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Proud to host this month's Creative Leaders Club session on integrating AI in creative processes. How to balance tech innovation with human creativity? On June 24, AI Specialist and Creative Tech Strategist Vince Buyssens and I will kick the session of by sharing our personal experiences. Then, we'll present four challenging questions for our members to discuss 1:1 They'll exchange honest experiences: good, bad, and tricky. After our last session, Jan Dejonghe mentioned he was pleasantly surprised about how openly our members shared their experiences. Let me know if you'd like a recap of key insights from that session, which was about strategies for dealing with pressure. Curious to join the Creative Leaders Club session of June 24 on integrating AI, ask for my discount code! Apply via the link in comment! 👇

I am in!! Join me on November 12th when I'll be hosting DEPT® Trends 2025 on the potential of AI, creativity in the digital age and how we can connect with audiences in an increasingly complicated world.

Last week at the recently held Tech in Ghana, our Operations Lead, Nana Abokoma Sika Antwi, had the privilege of speaking on the "What's Cooking in Ghana" panel moderated by Isaac Newton Acquah. During her session, Sika shared insights on the impact of AI through Intelli's eyes, highlighting how AI tools like Intelli are revolutionizing customer support. Here’s a snippet from her presentation, where she discusses the transformative role of AI in making customer interactions faster, smarter, and more personalized. How do you think AI is revolutionizing your industry? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! 

Last week, we shared a fascinating conversation between Pierre Montersino and Mark Kitchen about how data and AI's impact. Make sure you don't miss the episode, and here's a clip from the conversation.

What’s holding you back from Generative AI? It's not the technology, it’s fear and a lack of trust. Technology has always suffered from the problem that we can’t see it. But just because AI doesn’t follow the patterns of technology that we’re used to, doesn’t mean the enterprise can’t work with it safely. Join our LinkedIn Live event with Nate Berent-Spillson and Kim Curley to learn how the dual levers of trust and fear drive change and what leaders can do right now to take fears seriously without letting them halt progress. https://bit.ly/3NLwgoW NTT DATA InnoLead

Kunal Bhat and the rest of the team responsible for AI at Affinity have done awesome work to start off the year: Notetaker automates your meeting notes giving you a richer understanding of your relationships and deals with far less work; Industry Insights gives you a regular view into the competitive environment of your prospective deals and portfolio companies. Click below to learn more about our approach to AI and a little hint into what we've got coming next later this year.

It’s Our Anniversary Special! This episode is packed with the best AI insights we’ve heard all year, from using AI as your productivity sidekick to boosting sales with data-driven insights. Tune in for top strategies from brilliant minds like James Skinner, Francis Kong, Zach Benson, Mafalda Johannsen, and Kyle Vamvouris. These are game-changing ideas you can start using now! Ready to level up your sales with AI? Tune in now! Link in bio.

We’re regularly asked about Affinity’s AI strategy, so we thought who better to sit down with than Kunal Bhat, the product manager overseeing the team. In this wide-ranging interview he talks about how we decided which products to build, highlights from the features you can use today, and what’s coming next. Click through for a closer look at our next steps in AI! 👀

📸 This picture means a lot! While I've been fortunate to speak globally about the top AI tools these past two years, taking the AFROTECH stage was a special milestone. The challenge? Condensing my signature 60-minute presentation into a 15 minute lightning talk of pure value. The result? A packed session that left the audience amazed at how AI is transforming our future. 🚀 Key lesson: It's not about the time you have – it's about the value you deliver. Excited to return next year to share even more groundbreaking AI tools for founders!

Recently, AlixPartners and WIRED partnered to bring together senior business executives and expert technologists to discuss the advancement of AI.   AlixPartners Head of EMEA, Rob Hornby and Ocado Group’s Chief Data Officer Gabriel Strauss shared valuable insight on how organizations are successfully implementing AI, how AI is benefitting from the rise of GenAI, and why AI needs to remain on the 2025 agenda. The diverse perspectives and rich backgrounds of the attendees generated thought-provoking conversations for all in attendance. Many thanks to WIRED’s senior business editor, Natasha Bernal, for setting the stage for the discussion.   Read more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/eEEAkPNy