AI @ Work: Open Garage Sessions
AI @ Work: Open Garage Sessions
Podcast Description
Fortune 5000 companies employ over 150 million people globally—controlling more than 40% of the world’s GDP.
This 15-minute podcast shows you what’s actually happening when companies use AI in the workplace. No jargon, no hype—just the reality of what works and what doesn’t.
Lexi Reese—CEO of Lanai—brings together the people who know: executives implementing AI in large companies, government officials writing the rules, and researchers studying the results.
They discuss which jobs are changing, which are disappearing, why some teams see huge productivity gains while others fail, and what skills will matter most as work changes.
AI @ Work: Open Garage Sessions. The human intelligence behind how AI is actually changing work.
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The podcast centers on the practical implementation of AI in workplaces, discussing themes such as job transformations, productivity variations across teams, and essential future skills. Episodes like 'Quote-to-Cash and Beyond' feature deep dives into AI transformation processes and the roles of CIOs.
Fortune 5000 companies employ over 150 million people globally—controlling more than 40% of the world’s GDP.
This 15-minute podcast shows you what’s actually happening when companies use AI in the workplace. No jargon, no hype—just the reality of what works and what doesn’t.
Lexi Reese—CEO of Lanai—brings together the people who know: executives implementing AI in large companies, government officials writing the rules, and researchers studying the results.
They discuss which jobs are changing, which are disappearing, why some teams see huge productivity gains while others fail, and what skills will matter most as work changes.
AI @ Work: Open Garage Sessions. The human intelligence behind how AI is actually changing work.
“We’re taking entry-level programmers and laying them off. Ten years from now, where do you get the next layer of experienced programmers to manage the AI agents? You don’t.”
Ralph Loura has been a CIO since before most people understood what that meant. Bell Labs. Cisco. HP. Clorox. He’s navigated every major technology wave of the last four decades, and he has a specific, experience-backed warning about this one.
In this Open Garage session with Lanai CEO Lexi Reese, Ralph gets direct about the AI problems CIOs are actually sitting with — and the one most aren’t planning for at all.
What they cover:
· Why eliminating junior engineering roles today creates a leadership vacuum you won’t feel for a decade
· Why AI workload visibility is the most important unsexy problem in enterprise right now
· The word Ralph banned from every organization he’s ever run — and what he uses instead
· What data sovereignty means when a handful of platform players control your AI stack
· Why resilience, not efficiency, is the right thing to optimize for right now
· How to use procurement as a governance tool without becoming the department of no
An unusually candid conversation from someone who’s been in the room for every technology transition of the last 40 years.
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