Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: David Shrier, Innovation Expert

Who: David L. Shrier, is a venture builder, globally recognized expert on artificial intelligence, author, and a Professor of Practice (Artificial Intelligence and Innovation) at Imperial College London where he director the Centre for Digital Transformation and is co-lead on the Trusted AI Alliance. He specializes in helping established organizations build innovative capacity, having developed $10 billion of corporate venturing opportunities and innovative mindset with enterprises including GE, Evercore, Dun & Bradstreet, Thomson Reuters, UBS, Ernst & Young, Wolters Kluwer, The Walt Disney Company, AOL Verizon, Pearson and Starwood.Topic: How to architect exponential growth.

Quote: “If you use AI properly, you can improve productivity by at least 30%, which all drops to the bottom line. And that’s only the beginning. But you need to change mindsets…It is a campaign of sustained change, and it entails a great deal of effort to overcome cognitive biases. If it were easy, everyone would be seeing exponential growth, rather than only some.”

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About the author

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.