Leveraging AI for Business: Jeff Wong, EY Global Chief Innovation Officer
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. Specifically, generative AI is becoming a ubiquitous tool for users across sectors to experiment and apply to their work and life. As with most technologies, businesses seek ways to leverage AI to gain an edge in their respective industry, or at the minimum keep up with the competition.
But how much hype around AI reflects the reality of what is possible now and in the near future? How are businesses leveraging AI and what are the best practices in its application? Who is ahead and behind in getting the most out of AI? What are some of the hurdles to unleashing a full potential of AI? What are the policy and ethical implications of AI in business? Join us to hear from one of the leading global innovation thinkers and practitioners -- Jeff Wong, EY’s Global Chief Innovation Officer, as he shares his perspectives on AI in business and other emerging tech trends on the horizon. He will be joined by Barron's Editor at Large, Andy Serwer.
Speakers
Jeff Wong is the EY Global Chief Innovation Officer. He also spearheads EY Global Innovation team’s remit to research and explore new technologies -- including establishing EY’s advanced and emerging tech labs on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Quantum, and Web3. He brings deep experience across strategy, investing, and building new ventures globally. Throughout his career, he has built new businesses across various concepts, including local commerce, B2B exchanges, services, mobile and big data at Boston Consulting Group, JAFCO America Ventures, J.P. Morgan Partners, and eBay. He sits on the Advisory Board for AI4All, a non-profit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council and a member on the Business Council of the Asia Society and the founding Chair of Asia Society’s Technology and Innovation Council, helping drive the innovation and transformation agenda. In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems. He has previously served on the Oxford Foundry Board at Oxford University. He has an AB in Economics, master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and an MBA from Stanford University.
Andy Serwer is Editor at Large at Barron’s. In his four-decade career as a business journalist, he has worked as a reporter, writer, editor, TV broadcaster, radio and podcast host and film producer. At Barron’s, he writes stories and columns as well as hosts a video interview series, ‘At Barron’s with Andy Serwer.’ Prior to leading the Yahoo Finance editorial as Editor in Chief, he was Managing Editor of Fortune Magazine for eight years. Previously he was a writer and reporter at the magazine for 20 years starting from a fact checker in 1985 and later writing features and columns. He founded one of the first digital business news blogs, "Streetlife" in 1997, about which the New Yorker wrote: “Achaea had Homer, the Spanish Civil War had Hemingway, California had the Beach Boys and now our hyperactive stock market has its own poet-singer — Andy Serwer.” From 2000 to 2006, he was the business news anchor of CNN’s American Morning. He has won numerous awards including the 2020 Elliott V. Bell Award, which honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism. He won a 2023 Excellence in Journalism Award in the opinion category sponsored by the New York State Society of CPAs. He was named by peers as a Business News Visionary 2020 and was TJFR Business Journalist of the Year 2000 and one of the top 100 of the century.
This program is part of the new Asia Executive Briefing, a series of public programs and private briefings with economists, policymakers, and business leaders, taking the pulse of Asia’s dynamic economies.
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