Lunch Meeting: Ann Michelle Bowlin

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) is a cutting-edge technology that fuels creativity by crafting original content. In this presentation, we introduce Generative AI's capabilities and potential.  Generative AI learns from vast data sets to produce diverse content like text, images, and music. We explore its applications in creative writing, visual art, and music composition, showcasing its potential to spark innovation.  While Generative AI offers exciting possibilities, ethical considerations are paramount with concerns around bias and the need for responsible oversight.  Looking forward, we can expect exciting changes to the way work gets done as AI and humans collaborate.

Ann Michele is an energetic leader with a passion for people engagement and development, a track record for recruiting and retaining top talent and demonstrated ability to effectively lead and work in a highly matrixed, global environment.

In her free time, Ann Michele studies martial arts, earning her black belt in Aikido in 2019.  She recently partnered to establish an Aikido school in Houston to promote, advance, and cultivate the Aikido tradition.

As Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global CIO, Ann-Michele Bowlin is responsible for the firm’s global IT strategy, innovation and implementation.  Her duties include advocating for and implementing global IT projects; leading the management of the IT team's relationship with major business stakeholders; directing the delivery of quality, cost-effective IT services; advising leadership on IT functions and contingencies; and overseeing the global IT shared budget and the overall financial viability and performance of the IT teams.

Prior to joining NRF, Ann Michele spend more than 10 years at Intertek Group Plc, joining in 2009 as Global VP for Shared Services, quickly becoming Head of IT Business Systems and Infrastructure where she collaborated with the business and financial leaders to establish the foundational elements of Intertek’s global IT strategy and improve the company’s IT support services. She was appointed Chief Information Officer in September 2010 responsible for driving the Group’s IT strategy and its alignment with the wider organization. In 2018 she was promoted to Chief Innovation Officer to drive Intertek's global innovation strategy.

Ann Michele previously held leadership and operational positions in a variety of industries including manufacturing, technology, travel and professional services.