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How SpaceX’s “Dare, Fail Fast and Iterate Many Times” Mindset Redefined an Industry—And What Europe Can Learn
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Last week at DTU – Technical University of Denmark’s inaugural #ELPIS Leading Industrial Science program, Eva Berneke shared a hard truth: winning in industries like space isn’t just about breakthrough products. It’s also about revolutionizing how you build them. SpaceX didn’t just innovate rockets; they industrialized failure. Their “try, crash…
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AI Automation vs Augmentation
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In the automation vs augmentation by AI, this piece of research shared yesterday by Arnaud Hubaux at ASML during the Brainport AI Summit, showing that for complex knowledge such as those involved in semiconductor chips, the highest efficiency and lowest costs are achieved through a combination of seasoned engineers with…
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AI and Trust
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Trusting AI is a broad question, spanning ethics, safety, accuracy and more. Today at the AI Brainport Summit, Djoni de Vos noted that for many clients, accuracy is still the first concern. Anything less than 99% won’t do. May I add, especially in fields like engineering or design, where answers…
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Lessons from Silicon Valley on AI Adoption
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I had the privilege to interview, on behalf of the DTU Executive MBA, Dan Lamorena head of Gemini Google Cloud Product Marketing, Razab Chowdhury, Sr Partner at Gartner, Apurva Davé CMO of Aembit, Ngoc Mai Nguyen, CEO of Optoceutics, and Jim Healey, who held multiple C-level positions in Silicon Valley!…
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AI Insights from AutoDesk
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I had the privilege to meet Stephen Hooper and hear why Gen-AI may shift the markets in which Autodesk operates, building on insights from past shifts: the cloud did not change the industry dynamics, while both 3D parametric methods and the advent of the PC did. It all had to…
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What are the main obstacles to AI adoption?
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I had the privilege of surveying various practitioners from EY to PWC and AWS at World Summit AI. The consensus is that mindset is the biggest hurdle. Interestingly, mostly at the executive level. This is where Berit and I facilitate sessions with executives, to help find clarity. The second hurdle…
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Takeaways from World Summit AI in Amsterdam
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Kudos to World Summit AI in Amsterdam for including diverse voices on AI development, not just the hyperscalers and their evangelists but also critics like Karen Hao https://lnkd.in/df2GYbqN. Without a vibrant conversation on AI governance, we’ll end up like after 1999 again, with a few giants controlling traffic on the net.…
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The Mindset of the Organization, Starting Point of the AI Journey
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Join us for a conversation with Gary A. Bolles, Global Fellow for Transformation at Singularity University and Partner at Charrette LLC. We discuss the impact of Gen-AI on work, the organizational transformation with exponential technologies and centrality of mindset, the evolving role of leaders and working with Gen Z. You…
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Hail Law Zero!
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A great initiative from AI pioneer and safety advocate Yoshua Bengio, that I had the pleasure to meet at École Polytechnique in January: the launch of LawZero, a non-profit dedicated to developing solution for “safe-by-design” AI systems. At a time when many are lured by Big Tech’s El Dorado, it’s…
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Is AI Quietly Reshaping Your Organization from the Bottom Up?
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One of the most overlooked questions leaders should be asking today is “Where is AI already being used, without formal approval or visibility?” In many organizations, AI adoption doesn’t begin with a top-down directive. It starts in the margins:• A product manager using ChatGPT to draft briefs• A financial analyst…
