The New Rules for Scaling AI: What Yum Brands Learned

About this episode

Cameron Davies discusses how Yum Brands is approaching AI scaling beyond initial pilot projects.

Picking a use case, proving value, and expanding has been the standard starting point for enterprise AI. For organizations early in their AI journey, that advice still holds. But for large enterprises that are past the pilot stage and trying to scale across business units, geographies, and brands, it isn't enough. At NVIDIA GTC, Cameron Davies, Chief Data Officer of Yum Brands, shared how his team is thinking about AI differently — and why they had to. With 63,000 restaurant locations, 100 m...

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Host: Maribel Lopez

Guest: Cameron Davies

Topics covered

• scaling AI
• enterprise AI
• business strategy
• data management
• AI implementation

Keywords

• AI
• Yum Brands
• Cameron Davies
• enterprise
• scaling
• NVIDIA GTC
• data strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yum Brands, NVIDIA

Places: 63,000 restaurant locations

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