A Front Row Seat to the Digital Revolution with Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith Part 1
Unless you\u2019ve somehow avoided all technology for the past three decades, you\u2019ve likely used Microsoft products. The company has been a global technology leader since the start of the Digital Revolution and has positioned itself to grow even further as a leader in the future of computing and artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. In this special two-part episode of Redefiners, we\u2019re joined by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, who in his 30 years with the company has had a front row seat to not only how much the tech industry has changed, but also in how much it\u2019s changed business and society in a relatively short timeframe. In fact, The New York Times\u202fhas called this redefining leader \u201ca de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.\u201d We\u2019ll talk with Brad about the big shifts in technology and the tech industry he\u2019s seen over the past three decades, the critical role of government and regulation when it comes to digital technology, how to find common ground in the cybersecurity threat landscape, and how he develops systems thinking with his team to \u201cinspect the trees\u201d while \u201canalyzing the forest\u201d to identify patterns and better navigate complexity. Brad also talks about Microsoft\u2019s commitment to sustainability, which he calls \u201c\u2026the issue of the decade, if not the century.\u201d He likens where we are with sustainability now to where the United States was in 1961 after committing to go to the moon \u2013 we may not fully understand the problems we need to solve and we clearly don\u2019t have all the answers, but it\u2019s critical that we figure it out. We\u2019ll also hear from Maneesh Dube, an Executive Director in our New York office, who explains why finding leaders who are tech-savvy is crucial to the success of your organization. Be sure to check back for part two of our conversation with Brad in two weeks, where we\u2019ll dig into artificial intelligence (AI), productivity, and his thoughts on the need for the tech sector to assume more responsibility and governments to move faster to address the challenges that new technologies are creating. To learn more about Brad\u2019s book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, visit https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/tools-and-weapons/. If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these Redefiners episodes:
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