Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Tero Ojanperä, Author And Co-Founder of Silo AI

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Article Summary:

Who: Tero Ojanperä, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Silo AI, a private artificial intelligence lab that connects AI talent to organizations around the world, and the co-author of Platform Strategy: Transform Your Business with AI, Platforms and Human Intelligence, which will be published by Kogan Page in October.

Topic:  His new book and the benefits of adopting a platform strategy.

Quote: “There are three things that need to fall into place: creating a network effect, establishing an AI learning loop and developing a new business model.   This is hard if the current business is fighting change. That is why we wrote this book, to spell out the business mechanics of creating a platform, to tell people how to take the first step and get the management team and their stakeholders, board and employees on board.”

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.