing and IT – creating new ways for people to work together.

Undergoing an AI transformation requires an AI-ready culture. Hear from industry leaders on what it means to be data-driven and how organisations can ensure that subject matter experts are empowered to more effectively work with data scientists.

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood found that by embedding AI into key finance operations processes, her organisation was able to improve forecast accuracy, reduce strain on employees and better predict areas of risk.

An international insurer with over 108 million clients in 57 countries, AXA is using AI to accelerate their ability to assess and predict risk. AXA is also working with Microsoft to shed light on the ethical and social issues of artificial intelligence.

At Microsoft, we believe that building responsible AI solutions not only ensures inclusion, fairness and transparency, it empowers better products and experiences. In this episode, experts share their own experiences to help you innovate responsibly.

Learn more about our journey to operationalise responsible innovation practices through a research report published by the World Economic Forum and the Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

DHL is revolutionising the supply chain industry with their Warehouse-as-a-Service approach. They’re scaling their AI-driven global model to more than 2,000 warehouses and 10,000 vehicles, and supporting business-to-business, business-to-consumer and last-mile logistics.

Innovation is instrumental in creating long-term customer value. An innovative organisation needs to allow employees to take risks, train employees to innovate with AI and engage the right managers to balance competing interests.

Rimes Mortimer, Innovation Lead at Microsoft, discusses how to manage an innovation group and highlights the value of investing in disruptive tech. Mortimer also shares key insights that can help business leaders encourage and drive innovation in their organisation.

From tech and engineering employees, data scientists to drivers, app innovator Grab equips their people with AI tools and training to enhance their roles across transportation, food and courier delivery, financial technology and more.

AI’s full potential is reached when you empower everyone in your organisation with AI: help employees automate tasks, enable them to discover new insights and more. David Carmona and his guests discuss how you can bring AI to every employee.

Microsoft SharePoint Syntex uses AI to organise and understand your content. You can teach it to read your documents the way you do, tagging and organising content automatically so you can find the information you need more easily.

AI can help meet the needs of shareholders, customers and regulators. From data security to accounting practices, digital transformation requires partners with AI expertise.

In healthcare, AI can deliver benefits to patients, providers and payors – from shorter wait times to improved patient outcomes – while meeting challenges like regulation and system complexity.

AI-powered retail solutions can deliver better customer experience through recommendations and customisation, while also improving inventory and supply chain management.

Digital transformation in manufacturing can enhance worker safety, improve efficiency and deliver better yields – creating a jumping off point for more advanced AI adoption.

To achieve positive transformation, government agencies need to bring AI to more than just technical departments. Agencies can partner with data scientists and developers to redefine every process.

In education, AI is fuelling a transformation in learning outcomes and improving student engagement, accelerating innovation and overall effectiveness across schools and campuses.