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Written by Liat
Bylined essays on AI, governance, and leadership.
July 28, 2026
The greatest mistake in AI transformation: automating what you should eliminate
Most AI programs speed up work that should have been deleted. You get a faster version of a legacy process, a real efficiency number, and none of the transformation.
“Automation makes the old way slightly better. Reimagination asks the harder question: Why are we doing this at all?”
July 16, 2026
Why OpenAI could become the next Netscape
Every platform shift starts with a miracle and ends with a choke point. The company that defines a category is rarely the company that captures it.
“The lesson was simple: if your rival owns the layer beneath you, your brilliance may become their menu option.”
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June 28, 2026
The AI Developmental Void: mitigating the hollowing out of the international leadership pipeline
Automation is removing the entry-level work that produced senior operators. Boards will feel it in eight years, and by then the cohort will not exist.
“When you automate these entry-level jobs away, you aren’t just cutting out friction. You are cutting out the very training grounds where people learn how to do the work.”
May 18, 2026
Quantum Computing: What Directors Need to Know Now
Quantum is early, but the governance questions — cryptography, long-lived sensitive data, capital allocation — are already on the board agenda.
April 8, 2026
Governing AI Before It Governs You
AI will reshape the business whether the board governs it or not. The only question is which way round.
June 22, 2026
From Information to Insight: the AI-fueled value migration marketers must master
Marketing was built on a pyramid where information was scarce and expensive at the top. That economics has inverted, and the org chart has not caught up.
“AI is turning that pyramid upside down.”
Quoted & profiled
Reported pieces and profiles where Liat is a named source.
The Wall Street Journal · February 21, 2018
How Low-Code Can You Go? IT Tests ‘Disruptive’ App Development
On low-code development reaching customer-facing enterprise software. Reported by Sara Castellanos.
The Economist · September 4, 2014
The language of the internet of things
Technology Quarterly on the interoperability fight, with the AllSeen Alliance — which Liat chaired — at its centre.
MT/Sprout (Netherlands)
Liat Ben-Zur wil van Philips een databedrijf maken — cover story
Cover of the Dutch management monthly, on being recruited out of Silicon Valley to turn Philips into a data company.
Podcasts, panels & keynotes
Fifteen years of recorded appearances, in one place.
Podcasts & interviews
Panels & moderation
Main-stage keynotes
Collaboration Summit 2014 · AllSeen Alliance
It takes a village to raise a smart connected world
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