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Article How Norfolk Southern is Using AI to Help ‘Move the US Economy’
July 23, 2025 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
Norfolk Southern is investing in artificial intelligence to reshape how it moves freight across its 28,000-mile rail network. And one of the people driving that train is Mabby Amouie, Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics, who oversees the company’s AI strategy — from making use of sensor data...
Article Top AI Conferences and Trade Shows for Enterprise Executives: 2026
July 16, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
We've been talking to the InnoLead community and scouring the web to assemble a list of the best AI events in 2025 and 2026 around the world. Here's our list...
Video Building Autonomous Innovation Engines
July 13, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
As part of our recent AI Build Day Event, on June 12th in Cambridge, Mass., we invited speakers to kick off the day with lightning talks about where AI is delivering value today — and how it will evolve from here. This talk by Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge and...
Article How Atlassian is Deploying AI Agents and Measuring Their Impact
July 7, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
The world of AI agents is still evolving, but Atlassian, a collaboration software company headquartered in Sydney, Australia, has been putting agents to work for more than a year, and offering agentic AI technology to customers since April. We talk to Shihab Hamid, Head of Product for Rovo Agents at...
Article June 2025: The Top 25 Unicorn AI Startups, and Their Enterprise Customers
June 30, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
Which corporate customers are using which AI platforms in 2025? We take a deep dive — with an assist from AI, of course.
Article Hollywood Veteran Katzenberg on AI: ‘If Change is Uncomfortable, Irrelevance is Going to be Harder’
June 4, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Former DreamWorks and Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the similarities between the arrival of AI technologies in the business world today and the arrival of computer-generated animation technologies in Hollywood in the 1990s.
Article From ROI to Readiness: What Enterprise AI Leaders Keep Getting Wrong
May 27, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
At the KPMG 2025 Boston AI Executive Accelerator, one thing became clear. Most enterprise AI programs are being evaluated with the wrong lens. Executives are chasing short-term validation when they should be designing for long-term advantage.
Article SAP’s Global Head of AI on Prompt Optimization, Hackathons, and More
May 23, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
Dr. Walter Sun talks about bottom-up innovation, SAP's internal GenAI hub, hackathons, and more, in our exclusive interview at SAP's Sapphire conference in Orlando.
Article How the US Dept. of Defense is Making Open Innovation Work
May 19, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
The OnRamp program at the US Military’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got started in 2023 as an effort to lower the barriers for non-traditional technology companies that wanted to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) — but weren’t already suppliers. We talk with Cassie Muffley, Acting Director of the...
On Demand Webcast AI’s New Frontier: How Digital Co-Workers are Shaping the Future of Innovation
May 13, 2025
This webcast replay features Kofi Gyasi of NotedSource and Dr. Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how Hybrid AI is redefining innovation.
Video Market Intelligence Briefing: H1 2025
May 6, 2025 | By Alex Slawsby
Alex Slawsby delivers a March 2025 market intelligence briefing, with input from Allison Collings of NRG and Daniel Eckman from Yum Brands, as well as InnoLead co-founder and membership liaison Scott Cohen.
Article What’s Changing About the Chief Transformation Officer Role in 2025
May 2, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
We examine the new report from Monitor Deloitte, which surveyed 200 transformation executives from a range of industries. Budgets are growing, but execution focus remains a challenge.
Article Key Takeaways from the Momentum AI Conference in New York
April 30, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
If there was a universal takeaway from this week’s Momentum AI conference in New York, it was this: AI literacy is now the new baseline for competitive advantage. Here's our dispatch from the event...
Article Innovation in the Services Industry: Inside $3B White & Case
April 21, 2025 | By Scott Cohen
Isabel Parker joined White & Case as Chief Innovation Officer in 2024. She now leads global innovation efforts at the $3.2 billion firm. We spoke with her about building a culture of innovation, integrating GenAI into legal services, and how the firm balances bold experimentation with responsible AI use.
Article AI’s ‘Printing Press’ Moment — and Why Fortune 1000s Are Lagging
April 16, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
At the Imagination in Action AI Summit held at MIT this week, there was no mistaking the mood: we’re no longer on the verge of a major transformation, we’re in the middle of it. Contributing writer Sue Liang reports...
Article Amazon Web Services Exec: GenAI isn’t a ‘Magic Elixir,’ Needs to Target Business Outcomes
April 14, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
Since launching for call center customers in 2017, cloud-based contact center optimization service Amazon Connect has been on an upward trajectory, becoming one of the fastest-growing AWS services by revenue. We talk with Pasquale DeMaio, Vice President of Amazon Connect at Amazon Web Services about integrating AI.
Article Inside the New General Motors-NVIDIA Partnership
April 10, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
"We're integrating AI into vehicles thoughtfully, prioritizing safety and customer value over technological novelty," says GM SVP Dave Richardson. Here's our exclusive interview...
Article How GenAI is Being Used Inside Big Organizations: March 2025 Data
March 27, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
With 109 qualified responses, here's survey data on how innovation and R&D professionals say about how the use of GenAI tools is impacting their work.
Article A Dispatch from the HumanX AI Conference: What Will Drive the Next Phase of AI Progress?
March 14, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
Defining what AI progress looks like is still a challenge, writes Sue Liang, who attended this week's HumanX conference in Las Vegas. She discusses the vendor landscape, AI adoption, and the path forward.
Article BMO Financial Group Chief AI Officer on Where AI is Being Deployed, and Quantum Opportunities
March 11, 2025 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
Kristen Milchanowski joined BMO Financial Group as Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer at the BMO Financial Group in October 2024. We spoke with Milchanowski recently about how the firm has been leveraging AI internally, as well as its recent decision to join IBM's Quantum Network to access quantum computing infrastructure.