Depa will lead on the discovery and deployment of emerging technologies to help address business challenges and shape the future with confidence Brings deep experience in identifying new ways that can practically help business transformation through an innovation mindset and culture shift LONDON , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The EY organization announces today the appointment of Joe Depa as the new EY Global Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately. Within this role, he will spearhead applied innovation to help improve service delivery and guide EY teams to address and solve business challenges. Depa joins the EY organization at a pivotal moment, as a range of emerging technologies are reshaping businesses and industries, creating a multitude of new challenges and opportunities. To keep pace, the EY organization is continuing to make significant investments in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and blockchain, and most recently formed the EY.ai Global AI Advisory Council. In his new role, Depa will be leading the organization's global innovation strategy. This will include overseeing efforts to successfully implement emerging technologies for tangible business applications, both internally and across work of EY member firms with clients. Raj Sharma, EY Global Managing Partner of Growth and Innovation, says: "At this time of constant disruption, success would require a forward-thinking approach and willingness to make bold decisions, which are at the heart of an innovative mindset. We're thrilled to have Joe's deep experience and knowledge around AI and data to lead on our strategic approach to innovation so that EY teams can help clients shape their future more confidently." Throughout the last decade, Depa has worked closely with C-suite leaders and boards to bring innovative products and services to market, improve client and employee experiences, and help enhance operational efficiencies through technology. Most recently, he served as the inaugural Chief Data and AI Officer at a leading university and health care organization. At the university, he helped to promote AI literacy, launch a responsible AI governance program and enable a secure data foundation. Prior to that, he acted as Senior Managing Director and Global Lead for Data and AI at a global multinational professional services company, where he led a team of AI strategists and data engineers in developing and implementing new products and services. Joe Depa , EY Global Chief Innovation Officer, says: "I'm truly excited to join an organization that is 'All in' on its commitment to the transformative potential of emerging technologies. I look forward to working with the EY teams and clients to help empower them to apply innovation in bold, new ways that help create value for clients through data, AI and emerging technologies to make the world a better place." A renowned thought leader in the field of AI, Depa has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Global Leaders" by World Summit AI and has received Fast Company's "World Changing Idea" award, among other accolades. For more information, visit: ey.com. About EY EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow. EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories. All in to shape the future with confidence. EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. EY member firms do not practice law where prohibited by local laws. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com. This news release has been issued by EYGM Limited, a member of the global EY organization that also does not provide any services to clients. Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2567765/EY_Joe_Depa.jpg Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/381362/EY_Logo.jpgOpinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• I created a Twitter account on June 24, 2011. Between then and when Elon Musk acquired the service and later changed the name to X, I tweeted exactly zero times. Since then I’ve posted even less. It’s not that I didn’t plan to at first. I’d figured it might be fun to be sarcastic in short sentences, and that I might even be good at it. Even in middle age, there’s still a teenage boy within me waiting to smart off. The impulse never goes away. Then I thought about whether that really was what I wanted to be known for, assuming I could even stand out in the cacophony. I also noticed that people on Twitter frequently seemed to get into disputes characterized by the competitive spray of amber-colored fluid. Yeah, OK, pissing matches. I’m never a fan of that prideful activity. So I never tweeted. Though I did notice that many of my colleagues in journalism found constructive uses for Twitter. But also nonconstructive ones. To each their own, but I think it’s better for newsroom journalists to maintain an aura of mystery in their public presentation, and for even opinion journalists to maintain an ecumenical sense of nuance and exploration. All journalists of course have a point of view. They’re people, and they have as much stake in our democracy as anyone else. We expect them to set their views aside as appropriate in their work, just as we expect a trip to an opinionated barber to produce a shapely trim free of blood. In my experience, most journalists — especially at the local and regional levels — are trying to be evenhanded in their work. Some let their hair down on social media, and it doesn’t help with perceptions. Forgive my use of two tangential paragraphs in a row, but this is also where I’d like to say that I consider my primary field of opinion writing to be a supplemental form of journalism. By “supplemental” I certainly don’t mean lesser. I mean augmentative. Some people say they want just the facts from news organizations. But if researched and reported opinions add no value for you — nor even poetic or deliciously splenetic ones — you’re missing out on a full understanding of culture, of policy, of humanity. Opinion writing encompasses all of these. It’s why newspapers have long included it and should not now allow it to be diminished. But to return to my main topic — Twitter and its saltire-symboled successor — the most beneficial contribution has been as a central public square. Posts are immediate, wide-reaching and democratic. To the extent social media fails this ideal, it’s because we — easily diverted users aided by algorithmically oriented administrators — have collectively squandered a tool. And now we’re using it as another way to self-sort. Another way to talk at, but not with, one another. There are several competitors with platforms similar to X, and all have had moments in the sun since Musk made the industry his mission. Right now the hot competitor is Bluesky. It describes itself as “social media as it should be.” (Here, allow my inner teenager to come out. Is it “blue sky,” or is it meant to rhyme with “brewski?” Occam’s razor prevails, I suppose, but with Silicon Valley, it’s hard to know.) Daily traffic on Bluesky was reportedly up 500% after the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, while concurrently X users were deactivating their accounts in greater numbers than ever. You can guess who’s leaving and who’s staying. It’s understandable. Not only did Musk encourage X to grow ever more toxic, he put his thumb on the scale during the campaign. And now he’s joining the government or something, appointed by Trump along with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, which has the typically in-joke acronym of DOGE. People hoping to work for it are required to apply via direct message to the DOGE account on X, something that can only be done by premium members of that service paying $8 to $16 a month. If no one else makes money on government efficiency, Elon Musk will. So is this X-odus a bad thing? Why shouldn’t there be competition for a short-form social media platform that offers the best experience? This country works because it values competition on all fronts. Though it fails to work when we splinter. That’s what we need to reconcile. For my part, I’ll keep X and add Bluesky. But, still, post on neither.
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