Founder and CEO of Obsidian Strategies; Former VP of the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Solutions Lab
Michelle K. Lee: Biography at a Glance
- Michelle K. Lee is the CEO and founder of Obsidian Strategies, a firm that advises companies on identifying the highest return on investment for digital transformation opportunities using artificial intelligence, data, and intellectual property.
- A former VP of the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Solutions Lab, Michelle advised Amazon’s biggest clients on how to implement AI into their business strategies.
- Michelle previously served as the presidentially-appointed Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, bringing AI and data analytics to the agency to enhance its operations. She also spent eight years as an executive at Google.
- Michelle draws on her long career to offer concrete, practical examples from the top levels of technology, law, business, and government and explains the seven lessons that can help you implement Artificial Intelligence in your company and execute successful AI strategies.
- Lee is sought-after to show business leaders how AI is being applied to increase productivity, enhance customer experiences, and drive revenue across a wide range of industries.
Biography
“AI is the most transformative technology of our generation. Whether your organization is a Fortune-ranked company, a five-person startup, or a government agency, your company has countless AI opportunities ripe for application today,” says Michelle K. Lee. But where, when, and how do you take advantage of this technology? What are the real-world applications of AI, including generative AI, that you can use in your business today with impact?
As the former VP of the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Solutions Lab, Michelle advised Amazon’s biggest clients on how to implement AI into their business strategies. Now, as founder and CEO of Obsidian Strategies ("Architects for AI-Driven Strategies"), she shows business leaders how AI is being applied to increase productivity, enhance customer experiences, and drive revenue across a wide range of industries. At a time when there is much hype and high-level talk about the “promise of AI,” Michelle cuts through the hype and brings the high-level talk down to reality with concrete examples, recommended actions, and 7 lessons for successful adoption within your company. Audiences walk away from her practical talks both inspired by her stories of AI successes and equipped to implement AI in their own organization.
Michelle K. Lee has spent her career building and advising some of our country’s most innovative, AI/data-driven companies (Amazon and Google), which gives her unique perspectives on the opportunities and applications of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. AI will impact every business in every industry and many aspects of our lives, she says. In Michelle’s engaging talks, you will learn about the art of the possible and practical in AI. She helps business leaders understand how AI can and will impact every business and provides the inspiration and practical steps needed to realize their AI opportunities.
In talks, Michelle draws on her long career to offer concrete, practical examples from the top levels of technology, law, business, government, and more. She explains the seven lessons that can help you implement Artificial Intelligence in your company and execute successful AI strategies. For example, one lesson is the importance of having a data strategy, as well as how to build one. She shows you how to ask the right questions, like: “What data do you have today to provide competitive advantages?” or “What data do you not have today, but you will want several years from now, and what steps can you take now to begin gathering that data for use later?” She explains how you can avoid the pitfalls and reap the benefits. “Successful AI projects begin with successful data strategies,” she says.
Today, she’s the CEO and Founder of Obsidian Strategies, where she helps Fortune companies identify and implement their highest return-on-investment AI opportunities. Previously, she was a senior executive at Amazon and the Vice President of the Machine Learning Solutions Lab at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She led a global team of business consultants and data scientists who worked with clients from a broad range of industries to spot and implement their most fruitful AI/machine learning applications. She also played a key role in addressing policy, regulatory, and ethical risks associated with AI services and applications, and was the founding business executive lead for AWS’s responsible AI efforts. Through both her industry and government experiences, Michelle has a unique understanding and ability to balance the opportunities and risks in AI, an area of active interest to regulatory and legislative bodies as well as society.
Before Amazon, Michelle served as the presidentially-appointed Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world, and brought AI and data analytics to the agency to enhance its operations. As the head of the 200-year-old U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, she led over 10,000 people to implement an agency-wide AI strategy, increasing the quality, speed, and consistency at which patents are issued.
Prior to public service, she spent eight years as an executive at Google. Michelle is an MIT AI Lab-trained computer scientist and has worked at the MIT AI and Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories. She is a frequent speaker on AI, innovation, digital transformation, and board governance, and has spoken at The World Knowledge Forum and South by Southwest, among others. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Bloomberg, NPR, and the MIT Sloan Management Review.
Topics
7 Lessons to Help You Implement Artificial Intelligence in Your Company
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