Another great episode this time featuring the CEO of Think Big Leaders and innovation enthusiast, Amir Elion. Amir has worked with clients of all sizes, from all industries, on many different sides of business. His bread and butter is helping teams hone strategy, transform processes, and expand perspectives to find success in the ever-changing technological landscape.

Now, at Think Big Leaders, Amir is using his expertise to help companies successfully adopt and innovate with #GeneratvieAI. He works with clients on how to leverage #AI for their specific user base and product portfolios. As a part of Think Big Leaders, he has also developed more general workshops and courses that can be applied to a wide range of different business types and situations.

Amir's perspective on #GenAI is exciting, and his breadth of experience provides valuable insight. What are you doing to leverage AI in your processes today?

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About Amir:

Amir Elion has a passion for innovation, and he implements and shares it with others whenever he can. He also helps leaders and organizations understand, think about, and enforce Generative AI solutions, tools, and strategies. Amir has led dozens of business, management, innovation, and transformation processes. He has a proven track record of leading successful project, product, and solution teams, change management, and business processes.

Amir's specialties include Generative AI strategy, applications, and skills (ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI on Azure, Midjourney, AWS Bedrock, and more), Digital Innovation, Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) and Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Virtual and Augmented Reality, Product Management and Development, Learning Strategy and Technologies, Workshop facilitation, and more.

• Amir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirelion/
• Think Big Leaders: https://www.thinkbigleaders.com/
• Generative AI. Done Right: @ThinkBigLeaders

Debbie Reynolds joins Zach on the podcast today. Debbie has been involved in #DigitalTransformation for decades across a variety of industries. She found her niche in #DataPrivacy, working on the bleeding edge with corporations as large as McDonald's, helping them prepare for the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Eventually, she started her own consulting firm, focused on counseling companies around data privacy compliance and strategy.

Debbie's views on #GenerativeAI are, of course, filtered through the lens of privacy. She cautions her clients, big and small alike, to be wary of the confidentiality of the information they input into LLMs. After the info is given to the AI, it can be extracted - even if code is written to suppress it. On the flip side, an absence of information can also be dangerous. Even though AI is a machine, it still holds biases, and these biases can encroach on liberty, run afoul of the laws, and even harm people.

Debbie encourages users to remember: it's the AI platform's profit and the user's risk, so be diligent about the way you use it. Especially with the impending AI Act (which promises some of the stiffest legislative penalties), she prescribes leveraging AI and LLMs for low-risk use cases like summarizing content or drafting emails. In Debbie's words, #AI "is a source of information not a source of truth; you as the human have to bring the truth."

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About Debbie:

Debbie Reynolds, known as "The Data Diva," has solidified her reputation as a leading authority in the fields of Data Privacy and Emerging Technology. With a focus on industries including AdTech, FinTech, EdTech, Biometrics, IoT, AI, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Privacy Tech, Smartphones, and Mobile App Development, Debbie has over 20 years of experience navigating the complex landscape of Data Privacy and Data Protection.

Debbie's contributions to the field have earned her numerous accolades, including being named one of the Global Top Eight Privacy Experts by Identity Review and one of the Global Top 30 CyberRisk Communicators by The European Risk Policy Institute in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce appointed her to the Internet of Things (IoT) Advisory Board, and she served as the IEEE Committee Chair for Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems.

Debbie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbieareynolds/

Debbie Reynolds Consulting: https://www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/

Zach hosts tech leader, CTO, MIT professor, and author - Mark Herschberg. Mark's resume is impressive and storied; highlights include helping HBS develop market theory training software and parachuting into Fortune 500 companies to foster start-up-like innovation. He has also worked extensively with #BigData and #MachineLearning AI since the 90s, developing a number of data-driven projects, some of which use AI.

Currently, Mark is doing a lot of work with #GenerativeAI; he holds patents that use #GenAI and is currently working with a handful of companies whose products are based on AI. Zach and Mark talk about his current projects as well as a number of issues GenAI poses to tech and society at large.

They hit on hallucinations and the need for Generative AI that cites its sources. They talk about AI's impact on the signal-to-noise ratio (misinformation) and how both machines and humans need to be better trained to fact-check information. They also discuss future engineers and the continued need to understand what's going on under the hood of the software, even if GenAI makes troubleshooting easier.

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About Mark:

Mark Herschberg is a seasoned executive and cybersecurity expert who bridges the divide between business and technology. He has started, grown, and fixed startup companies spanning over a dozen different verticals as well as helped two Fortune 500 companies with their internal startup initiatives. Mark has also been involved in creating educational programs for MIT and Havard Business School. Of late, he's helped companies think through their artificial intelligence strategy in general and particularly AI cybersecurity issues.

Find Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hershey/

Mark's Book, The Career Toolkit: https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/

Brain Bump: https://brainbumpapp.com/