This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Alberto Prado - former Global Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships at Unilever, former Head of R&D Strategy at Nokia, and one of the few executives in the world who has had a front-row seat to two of the biggest technology disruptions of our lifetime.Alberto was inside Nokia when the company held over 50% of the global mobile market — and watched from the inside as the iPhone and Android rewrote the rules overnight. He then spent five years leading AI-driven transformation of Unilever's global R&D organisation, compressing decades of laboratory work into minutes using AI and computational science.In this episode, Alberto shares the hard-won lessons from both experiences and draws striking parallels between what happened to the mobile industry and what is now unfolding with AI. From the cultural dynamics that prevent large organisations from adapting, to why domain expertise matters more than ever, to the radical rethinking of how companies, teams and even universities need to evolve - this is a masterclass in transformation from someone who has lived it.What you'll take away from this conversation:- Why the same patterns that destroyed Nokia are playing out again across industries today - How Unilever used AI to compress tens of years of R&D into minutes - Why culture, not technology, determines whether your organisation survives - The shift from hardware-driven to software-driven value creation - and what comes next - Why "humans push the ceiling and machines raise the floor" - How leaders should rethink their organisations as hybrid human-AI teams - Why the education system is fundamentally unprepared for the AI era - The skills that will define the most valuable people in any organisation going forwardAbout Alberto Prado: Alberto is a globally recognised technology and innovation leader with over 25 years of experience spanning telecoms, consumer electronics, healthcare and FMCG. He served as Global Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships at Unilever, where he led the digital transformation of R&D and the creation of the Unilever DataLab Ecosystem. Prior to Unilever, he established and led the Digital Innovation Accelerator at Royal Philips and chaired the company-wide AI Council. Earlier in his career, Alberto held executive roles at Nokia (Head of R&D Strategy), Symbian Software (VP Global Product Management), and NEC Europe. He holds an Engineering and Economics degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.GAEA Talks is the enterprise AI podcast for leaders navigating the age of artificial intelligence. Subscribe for weekly conversations with the people shaping the future of business, technology and society.LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/albertoprado GAEA AI: https://gaealgm.ai#AI #EnterpriseAI #DigitalTransformation #Nokia #Unilever #Leadership #Innovation #GAEATalks #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AITransformation