Fresh out of the studio, Feon Ang, Managing Director of LinkedIn Asia Pacific, joins us to explore how the platform is transforming professional networking and career development across the region's 343 million members. She shares her career journey from publishing to tech leadership, reflecting on the evolution from typewritten CVs to AI-powered job searches today. Feon explains LinkedIn's unique approach combining scale, trust, and member-first philosophy, emphasizing how their AI tools enable professionals to find opportunities through natural language while companies streamline hiring processes. She highlights the platform's remarkable growth metrics—47 hires per minute and 36% video engagement growth—showcasing how organizations are re-engineering recruitment and learning through AI coaching and personalized pathways. Addressing the challenges of AI adoption and skills gaps, she emphasizes the importance of three key actions: fluency, agency, and action, while advocating for accessible AI integration into daily workflows. Closing the conversation, Feon shares her vision for creating even greater economic opportunity across Asia Pacific as professionals and businesses navigate the AI transformation together.

"AI is in the minds of a lot of people right now and naturally with such big technological shift, you find that there is a big skill gap. You know, there is companies demanding skills in this area, and yet naturally in the marketplace, they might have difficulty finding that skills that is required for companies. So, you know, job seekers need to be a lot more conscious in terms of how they are equipping themselves. One of the things is that LinkedIn courses are there [to help]. I always talk about the three affirmative actions that you can do. One is making sure that you are fluent in this area. I think what are the things that you can do to actually get your hands on all these tools so that you become fluent in just playing around with the tool and making sure that you feel comfortable. The second area that I advise people is to make sure that you feel that you have the agency to master your destiny. The third thing will be to take action. If you have learned all these skills, find a way to showcase it and find a way to actually talk about it so that you are, you can actually surface your capabilities in this space." - Feon Ang

Profile: Feon Ang, Managing Director of LinkedIn Asia Pacific: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feonang/

Episode Highlights: 
[00:00] Quote of the Day: Feon Ang 
[01:06] Feon's career journey from publishing to tech
[03:00] Three key lessons from Feon's career journey: members first, scale, trust
[00:05:18] LinkedIn's mission: creating economic opportunity globally
[00:06:28] Asia Pacific: 343 million members, fastest growing
[00:08:19] Business milestone: crossed 17 billion globally
[00:09:50] Highest engagement rate across social platforms
[00:11:00] Video content growing 36% year-on-year
[00:12:24] Real-time hiring: 47 hires per minute, 10,000 applications every minute
[00:14:00] AI job search using natural language
[00:15:42] LinkedIn hiring assistant streamlines recruitment
[00:17:18] AI coaching creates personalized learning pathways
[00:19:10] Skill gaps demand conscious professional development
[00:21:00] Advice for Professionals in the age of AI: Fluency, Agency, Action
[23:13] Community partnerships supporting workforce development
[25:12] How CEOs are using social media via LinkedIn
[27:02] What does great look like for LinkedIn in the Asia Pacific? 
[28:00] Closing

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Creating Economic Opportunity in the era of AI: LinkedIn's Mission in Asia Pacific with Feon Ang

The discussion of the C3Centricity blog post "AI in CPG: Strategic Growth, Not Just Content," emphasises that while AI adoption is increasing, many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are underutilising it for low-impact tasks. It argues for a strategic shift, highlighting that leading companies are orchestrating multiple AI models for both efficiency and innovation. The article suggests that CPG leaders should focus on asking sharper, more strategic questions of their AI, moving beyond superficial metrics to analyse mental availability and conduct robust scenario planning. Crucially, it advocates for deploying AI to tackle high-impact, complex challenges like dynamic customer segmentation, retailer-specific positioning, and rapid concept iteration. It concludes by warning that companies failing to embrace AI strategically risk falling behind competitors who are already leveraging AI for significant gains in productivity and market share.

AI Marketing Strategy for CPG- Your 2025 Playbook

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OpenAI’s two-front blitz, - GPT-5 at the frontier and GPT-OSS in the wild, could reset your AI roadmap. In this episode, “The Two-Move Checkmate,” we unpack what the pincer means for budgets, data governance, and developer velocity, and contrast it with moves from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral. Are open weights a strategic gift or a scorched-earth moat? When should you go local vs. cloud? And what becomes the real edge when models commoditize? Smart, fast, and actionable, - tune in.

Bit & Being - The Two-Move Checkmate: Inside OpenAI’s Playbook

Generative AI is transforming product management by streamlining research, ideation, and decision-making in ways that were previously time-consuming or resource-intensive. It enables product managers to quickly generate user stories, wireframes, and market analysis, allowing teams to move from concept to execution faster. Beyond efficiency, it opens up new opportunities for creativity, personalization, and data-driven experimentation. As adoption grows, product leaders who integrate generative AI thoughtfully will gain a competitive edge in delivering innovative, user-centered solutions.

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Patty and Brian discuss some benefits and pitfalls of generative AI for critical thinking skills.

#243 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Generative AI | August 14, 2025

In Reshuffle: Who Wins When AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy, Sangeet Paul Choudary explores common misconceptions about how AI will change work, organizations, and business ecosystems.

Choudary is the founder and CEO of Platformation Labs and a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. An expert on AI, platforms, and the economics of big tech, he has sold more than half a million books on these topics. In his latest work, he explores how new forms of coordination—rather than automation and augmentation—are the true superpower of AI.

In his conversation with Adam Job, senior director at the BCG Henderson Institute, he discusses how AI will supercharge coordination, move us towards a more modular, on-demand economy, and how companies can account for all of this in their strategies.

Key topics discussed: 

[01:31] How AI will impact jobs
[04:38] Assessing the value of jobs
[09:25] AI’s power to supercharge coordination
[14:23] Unlocking “coordination without consensus”
[19:00] Moving towards a modular, on-demand economy
[25:56] Crafting a strategy for the age of AI

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Reshuffle with Sangeet Paul Choudary

Learn how to use generative AI to streamline e-commerce marketing, from automating product descriptions to hyper-personalizing campaigns.

Generative AI: Hyper-Personalizing E-commerce Marketing at Scale

This week, Shen and Reb discuss a recent MIT study on GenAI pilots, and Reb’s recent story about ModuleQ dissolving. 

https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952681/fintech-powering-lseg%E2%80%99s-ai-alerts-dissolves

Episode 330: AI hot takes

In this episode of the ODSC AiX Podcast, host Sheamus McGovern reconnects with Paige Bailey, Engineering Lead at Google DeepMind for the Developer Experience team. Paige shares how the Gemini ecosystem has evolved since her last appearance, including the launch of Gemini 2.5 DeepThink, multimodal video generation with Veo 3, real-time music creation with Lyria RT, and groundbreaking advances in agentic and on-device AI systems. The conversation explores the rapid rise of agent-based workflows, AI-powered robotics, and the growing divide between cutting-edge tools and real-world adoption.

Key Topics Covered:
Gemini 2.5 DeepThink & Reasoning Models
The model that won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
Use cases for DeepThink, Pro, Flash, and FlashLite variants
Using Gemini Live API for real-world robotics and decision planning
Role of multimodal inputs (video, audio, text) in enabling embodied AI
On-Device AI & Ubiquity
Implications for edge deployment, cost reduction, and accessibility
Veo 3: Multimodal Video Generation
Lyria RT: Real-Time Music Generation
Gemini Live API & Voice Interfaces
Real-time bidirectional voice, screen understanding, and tool calling
Rise of voice as the dominant AI interface
Use of SynthID and digital watermarking to detect deepfakes
Future of AI-agent orchestration via MCP servers

Memorable Outtakes:
On the pace of model development: “A 4-billion parameter model on-device now outperforms our best cloud model from six months ago. That’s pretty magical.”  — Paige Bailey 
On the role of AI agents in robotics: “You can say, ‘Hey robot, go get me that apple,’ and Gemini will plan the task, route it, and call the right control models.” — Paige Bailey 
On the AI adoption gap: “In the Bay Area, we use AI hourly. But when I talk to developers in the Midwest, they often aren’t using it at all.” — Paige Bailey 

References & Resources:
Paige Bailey
Dynamic Web Paige: https://webpaige.dev/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dynamicwebpaige
GitHub: https://github.com/dynamicwebpaige
Medium: https://medium.com/@dynamicwebpaige
Previous podcast with Paige: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ai-x-podcast/episodes/Googles-AI-Powered-Tools-for-Data-Scientists-Building-the-Automated-Future-of-Data-Science-with-Paige-Bailey-e2p3t6e

Resources mentioned
International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO): https://www.imo-official.org
Model Context Protocol (MCP): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-deep-think/
Veo 3: https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/
Lyria RT & Music AI Sandbox: https://deepmind.google/technologies/lyria/
SynthID & Deepfake Watermarking: https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/
Gemma Models: https://ai.google.dev/gemma
Gemini Live API Docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live
Google AI Studio: https://ai.google.dev

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Inside Google’s New AI Stack with Paige Bailey

This week’s guest is Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave 
0:00 – Tony and Shen discuss System of a Down and Gorillaz 
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Episode 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy

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With Ai X Podcast, Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) brings its vast experience in building community and its knowledge of the data science and AI fields to the podcast platform. The interests and challenges of the data science community are wide ranging. To reflect this Ai X Podcast will offer a similarly wide range of content, from one-on-one interviews with leading experts, to career talks, to educational interviews, to profiles of AI Startup Founders. Join us every two weeks to discover what’s going on in the data science community.

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