Microsoft’s Paul Lizer on driving enterprise AI adoption

Paul Lizer, Principal Solution Engineer at Microsoft, discussed the challenges of AI adoption in government, highlighting the need for confidence in data and governance. He emphasized treating AI like any other operational or engineering discipline, managing it with the same risk and control measures as cyber and data security. Lizer noted that successful government AI adoption will involve scaling AI from pilot phases into enterprise initiatives, making it reusable and shareable and ensuring front-line workers can leverage it to drive new use cases and capabilities.