32 min
#203 How a Chief AI Officer Works with Philipp Herzig, Chief AI Officer at SAP DataFramed
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With seemingly every organization wanting to enhance their AI capabilities, questions arise about who should be in charge of these initiatives. At the moment, it’s likely a CTO, CIO, or CDO, or a mixture of the three. The gold standard is to have someone in the C-suite whose sole focus is their AI projects: the Chief AI Officer. This role is so new that it's not yet widely understood. In this episode, we explore what the CAIO job entails.
Philipp Herzig is the Chief AI Officer at SAP. He’s held a variety of roles within SAP, most recently SVP Head of Cross Product Engineering & Experience, however his experience covers intelligent enterprise & cross-architecture, head of engineering for cloud-native apps, a software development manager, and product owner.
In the full episode, Richie and Philipp explore what his day-to-day responsibilities are as a CAIO, the holistic approach to cross-team collaboration, non-technical interdepartmental work, AI strategy and implementation, challenges and success metrics, how to approach high-value AI use cases, insights into current AI developments and the importance of continuous learning, the exciting future of AI and much more.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
SAP’s AI CoPilot JouleSAP[Course] Implementing AI Solutions in BusinessRelated Episode: How Walmart Leverages Data & AI with Swati Kirti, Sr Director of Data Science at WalmartRewatch sessions from RADAR: The Analytics Edition
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With seemingly every organization wanting to enhance their AI capabilities, questions arise about who should be in charge of these initiatives. At the moment, it’s likely a CTO, CIO, or CDO, or a mixture of the three. The gold standard is to have someone in the C-suite whose sole focus is their AI projects: the Chief AI Officer. This role is so new that it's not yet widely understood. In this episode, we explore what the CAIO job entails.
Philipp Herzig is the Chief AI Officer at SAP. He’s held a variety of roles within SAP, most recently SVP Head of Cross Product Engineering & Experience, however his experience covers intelligent enterprise & cross-architecture, head of engineering for cloud-native apps, a software development manager, and product owner.
In the full episode, Richie and Philipp explore what his day-to-day responsibilities are as a CAIO, the holistic approach to cross-team collaboration, non-technical interdepartmental work, AI strategy and implementation, challenges and success metrics, how to approach high-value AI use cases, insights into current AI developments and the importance of continuous learning, the exciting future of AI and much more.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
SAP’s AI CoPilot JouleSAP[Course] Implementing AI Solutions in BusinessRelated Episode: How Walmart Leverages Data & AI with Swati Kirti, Sr Director of Data Science at WalmartRewatch sessions from RADAR: The Analytics Edition
New to DataCamp?
Learn on the go using the DataCamp mobile appEmpower your business with world-class data and AI skills with DataCamp for business
32 min