Rebuilding Enterprise IT for the AI Epoch with Former Avanade CIO Ronald White

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Ronald White shares insights on leading AI adoption in enterprise IT.

On the 60th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) speak to Ronald White, the former CIO of Avanade. Ronald brings deep experience leading global enterprise IT at Avanade and shares actionable lessons from orchestrating large‑scale AI adoption across business functions. Quick hits from Ronald: On moving beyond surface-level AI: "What are we going to get past these little parlor tricks and actually do somet...

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Hosts: Evan Reiser, Saam Motamedi

Guest: Ronald White

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• enterprise IT
• business functions
• technology leadership
• digital transformation

Keywords

• AI
• enterprise IT
• Ronald White
• Avanade
• business functions
• technology leadership
• digital transformation

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Organizations: Avanade

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