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Hal Howard on AI and Tech Evolution
Microsoft legend Hal Howard explains how AI builds on strong tech foundations for business innovation.
In brief
Microsoft legend Hal Howard explains how AI builds on strong tech foundations for business innovation. Hal Howard says AI success depends on strong tech foundations and solving real business problems. Originally reported by Cloud Wars.
Event Overview
RSM and Community Summit hosted business leaders for Microsoft technology and AI discussions.
Hal Howard's Background
Hal Howard led microsoft's dynamics products that helped lay foundations for dynamics 365.
Technology Evolution
Howard said technology builds on strong foundations with ai as the next layer of innovation.
“when i started in the 1980s and 1990s everything was being built from scratch”
Business Process Shift
Businesses now use end-to-end processes across departments instead of separate departmental boundaries.
AI Predictions
Howard developed software to predict deal outcomes before llms became mainstream.
“we wanted to predict outcomes so we created technology that could do exactly that”
Timing Matters
Howard said ai success depends on computing power availability and timing.
“looking back at ai-based programming languages i thought many would become useful much sooner”
The short version
Hal Howard says AI success depends on strong tech foundations and solving real business problems.
