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Newsweek
3 hours ago
- Business
- Newsweek
AI Impact Summit 2025: Watch Attendees Debate and Explore Demos on Day Two
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Attendees of Newsweek's AI Impact Summit returned for a second day of insightful conversations on Tuesday as speakers offered thought-provoking ideas about artificial intelligence in everything from health care to filmmaking and city planning to weather forecasting. To kick off the day, industry leaders gathered for breakfast on the lawn of the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, where organic eggs, Belgian waffles and fresh coffee awaited them. Daniel Danker, the chief product officer at Instacart, was among the early risers at the venue. Sipping on a hot beverage from the specialty coffee cart, Danker told Newsweek it was important to meet with other leaders at events like the AI Impact Summit because, "We're all trying to figure out the same things right now." Sonoma, CA - Instacart CPO Daniel Danker speaks with Newsweek senior reporter Katherine Fung and Instacart associate manager Jane Ross before event programming begins at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24,... Sonoma, CA - Instacart CPO Daniel Danker speaks with Newsweek senior reporter Katherine Fung and Instacart associate manager Jane Ross before event programming begins at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. More NICK OTTO "Seeing the different approaches across different companies and different industries is very informative, because the paint is still very wet still," Danker said. "It's interesting to see which colors and how it's setting across different companies in different parts of industry." Danker sat down with Marcus Weldon, Newsweek contributing editor and president emeritus of Bell Labs, for a conversation about how Instacart is leveraging AI to "completely tailor the [grocery] store to the shape of your household, dietary needs, brands you like, whether you're more or less price sensitive, whether you're more value-oriented." Gina Ray, the senior director of corporate marketing, brand and corporate communications at ABBYY, also joined fellow attendees for breakfast on Tuesday, excited for another day of programming. ABBYY was among Newsweek's 2025 AI Impact Award winners, taking home the Best Outcomes, Accounting recognition. Sonoma, CA - AI Impact Summit guests eat breakfast and network before event programming begins at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Sonoma, CA - AI Impact Summit guests eat breakfast and network before event programming begins at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. NICK OTTO Halfway through the morning, attendees exited the pavilion to explore various demonstrations during the AI Intel networking break. Carrying their bright red Newsweek swag bags, many of them took the time to walk around installations from Cognizant, Google Cloud, EVOM AI Piano and Doctronic, among others. Doctronic's founders, Matt Pavelle and Dr. Adam Oskowitz, showed attendees how their AI works: Patients can make a telehealth appointment with Doctronic's AI doctor, who then transcribes notes that patients can take to a human provider. "Our north star has always been access," Oskowitz told Newsweek. Sonoma, CA - AI Impact Summit attendees walk to the AI Intel networking session at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Presenting companies include Cognizant, Google Cloud, The Marketing Cloud,... Sonoma, CA - AI Impact Summit attendees walk to the AI Intel networking session at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Presenting companies include Cognizant, Google Cloud, The Marketing Cloud, City of Denver, EVOM AI Piano, Doctronic, Serve Robotics and Zoom. More NICK OTTO He said one of the biggest obstacles is timing. Patients want to know what's happening to them immediately, not in three weeks or three months when their doctor's office might finally have appointment availability. Pavelle chimed in, "Our business model is to try to provide really inexpensive primary care and urgent care, which is obviously useful, and then refer out for specialists." "When we launched two years ago, the question was, did people want to talk to an AI doctor?" Pavelle told Newsweek. "The answer was an immediate yes. People just say things, and there's no embarrassment." Sonoma, CA - Doctronic co-founder Matt Pavelle offers visits to AI Impact Summit attendees during a networking break at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Sonoma, CA - Doctronic co-founder Matt Pavelle offers visits to AI Impact Summit attendees during a networking break at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. NICK OTTO By getting around that obstacle, Pavelle suggested that an AI doctor might be able to extract more accurate information from a patient than a real-life doctor because patients might feel less judged and, thus, provide more truthful and genuine answers about their health. He also reflected on the Newsweek summit, describing Tuesday's health care panel as "fantastic," praising the speakers for being "spot on," and recalling a "great" discussion from yesterday's industry roundtables. Tuesday's roundtable discussions included a conversation on whether organizations should build their AIs in-house or outsource that type of work. Executives across industries—from finance to energy to health care—debated the decision, remarking how building it yourself would foster greater innovation and allow you to create an AI that is more tailored to the needs of your company. On the other hand, buying AI can be faster, more reliable and more cost-effective. Sonoma, CA - Doctronic co-founders Adam Oskowitz and Matt Pavelle present their AI doctor and offer visits to AI Impact Summit attendees during a networking break at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday,... Sonoma, CA - Doctronic co-founders Adam Oskowitz and Matt Pavelle present their AI doctor and offer visits to AI Impact Summit attendees during a networking break at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. More NICK OTTO The roundtable was led by Vickram Kooblall, the chief information officer and chief information security officer at Scahill Law Group, who told Newsweek he was amazed by the slate of speakers at the summit. "It's phenomenal," Kooblall said as he made his way over to the lunch taco bar from the Kenwood Ballroom. "The quality of speakers at the conference really surprised me," he said. "It gives us greater insight into where we're going to be headed. They're kind of at the innovation standpoint. They're the ones creating the path, while we're following it, creating little adjacent roads outside and coming back into it." Sonoma, CA - Scahill Law Group CIO and CISO Vickram Kooblall leads AI Impact Summit attendees through the "Build It or Buy It" roundtable discussion at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June... Sonoma, CA - Scahill Law Group CIO and CISO Vickram Kooblall leads AI Impact Summit attendees through the "Build It or Buy It" roundtable discussion at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. More NICK OTTO Kooblall said he particularly enjoyed hearing from the Cognizant executives who attended the first and second day of the summit, describing their AI work as "an innovation, a solution that I'm really looking for." After a tasty lunch, Kooblall joined other attendees on a visit to the St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, where some elegant, fruit-driven wines awaited them. The guests then returned to the lawn after the wine tour for another networking reception to close out the second day of the summit. On Wednesday, AI leaders will take the Newsweek stage to discuss the age of the new workflow, returns of investment in the age of AI and how to enhance AI governance and privacy. Check out the full lineup here.
Newsweek
7 days ago
- Business
- Newsweek
Newsweek's AI Impact Awards 2025
Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Artificial intelligence is no longer emerging—it's now a core driver of innovation across nearly every industry. It's reshaping how companies operate and redefining everyday life, from improved outcomes in health care to more personalized customer service. As its influence expands, so does the responsibility to use it ethically, effectively and with clear real-world impact. One in six U.S. workers already use AI in some capacity. An additional 25 percent say that while they aren't using AI much in their role right now, at least some of their work can be done using AI tools. As the use of AI increases, so will the number of companies providing these services. There are currently over 70,000 AI companies worldwide, and the industry is expected to experience exponential growth over the next six years. To celebrate companies leading the way, Newsweek is proud to present the inaugural AI Impact Awards 2025. These awards honor 38 organizations across 13 categories for their outstanding achievements in applying AI to solve complex challenges, improve operations and deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether in health care, education, finance or sustainability, these companies exemplify how AI, when deployed thoughtfully, can deliver both innovation and impact. This year's winners include companies advancing AI-powered health diagnostics, solutions for HR planning and management, as well as tools for education, sports broadcasting and weather tracking. The overall winner, Every Cure, was selected by a panel of cross-industry experts. The nonprofit stood out across all categories for its use of AI for drug repurposing. The 2025 AI Impact Award winners have also been invited to Newsweek's AI Impact Summit, a three-day event in Sonoma, California, from June 23 through 25, bringing together global leaders in technology, business and policy to explore how AI is shaping the future. Whether you're a business leader navigating AI adoption, a professional adapting to AI's growing role in daily work or if you're simply curious about what's next, this list highlights the organizations turning promise into performance and reshaping the world in the process. Award Winner Description Best Outcomes, Digital Media & Arts AI Arts & Media - AI is being used across industries to improve results across promotion, marketing, entertainment, journalism, from data results to automating writing by providing script and personalized recommendations. Winner: Interdependence Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts AI Arts & Media - AI goes beyond simply generating images, creating interactive art and exploring issues of bias and can serve as a jumping off point for bigger creations. Winner: Moonvalley Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts AI Arts & Media - AI can do more than help in drafting. It can help to give narration to an established idea, adjust writing styles and tones, and help in overcoming writers block with brainstorm generation, as well as simply correcting errors in spelling and grammar. Winner: Spines Best Outcomes, Customer Experience AI Brand & Retail - AI can assist in the overall customer experience by influencing outcomes in basket size, reducing return rates and overall retention and margins. Winner: Perfect Corp. Best Outcomes, Marketing and Creative AI Brand & Retail - AI can offer personalized marketing, A/B tests, website navigation, cross-selling/up-selling and enhanced product descriptions. Winner: Maesa Best Outcomes, Product Development and Innovation AI Brand & Retail - AI functionality assists in interpreting and summarizing end user feedback to extend the lifecycle of products and/or develop entirely new products. Winner: Trax Retail Best Outcomes, Analyzing Customer Data AI Customer Service - AI is transforming business through data analytics, identifying customer patterns through large datasets, predicting behaviors and even laying out customer-centric marketing campaigns, all based on data. Winner: Pipeliner CRM Best Outcomes, Customer Satisfaction AI Customer Service - AI can improve customer satisfaction by helping customers in real time, working to answer questions and solve problems as they arise. Winner: Intercom Best Outcomes, Commercial Learning AI Education - Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations. Winner: Coursera Best Outcomes, General Learning AI Education - Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations. Winner: Salesforce Best Outcomes, K-12 Education AI Education - AI can be used to tailor learning to individual needs and assess a student's strengths and weaknesses, using this data to create the best learning programs. Winner: ClassDojo Best Outcomes, Higher Education AI Education - Uses for AI in higher education can range from student teaching to support systems, admin and admissions to curriculum planning. Winner: MedCerts Best Outcomes, Financial Services AI Finance - AI is transforming investment, corporate banking, insurance and investments. This includes process automation, efficiencies, enhanced revenue opportunities, compliance and data privacy. Winner: Principal Financial Group Best Outcomes, Mitigating Fraud AI Finance - AI can aid in detecting and preventing fraud by analyzing transaction patterns and identifying anomalies and potential cyber-attacks. Winner: Instnt Best Outcomes, Accounting AI Finance - This AI category would include invoice processing, document review, forecasting, auditing, tax compliance, overall compliance checks, data analysis and fraud detection. Winner: ABBYY Best Outcomes, Care Coordination AI Health Care - AI tools can be used to bolster hospitals' command centers—evaluating wait times and helping with scheduling. They can also respond to patient inquiries and help schedule appointments. Winner: Xsolis Best Outcomes, Health Equity AI Health Care - AI can analyze large swaths of data and identify disparities in health care. Winner: Bunkerhill Health Best Outcomes, Patient Care AI Health Care - AI creations that correlate to patient health, as all roads lead to the patient. Winner: Cera Best Outcomes, Diagnostics AI Health Care - AI tools can be used to guide diagnosis, especially in image-heavy specialties like radiology. Winner: Color Health Best Outcomes, Physician Satisfaction AI Health Care - AI in health care can automate administrative tasks, taking time-consuming duties off doctors' plates. Winner: Iodine Software Best Outcomes, Content Creation AI Marketing - Automating copy writing, design and creative quality can create dynamic content with various user interactions. Winner: Extreme Networks Best Outcomes, Consumer Targeting and Personalization AI Marketing - Leveraging patterns in market/customer data, identifying quality leads and segmenting to boost conversions can all precisely segment audiences through AI. Winner: Beeby Clark + Meyler Best Outcomes, Programmatic Marketing AI Marketing - AI trends in programmatic can include personalized ad experiences and predictive analytics to deliver highly personalized marketing at scale. Winner: Clinch Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation UX Systems AI Mobility - AI is being used in the background and foreground to make UX systems better and offer more efficient and accurate computing. AI can also provide detailed explanations of expedited and improved processes. Winner: Mercedes-Benz AI Best Outcomes, Computer Science AI Science & Engineering - AI is being used to provide high levels of accuracy in data visualizations, processing and mining. This might also lean into robotics, image recognition and program writing. Winner: Warp Best Outcomes, Engineering AI Science & Engineering - AI impacts engineering in many ways, from analytics to risk assessment to streamlining and comparing regulations. Winner: CloudBees Best Outcomes, Materials Science and Chemistry AI Science & Engineering - Chemists have been using AI for some time to identify patterns to perform quick and precise analysis, and also in predicting new compounds with desired, required properties. Winner: Every Cure Best Outcomes, Sports Broadcasting/Streaming AI Sports - The use of AI can capture performance highlights, distribute those highlights across multiple platforms and improve the overall viewing experience for the sports fan. Winner: SailGP Best Outcome in Climate Adaptation & Resilience AI Sustainability - AI tools are consistently improving the monitoring and response to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change, across fire, flooding and heatwaves. Winner: Straive Best Outcome in Energy Infrastructure AI Sustainability - AI is assisting with the best siting and permitting of solar and wind power, and overall better development of clean technology. Winner: IBM Best Outcomes, Digital Workspaces AI Workplace - AI assists across tracking user time in apps, messages sent, project completion times and collaboration wins. Winner: Zoom AI Companion Best Outcomes, HR AI Workplace - Payroll, compliance, workforce planning & management and other HR functions have consistently been enhanced with the use of AI. Winner: Betterworks Best Outcomes, Learning and Development AI Workplace - Using AI can show improvement in participation, internal mobilities, onboarding of new positions and tasks, and enhance overall employee development. Winner: Pfizer Extraordinary Impact in AI Innovation Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service - Recognizing an AI methodology, technology or architecture with potential to profoundly impact multiple real-world use cases. Winner: Phare Bio Extraordinary Impact in Commercial Tool or Service Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service - Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has enabled significant gains in productivity, customer experience, or new revenue generation across one or more industries. Winner: Axon Enterprise Extraordinary Impact in General Purpose AI Tool or Service Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service - Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has demonstrated significant commercial or cultural impact. Winner: Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration - Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing interactive human-to-human or human-to-machine communication and collaboration. Winner: Ex-Human Extraordinary Impact in AI Transparency or Responsibility Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service - Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing explainability or responsibility of AI systems Winner: EY Responsible AI framework Best in Class Best in Class - Recognized by the panel of cross-industry judges as the overall winner of the AI Impact Awards, demonstrating significant impact in its field and successful execution of a "big idea." Winner: Every Cure Licensing To learn how to license and use this award, please email Kalin Alberts at How We Did It The Newsweek AI Impact Awards recognize artificial intelligence implementations that solve real business problems and show measurable results. Winners demonstrate concrete improvements—whether in efficiency, cost reduction, revenue growth or customer experience—rather than just promising future potential. A panel of industry experts including Marcus Weldon, Newsweek contributing editor for AI and president emeritus of Bell Labs, evaluated entries across multiple sectors. Judges were selected by Newsweek's editorial team for their hands-on experience in health care, finance, manufacturing and other industries where AI had moved beyond experimentation to practical deployment.
