This week's guest on The CMO Podcast is one of the foremost experts in the world of Artificial Intelligence and marketing, Professor Jim Lecinski. Jim is the Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing at Northwestern Kellogg. We use the term “Renaissance man or woman” too loosely these days, but in this case it's an appropriate moniker. Consider these highlights from Professor Lecinski's curriculum vitae:

• Studied German and Government at Notre Dame, MBA from Illinois.
• Teaches seminars and blogs about Jazz for newcomers.
• Has written for The Journal of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors.
• Twelve years at Google, left as a VP.
• Literally wrote the book on marketing and AI, back in 2021 before it was the “in thing.”
• Awarded Professor of the Year at Northwestern Kellogg in 2022.

It's a double-Jim conversation, as the two dive into the hottest topic in marketing...AI.

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Learn more about AI:

Marketing AI Institute: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/

Andrew Ng's Courses on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/andrewng

Keynotes to Watch:

Agentforce Keynote: Build the Future with AI Agents: https://www.salesforce.com/plus/experience/dreamforce_2024/series/agentforce_&_data_cloud_at_dreamforce_2024/episode/episode-s1e27

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian'a Keynote: https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next

And pickup Jim and Raj Venkatesan's book - The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Stage Road Map to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: https://a.co/d/9osop0B

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Today's guest on The CMO Podcast is Emily Silver, the SVP and Chief Marketing & Athlete Experience Officer at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the $13 billion-by-revenue retailer. Dick’s was founded by Dick Stack in 1948 with his first product line, a bait and tackle. Today, Pittsburgh-based Dick’s Sporting Goods has more than 850 stores and a variety of other experience centers and platforms, all focused on sports. Think Golf Galaxy, Public Lands, Moosejaw, and others.

Emily has worked at Dick’s for about 18 months, after spending over 16 years at PepsiCo, in about nine different roles. This is Emily’s first CMO role; her CEO, Lauren Hobart, was appointed Dick’s CMO in 2011 and previously held that role for a few years. Emily graduated from Brandeis University with an MBA from Yale, before starting her career working on political campaigns. On this episode, she speaks to the incredible lessons from those early experiences and much more. Tune in for a conversation with a CMO that believes in the athlete in all of us!

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The guest today on The CMO Podcast is Emily Ketchen, the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Intelligent Devices Group and International Markets for Lenovo. The Intelligent Devices Group–as you might expect–is Lenovo’s division with Personal Computers, Smartphones, and AR/VR solutions. Lenovo is a $57 billion global technology company–the largest PC company–with business in 180 countries. It also markets infrastructure, software, solutions and services.

Emily has worked at Lenovo since September 2020. She joined Lenovo after nearly 11 years at HP, in a variety of roles in the Americas and Asia. Emily has forged an unusual path to CMO; she spent about 14 years of her career on the ad agency side, with storied agencies like Publicis, Grey, and McCann Erikson.

Emily is indeed a global citizen; she spent part of her childhood in Europe, speaks Spanish and French fluently, studied at Pitzer College in California and two universities in France, and has just returned from a lovely family holiday in Scotland. Tune in for an interview with a CMO who believes kindness in the business world is a win-win.

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