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For more than two decades at FedEx, Rebecca Yeung helped bring robotics, autonomous vehicles, and physical AI into one of the world’s largest logistics networks. Now an advisor to companies including Dexterity, she explains what it takes to move physical AI from a promising pilot into daily operations. Rebecca argues that executives often overestimate AI’s short-term impact while underestimating its long-term potential. She also explains why buying robotics without rethinking the underlying proc

Drew DeLong works at the intersection of corporate strategy and national interest, where the boundaries between public policy and business have blurred. With a background spanning key roles at the State Department, FAA and White House, and now leading Kearney’s work in Corporate Statecraft and Geopolitical Dynamics, he brings deep experience from both sides of this evolving relationship. In this episode, Drew examines three structural shifts converging on leadership teams: the unwinding of fort

Suman’s work sits at the collision point of AI ambition and enterprise reality. From Aetna and Highmark to Merck and Pfizer, he has repeatedly been asked to build new data science and AI capabilities inside complex healthcare organizations, where fragmented data, regulatory pressure, and internal politics shape what can actually scale. In this conversation, he traces how the field evolved from early machine learning and open-source analytics into today’s generative AI wave, and why the hardest p

We’re pleased to welcome Nagisa Sakurai, who is joining as a Director and as Silicon Foundry’s first Asia-based team member. With a background spanning life sciences, regenerative medicine, corporate venture capital, and corporate innovation, Nagisa brings a multidisciplinary perspective to emerging technologies and global innovation ecosystems. Her experience includes roles across research institutions and industry organizations, including City of Hope Cancer Center, Washington University in St

Press play to listen to this article https://sifoundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ElevenLabs_The_Corporate_Venture_Trap_Why_Chasing_VC_Returns_Is_the_Wrong_Race.mp3 The AI wave is creating the biggest corporate innovation opportunity in a generation. Most CVC programs are too busy copying the VC playbook to seize it. Every few years, corporate venture capital goes through the same cycle: capital floods in, programs launch with ambitious mandates, and most quietly disappear within a few year

We’re pleased to welcome our newest Venture Partner, Yuki Shirato, Managing Director of Techstars Japan. A seasoned investor, serial entrepreneur, and attorney with more than 25 years of experience across global markets, Yuki has backed over 50 startups as an angel investor and founded Yakumi, an international angel network connecting investors across Japan, the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He also serves as Senior Advisor at Pangaea Ventures. At Silicon Foundry, Yuki works alongside c