Key takeaways
Host: Bill Briggs, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenters: Beena Ammanath, Global Deloitte AI Institute leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Sanghamitra Pati, managing director, Deloitte Consulting India Private Limited
Costi Perricos, partner, Deloitte MCS Limited
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology
Since Deloitte published the State of Generative AI in the Enterprise quarterly report series in January 2024, we’ve seen the pace of Generative AI (GenAI) adoption continue to move rapidly. In the final edition of the report, we see business leaders zeroing in on how GenAI can help them achieve their goals and generate the future of their organization. We’ll discuss:
- Barriers hindering deployment of GenAI tools
- GenAI scaling varying across business areas
- The rising interest and development of Agentic AI
Meet the speakers

Bill Briggs
As chief technology officer, Bill Briggs helps clients anticipate the impact that emerging technologies may have on their business in the future and how to get there from the realities of today. He is responsible for research, eminence, and incubation of emerging technologies affecting clients’ businesses and shaping the future of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology-related services and offerings. Briggs also serves as executive sponsor of Deloitte’s CIO Program, offering CIOs and other technology executives insights and experiences to navigate the complex challenges they face in business and technology.

Beena Ammanath
Beena leads the Global Deloitte AI Institute and Trustworthy AI at Deloitte. She is the author of “Trustworthy AI”, "Zero Latency Leadership” and “HBR’s Year in Tech 2023” books. An award-winning senior executive with extensive global experience in AI and digital transformation, spanning across e-commerce, finance, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies such as GE, HPE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, E*Trade and a number of startups. Beena serves on the Nomination Evaluation Committee for NMTI at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She also serves on the Boards of AnitaB.org, WEF Centre for Trustworthy Technology, AACSB and the Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering. She has been a Board Member and Advisor to several technology startups. Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, artificial intelligence, and technology in general, can make our world a better, easier place to live for all humans. Beena has been honored numerous times for her contribution to tech and her philanthropic efforts.

Sanghamitra Pati
Sanghamitra is an offering leader in the AI and Data practice in Strategy and Analytics Consulting at Deloitte US-India offices. She brings more than 20 years of experience in designing solutions, leading, and delivering engagements in AI, Data and Analytics. She leads and builds AI and Data capabilities which deploys AI solutions with human-centred design, advanced AI/ML models and full stack technology development. Currently, she is driving several AI-fueled transformations for clients in Consumer, Retail, and Energy utility industries, across strategy, implementation and managed services. She has built market-relevant and multi-skilled delivery teams, designed innovative solutions partnering with our Deloitte alliances and established winning collaborations with academia in India in the AI and Technology space.

Costi Perricos
Costi is the Global Analytics & Cognitive Leader. Having started his career as an academic in the field of Information Engineering, he has more than 20 years of experience in delivering large and complex technology programs as a Deloitte UK Partner. His expertise includes artificial intelligence information management, software development, and IT transformation. Costi's experience spans both the private and public sectors, but he has focused on the public sector for the last 15 years. Within the public sector he has worked in both central and local government, helping organizations deliver IT enabled transformations, and more recently transform through the effective use of analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.
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