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Julie Sweet

CEO & Chairman, Accenture

Search every verified Julie Sweet interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Julie Sweet, CEO and chairman of Accenture, appeared on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on October 1, 2026, to discuss the company's earnings and its performance in the AI sector. During the interview, Sweet stated that Accenture finished the year with $85 billion in new business, attributing this to a growth strategy focused on large transformational deals and positioning the company as a leader in AI and data. She noted that all geographic regions and industries reported positive results. Sweet addressed market concerns about AI potentially cannibalizing traditional services work, arguing that AI is a technology requiring operational changes to deliver value. She described Accenture as a bridge between AI and client outcomes, citing work with BP as an example. Sweet also said that AI has opened new business areas such as data centers, safety, and capital infrastructure, and expressed confidence in long-term growth, stating that AI adoption is still in its early stages and not yet scaling.

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Notable quotes

“We have believed for a very long time that businesses have responsibilities to their customers, their employees, their investors or shareholders and to their communities. We spend a lot of our corporate citizenship on digitally reskilling because we know that helps communities have more people who are employed. It's going to take more and more of those deliberate strategies to ensure that AI does benefit for all.”

“AI at Accenture is how we do work, right? You have to work in the way we work in order to be successful here. I don't see that as coercion in any way.”

“We have to commit to being intentional about preserving entry-level jobs. We are doing that at Accenture — we are hiring more entry-level jobs in all of our major markets this year than we did last year.”

“We must commit to providing access to the technology and the talent for small and medium-sized enterprises; 50% of the world's GDP are small and medium-sized enterprises, and in the global south it's 70% of employment.”

“Regulators are never going to embrace advanced AI unless they understand it; trust is built through understanding and transparency.”

“The future of AI and companies is human in the lead; the human-in-the-loop framing has been a huge disservice. When we introduced RPA around 2015 we didn't treat humans as merely validators — leaders at all levels will have more technology and fewer humans.”

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