A9: Focus on metrics. Any AI tool brought in should have measurable impact and performance at all times. This way you can discern what’s truly important and what isn’t. #eweekchat.

Thanks to @JamesMaguire and the entire #eweekchat team for hosting a fantastic discussion on generative AI! Appreciate the insights from all the panelists and the engaging conversation. Looking forward to the next chat! #AI #GenerativeAI #startree.

A1 The market for cloud computing continues to explode, but breakthroughs are still driven by small startup players. Legacy players have stagnated in product development. #eweekchat.

A4. Infrastructure players. AI is a platform revolution on par with the introduction of computers and smartphones. Those that enable innovation are the silent killers that will grow large in 2024. (NVIDIA being an older, but great example with the AI boom) #eWEEKchat.

A1. AI. As companies continue to produce products in a crowded AI market with incredible models openly available to all, one of the biggest areas for competitive advantage is unique data. The winners will invest heavily in customer data ingestion via API. #eWEEKchat.

Thanks all! This has been another excellent #eWEEKchat. Serious insight today – great to see this monthly gathering. Stay tuned for next month’s chat!.

Q8: Pretty skeptical of edge computing in some kind of cloud variant. Seems to me to be a grasp for relevancy by legacy providers and old school IT groups. Data in all its variants and forms will be huge driver. Plus existing cloud will continue to grow. #eweekchat.

Enough prep! Let's talk to the experts: #eWEEKchat.

A9: While there are great tools out there, none of them obviate the hard internal work of gathering, cleaning data, creating an easily-consumable platform for analysts, etc. Sadly, there is no analytics Ozempic (yet, anyway). #eweekchat.

Q2: There's value for #enterprises who make the investment to build their #AI expertise. Lots of experimentation and failing fast is a good thing. We suggest building out an AI Center of Excellence as the best place to learn #eweekchat.

Q8 2 Guess you've caught me today in reflective mood at end of year. #eweekchat.

Should be a good discussion today. #eweekchat.

A3: I think cloud is continuing to grow at very healthy rates, even without AI. I expect that to continue. People way, way underestimate what the hyperscalers represent. AWS is a $100B (!) business growing at 20% (!). Unprecedented. #eweekchat.

A5: I believe most consequential tech trend will be evaluating if hyperscaler incredible capex buildout is met with end user adoption. They have placed huge bet; 2025 will show early evidence of whether their capacity planning skills are accurate. #eweekchat.

A6 I'm not sure looking for biggest overall winner is correct way to think. Gen AI is a horizontal technology, akin to databases. Every app and business service will be place AI could be applied, so general upswell. #eweekchat.

Q6. What tech sector/trend will be the biggest overall winner in 2025? #eWEEKchat.

Q5 I think we will see interesting and enormous innovation by users as they learn to apply cloud, data, and AI to existing offerings. Health and biotech a field I'm especially watching. #eweekchat.

Q4: Companies should look to how the most successful enterprises in terms of cloud adoption build and operate applications and then apply those practices. Mediocre artiists copy; great artists steal #eweekchat.

A1. We know #GenAi has arrived when we stop talking about it. As an example, early in my career I attended internet conferences, no one does that today because its standard operating procedure. #eweekchat.

Q8: Biggest surprise will be how little people recognize how thoroughly our economy/society has been transformed by tech over past 20 years. #eweekchat.