AI Heroes Live From Cannes: Dawn Cummins - Episode 11

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Dawn Cummins discusses the impact of AI on organisational clarity and productivity during a live episode from Cannes.

AI Heroes: Dawn Cummins on Organisational Clarity, AI-Driven Productivity & the Power of Transparent Insights 🎙️ Live from Cannes – AI Heroes Live In this episode of AI Heroes Live , recorded at Insights Lighthouse during the Cannes Lions Festival, we sit down with Dawn Cummins , former Unilever and Mars Wrigley insights leader and now a strategic consultant, to unpack how AI is reshaping organisational design, media analytics, and stakeholder alignment. Dawn shares how she’s embraced AI both in client-side leadership roles and as a consultant—harnessing tools like intelligent scheduling, image recognition, and NLP to boost productivity, clarify stakeholder needs, and drive high-impact insight strategies across global teams. We also dive into: How AI-powered productivity tools like Motion are reshaping the way consultants and teams operate The challenge of algorithmic competition within organisations—and why transparency is key A real-world case study of implementing "addressable audiences" at Mars Wrigley Why empathy and cross-functional collaboration are non-negotiable for landing complex analytics projects How to humanise the "black box" of AI and build trust in…

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Guest: Dawn Cummins

Topics covered

• AI-driven productivity
• Organisational design
• Media analytics
• Stakeholder alignment
• Transparency in AI
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Addressable audiences

Keywords

• AI
• productivity tools
• organisational design
• stakeholder needs
• media analytics
• cross-functional collaboration
• algorithmic competition
• transparency
• addressable audiences

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Unilever, Mars Wrigley

Products: Motion

Places: Cannes

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