What We Learned This Week | 3-16-25
Happy Holi to those who celebrate! Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention this week. As always welcome your feedback and ideas. We are learning and growing together on AI.
Articles
State of AI / Tech Market | Redpoint Ventures | Redpoint Ventures published a market overview presentation providing insights into the current state of the public and private technology markets.
How AI Will Disrupt Outsourced Work | a16z | The business process outsourcing (BPO) market is forecasted to be over $525 billion by 2030. How AI will productize and unbundle the BPO.
The 11 New Books to Brighten Your Spring | Adam Grant | They span personal growth, parenting, change, memoir, and writing.
What leaders should know about ’bring your own AI | MIT Sloan | Companies need a plan for when employees use unapproved, publicly accessible generative artificial intelligence tools for work-related tasks
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value | McKinsey | Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
Agentic AI - An Exec Playbook | PwC | Agentic AI, differentiated by its advanced human-like reasoning and interaction capabilities, can enhance efficiency, lower costs, improve customer experience, and drive revenue growth.
Podcasts/Videos
AIPCon 2025 | Palantir | Learn about some of latest in AI from the company which has taken the industry by storm
Introducing Big Ideas 2025 | Ark Invest | ARK Invest's “Big Ideas 2025” illuminates the complex convergences between and among the five technologically enabled innovation platforms evolving today: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Energy Storage, Public Blockchains, and Multiomic Sequencing.
How to Design and Build Products in the world of Agents | The Twenty Minute VC | Agent experience (AX), a new way of thinking about how software is built and experienced in the AI era.
Breaking the curse of Random Success | Gartner | How IT leaders can navigate shifting executive expectations and overcome the “curse of random success” in digital initiatives.
Human Advantage in the World of AI | The Knowledge Project | The rapid evolution of AI and potential bottlenecks slowing its growth, The geopolitical battle for technological dominance and rise of sovereign AI models, How advances in automation, robotics, and defence are shifting global power dynamics, and more.
A Book We are Reading in March
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig | The long-anticipated revision of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The 4th Edition brings readers up to date on the latest technologies, presents concepts in a more unified manner, and offers new or expanded coverage of machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, multiagent systems, robotics, natural language processing, causality, probabilistic programming, privacy, fairness, and safe AI.
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
“Consistency isn’t about perfection—it’s about managing your imperfection to achieve the things you want. It’s not glamorous. It’s not easy. But it’s what separates those who talk about their dreams from those who actually go out and live them. So show up. Show up when it’s hard. Show up when it’s messy. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Show up when the rewards are uncertain. Just show up.” - Sahil Bloom
Upcoming Interesting Data & AI Conferences
Nvidia GTC 2025 | 3/17-3/20 | San Jose & Virtual
DistribuTECH 2025 | 3-24 to 3-27 | Dallas
Google Cloud Next 25 | 4-9 to 4-11 | Vegas
IUCX ( Formerly CS Week) 2025 | 5-6 to 5-8 | Phoenix
Snowflake Summit 2025 | 6/2 – 6/5 | San Francisco
Databricks Data & AI Summit 2025 | 6/9 – 6/12 | San Francisco & Virtual
UA Week 2025 | 10/28-10/30 | Austin
AWS re:invent 2025 | 12/1-12/5 | Vegas
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