Hitachi: Story Behind AI

Executive Interview Video Production for Hitachi’s “Stories Behind AI” Series

Recently, The Bureau Media partnered with Hitachi Digital to produce interviews for Innovators: Stories Behind AI, a content series highlighting the leaders and technologies shaping the future of artificial intelligence across the Hitachi Group.

Filmed at Hitachi Digital’s Santa Clara headquarters, the project brought together five executives over two production days to discuss how AI is transforming industries ranging from software development and manufacturing to transportation, energy, and data infrastructure.

The video featured here tells the story of Suhail Khaki, Chief Technology Officer of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) at GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company. His team’s focus is a challenge many organizations are facing today: AI tools are becoming increasingly powerful, but they’re often fragmented and disconnected. Their answer is VelocityAI, a platform where intelligent agents collaborate across the software development lifecycle, helping organizations move from ideas to working prototypes dramatically faster than traditional development workflows.

One of the most memorable moments from the interview was Suhail’s comparison between today’s AI tools and Tesla’s Autopilot. Most AI systems still require humans to remain heavily involved throughout the process. The future he describes looks more like Full Self-Driving, where AI handles the majority of the work and brings humans into the loop only when needed. It’s a simple analogy that makes a highly technical concept immediately understandable.

From a production standpoint, one of the biggest challenges was coordinating interviews with multiple senior leaders while remaining respectful of demanding schedules. Executive interview productions require more than strong visuals—they require preparation, efficiency, and the ability to keep a production moving without disrupting the people involved.

Our goal was to create a consistent visual style across the entire series while making the interview experience as seamless as possible for each participant. By staying organized and on schedule, we were often able to use a few extra minutes at the end of an interview to capture custom B-roll with each executive, adding visual depth and personality to their stories without requiring additional filming days.

What we enjoy most about projects like this is helping translate complex technology into stories people can connect with. Whether the topic is AI orchestration, software development, smart manufacturing, or next-generation infrastructure, the most compelling part of every story is still the person behind the innovation.

Suhail’s episode is one of several featured in the series. Other stories explore Hitachi Rail’s digital train factory in Hagerstown, building AI solutions for evolving industrial applications, creating a human-centered AI-enabled electrical grid, and preparing data centers for increasing global demand.

As a San Jose-based video production company, The Bureau Media partners with enterprise technology companies, startups, and agencies throughout Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area to produce executive interviews, customer stories, brand films, and technology-focused video content. Whether we’re helping explain a complex product or capturing the perspective of an industry leader, our goal is always the same: make technical stories feel human.

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