Marketing Insights

There is growing social and political push back on the AI data center build out and significant concerns about AI safety, recently echoed by the leaders of many leading AI companies.. A lot of the uncertainty surrounding AI’s future stems from a lack of clarity on whether it will be a net positive for us — individually and collectively.

The general framework in which CSCOs operate may feel familiar, but leaders must adapt to fast-moving, erratic shifts. They must continually assess their capabilities, discard what is no longer needed, upgrade others, and add new ones.

The theme of this year’s event was Sentient Operations, reflecting a dramatic leap forward for operations where leaders no longer view technology as a tool for static automation, but are designing supply chains to act as dynamic, sensing, self-healing systems.

The harsh truth is that extreme heat events are becoming more disruptive and frequent, while much of our infrastructure was designed for very different operating conditions. Global supply chains are simply not adapting fast enough to the shift.