Katia Walsh & George Brady on Technovation with Peter High

Becoming an AI Company with Levi Strauss' Katia Walsh and loanDepot’s George Brady

Katia Walsh is the Chief Global Strategy and Artificial Intelligence Officer of Levi Strauss & Company, a $4.5 billion revenue clothing manufacturer and retailer of its iconic denim products. In her role, Katia drives the company's digital transformation, combining digital, data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, strategy, and growth initiatives. Prior to her time at Levi Strauss, Katia was the Chief Global Data and AI officer at Vodafone. Katia is also on the board of multiple companies including that of Securian Financial. George Brady is the Chief Information Officer of loanDepot, a $1.8 billion revenue digital holding company which sells mortgage and non-mortgage lending products. In his role, George oversees all of loanDepot's technology capabilities, including its groundbreaking proprietary platform, mello. Prior to loanDepot, he was the EVP, Enterprise Infrastructure at Fidelity investments before becoming the CTO of Capital One. April 13, 2023

758: Our latest episode comes from our February Metis Strategy Digital Symposium on the topic of becoming an AI company with Katia Walsh, Chief Global Strategy and Artificial Intelligence Officer of Levi Strauss & Co., and George Brady, Chief Information Officer of loanDepot. Katia describes the strategies she used to introduce the mindset of artificial intelligence at Levi’s and how she deployed the technology at the company. George similarly describes how he deployed AI at his organization, the use cases he sees for ChatGPT, and how he reskilled talent at Capital One to accommodate AI initiatives.

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