In recent AI Hardware and Edge Artificial Intelligence Summit 2024 in San Jose, California, I met with Arun Nandi, director of data and analytics, Unilevera huge Fortune 500 consumer goods company with a presence in 190 countries.
The discussion takes us on a journey through the company’s mission and go-to-market strategy along with a brief history of the company, including its weighty reliance on ML, AI and GenAI (even before the current craze). We then move on to a discussion of AI adoption in the enterprise, including the growing importance of ROI for AI initiatives. Nandi talks about an “inverted pyramid of AI investment.” This will be followed by a discussion on why enterprises are using machine learning and artificial intelligence today. And finally, we pull out the crystal ball, looking 12 to 18 months into the future to see what’s next for the company in the AI space.