UNLEASH America 2024: Are businesses embracing enterprise grade AI?
AI was one of the central themes of UNLEASH America 2024, with a host of expert HR speakers and delegates alike excited to discuss how the technology can enhance the world of work. The UNLEASH Editorial team endeavored to find out from various HR leader speakers if 2024 could be considered the year that enterprise grade AI emerges.
As we approach the end of 2024, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on the forces that have reshaped the HR and HR tech landscape this year.
One of the standout themes? The transformative power of AI and its growing importance to businesses worldwide.
At UNLEASH, we’re privileged to sit at the crossroads of these pivotal conversations, driving innovation, inspiration, and meaningful change.
This video trend roundup highlights how AI and other groundbreaking advancements have sparked new opportunities and challenges in our industry.
But as much as we honor the past year, our focus is firmly on the future.
We can’t wait to bring together HR leaders and tech innovators at UNLEASH America 2025, May 6-8, where we’ll continue to champion our vision of being the most loved HR and HR tech marketplace in the world 🌎.
Artificial intelligence is now every leaders’ business
If 2023 was the year that generative AI, and ChatGPT in particular, roared into the public consciousness, then 2024 was surely the year that HR truly began to get to grips with the potential the technology has to offer.
So, the UNLEASH Editorial team set about asking numerous HR leader speakers from the International Festival of HR: Is 2024 the year of enterprise grade AI?
While Mollick tells UNLEASH that he’s “already seeing this happen, people just aren’t talking about it as much” and HR industry heavyweight Josh Bersin expressed enthusiasm at the “beginning” of enterprise grade AI that is “practical, pragmatic, very useful technology”, HR leaders expressed more cautious views.
Tina Gupta of New York Life said she believes in the potential AI has to offer HR, but expressed concerns about the “implications for our people, our talent”, while Coca-Cola’s Smita Srivastava said the beverage giant is approaching AI more as “training for the marathon, not necessarily a sprint.”
Principal Financial Group’s Jon Couture (now at Vanguard) didn’t beat about the bush with his opinion: “The short answer, I’m sad to say, is no.”
I don’t think enterprise wide adoption is going be a reality for a few years. But every single year it’s going to feel significantly more prominent,” Couture tells UNLEASH.
What are your thoughts on the development of enterprise grade AI this year? Do you agree with any of our speakers?