{"id":120609,"date":"2025-10-14T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:35:13","slug":"ceo-says-shed-welcome-an-ai-bot-board-member-if-you-dont-have-an-ai-agent-in-every-meeting-youre-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120609\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO says she\u2019d welcome an AI-bot board member: \u2018If you don\u2019t have an AI agent in every meeting, you\u2019re missing out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an ever-changing world of U.S. tariffs<\/a>, shifting trade policies, and rising geopolitical tensions, businesses are forced to make decisions at an expedited pace. AI is here to help: streamlining some productivity and allowing businesses and their leaders to gather and summarize information at a faster clip.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Hanneke Faber<\/a>, CEO of global tech manufacturing company Logitech<\/a>, said she\u2019d be open to the idea of having an AI-powered board member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already use [AI agents] in almost every meeting,\u201d Faber said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit<\/a> in Washington, D.C., on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While she said AI agents today (like Microsoft<\/a> Copilot and internal bots) mostly take care of summarization and idea generation, that\u2019s likely to change owing to the pace at which the technology is developing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs they evolve\u2014and some of the best agents or assistants that we\u2019ve built actually do things themselves\u2014that comes with a whole bunch of governance things,\u201d Faber said. \u201cYou have to keep in mind and make sure you really want that bot to take action. But if you don\u2019t have an AI agent in every meeting, you\u2019re missing out on some of the productivity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat bot, in real time, has access to everything,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Reshema Kemps-Polanco, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at global pharmaceutical company Novartis<\/a>, also said she\u2019s been training an AI bot to help run a \u201cvery rigorous commercial launch.\u201d The bot is being trained to assess the team\u2019s launch plan, and is getting \u201csmarter and smarter\u201d about asking strategic questions, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s trained to look for gaps in the plan,\u201d said Kemps-Polanco during a session titled \u201cDissecting the Global Economy,\u201d presented by Novartis<\/a>. \u201cIn a couple of cases \u2026 it actually found two or three things that I may have missed\u2014things that would still add value.\u201d<\/p>\n

The importance of data<\/p>\n

Other panelists pointed out AI is only as good as the data it\u2019s trained on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGarbage in, garbage out,\u201d said Andrea Calise, president of U.S. strategy and communications at global consultancy Teneo<\/a>. \u201cWe basically build synthetic stakeholders to understand stakeholders\u201d by using AI to obtain and understand data.<\/p>\n

Tracey Massey<\/a>, chief operating officer of consumer intelligence company NIQ<\/a>, said obtaining and using the wrong data can be very costly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s most important to have the really good data,\u201d she said. \u201cThen you build the analytics on top.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That can be challenging, though, for smaller companies with fewer resources who still use legacy tech platforms to gather data. But Massey said even these companies have time to \u201ccatch up\u201d considering AI is in its nascent phase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, the \u201cvast majority\u201d of executive teams feel as if they\u2019re behind in AI adoption, Teneo\u2019s Calise said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone feels like they\u2019re one step behind,\u201d she noted. \u201cEveryone feels like they\u2019re chasing their peers, because it is moving so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Calise reminded the audience AI development and adoption is very much still in the first inning, to use a baseball analogy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not just in the first inning,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re in, like, the first at bat, in the first inning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an ever-changing world of U.S. tariffs, shifting trade policies, and rising geopolitical tensions, businesses are forced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,43300,5059,9190,18,19,17,66604,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-120609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-big-data","12":"tag-chatbots","13":"tag-data-analytics","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-most-powerful-women","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}