Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has started a weekly meeting which he does not want senior managers to attend, instead… – The Times of India

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is shaking up how the tech giant approaches artificial intelligence with an unconventional leadership strategy: keeping executives out of the room. The CEO has launched a weekly AI accelerator meeting that deliberately excludes senior managers from presenting, instead giving the floor to lower-level technical employees working directly on AI projects.

Frontline workers get direct access to CEO in AI push

According to internal memos obtained by Business Insider, Nadella created the new meeting format along with a corresponding Teams channel to speed up AI development and gather unfiltered insights from across the company. The approach is intentionally “messy and chaotic,” designed to avoid top-down AI leadership and get real-time feedback from engineers in the trenches.

The move reflects Nadella’s view that AI represents both an existential threat and a…