99 IN FOCUS: TEAMS security measures, allowing IT teams to focus on innovation rather than routine operations. As these AI-enabled collaboration tools evolve, they will increasingly become essential resources in daily tasks for meeting participants while helping to reduce complexity and workloads for IT managers. These changes to how we work and collaborate with the assistance of AI are just the tip of the iceberg. In the years to come, not only will hybrid meetings become an even more seamless business activity, but the value that can be derived and executed on will also increase. Meeting participants can have clear action items automatically generated for them afterwards, and AI assistants will support them in finding and organising information on AI PCs so those action items can be completed faster and better. The AI revolution in business and its impact on corporations’ meeting cultures couldn’t be happening at a better time. According to Harvard Business Review, meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years. Executives now spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in meetings, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. From conference calls to video conferencing, technology enabled more meetings and greater connectivity as enterprises grew globally. Now, technology is not just making more meetings possible, it’s also making them better. And it’s enabling workers to make smarter decisions about attending meetings. Got a schedule conflict or just too busy with other pressing tasks? No problem. Meetings are now recorded, so you can quickly read high-quality autogenerated transcripts. Working closely with our strategic partners like Microsoft, Lenovo will continue to deliver on its promise of ‘smarter technology for all’ and make meetings better for our customers by delivering the hardware and computing power to get the most out of innovative AI applications. Shannon MacKay is general manager of worldwide smart collaboration business at Lenovo Lenovo works with Microsoft to develop solutions for Microsoft Teams under its ThinkSmart portfolio
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