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Saugata Saha

Saugata Saha

President of S&P Capital IQ

Jul 16, 2026

20:01
Talk to me about your priorities and your objectives with that hat on.
20:05
Sure.
20:06
And maybe some context would be helpful.
20:08
So at S&P Global, we've always been managed.
20:11
We're a large company, and this is not rocket science.
20:14
We're large companies.
20:14
We manage as multiple business units or divisions.
24:54
Your views on how the desktop product may evolve in the coming years, particularly in the context of AI?
5:36
Now, if I think of the data and AI leaders out there listening, some of them get a little bit beat up in the role and yet you have elevated it to you actually own the business outcomes How do the synergies between having a data and AI strategy and owning the outcomes work together?
6:01
So I'd like to start by reminding your listeners that for us at SMD Global, data is not an afterthought.
6:08
It is our stock in trade.
6:10
That's what we do.
6:11
We sell several tens of billion dollars worth of data every year.
6:15
So it's imperative that we get it right.
6:17
And for us, Capturing business value from the data is not option.

23 MINS LATER

29:25
What should leaders be paying attention to here?
18:25
But that's where I think the potential
18:27
is.
18:27
I think Venkat nailed it on the head with the last part, which is, as you said...
18:34
The barrier to adoption, the adoption curve will be defined not by technology or the technologists or the people who deploy the technology.
18:42
It will really be defined by the societal willingness to accept change and our ability to manage the change socially.
18:52
I think, you know, the... acceptance, social acceptance of errors made by humans versus machines is a good one, right? If you look at what's happening with autonomous driving globally is a good example.
19:05
And if you extend that into other industries like ours, we are very quick to jump to errors made by machines and point out how that might be unacceptable.

8 MINS LATER

26:51
Glad he asked you that question.

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