#146 Monica Livingston, AI Leadership With A Human Core

About this episode

Monica Livingston discusses the importance of open source in AI deployment and the realities of enterprise AI.

AI only works at scale when the shiny demo meets the gritty realities of deployment, security, and change management. In episode #146 of the 2B Bolder Podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Monica Livingston, AI Platform Lead for the Americas at Red Hat and a former Intel leader, to unpack how open source accelerates real outcomes, and why the “plumbing” behind enterprise AI matters more than most roadmaps admit. Monica shares a clear view of what platforms must do in production: ve...

People in this episode

Host: Mary Killelea

Guest: Monica Livingston

Topics covered

• AI leadership
• open source
• enterprise AI
• deployment
• change management

Keywords

• AI
• leadership
• open source
• enterprise
• deployment
• security
• change management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Hat, Intel

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