Google Cloud Summit Special: John Abel, MD, Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, and Alex Rutter, EMEA MD for AI at Google Cloud

Join us this week for a Tech Leaders Podcast Special, where Gareth sits down with John Abel, MD, Office of the CTO, and Alex Rutter, EMEA MD for AI, fresh from the Google Cloud Summit in London.

On this episode Gareth, John and Alex discuss how organisations can effectively deploy Agents, future skills the workforce will need to use Agentic AI, and how to simulate a virtual board meeting.

Timestamps:

• John Abel Introduction (1:25)
• Agentic AI Adoption and Data Readiness (3:39)
• Future Skills – John’s take (12:09)
• How to move beyond “Pilot Mode” (15:50)
• Alex Rutter Introduction (19:16)
• The Integrated Google Tech Stack (22:50)
• AI Automation vs Human Oversight (27:55)
• Is Agentic AI Adoption Maturing? (30:48)
• Future Skills – Alex’s take (35:48)
• Data Quality (38:35)
• The UK’s AI Position (41:01)

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