Cloud Realities

Conversations around the short and long term risks and potentially significant unintended consequences of AI are increasing in volume. This has culminated recently in a controversial open letter, coordinated by Future of Life institute, from hundreds of leading figures in this space, including Elon Musk, asking for development and AI learning to be paused, until it is better understood. “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources,” the letter says. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.”

Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Futurist Theo Preistley about the risks of AI already manifesting in society, what additional features and automations are coming, which potentially add more risk, and what can could and should be done at this point to ensure we bring AI into our lives responsibly.

Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about what organisations should do to prep for AI, and that fact that they still have time to act now to get the right arrangements in place.

TLDR:
01:15 Intros
02:08 Cloud conversation with Theo Preistley
38:25 What should organisations do to prep for AI?
45:27 The Evil Dead Rise and rewatch Picard!

Further Reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/31/ai-research-pause-elon-musk-chatgpt

Digital organisations work in new ways that require us all to adapt and develop new skills and framing and making sense of the world. How to tackle this is one of the more difficult challenges requiring addressing in a digital transformation.

Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Micheal Hamman, Teacher and Coach, about different styles of organisation and about how our beliefs can impact how we act. He also talks about the over emphasis on the engineering mindset, how we need to consider the human technologies and how all of our "human operating systems" may require some new apps.

Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about skills that modern leaders need to adopt and what can we learn from each other.

TLDR:
01:14 Intros
02:02 Cloud conversation with Micheal Hamman
24:05 Three skills every modern leader needs
33:19 Vertical Facilitation!

Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year to come, along with useful principles that guided both its prediction and use. It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today. In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido and get a special insight into the creation of the work.

In this special second episode, the team explore the mindset at the heart of Technovision 2023, helpful to understand the implications of the trends from pt.1, but critical in how you put them to practical use! They walk through the design principles (Every Business is a Tech Business, Do good, do less, do well, With Open Arms, IQ/EQ/CQ, Trust Thrust and No Hands on Deck) and discuss how they come together to paint a picture of a modern digital business.

Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how code itself can be written to ensure the best and most green performance of your products and platforms.

TLDR:
01:23 Intros
01:51 Cloud conversation with Ron Tolido
30:31 The rise of green application development & modernisation
37:48 Re-writing my emails in the style of Earnest Hemmingway!

Further Reading:
https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/technovision-2023

The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows!

Hemant Sharma, Partner Solutions, AWS joins us to look back over the show, recap the big trends and look at their real world application.

In our three launch episodes, Dave and Sjoukje look at the cloud market from three different angles: the market itself, how CxO’s are viewing that market and from a personal leadership experience perspective.

In this second episode, they talk to CxO Advisor, Daniel Hartert to get insights into the conversations he is currently having with CxOs on driving value from of the cloud in their organisations and the challenges they face. He also shares his personal journey with the cloud. Finally, they talk about how current economic environment will influence decision making on cloud over the coming years.

TLDR:

• 00:43 Intros
• 03:00 Cloud conversation with Daniel Hartert
• 26:59 Cloud cost
• 32:09 A nice weekend!