Physical AI and the Autonomous Job Site with Caterpillar SVP & CDO Ogi Redzic

On the 71st episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, host Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) speaks with Ogi Redzic, SVP & Chief Digital Officer at Caterpillar. Caterpillar is a century-old industrial manufacturer operating across construction, mining, and power and energy, collecting data from 1.6 million connected assets into a single platform called Helios. Ogi explains how building that data foundation first let Caterpillar ship its Cat AI Assistant in ten months, coach operators on safety in the cab, and give field technicians instant answers drawn from 50,000 service documents. 00:00 Introduction / title animation 00:27 Ogi Redzic Introduction 00:52 Three interesting things 01:43 Ogi reflects on career / background 03:25 Caterpillar scope and scale 06:16 Powering the data center boom 08:08 Introducing the Cat AI Assistant 12:20 Empowering technicians and operators 17:58 Physical AI and job orchestration 20:27 Autonomy from mining to construction 23:30 Lightning round 29:30 Outro / closing remarks Quick Hits from Ogi: On disciplined AI adoption: "Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should." On shipping speed: "The product itself, the AI assistant, we put it out there in ten months, which before was unheard of." On measuring digital leaders: "I will not measure you just on the quality of your code or the uptime of the services that you build." Book Recommendation: The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay