Anna Baird

When employees have a seed of an idea, what processes are in place so that budding fruit doesn’t die on the vine? Anna Baird, former chief customer officer for Google Cloud’s Global Generative AI Go-To-Market Team and former executive advisor at LinkedIn is a top expert on building and maintaining an innovative culture that embraces psychological safety and failure in service of improving employee well-being and ensuring their smart ideas are fully developed. In this enlightening talk, Baird lays out the six organizational tenets of transformation that tech industry leaders live and thrive by and reveals how they can be implemented in non-tech companies. Starting with the talent, structure and strategy (so employees know what to do when they have a good idea), and ending with the environment and empowerment (morale-boosting incentives and steps for crowdsourcing ideas from the bottom up), Baird offers leaders a proven path from ideation to innovation that helps leaders make the most of their people and their data, and have deeper conversations about productivity and how to measure it.

True innovation requires more than just talent; more than just tech; it requires a structural ecosystem designed to protect and grow it. Baird breaks down the six organizational tenets of transformation used by tech giants Google and LinkedIn to foster psychological safety and high-level (HiPo) productivity. She offers a proven roadmap for leaders in any industry to transition from simple ideation to impactful innovation.

When artificial intelligence advancements are moving so quickly, does “good data” mean the same thing to everyone in the organization? AI is being deployed across companies, from the C-Suite to the frontlines, but when talking about the tech, is everyone speaking the same language? Giving leaders data vocabulary and an in-depth view of what good data means is Anna Baird, former chief customer officer for Google Cloud’s Global Generative AI Go-To-Market Team. In this engaging talk, Baird illuminates how HR and marketing executives can lead the charge of finding a unified language for the data they already have to identify what an organization’s “North Star” good data looks like for them. Baird shows business leaders how to find their “lovable data opportunity” by unlocking five critical “Data Superpowers.” Audiences leave with tailored steps for building a data literacy program, an understanding of the importance of defining what quality data looks like in their company, and a lens for questioning what that means as AI continues to rapidly evolve — ensuring data remains a lovable, high-powered asset along the way.

Anna Baird offers keynote presentations, interactive virtual experiences, workshops and panel discussions on a number of topics, including but not limited to the following:

- New Ways of Working: Where Tech and People Fuse
- Culture of Engineering
- Responsible AI
- Data-Driven Decisions
- Data Literacy and the Road to AI Adoption