AI World Conference and Expo Observations on Machine Learning in the Enterprise

Recently I attended the AI World Conference and Expo 2016 in San Francisco and participated on a panel discussion on Machine Learning in the Enterprise.  Along with thought leaders and pioneers in the AI space from Yahoo Research, Facebook, Intel Machine Learning Solutions, deepsense.io, NVIDIA and CodiLime – we had a charged debate on how …

Mercedes Benz Hackathon: Solving Real World Problems by Bringing Ideas to Life

Recently I participated in the Mercedes Benz Hackathon in Silicon Valley. A weekend long event, the hackathon brought together data scientists, UI developers and business developers to investigate new ideas using smart city data, wearable, and automotive technologies.   The big question was: How can the automotive industry leverage the technologies to address the industry’s …

NTT i3’s First Executive Advisory Board Retreat

Two months ago we announced the first five members of our new Executive Advisory Board – Cindy Padnos, Brian Spector, Dr. Stuart Evans, Wilf Russell and Gokul Rajaram. I have been so excited anticipating the dialogue and debate that would result when this amazing group would come together with my executive team and some key …

Introducing Project CloudWAN Reducing Costs and Complexity, While Increasing Control and Responsiveness

Now, enterprises can grow with the speed and flexibility a global business requires – and we are doing this by helping enterprises reduce networking costs, giving them a choice to connect through less costly links, and providing a much-needed resource to dynamically manage reliability, latency and speed. The post Introducing Project CloudWAN Reducing Costs and …

Project CloudWAN: An Intelligent Technology Fabric Enabling Businesses to Effectively Scale and Evolve

In collaboration with our operating companies, we are testing Project CloudWAN and gaining deeper insights into how the product can be effectively used to address real-world business challenges in banking, financial services, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals industries – as well as in partnership with technology providers and consulting firms. The post Project CloudWAN: An Intelligent Technology …

Evolving IT Networks from Legacy Silos to Radical Responsiveness

Enterprise companies have historically organized themselves around functional silos such as R&D, marketing, and sales that focus largely on their own respective value chains and fiercely independent agendas. The nature of the network and IT infrastructure that therefore evolved to accompany this kind of business structure naturally emulated its lack of openness, sharing of information, …

Innovation and the Need for Diverse Teams

Diverse talent is the most important ingredient to curate and nurture in building toward more innovative practices inside large enterprise organizations. While this definition of diversity includes having the right mix of technical and business skills, it also requires a culture and attitude that supports the open exchange and debate of diverse ideas. The post …