What We Learned This Week | 7-13-25
Unlocking value using AI, Designing a Modern Data & GenAI Strategy, Software Developers in the Age of AI, AI Generational Gap, and more...
Hope you are enjoying the summer days. Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention past week. As always, welcome your feedback and ideas.
Articles
Why AI in the workflow is essential to unlocking value for organizations | CIO | Unlocking the full value of AI requires the right combination of domain expertise, accessible data, and seamless technology orchestration
How to Design and Implement a Modern Data and GenAI Strategy | CDO Magazine | Two-pronged framework that is designed to transform a Data and GenAI strategic vision into practical reality
How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025 | Final Round | AI is turning every junior developer into a code factory and every senior developer into a janitor
The AI Generational Gap Is A Management Problem | AI Mindset | Most organizations are taking a passive approach to AI adoption
Your Leadership Playbook needs an AI Update | 5 smart strategies to take your team from AI-wary to AI-ready
Podcasts/Videos
Introduction to AI Venture Watch | AI Venture Watch | The wide range of sectors being impacted by AI and related venture capital investments
21 Things You SHOULD Be Using AI For | Matthew Berman | Daily life cases for AI
AI Prompting for Business Leaders: What Works and Why | CXO Talk | Explore advanced prompting techniques for Large Language Models
How to Build an AI Assistant for any Challenge | HBR | You might have your teams and organization implementing new AI tools, but how much have you experimented with them yourself?
Metadata in the modern data ecosystem | Speaking of Data | Metadata in the modern data ecosystem - including metadata as an operational asset, challenges with quality and consistency, and deciding whether to build or buy
A Book We are Reading in July
The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines | Matt Beane | A technology researcher shows how AI and robots threaten the traditional skill-development model and outlines how challenge, complexity, and connection remain essential for building expertise.
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
"Focus on the seeds, not the trees. What seeds are you planting today?
- James Clear
Upcoming Interesting Data & AI Conferences
CDOIQ Conference | 7-15 to 7-17 | Cambridge, MA
AWS Summit New York City | 7-16 | New York (Free)
2025 MIT Platform Strategy Summit | 7-17 | Cambridge, MA
Ai4 2025 | 8-11 to 8/13 | Vegas
Northeast Utilities Credit and Collections | 9/10 - 9/12 | Atlantic City, NJ
Boston AI Week 2025 | 9/29 - 10/3 | Boston
UA Week 2025 | 10/28-10/30 | Austin
AWS re:invent 2025 | 12/1-12/5 | Vegas
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