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Julie Sweet says Europe is in a better position on resilience to an energy shock than it was when the Ukraine war began in 2022.
“if you can compare this to, you know, 2022, right, when the Ukrainian war started, Europe is in a much better position from a resilience perspective.”
Julie Sweet says cyber resilience has become a big growth area for Accenture because AI has increased the attack surface for cyberattacks.
“we're helping clients look at their cyber resilience, right? This already been a big, big growth area for us because AI itself has increased the attack surface.”
Julie Sweet describes an Accenture pharma client whose post-approval regulatory content for physicians took months and could be sped up by standardizing processes and data before using AI.
“we work with a pharma company that takes drugs, um, to market. Uh, and there's a process that once the drug is approved, you have lots and lots of regulatory stuff.”
Julie Sweet says the move to the cloud was mostly technical plumbing handled by tech teams, unlike AI, which leaders must understand directly.
“A lot of it was plumbing. So as a leader, you didn't have to understand it because it was being handled by the tech folks.”
After ChatGPT emerged in November 2022, Accenture gave its top fifty leaders the most AI training first, according to CEO Julie Sweet.
“when ChatGPT first emerged in, you know, November 2022, the people who received the most training initially were actually my top fifty leaders.”
Julie Sweet says much new AI technology is now released before being tested in enterprises at scale.
“A lot of the technology that's being released today is not being tested in enterprises first, which is a big shift.”
Accenture introduced agentic AI training for every employee in September, according to CEO Julie Sweet.
“In September, we introduced AI, agentic AI training for every person at Accenture, whether you work in HR or you're, you know, a technologist.”
Accenture's AI training includes an hour of computer-based training, two hours in person, and a two-hour course created with Stanford.
“it's two hours of in-person training, and then we have another two hours of a course that we created with Stanford.”
Julie Sweet says Accenture phased in AI use as a promotion factor over about three years while making the tools user-friendly.
“It's over a three-year period of getting used to the technology, making sure it's user-friendly, making sure we have the right workbench for people to use.”
Accenture has a leadership essential asking everyone to respectfully challenge how things are done, according to Julie Sweet.
“So we have a leadership essential around we want everybody to ch respectfully challenge how we do things.”
Julie Sweet became Accenture's CEO first for North America and then globally, and says being an outsider to the firm's culture helped her get chosen.
“when I was selected as the CEO, first as the CEO of North America and then the CEO globally.”
Julie Sweet says she was a partner for ten years at a law firm she named as Cravath, Swaine & Moore (transcribed as 'Kravass, Mina Moore').
“I was a partner for at Kravass, Mina Moore for ten years.”
Julie Sweet says her first breast cancer was found by a mammogram in 2015 and her second, about a decade later, by self-examination.
“my first cancer was, um, in 2015, and it was caught by a mammogram. In this case, a decade later, it was caught by a self-examination.”
Julie Sweet says Accenture took significant market share in the year she had cancer and is a $70 billion company growing at 7%.
“took massive market share. We're 70 billion dollar company growing at 7%.”
Julie Sweet says Accenture directs much of its corporate citizenship spending to digital reskilling, which she says helps communities and links to the company's success.
“We spend a lot of our corporate citizenship on digitally reskilling because we know that helps, uh, communities”