Rodrigo Kede Lima

You and AI: Breaking Boundaries Everywhere | Asia Summit 2025

John B. Quinn, Hans A.T. Dekkers, Rodrigo Kede Lima, Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris, Grace Park, Rodrigo Lima, Pavel

Industry leaders from IBM, Microsoft, Prudential, and Stanford gathered to address the critical gap between AI hype and measurable enterprise value, revealing that 70% of tangible benefits stem from traditional algorithms rather than generative models. The panelists emphasized that successful adoption requires a hybrid strategy combining bottom-up tool empowerment with top-down strategic integration to avoid "death by a thousand pilots," while simultaneously reskilling the workforce for "AI business translator" roles. With Asia emerging as a dominant innovation hub accounting for 70% of global AI patents, the discussion concluded that future growth depends on orchestrating domain-specific models and investing in long-term human-machine collaboration to bridge the lab-to-reality divide.