Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta on Making Speed the Strategy for Enterprise AI
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Show Notes
For Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta, enterprise AI cannot remain stuck in pilot mode. His mandate is to bring a startup mindset to a 128-year-old manufacturer by making speed a strategy and turning AI experimentation into measurable business impact.
In this episode of Technovation, Raman joins Peter High to discuss Goodyear’s push toward industrial-scale AI, Lighthouse Projects, enterprise-grade intelligence, and connected manufacturing. He explains why trusted master data is essential for AI systems that reason, how his team is using AI itself to improve data quality, and why reskilling must happen through live work rather than courses alone.
Key topics include:
Moving AI from pilots to measurable business outcomes
Building Lighthouse Projects around cross-functional problems
Creating enterprise-grade intelligence with governed data
Reskilling technology teams for agentic AI
Preparing connected factories for agents, robotics, and physical AI
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