Why Halliburton's SVP of Technology Says Don't Start With AI | Sriram Srinivasan, Halliburton

Halliburton SVP of Global Technology Sriram Srinivasan has spent 15 years at the intersection of energy and deep technology — and his advice might surprise you. Don't start with AI. Start with your use cases, your data, and your domain context. In this conversation, Sriram shares how Halliburton is using Databricks and Genie to handle data at a scale most companies can barely imagine — hundreds of hydraulic fracturing jobs generating 100 gigabytes of data each, every single day — and what it means to move AI from personal productivity to a genuine coworker in an engineering team. For any execu