Technologist of the Month

🤖 AI Governance Is a Team Sport. For John Hearty, VP & Head of AI Governance at Mastercard, effective AI governance requires more than technical expertise. It brings together data scientists, AI practitioners, communicators, regulatory experts, privacy professionals, and more. 🤝 As AI becomes part of highly regulated industries, connecting technology, governance, privacy, and regulation beco...

☁️ Stop Managing Infrastructure. Start Building Business Value. For Moutia Khatiri, Global CTO for Online & Omnisales at L'Oréal Groupe, cloud technologies are changing how teams work by allowing them to move their focus away from underlying technical layers and toward what truly matters: creating business value. 💻 Less time deploying and patching infrastructure ⚡ More focus on building...

Will Pithers is the Strategic Partner Manager for Sports at Meta , where he works directly with Premier League clubs, Formula 1 teams like Mercedes, leagues, federations, and top athletes to sharpen their content strategy across Meta's platforms. Before this, he was at City Football Group, giving him a rare view from both inside a club and inside the platform. He's helped shape major momen...

💡 What Happens When Financial Transactions Move to the Blockchain? For Laurent Marochini, CEO of Standard Chartered Luxembourg, tokenization could fundamentally simplify how investments are settled. 🔗 Instead of navigating multiple infrastructures and intermediaries, a tokenized world could bring settlement onto blockchain infrastructure, enabling greater speed, efficiency, and cost savings. The...

From Idea to Live Deployment, Faster 🚀 What if innovation didn’t have to take a year to reach the real world? For Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at the Financial Conduct Authority, testing in the right environment can help firms validate ideas, accelerate development, and move toward live deployment much faster. 💡 Shorter time to market ⚡ Faster experimentation 🤝 Expert regulatory guidance By...

🚛 Data Can Show the Trend. Customers Explain the Why. For Ivan Branco, Head of Information Management, AI, and Analytics at Volvo Group Trucks Operations, customer satisfaction starts with one essential thing: listening. 📊 Data and AI can uncover trends and opportunities, but meaningful customer dialogue helps businesses understand the why behind those insights. That combination of human connect...

🤖 Would You Trust a Robot With Your Most Personal Data? As robotics moves into HR, finance, legal, and other data-sensitive environments, trust and data security become just as important as the technology itself. 🎙️ Dianna Wilusz, Vice President of People Experience & Operations at SoftBank Robotics America, explores the human side of working alongside humanoid robots and why familiarity stil...

💼 When Your “Non-Tech” Experience Becomes Your Tech Advantage Sometimes, the experience you already have is more valuable than the experience you think you need. In this snippet, Raji Behal, Head of Western and Southern Europe, UK and Ireland at Klarna, shares how her 14-year journey at Macy’s, from buyer to leading one of the largest e-commerce sites in America, unexpectedly opened the door to p...

🚀 Great Technology Isn’t Enough A technology can be market-ready and still fail to reach consumers. In this snippet, Pinar Ozcan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Oxford, explains why successful innovation depends on more than technology. From political conditions and the right promoters to a strong ecosystem and industry giants paying attention, adoption is a muc...

🤖 AI Isn’t Expensive. Bad AI Strategy Is. How do you make sure your AI investments actually deliver value? Rakesh Doddamane, Leader – Generative AI / Responsible AI & User Experience at Philips, explains why organizations need to evaluate ROI across the entire AI value chain, from demand intake and data to implementation, scaling, AI literacy, and responsible AI. 💡 Start with value. 📊 Measu...

🧪 AI Is Reshaping R&D From Discovery to Decision-Making From synthesizing millions of scientific articles to exploring new formulations and enabling smarter decisions, AI is becoming an integral part of the innovation pipeline. In this snippet, Dr. Satyajit Wattamwar, Data Science & Digital Expertise Leader at Unilever R&D, explains how different AI models are helping accelerate innov...

🎙️ When Business Moves Faster Than Technology Innovation can transform customer experience, but only if the technology is ready to keep up. ⚡ In this clip, Vishnu Acharya, ex-Head of Network Infrastructure EMEA at Uber, shares why the gap between business ambitions and technological capabilities can become a major risk. 🚀 From autonomous vehicles to next-generation delivery solutions, the opport...

🎙️ Breaking Into Creative Technology: Where to Start? What does it take to build a career in creative technology? 🚀 In this snippet, Andy Hood, VP of Emerging Technologies at WPP, talks about WPP’s apprenticeship programme, which has now welcomed nearly 50 people across three cohorts, and why it can be a powerful accelerator for aspiring creative technologists. From apprenticeships to university...

🎙️ Data Doesn’t Just Inform. It Accelerates. ⚡ When data meets AI, insights move faster, decisions become sharper, and businesses can react with greater agility. In this insightful clip, Ivan Branco, Head of Information Management, AI, and Analytics at Volvo Group Trucks Operations, explores how dashboards, control towers, digital twins, and AI-powered simulations can transform the way businesses...

Beyza Koyas is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at BNP Paribas Personal Finance , one of Europe's leading consumer finance companies serving over 25 million customers. She started her career as a mechanical engineer before discovering her real passion lies in understanding people, which eventually took her across Turkey, the UK, and France in roles spanning marketing, sales, product developm...

🎙️ Adapt or Risk Losing the Customer Relationship 💡 “Adapt to survive” isn’t just a strategy, it’s how organizations thrive. In this insightful clip, Harish Sarma, VP, Business Development & Partnerships at Yahoo, explains why brands, broadcasters, and rights holders can’t afford to leave their customer relationships in someone else’s hands. 📩 Innovation starts with owning the conversation,...

Conny Ploth is the AI Transformation Leader & Entrepreneur at one of the world's largest banks, where she leads AI adoption across the entire organization. With 20 years of experience sitting at the crossroads of business, technology, and data, she has built a reputation for turning big ambitious ideas into things that actually work in the real world. She is recognized as an SW50 Spain Top...

🎙️ Making AI Governance Smarter, Faster & More Collaborative What if compliance didn’t have to slow innovation down? In this insightful clip, John Hearty, VP & Head of AI Governance at Mastercard, explains how intelligent standardization and automation can accelerate governance, reduce compliance effort, and manage risks around efficacy, fairness, and transparency. 🤖 Smarter governance ⚡...

🎙️ When Should AI Be Trusted to Take Action? AI can identify problems. But should it be trusted to fix them? In this insightful clip, Vishnu Acharya, ex-Head of Network Infrastructure EMEA at Uber, explores the next frontier of AI in infrastructure: moving from identifying potential incidents to letting AI agents take action. 🤖 The challenge? Making sure the data is 100% accurate and actionable b...

🎙️ From Infrastructure Management to Innovation at Scale 💡 Why spend time managing servers when you can focus on building better customer experiences? In this insightful clip, Moutia Khatiri, Global CTO for Online & Omnisales at L’Oréal Groupe, shares how cloud-native architecture, platform-as-a-service solutions, and scalable technologies are helping teams shift their focus from infrastructu...

Stuart Bailey is the Head of Payments Industry and Regulation at Lloyds Banking Group, one of the UK's largest and most influential financial institutions. With decades of experience across transaction banking, corporate payments, financial institutions, and regulatory strategy, he has built a career at the heart of how money moves. Stuart plays a leading role in shaping the UK's payments...

🎙️ Innovation + Regulation = Sustainable Growth 💡 Great innovation isn't about moving fast and breaking things, it's about creating progress responsibly. In this insightful clip, Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at the Financial Conduct Authority, explains why the best outcomes happen when innovation and regulation work hand in hand. ⚖️ Balance risk and opportunity 🚀 Enable growth through...

🚛 Stop Locking Data Away. Start Creating Value. In this episode, Ivan Branco, Head of Information Management, AI, and Analytics at Volvo Group Trucks Operations, explains why the real power of data comes from breaking silos and making information available by default. 💡 Data doesn’t create impact when it stays locked within teams. 🤝 Sharing across functions creates stronger insights. 🚀 Democra...

🎙️ How AI Can Build Stronger Workplace Cultures 💡 AI isn't just transforming the way we work, it's changing how we learn, collaborate, and make better decisions. In this insightful clip, Dianna Wilusz, Vice President of People Experience & Operations at SoftBank Robotics America, explains how better understanding AI helps employees think more critically, collaborate across teams, and...

Colin Payne is the Head of Innovation at the Financial Conduct Authority , the UK's financial regulator, where he is building the frameworks and platforms that will define the next decade of global finance. With over two decades at the cutting edge of fintech, he has worked with startups, unicorns, central banks, and regulators across the world to turn bold ideas into real financial products w...