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Deepika Adusumilli

Deepika Adusumilli

Strategic advisor and former Chief Data and AI Officer at BT Group, with 20+ years in product and data leadership.

Sep 18, 2026

6:00
Was this a degree of your remit? And if not, what insight can you give to that process of employee augmentation at BTU?
6:07
We've been in the AI sort of like enterprise savings or the co-pilots or chatbots, all of that for nearly three years now.
6:15
So we have all learned a lot of those lessons, early lessons, doing the experimentation and bringing everything back to the people in the organization and how do we adopt this at scale, right? I think, again, it always comes back to culture for some reason.
6:33
No matter how much technology you put out there, it always and always comes back to the culture of rollout, the culture of using what you're doing.
6:43
The first step for anything was to quick experimentation.
6:46
That's what we did at BT as well.
6:48
We did not let the experiments run for a long time.

12 MINS LATER

19:11
I mean, how do you define yourself in terms of your specialism, the value you're most able to bring in?

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