eWEEK TweetChat, September 12: AI in the Enterprise

On Tuesday, September 12 at 11 AM PT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be AI in the Enterprise, and it will be moderated by James Maguire, eWEEK’s Editor-in-Chief.

We’ll discuss – using Twitter, now called X – the evolving trends and strategies for deploying AI for enterprise companies. Our ultimate goal: to offer guidance to companies about how to get the most from enterprise-level AI – now and going forward.

See below for:

• Participant list for this month’s eWeek Tweetchat on data analytics
• Questions we’ll discuss in this month’s eWeek Tweetchat
• How to Participate in the Tweetchat
• Tentative Schedule: Upcoming eWeek Tweetchats

Participants List: AI in the Enterprise

The list of experts for this month’s Tweetchat currently includes the following – please check back for additional expert guests:

• Shardul Vikram, SVP and Head of Intelligence and Incubation, SAP CX
• Tony Paikeday, Senior Director of DGX Platform, NVIDIA
• Tarun Chopra, Vice President, Product Management, Data and AI, IBM
  
• Trent Fierro, Cloud and AIOps Solutions Marketing, Aruba 
• Kathleen Walker, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Elastic
• Andi Mann, Global CTO and Founder, Sageable
• Sean Knapp, founder and CEO, Ascend.io
• Brian Sathianathan, CTO, Iterate.ai
• Anthony Frum, Principal Engineer at Skyhigh Security (formerly McAfee Enterprise).
• Aaron Skonnard,  Co-Founder and CEO, Pluralsight
• Miroslav Klivansky, Global Practice Leader, Analytics & AI, Pure Storage
• Plamen Minev, Technical Director for AI and Cloud, Quantum
• Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research
• James Maguire, Editor-in-Chief, eWeek [moderator]

Tweetchat Questions: AI in the Enterprise

The questions we’ll tweet about will include the following – check back for more/revised questions:

1. I’m sure you’ve noticed: we’re seeing a tsunami of interest in AI and generative AI. Is the hype justified?
2. What’s your sense of the comfort/effectiveness of enterprise adoption of AI? Expensive science experiment? A great but nascent competitive tool?
3. Less publicized fact: companies need a robust cloud and data strategy to support effective AI. Does this suggest that AI is still…in the future?
4. Do executives fully understand AI technology? As a cohort, where are they in the learning curve?
5. What recommendations do you offer to companies to build out a competitive AI strategy?
6. The biggest challenge for enterprise AI? Is it compliance, skill staff, a comprehensive plan….?
7. How do you recommend addressing this most difficult AI challenge?
8. Your sense of the future of enterprise AI? It appears more unpredictable than earlier emerging technologies. Your forecast 1-3 years out?
9. A last Big Thought about enterprise AI – what else should managers/buyers/providers know about deploying AI in the enterprise?

How to Participate in the Tweetchat

The chat begins promptly at 11 AM PT on September 12. To participate:

1. Open Twitter in your browser. You’ll use this browser to Tweet your replies to the moderator’s questions.

2. Open Twitter in a second browser. On the menu to the left, click on Explore. In the search box at the top, type in #eweekchat. This will open a column that displays all the questions and all the panelists’ replies.

Remember: you must manually include the hashtag #eweekchat for your replies to be seen by that day’s tweetchat panel of experts.

That’s it — you’re ready to go. Be ready at 11 AM PT on September 12 to participate in the tweetchat.

NOTE: There is sometimes a few seconds of delay between when you tweet and when your tweet shows up in the #eWeekchat column.

#eWEEKchat Tentative Schedule for 2023*

July 25: Optimizing Generative AI: Guide for Companies
August 15: Next Generation Data Analytics
September 12: AI in the Enterprise
October 17: Future of Cloud Computing
November 14: Edge Computing Trends
December 12: Tech in 2024: Predictions and Wild Guesses

*all topics subjects to change