Enterprise AI loves a shiny object. Sol Rashidi would rather talk about procurement. After years of leading AI deployments, Sol has learned that some of the biggest wins come from the decidedly unglamorous parts of the business. Her favorite function to transform? Procurement. Recorded at EVOLVE26 Singapore, this conversation brings host Paul Muller together with Sol Rashidi, CEO of ExecutiveAI, the world’s first Chief AI Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer of AI Governance & Security at Cyera. A two-time bestselling author and Senior Fellow at Harvard, Sol brings a practitioner’s perspective to what actually happens when enterprise AI meets operational reality. Sol shares lessons shaped by years of enterprise AI deployments and the postmortems she kept along the way. She challenges the way companies prioritize AI use cases, arguing that business value means little without a realistic path to production. The conversation turns to: - Why so many AI projects remain stuck in proof-of-concept mode - What procurement can teach us about practical AI transformation - How to choose AI use cases that have a realistic path to production - Why top-down and bottom-up AI adoption can both stall - What trust between employees and leadership means for AI adoption - Why speed is outpacing governance and security - The hidden trade-offs behind convenient AI tools - How leaders can keep human agency at the center of AI Her vision for what comes next is human-led, AI-supercharged. AI can give individuals capabilities that once required entire teams, but Sol believes people still need to protect the creative judgment and agency that make those capabilities valuable in the first place. As Sol puts it, the goal is to build a world where “AI happens with us and not to us.” *Stay in touch with Sol:* Sol Rashidi’s website: https://www.solrashidi.com Sol Rashidi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol-rashidi-mba-a672291/ Your AI Survival Guide on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGBY1YY?lv=shuf&channelId=520&plpRedirect=mhFallback 🔔 Like and subscribe to The AI Forecast, sponsored by Cloudera, to stay up to date on the latest episodes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXY5wm6HlBL_Y_8SDxJNR0g?sub_confirmation=1 *Links & Resources* 👉Full Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe-h9HrA9qfAmGHgsmXUZgLL-T4Xjhlq8 👉Learn more: https://www.cloudera.com/resources/podcast/the-ai-forecast.html?utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=youtube&keyplay=cross&utm_campaign=Other---FY27-GLOBAL-Always-On-Cloudera-Podcast&cid=UNGATED&utm_content=youtube-cta *🎧 Listen on your platform of choice:* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7M24fsnMPoKCxTjfKIFcRY Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/running-with-scissors-the-enterprise-ai-reality/id1779293119?i=1000788642068 Chapters: 0:00 Intro: The Perpetual AI Pilot Problem 02:18 The Impact of Accessible Machine Learning 11:41 Writing Your AI Survival Guide 22:00 Re-Engineering Business Processes 24:38 Running With Scissors: Speed vs Governance 27:08 The Hidden Risks of Data Privacy 37:44 Addressing Agentic Breakouts and Risks 41:48 Human-Led AI and Supercharged Workflows *Connect with Cloudera* LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudera Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/cloudera/ X ► https://twitter.com/cloudera Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/show/102S8zoZR6nmZV0HxZlxZu #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #ChiefAIOfficer #AIStrategy #Cloudera #TheAIForecast

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