Feroz Sheikh - Fortune Leaders Forum 2026

From AI to action. 🤖🌱 At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau, Feroz Sheikh, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Syngenta Group, explored how AI and machine learning are helping make agriculture more predictive, precise and ready to respond to an increasingly uncertain world. With almost €2 billion of agricultural production lost to heat stress in Europe this year, the challenges facing agriculture are becoming harder to predict — and businesses cannot always have all the answers upfront. So what does leadership look like when you cannot plan for everything? For Feroz, it means creating the right guardrails for people to navigate complexity, experiment, learn and adapt. It means turning data into predictions, predictions into decisions, and innovation into real-world impact. And importantly, it means recognising that failure is a data point. By treating setbacks as opportunities to learn rather than reasons to stop, we can build the confidence to innovate faster — supporting our teams and, ultimately, the farmers who rely on us. In a complex world, the real advantage may not be knowing exactly what comes next, but being ready to respond when it does. Watch the conversation from the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau. #Breakthroughs #AgTech #AI #MachineLearning #Agriculture #Innovation #DigitalAgriculture Read the Fortune article: fortune.com/2026/09/08/leaders-stop-predicting-build-adaptability/ With thanks to ‪@fortune‬ and Andrew Staples.