In this episode we discuss the topic of: Generative AI & the Impact on the COO role. Our special guest is Aarti Samani, an experienced executive leader with a fascinating career in AI, spanning investment banking and high growth technology businesses. We discuss the following: 

• How does a smaller, tech-enabled company get started? 
• Who should own the quality of data ingested into a generative AI model? 
• Is it good enough to throw a bit of policy around the use of chatGPT and how SaaS tools with generative-based features should be used? 
• Is it realistic to think more broadly around orchestration of organisational data and insights for the business right now, given where these products are at? 
• Are we talking about a Snowflake - Looker type solution for generative AI? 
• What is a sensible, phased approach? 
• How should you think about internal communications and training
• What would you say to the COO that is heads down on the business and feels guilty about not spending enough time thinking about how to leverage AI? 
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References: 

• Coral, from cohere.com, a knowledge assistant to increase productivity of strategic teams: https://txt.cohere.com/introducing-coral/
• Aarti Samani LI.  Reach out for complementary discovery call to discuss how to accelerate your business growth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aartisamani/
• Fiverr AI Services for cost effective, on-demand experts to help you integrate Generative AI in your products or leverage Generative AI productivity services for business efficiency:  https://www.fiverr.com/cp/ai-services
• Nuclia to help you harness unstructured data from various sources, to create chatbots, knowledge hubs and more:  https://nuclia.com/what-you-can-build/
• Runway Finance to consolidate all inputs for more precise and easier financial modelling and forecasting : https://runway.com/
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Biography: Aarti is an experienced executive leader with a fascinating career in AI, spanning Investment Banking and High growth technology businesses. She has successfully scaled three venture backed organizations, two of which exited to Microsoft and Medtronic. The third is a global category leader in the biometrics and identity verification sector. 

Aarti’s innate ability to connect disparate macro and micro data points, has allowed her to align all business functions to accelerate growth.  Founder of Shreem Growth Partners, Aarti works with visionary founders bringing innovative AI based solutions to market.

Aarti’s acumen and industry success led Cranfield School of Management to name her a Woman to Watch for board positions. A meditator, traveler and cancer survivor, Aarti’s journey continues to inspire.