{"id":57969,"date":"2024-04-10T02:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T06:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/?p=57969"},"modified":"2024-04-24T04:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:25:16","slug":"podcast-mcguire-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don","title":{"rendered":"Marketer of The Month Podcast- EPISODE 183: The Next Frontier for AI is On-Device: Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire on why Hybrid AI is the key to Broad AI Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"new-blog-post-content\">\n<p>Hey there! Welcome to the <strong><em>Marketer Of The Month<\/em><\/strong> blog!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recently interviewed Don McGuire for our monthly podcast &#8211; \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/cz\/podcast\/marketer-of-the-month\/id1481977557\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketer of the Month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019! We had some amazing insightful conversations with Don and here\u2019s what we discussed about &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enhancing device capabilities for user benefit through efficient on-device AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potential privacy risks and benefits of on-device AI proliferation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scaling AI across devices, edge, and cloud for sustainability and user benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensuring stakeholder alignment and cybersecurity in AI integration<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Measuring awareness, sentiment, and brand affinity for ROI assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separating B2B and B2C branding for audience-led storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>7. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embracing AI for augmentation, not replacement, with governance and principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About our host:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dr. Saksham Sharda<\/strong> is the Chief Information Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/\"><strong>Outgrow.co.<\/strong><\/a> He specializes in data collection, analysis, filtering, and transfer by means of widgets and applets. Interactive, cultural, and trending widgets designed by him have been featured on TrendHunter, Alibaba, ProductHunt, New York Marketing Association, FactoryBerlin, Digimarcon Silicon Valley, and at The European Affiliate Summit.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About our guest:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>Don McGuire<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, CMO of Qualcomm, brings over 25 years of experience spanning service provider, device OEM, content\/applications, and semiconductor sectors. A decisive and high-energy leader, he excels in creating innovative marketing campaigns and collaborative partnerships to launch cutting-edge products, notably in 5G technologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"EPISODE_183_The_Next_Frontier_for_AI_is_On-Device_Qualcomm_CMO_Don_McGuire_on_why_Hybrid_AI_is_the_key_to_Broad_AI_Adoption\"><\/span><b>EPISODE 183: The Next Frontier for AI is On-Device: Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire on why Hybrid AI is the key to Broad AI Adoption<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_62 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6645fc8936792\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6645fc8936792\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#EPISODE_183_The_Next_Frontier_for_AI_is_On-Device_Qualcomm_CMO_Don_McGuire_on_why_Hybrid_AI_is_the_key_to_Broad_AI_Adoption\" title=\"EPISODE 183: The Next Frontier for AI is On-Device: Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire on why Hybrid AI is the key to Broad AI Adoption\">EPISODE 183: The Next Frontier for AI is On-Device: Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire on why Hybrid AI is the key to Broad AI Adoption<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#The_Intro\" title=\"The Intro!\">The Intro!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#Dont_have_time_to_read_No_problem_just_watch_the_Podcast\" title=\"Don\u2019t have time to read? No problem, just watch the Podcast!\">Don\u2019t have time to read? No problem, just watch the Podcast!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#Or_you_can_just_listen_to_it_on_Spotify\" title=\"Or you can just listen to it on Spotify!\">Or you can just listen to it on Spotify!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#The_Rapid_Fire_Round\" title=\"The Rapid Fire Round!\">The Rapid Fire Round!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/podcast-mcguire-don\/#Lets_Conclude\" title=\"Let\u2019s Conclude!\">Let\u2019s Conclude!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Intro\"><\/span><strong>The Intro!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Outgrow&#8217;s Marketer of the Month. I&#8217;m your host, Dr. Saksham Sharda, and I\u2019m the creative director at Outgrow. co. And for this month we are going to interview Don McGuire, CMO of Qualcomm. Thanks for joining us, Don.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great to be here. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dont_have_time_to_read_No_problem_just_watch_the_Podcast\"><\/span><strong>Don\u2019t have time to read? No problem, just watch the Podcast!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Next Frontier for AI is On-Device: Qualcomm's CMO on why Hybrid AI is the key to Broader AI Use\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFXhnNi1shA\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Or_you_can_just_listen_to_it_on_Spotify\"><\/span><strong>Or you can just listen to it on Spotify!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6S9Q5zkJwMtUXffRMOpGoo\/video?utm_source=generator\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Rapid_Fire_Round\"><\/span><strong>The Rapid Fire Round!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38738 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rapid-fire.gif\" alt=\"rapid fire Don McGuire\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s start with the rapid-fire round. The first one is, at what age do you want to retire?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda:\u00a0 <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How long does it take you to get ready in the mornings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your favorite dish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasta, any kind of pasta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite color?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What time of day are you most inspired?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many hours of sleep can you survive on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fill in the blank. An upcoming marketing trend is _____.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An upcoming marketing trend is the use of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest mistake of your career?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining a company without fully understanding the people who you&#8217;re running it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you relax?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I jump on the Peloton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many cups of coffee do you drink per day?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don&#8217;t drink coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most valuable skill you&#8217;ve learned in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How you do something is as important as what you do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your favorite Netflix show?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Netflix show?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or any OTT platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh right now. Masters of the Air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One-word description of your leadership style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire:<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top priority in your daily schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideal vacation spot for relaxation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key factor for maintaining a work-life balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercise. Caffeine, ice cream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait, but you don&#8217;t drink coffee. It&#8217;s another caffeine. Memorable career milestone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CMO of Qualcomm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: var(--global-palette3); font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px;\">The Big Questions!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42105 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/outgrow.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-big-question.gif\" alt=\"Big Questions Don McGuire\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait, that&#8217;s the end of the rapid-fire round. Now we can go into the longer questions, which you can answer with as much ease and time as you like. Okay. The first one is your role as a vice president and global head. Whoops. Sorry. This is not your document. Can you elaborate on Qualcomm\u2019s approach to enabling on-device AI and why it&#8217;s essential for scaling generative AI?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sure. Well, our approach to on-device AI is making sure that all of our platforms that go into this amazing array of devices, whether it&#8217;s your car or your phone or your PC or your glasses have the most high performance, low power consumption computational coding capabilities along with world-leading connectivity and onboard intelligence to deliver an on-device AI experience that can be beneficial to users. Why is on-device AI important to scale? AI in general is because the technology itself has to proliferate across devices, the edge, and the cloud for it to scale, for it to be sustainable, and for it to deliver the user benefits. That can only happen when you&#8217;ve got on-device AI capabilities like personalization, low latency, and security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So are there any risks that this proliferation across different platforms can lead to any danger to user privacy or data security?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think if we don&#8217;t move to a hybrid or if AI does not scale in a hybrid way, the risks are higher for lack of security than if we do move to this hybrid. The inherent benefits of advice offer more security and more options for your data to stay your data and not risk more data being put into a public cloud environment where it could be used appropriately or stolen or you not receiving credit of ownership for your individual IP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in what ways do you foresee AI devices impacting both B2B and B2C markets in 2024, especially with the rise of AI-powered PCs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a productivity and efficiency standpoint, AI tools are starting to proliferate in the workplace today. I, myself and my team, have deployed a few AI tools that are kickstarting the ideation process from a creative standpoint. They are helping to drive more efficient content development, and faster time to market as well as freeing up my team from mundane tasks to be able to be better critical thinkers establish a more work-life balance, and be able to focus on things that are more important than just daily mundane tasks that AI can easily do and or kickstart for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And are there any potential challenges companies might face in integrating AI-powered PCs into the existing workflows or products?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think the biggest challenge is making sure that all stakeholders across your enterprise are informed. All concerns are out on the table. AI tools are properly vetted for how they&#8217;re trained from a legal perspective. The risk of cyber hacking or cybersecurity has been taken into consideration and then the relevancy of the tool and its application are put in the right place with the right people. Those are the biggest challenges and opportunities for deploying AI tools across any enterprise for business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So as a CMO of a B2B company, how do you navigate building a consumer brand like Snapdragon while maintaining focus on business value?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, we&#8217;ve done that by actually separating our B2B and B2C brands. So Snapdragon is our more consumer-facing brand. Qualcomm is the master brand, the name of the company and its application is with B2B audiences, investors, policymakers, and business decision-makers. It&#8217;s really about being audience-led and then appropriately building brand ethos around those important audiences so that you can then deliver your story. Because We&#8217;re all storytellers at the end of the day to those audiences in a compelling and relevant way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so our audience is interested in what metrics or indicators Qualcomm uses to measure the success and ROI of its consumer branding efforts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have both hard metrics and soft metrics. On the hard KPI side, we measure everything from awareness down to purchase intent. We also analyze willingness to pay a premium for devices that are powered by our platforms. That&#8217;s another hard KPI. From a soft KPI perspective, we are also measuring sentiment across social media and emotional connection to the brand affinity with certain audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So do you have any lessons to share for best practices for effectively communicating complex B2B technology to a broader consumer audience?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start with realizing that content in time-based content, you can only share so much of the story and the objective shouldn&#8217;t be to tell everything within a 32nd or a 15-second window or at the speed of TikTok, but to just get people interested in your story and then driving them through a longer content journey. And the more they&#8217;re interested, the more they&#8217;re going to listen and learn by applying appropriate messages and appropriate pieces of the story in the relevant and appropriate content type so that you can drive that interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could you not talk a bit about Qualcomm&#8217;s strategic brand partnerships with entities like Manchester United and Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 team, and how they contribute to your business growth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolutely. Why? I&#8217;m a big believer that brand value drives business value. And so the partnerships that we&#8217;ve forged with Mercedes F1 as well as Manchester United, the mobile eSports competition that we&#8217;ve built globally, are all organized around people&#8217;s passion points. Whether it&#8217;s a passion for sports or passion for music, or passion for photography, our passion for gaming, and then because our technology platforms enable people to explore and ignite those passions. So, we think hard about brand partnerships that will be forged. We look for brand value alignment between our brand and their brand, and then we look for the benefits and the ROI that we can derive from any sort of partnership on our side as well as what value we can bring to our partners with our technology and our platforms to help them either digitally transform themselves or enhance their brand value to their audiences. Manchester United&#8217;s global 1.1 billion fans primarily partnered with Manchester United from a Snapdragon perspective to help scale brand value for Snapdragon, both at the awareness and consideration levels as well as down to preference. We met at Formula One, our Mercedes partnership is a nod to our growth in automotive and our rag and digital chassis platforms because oftentimes innovation in automotive starts in F1. So we thought it was very important to be a part of the F1 ecosystem, and we couldn&#8217;t think of a better partner than Mercedes. Again, like-minded brands value their innovation mentality, and their dedication to technology is very similar to ours. So those are two examples of our brand partnerships: how we build them and how we build ethos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so what advice would you have for SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and startups looking to establish strategic brand partnerships of their own to enhance their business value?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start with relevancy. Why would you choose this partner and what is this partner going to deliver back to your business? I think a lot of brands tend to engage in what I call kind of logo, logo slapping meaning they just slap their logo on anything without really understanding what, the entire value equation is by being engaged either in that activity or with that brand or in that sport or whatever it might be. So really understanding what your objectives are, your business objectives, and then how engaging in a partnership, a specific partnership, is going to help you achieve those business objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So besides logo slapping, are there any other common pitfalls or mistakes you&#8217;ve observed when it comes to forming brand partnerships and how can they be avoided?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don\u00a0 McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think first of all strong negotiation is important. Establishing a win-win for both yourself and the partner that you&#8217;re engaging with, I think is very important as well. And then negotiate the value that you want to extract from the partnership and the areas that are most meaningful to the audience you&#8217;re trying to reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now let&#8217;s talk about something lighter. Like what does your typical day at Qualcomm look like?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don\u00a0 McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wake up in the morning, I hop on my Peloton, I go to Starbucks, I get to the office. I have a lot of meetings, a lot of collaboration, and a lot of engagement. Qualcomm is a very collaborative culture and any innovation engine requires a lot of collaboration. So there&#8217;s the impromptu meetings, there&#8217;s the hallway conversations, there&#8217;s the more structured meetings, and I aim every day to kind of move the needle on productivity just a little bit further forward. And then getting out of the office at a reasonable hour and then enjoying the rest of my day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can SMEs and startups leverage on-device AI capabilities to enhance their products or services and stay competitive in the market?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think there are a lot of tools that are being developed at a very rapid pace. So I guess understanding what tools will be most relevant for you and what you&#8217;re trying to achieve. Then, training the people who are gonna be utilizing those tools. Don&#8217;t forget that the human element has to be included in whatever AI instance or every AI activity you&#8217;re engaging with. If you don&#8217;t add the human element, whether it&#8217;s on the front end of inputting into the AI tool or on the back end with the output that comes out of it, then it&#8217;s not gonna be ownable. So you have to add that human element, whether it&#8217;s editorializing whether it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s adding creativity, creative prowess to it, you have, it has to be ownable or else it&#8217;s public domain. 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It&#8217;s being hyped at the moment, but it&#8217;s actually moving very, very fast and it is here to stay. So figuring out how to best deploy and adopt within a key set of principles and governance is gonna be very important to any sort of successful use for or deployment of AI. But don&#8217;t be afraid. You know, get past the fear. And again, AI is not meant to replace, it&#8217;s meant to augment. I like to refer to AI as augmented intelligence, not artificial intelligence, and look at it as a sixth sense or a second brain. But it&#8217;s not a hundred percent replacement for the human element. And as long as you recognize that and remember that it&#8217;s a balancing act I think AI can be the most useful to any individual or any business if those kinds of common principles are realized and done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the last question for you is of a personal kind. What would you be doing in your life, if not this?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would be a roving reporter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lets_Conclude\"><\/span><strong>Let\u2019s Conclude!<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b><i>Saksham Sharda:<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks, everyone for joining us for this month&#8217;s episode of Outgrow&#8217;s Marketer of the Month. That was Don McGuire, CMO of Qualcomm. Thanks for joining us, Don.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Don McGuire: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pleasure. 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