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Fast Company
TechRadar Pro
Directors & Boards
The European Business Review
The Agile Brand Guide
Inkl
Articles

Written by Liat

Bylined essays on AI, governance, and leadership.

Fast Company

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?”

TechRadar Pro

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.”

Also syndicated on Inkl · view

The European Business Review

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.”

Directors & Boards

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.

Directors & Boards

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.

The Agile Brand Guide

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.”

In the news

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.

Appearances

Podcasts, panels & keynotes

Fifteen years of recorded appearances, in one place.

Podcasts & interviews

Right About Now with Ryan Alford · July 28, 2026

How to Turn AI Into Real Business Value

Directors & Boards · Executive Session

Blind spots, experience, and better board decisions

The Space In Between

A unique take on who should run AI

Be Formidable

AI, hippos, and leaders in the margins

The Data-Driven Podcast

Data as a product, and product-led growth

Microsoft

A day in the life of a Microsoft CVP

Panels & moderation

Expert panel · moderator

AI within the Enterprise

GeekWire · panel

Agents of Transformation

Main-stage keynotes

IFA 2017 · Philips

From products to platforms

SXSW · Philips

Breaking the data silos in health

SXSW · Philips

Connecting continuous care

IoT World Europe 2016 · Philips

A new healthcare ecosystem via IoT

Collaboration Summit 2014 · AllSeen Alliance

It takes a village to raise a smart connected world

CES 2014 · Qualcomm

Connected home and AllJoyn

Microsoft

Microsoft's vision for transforming the web for business

Digital Health Summit, CES 2016 · Philips

Predictive care and connected health

Digital Health & Fitness LIVE 2018

Digital health, fitness and connected ecosystems

Media inquiries

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