TalkingTech VoxPop at Lexpo: In-House AI Assessment Insights
The video features Andrea MSI, founder and CEO of Interelia Consulting, discussing her work with major banks on AI assessment and transformation. She outlines two flagship projects: an AI literacy program that equips lawyers with foundational AI knowledge and legal nuances, and a "future‑fit" legal transformation initiative that embeds AI, meta‑management, and document automation into a strategic, multi‑year roadmap. Key insights include the emphasis on starting with vision, KPIs, and governance before selecting any technology. The programs involve cross‑functional coordination with IT, procurement, change‑management, and HR, ensuring that tools are adopted deliberately rather than opportunistically. Leadership plays a pivotal role, with the group GC Robert Schmid championing the effort and establishing a steering committee that sets the tone for the entire organization. Andrea highlights a concrete example: the bank’s legal team, initially using only Microsoft tools, became a pilot for AI adoption, prompting other departments—compliance, data protection, and HR—to seek guidance. She also notes that in‑house legal groups are increasingly intent on bringing work internal, limiting external counsel, while law firms are praised for their longer‑standing tech experience but criticized for lacking structured change‑management. The implications are clear: a disciplined, leadership‑driven approach to AI can turn legal departments into enterprise innovators, while law firms must evolve their change‑management capabilities to stay relevant to increasingly self‑sufficient corporate clients.
Why Tech-Agnostic Co-Engineering and Team Augmentation Are Replacing Rigid Software Vendors
A leading German IT consultancy has expanded into the UK and markets itself to banks and corporates on a hands-on model of innovation, modernization and team augmentation. The firm emphasizes functional expertise and business-language engagement, positioning technology purely as an...
Global Compliance & ROI Explained
Speakers warn that treating country e-invoicing mandates as a last-minute cost leads to fragmented, country-by-country solutions that hinder growth and increase fines. A Basware/FT Longitude study found over half of U.S.-headquartered firms lost expansion opportunities due to late or misunderstood...
Why some Restaurants Face a Leadership Vacuum
The episode explores the growing leadership vacuum in U.S. restaurants and introduces fractional executives as a solution. Jonathan M. interviews Tony Ronain, founder of Sea Society, a collective that places seasoned C‑suite talent on a part‑time basis with emerging chains...
How AI and Adaptability Are Reshaping Resilient Supply Chains with Ronny Horvath & Benjamin Reich
In this episode, Accenture’s Benjamin Reich and Ronny Horvath discuss how artificial intelligence and adaptable strategies are redefining resilient supply chains. They explain that logistics is moving beyond a cost‑center mindset toward a strategic capability powered by AI‑driven control towers,...
Putting Employees at the Center with BCG's Kristy R. Ellmer at Semafor World Economy
Kristy R. Ellmer of BCG addressed the evolving profile of a future‑ready CEO at Semafor World Economy, emphasizing the twin imperatives of technological fluency and human‑centered leadership in the age of AI. She argued that executives must not only understand...
Consulting Case Interview: OpenAI Data Center Strategy (W/ BCG and A&M Consultants)
The video walks through a mock consulting case where OpenAI needs to locate three new U.S. data centers over the next three years. The firm must balance three strategic pillars—capital cost, speed to market, and its 2030 carbon‑neutral commitment—while...
AI Strategy for CFOs Is a Wild West Without Governance Turn AI Into a Portfolio System – Dave Trier
The discussion centers on how CFOs should treat AI deployments as a disciplined investment portfolio rather than ad‑hoc experiments, emphasizing the need for robust governance and financial oversight. Dave Trier explains that AI governance is distinct from traditional data governance because...
Podcast Ep275: Organizations Will Struggle, Conference Takeaways, What SAP & Epicor Revealed
The podcast warned that scaling generative AI is far costlier and more complex than most organizations expect, highlighting that a single top-tier GPU can cost around $40,000 while hyperscale data centers deploy hundreds of thousands of such units, creating severe...
InformationWeek Podcast: Has AI Ballooned Tech Debt for CTOs?
The InformationWeek podcast examined whether AI initiatives are lengthening or shortening the tech‑debt cycle for CTOs. Guests from GoDaddy, Metel and a WAN networking firm discussed how integrating machine‑learning and generative AI into legacy environments creates immediate infrastructure demands, from...
Inside Lloyds Banking Group’s People Transformation (With Sharon Doherty)
In this interview, Lloyds Banking Group’s Chief People and Places Officer Sharon Doherty outlines the bank’s sweeping people‑centric reboot. She frames her role as a storyteller, a tough‑love leader, and a disruptor, guiding an 80,000‑person organization through a multi‑year transformation...
What Transformation Programmes and Football Teams Have in Common
At the Temenos Community Forum 2026 in Copenhagen, host Debi Bell‑Hosing and Temenos CRO Will Moroney framed core modernization as the decisive "how" question for banks, moving beyond the earlier debate of whether to modernise. They explained that banks are opting...
BearingPoint: Off Teams...To Clients
BearingPoint leaders emphasized that building client relationships requires in-person time and cannot be fully replaced by technology. Chief people officer Damian Plassy framed the firm as a P2P (people-to-people) business, underscoring trust, partnership and informal interactions as core to consulting....
The Digital Teammate Era Has Arrived
The episode of "You Can with AI" explores the emerging concept of "digital teammates"—AI agents positioned as co‑workers rather than simple software tools. Host Nathaniel Whitmore speaks with Surajit Chatterjee, CEO of Emma, and Edu Sacko, KPMG’s head of workforce...
Why the Agentic Era Is Already Hitting Resource Walls
The episode examines how the emerging "agentic era"—where autonomous AI agents operate at enterprise scale—is already colliding with hard resource limits. Hosts Nathaniel Whitmore and KPMG’s Steve Chase discuss the rapid shift from experimental agents to production‑grade workloads, and...