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Playlist by At the EdgeIn conversation with leaders and experts, McKinsey's At the Edge podcast demystifies cutting-edge technologies and shares strategies on how companies can capture big opportunities.25 clip(s) in playlist
The AI infrastructure of the future
As AI innovation escalates, it’s predicted the demand for an uninterruptible power supply will increase dramatically. Crusoe, a company specializing in AI infrastructure, uses stranded and renewable energy sources to power facilities while cutting the time to market for new sites by more than half …
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Security and AI’s potential to protect
The way AI is trained and used is evolving every day. Unfortunately, cyberattacks are advancing in tandem, raising the bar for AI products that are brought to market today. On this episode of the At the Edge podcast, Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel speaks to McKinsey Senior …
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How to lead through the AI disruption
Prompt engineering as a career path now seems almost quaint. The speed of AI capability is burning a future path for work and leaving recent convictions in the dust. Few executives see the pace of AI innovation as closely as Ruba Borno. As vice president of the Global Specialists and Partners group…
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How a global biopharma is adopting an end-to-end AI transformation
If CEOs want to transform their companies, they must lead with AI and agentic AI—that’s the key to winning a competitive advantage. So says Paul Hudson, CEO of leading pharmaceutical company Sanofi, on this episode of the At the Edge podcast. He speaks with McKinsey Senior Partners Hemant Ahlawat a…
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Why learning to code still matters
Karlie Kloss, founder of Kode With Klossy (KWK), and Osi Imeokparia, KWK’s CEO, say the process of coding builds more career skills than knowing how to write instructions for a computer. On this episode of At the Edge podcast, they speak with McKinsey Senior Partner Lareina Yee about how KWK’s prog…
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Preparing for tomorrow’s agentic workforce
To effectively compete, companies must take a hard look at what they can do to support an AI infrastructure. On this episode of the At the Edge podcast, SambaNova Systems cofounder and CEO Rodrigo Liang joins host and McKinsey Senior Partner Lareina Yee to discuss agentic AI, the S-curve of AI valu…
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Lead or lag: CEOs must embrace AI at full speed
Renowned business leader John Chambers says AI disruption is this generation’s internet revolution. John Chambers, founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and the former CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems for more than 20 years, grew Cisco to nearly $50 billion in annual revenues, helping companies around t…
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When will we see mass adoption of gen AI?
Will generative AI live up to its hype? On this episode of At the Edge, tech visionaries Naveen Chaddha, Managing Partner at Mayfield Fund, Kiran Prasad, CEO and Cofounder of Big Basin Labs, and Naba Banerjee, McKinsey senior advisor and former director of trust and operations at Airbnb join guest …
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Using AI and data to make immersive art
What happens when art meets technology, AI, and data? You get the trailblazing digital artist and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), lecturer Refik Anadol. For this episode of At the Edge, Anadol sat down with McKinsey senior partner Lareina Yee at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) m…
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What McKinsey learned while creating its generative AI platform
Nearly one hundred years of McKinsey’s insights and knowledge serve as the source material for the firm’s AI platform, “Lilli.” In this episode of the At the Edgepodcast, Erik Roth, a McKinsey senior partner and global leader of growth and innovation, joins senior partner Lareina Yee to discuss how…
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