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This week at Oracle AI World (previously called Cloud World, which signals the company’s priorities), executives and industry leaders gathered to explore how AI adoption can reshape work and redefine how HR pros lead, hire and grow talent.
In his opening keynote, Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia set the tone, saying AI is “not just about changing technology but about changing how business is done everywhere.” That shift is already underway in many workplaces. Oracle data shows that 80% of employees say AI has improved their work experience.
In human resources, AI is streamlining everything from recruiting to retention. Sicilia emphasized that AI in Oracle’s human capital management applications is “shortening time to hire and bringing thousands of employee and manager hours back.”
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler took the stage with Sicilia. He spoke about innovations in his company and addressed the common fear that AI will eliminate jobs. “Most people think of AI from a standpoint of ‘it’s going to cost you to lose jobs,’ ” he said. “But if we think of deploying that technology in that way, we’re going to miss the whole opportunity.”
Instead, Butler described how organizations can use AI to reskill their workforce. “We retrained and
