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Connecting Data at Scale With AI: Dropbox's Ali Dasdan

October 13, 2026 · 22 min

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What if artificial intelligence could connect the scattered knowledge across your organization and help you actually use it? Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan joins Me, Myself, and AI to explain how the company is using AI to bring together information across files, apps, and platforms while navigating the challenges of security, permissions, and “context rot.” He also shares how Dropbox drove the adoption of AI coding tools to nearly 100% of its developers and why human review and guardrails still matter.

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From a career spanning leadership roles in engineering and product management at innovative technology companies across Silicon Valley and the United Kingdom for over two decades, Ali Dasdan brings deep expertise in building and scaling high-impact teams, platforms, and products to his role as chief technology officer at Dropbox. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Me, Myself, and AI is a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and hosted by Sam Ransbotham. It is engineered by David Lishansky and produced by Allison Ryder.

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