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Interview Of The Week: Erich Joachimsthaler, Strategy Expert

Who:  Dr. Erich Joachimsthaler, an advisor to leadership teams , entrepreneur, academic and author, is considered a leading thinker in modern brand strategy, marketing, innovation, technology and value-oriented business growth.

Topic: How AI is changing the architecture of the Internet and why brands must shift with it.

Quote:  “A new architecture of the Internet is taking shape. For twenty years, the currency was attention. We bought impressions, optimized funnels, tuned SEO, and chased reach. That logic is collapsing. AI is replacing attention with intent as the core currency. In this world, a person expresses a goal, or ‘intent.’ This can now be interpreted or inferred by an AI agent which acts on it, and completes the task. No funnel. No click. No visit to your website. And no patience for the old tricks of brand building. Brand strategy needs to be rewritten around this, and brand execution needs to be re-engineered around this too.”

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Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.