Cofounder, O9
Search every verified Chakri Gottemukkala interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Chakri Gottemukkala, co-founder and CEO of o9 Solutions, delivered the opening keynote at the company's aim10x digital event in April 2025, where he discussed the role of artificial intelligence in enterprise management. He stated that at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, "AI was in the air" and that CEOs were "very clear that it's going to have a major and transformative impact on every process and function of their businesses." Gottemukkala argued that "dysfunctional and process silos" cause decisions to be "too slow, suboptimal, and poorly synchronized" and that AI-powered platforms can address this by ingesting digitized knowledge. He predicted that "enterprises of the future will compete against each other based on the quality of the digital knowledge models driving their processes" and urged executives to "prioritize AI powered transformation of your management systems." In a 2021 interview, Gottemukkala discussed o9 Solutions' growth, noting that the company had "acquired clients like Walmart, GE, Google, Starbucks, Nike and Estée Lauder." He attributed the company's success to the "pedigree of the o9 team" — whose founders had previously worked at a supply chain software firm in the 1990s and 2000s — and to the platform's differentiation from competitors such as JDA, Oracle, and SAP. He stated that o9 was founded with the mission of "creating huge value for enterprises by building next-generation planning software that aligns demand and supply in real time, drives down inventories, reduces waste and makes organizations much better utilizers of the Earth's resources."
“AI was in the air. CEOs were very clear that it's going to have a major and transformative impact on every process and function of their businesses.”
“One CEO even said, everyone needs to get a minor in AI.”
“O nine was founded with the premise that the largest value leakage in enterprises is that dysfunctional and process silos are causing decisions to be too slow, suboptimal, and poorly synchronized relative to the needs of a business environment that's getting more complex and more volatile than ever before.”
“Generative AI has proven that it can ingest and digest the knowledge of all the writing in the world. And because it is digitized knowledge, it has proven that LLMs and the knowledge can grow exponentially in power.”
“Enterprises of the future will compete against each other based on the quality of the digital knowledge models driving their processes.”
“AI is proving to be more and more adept at tasks like coding and configuring systems to develop new capabilities.”
“Prioritize AI powered transformation of your management systems. It is likely to be the number one driver of competitiveness and value creation for enterprises in the coming future.”
“The last three to four years has been a great ride — we acquired clients like Walmart, GE, Google, Starbucks, Nike and Estée Lauder; the fact that they have selected us is a great testament to the o9 platform and our people.”
“We were recently recognized by Gartner in their sales and operations planning Magic Quadrant as a leader — and not just as a leader but as the most visionary among the leaders.”
“Two things helped us break into global accounts: number one, the pedigree of the o9 team — the founders and core members were the driving force behind a supply chain software company in the 90s and 2000s that pioneered many innovations and delivered billions of dollars of audited value to global Fortune 1000 companies.”
“When we really started online we didn't set the bar as the competition from traditional enterprise software providers like JDA, Oracle and SAP — one of the key challenges we find in enterprise planning software is user adoption.”
“People are used to simple consumer software like Google — they type anything and get an answer; they use prescriptive systems like Google Maps and real-time demand-supply match systems like Uber.”
“Large clients are seeing the online platform as the future-ready platform that they can build their next-generation planning and operations capabilities for the next ten years to come.”
“New technologies — AI, Big Data, machine learning and digital technologies — need to be harnessed; o9 was founded with the mission of creating huge value for enterprises by building next-generation planning software that aligns demand and supply in real time, drives down inventories, reduces waste and makes organizatio...”
“We saw a huge opportunity in the market: global corporations are the largest consumers of the Earth's resources, globalization and the internet-age economy have created the ability to forecast demand, align demand and supply and synchronize the entire supply chain, yet current capabilities have fallen way behind what i...”
In this o9 opening keynote at aim10x digital ft. Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO and Co-Founder of o9 Solutions, learn why silos—from ...
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