Navigating an AI-Enabled Future with Eric Schmidt (Former Google CEO)

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# TransformX 2022

# Expert Panel

speakers

Eric Schmidt

Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Former CEO & Chairman, Google @ Schmidt Futures

Eric Schmidt is an accomplished technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He joined Google in 2001 and helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from 2001-2011, as well as Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. In 2017, he co-founded Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative that bets early on exceptional people making the world better. Most recently, he founded the Special Competitive Studies Project, a non-profit initiative focused on strengthening America’s long-term AI and technological competitiveness in national security, the economy, and society.

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Alexandr Wang

CEO & Founder @ Scale AI

Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at MIT at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Under Alex's leadership, Scale has grown to a $7bn valuation serving hundreds of customers across industries from finance to e-commerce to U.S. government agencies.

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SUMMARY

Thanks to Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and plenty of others, AI technologies are now more visible to the public than ever. But even though there have been numerous AI advancements and AI-infused products over the past decade, many organizations are still looking to understand how AI fits into their path to innovation. Eric Schmidt is an accomplished technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist and is well known for leading Google in its early days, from 2001 to 2011, and helping it to scale its infrastructure, diversify its product offerings, and maintain a strong culture of innovation. Today, he runs Schmidt Futures—a philanthropic venture—and advises governments and societies around the world on how to build a brighter future through technology.

Gerrit De Vynck, AI and algorithms reporter for The Washington Post, will moderate a fireside chat between Schmidt and Scale Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang, where they will talk about today’s advances in AI compared to 10 years ago. Schmidt and Wang will share their thoughts on what the next generation of AI companies will look like, what the proliferation of AI technology will mean for big tech, startups, and government, and how to push AI forward responsibly.

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