AI for Good Foundation, Chair, Executive Committee: AI Is Not Just About Technology
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(US and Canada) Mark Minevich, Chair, Executive Committee, AI for Good Foundation, speaks to Michael C. Fillios, Founder and CEO, IT Ally, about the need for inculcating AI as a culture and grooming IT talent to create future leaders.
Minevich emphasizes that individuals who want to join the field of IT first need to learn to listen and learn to understand what’s needed to build and run successful businesses. He mentions that it’s about small incremental steps that are executed well.
He suggests that instead of just comparing the present with the past, it is necessary to look at patterns and correlations. He then says that everybody, at every stage, needs to focus on re-skilling consistently. Organizations and employers need to make sure that their employees are consistently up-skilled based on the labor market’s requirements.
Minevich maintains that education has to be customized to individual students based on AI and data, and AI has to be introduced in classrooms not merely as a theoretical concept but as an opportunity to analyze things. He opines that AI is not just about technology, it is also about such things as culture and ethics.
Next, he discusses the ways to deal with outsourcing and leveraging internal talent. Minevich admits that talent shortages are a big problem and are a driving force behind global outsourcing. But enterprises need to deal with it by beginning to implement plans for creating more key jobs in the United States. Businesses have to invest in talent, AI, and automation,he emphasizes, because offshored talent also brings about the issue of security. Minevich goes on to suggest that organizations in the US need to recruit talent from friendlier countries to be on the safer side. He then urges companies to invest in high-quality leadership and develop centers of excellence.
On the topics of entrepreneurship and venture capital, he says that it is critically important for entrepreneurs, ecosystems, universities, and talent to come out at the top. They’re also the ones who will be driving the creation of leading organizations like WhatsApp, Uber, Slack, Venmo, and Instagram, which will, in turn, lift the economy and realize digital transformation.
In closing, Minevich highlights the need for companies to be adaptable, agile, and resilient to be able to survive the upheavals in the market. They also have to consider aspects like technical capacity building, infrastructure, and cloud capabilities.
[This content was originally published on cdomagazine.tech.]
