Lenovo, the worldwide know-how powerhouse, immediately introduced the appointment of Dr. Tolga Kurtoglu because the group’s new Chief Expertise Officer, succeeding Dr. Yong Rui in additional accelerating the Group’s know-how imaginative and prescient and AI management.
As well as, Lenovo has introduced the formation of a brand new Rising Expertise Group that will probably be charged with anticipating rising tendencies in know-how and turning them into future enterprise development alternatives. Dr. Yong Rui, who has led Lenovo’s analysis as CTO for the previous seven years, turns into President of the Rising Expertise Group.
Dr. Kurtoglu, famend for his groundbreaking work within the IT trade, brings a wealth of expertise from main roles throughout the IT trade, together with CTO of HP Inc. and International Head of HP Labs, CEO of Xerox Palo Alto Analysis Heart, and lead for the product growth group at Dell. He’s additionally an advocate of accountable know-how growth and a member of the Board of Administrators of the NGO Omidyar Community (ON), which focuses on the inclusive and accountable growth of generative AI. As well as, he holds quite a few patents and has revealed a number of papers within the fields of automation and machine intelligence, computational design, methods engineering, and 3D/digital manufacturing.
Commenting on Dr. Kurtoglu’s appointment, Yuanqing Yang, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo, mentioned, “As we embrace the once-in-a-lifetime alternative in AI, I’m happy to welcome Tolga to Lenovo to assist us additional notice our ambitions as a worldwide know-how powerhouse and drive our AI management ahead. His expertise throughout {hardware}, software program, and AI applied sciences will additional strengthen our innovation management and smarter AI for All focus.”
Dr. Kurtoglu added: “I’ve lengthy admired Lenovo from afar for its daring dedication to innovation. At a time when all customers and corporations are seizing the potential of AI, I’m trying ahead to working with analysis groups world wide to additional speed up the event of Lenovo’s portfolio and ship highly effective, versatile, and accountable AI options that rework industries and empower people.”
Dr. Rui added: “It is a pivotal time for the know-how trade, with so many new transformative and rising applied sciences that may change how we dwell, work, and do enterprise. I’ve been enthusiastic about incubating and commercializing new applied sciences all through my profession, and I’m excited to steer Lenovo’s new Rising Expertise Group.”
Dr. Kurtoglu will lead Lenovo’s Analysis group, spearhead its innovation ecosystem, guarantee alignment between the Group’s technological imaginative and prescient and total enterprise targets, and function a member on the Lenovo Govt Committee, the management group at Lenovo.
CEO Yuanqing Yang will showcase and share extra about Lenovo’s innovation imaginative and prescient and technique and its give attention to Smarter AI for All at Lenovo Tech World’24 on October 15, 2024.
