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The AI in Business Podcast
The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI. Each week, Emerj research staff and journalists interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption. Visit our advertising page to learn more about reaching our executive audience of Fortune 2000 AI adopters: https://emerj.com/advertise
Episodes
- The AI in Business Podcast
Practical AI Procurement Advice - With Shane Zabel of Raytheon
We continue our theme this month on buying and procuring AI in the enterprise with this week's guest: Shane Zabel, Head of AI at Raytheon. Shane has seen…
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How to Buy Enterprise AI the Right Way - With Pranay Agrawal of Fractal Analytics
It's our first AI in Industry episode of the decade. January's theme is on buying and procuring AI in the enterprise. Many of our readers at Emerj want to know…
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Build a Data Moat Around Your AI Initiative - With Adam Oliner of Slack
We've touched on a lot of different kinds of expertise in this month-long series on using AI for competitive advantage. We end things by speaking with someone…
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Developing a "Data Flywheel" for an AI Solution - With Ylan Kazi of UnitedHealth Group
This week, we speak with Ylan Kazi, VP of Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. Ylan speaks with us about his take on how AI can be…
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Leveraging AI's Strengths to Get an Edge in Business - With Abigail Hing Wen
This week, we speak with Abigail Hing Wen, Co-Chair of the Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Expert Group, Machine Learning Transparency. We discuss…
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How to Identify Critical AI Decision-Points in Business - with Babak Hodjat of Cognizant
This week on AI in Industry we continue our theme of focusing on "The Competitive Advantage of AI." Babak Hodjat shares his insights about critical…
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Starting with AI the Right Way - With Monika Wilczak of EY
This month's theme is on using AI for a competitive advantage. We speak first with Monika Wilczak, Managing Director of AI at EY. Monika speaks to us about how…
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The Phases of Building an AI Strategy - With Shane Zabel of Raytheon
It's the final week of our month-long series on planning your corporate AI strategy. This week we speak with Shane Zabel, Head of AI at Raytheon. Shane talks…
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Bonus Episode: The Critical AI Capabilities for Nontechnical Professionals - With Scott Nowson of PWC
This week, we speak with Scott Nowson, AI Lead at PWC Middle East, about the critical capabilities nontechnical business people need to understand to be able…
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Assess Your Data to Find AI ROI Opportunity - With Adam Bonnifield of Airbus
In this episode, we speak with Adam Bonnifield, VP of AI at Airbus, one of the youngest executives at the firm. He talks about how to think about starting a…
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Bonus Episode: How to Level Up Your AI Skill Set Without Learning to Code
This is a special bonus episode of AI in Industry about advancing your career in the era of AI, specifically for non-technical professionals. If you don't want…
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A Pragmatists Approach to Finding AI Opportunities - With Carlos Escapa of Amazon Web Services
This week, we speak with Carlos Escapa, Global AI and ML Practice Leader for Amazon Web Services. Carlos speaks with us this week about starting an AI strategy…
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How to Begin Planning an AI Strategy - With Ian Wilson
Last month, we focused on advancing your career in the age of AI, and this month we have a new theme: building your corporate AI strategy. At Emerj, much of…
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Three AI-Related Career Roles That Involve No Coding - With Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella
This is our final episode in our series on advancing your career in the era of AI this month. We had more Linkedin messages on this theme than any we've done…
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How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant
We continue our theme on advancing your career in the era of AI. This week, we speak with another AI lead from a gigantic IT services firm: Cognizant. Bret…
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The Important Nontechnical Roles in Making AI Work in the Enterprise - With Sriram Ramanathan, CTO at Genpact
This week, we speak with Sriram Ramanathan, CTO at Genpact, about what the important non-technical roles exist for making AI work in the enterprise. Everything…
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How to Turn an AI Interest Into a Career Path (Without Learning How to Code) - With Muriël Serrurier Schepper
If you're listening to this podcast, you at least have an interest in leveraging AI in the enterprise. But how do you take that interest and use it to move up…
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The Strengths Non-Technical Employees Bring to AI Projects - With Wijay Wijayakumaran of IBM
In October, we're focusing on how non-technical employees can still gain an edge in the era of AI even if they've never learned any code. I can't think of a…
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AI's Strategic Value is the Anchor for ROI - With Daniel Faggella of Emerj
This is the final episode of our series on the ROI of AI. This week is the monthly analyst call, in which Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella breaks down some of the key…
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A Framework for Long-Term and Near-Term AI ROI - With David Carmona of Microsoft
This week, we spoke with David Carmona, the GM of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, about his approach to AI ROI with the enterprise clients of Microsoft…
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Bonus Episode: Electrical Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Solutions - With Robert Gendron of Vicor
It's clear that there's a revolution in how artificial intelligence is done with neural networks as opposed to the old school systems of the '80s and the '90s…
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Bonus Episode: Software Defined Compute - Possibilities and Advantages in Machine Learning - With Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder at Groq
This week, we have a bonus episode. We spoke with Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq, an AI hardware company, about software-defined computing. Groq is in…
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Pitfalls to Avoid for the ROI of AI - With Dr. Charles Martin of Calculation Consulting
This week, we speak with Dr. Charles Martin of Calculation Consulting. He's a bit of a mentor of mine when it comes to AI knowledge. Charles speaks to us about…
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Bonus Episode: Processing AI at the Edge - Use-Cases and AI Hardware Considerations - With Moe Tanabian of Microsoft
We have a bonus episode this week. We spoke to Moe Tanabian, General Manager of Intelligent Devices at Microsoft, who is speaking at the AI Hardware Summit in…
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How to Measure the ROI of AI - With Sankar Narayanan of Fractal Analytics
This month, we focus on the ROI of AI, and our guest this week is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics, a global AI & Analytics firm…
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Getting Started with AI, Best-Practices - With Daniel Faggella of Emerj
This is the final episode in the month-long series on getting started with AI. In this episode, Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella breaks down the key insights from all…
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Misconceptions About AI Adoption, and How to Overcome Them - with Jan Kautz of NVIDIA
This week we interview Jan Kautz, Vice President of Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA. Kautz talks about what people underestimate when they start an…
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Scaling AI Best-Practices in the Enterprise - with Jan Neumann of Comcast
This week, we speak with Jan Neumann, Senior Director of Applied AI Research at Comcast. Comcast is an enormous company; it has lots of data, lots of…
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Critical Questions to Ask Before Adopting Artificial Intelligence - With David Carmona of Microsoft
This week we speak with David Carmona, General Manager of AI at Microsoft. Carmona discusses how redefining a business process is a very different kind of AI…
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Table Stakes AI Insights for the Enterprise - with Vlad Sejnoha of Glasswing Ventures
It's the first episode of the new style of AI in Industry, in which we spend a month at a time on a specific theme. This month is AI adoption. This week we…
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Where AI is Driving Value in Insurance (and Where It's Not) - With Jerry Overton, Head of AI and Fellow at DXC Technology
This episode of the AI in industry podcast is all about where the rubber meets the road for AI in Insurance. We interview Jerry Overton, Head of AI and a…
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What's the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence? - With Elif Tutuk, Senior Director at Qlik Research
When we polled our audience about what they were interested in, the most selected response was "business intelligence." As a follow-up, we asked them what…
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How Lenders Can Win More Business with Machine Learning
This week, we interview Jay Budzik, CTO at ZestFinance, about where AI applies to the world of auto-lending. We speak with Budzik about how underwriting and…
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China's AI Education Initiatives and What It Means for the US
Some say that the competitive dynamics between the US and China in terms of AI are overblown, but there's a lot of truth to them. The US has access to more of…
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How to Maximize ROI From AI in Finance: Banking, Investing, and Insurance
While AI is certainly finding its footing in finance, we still find most of our subscribers are in a phase where they're trying to catch up in terms of data…
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How to Get Started With an Effective AI Strategy
Building an AI strategy - there's hardly anything more vague and open-ended than that. Business leaders have probably gotten the idea that they should develop…
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AI Business Strategy Basics - Critical Insights on AI Adoption
One of the best conversations I ever had on the topic of AI business strategy on the podcast was with the guest I've brought back this week: Madhu Shekar, Head…
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Five AI and Data Science Terms People Get Wrong
As it turns out, often times terms like predictive analytics and data science are used incorrectly. By the end of this podcast, you'll have greater clarity on…
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AI Enterprise Adoption Lessons From Building a National AI Strategy
This week, we interview Arnab Kumar, Founding Manager, Frontier Technologies for the NITI Aayog, the wing of the Indian government focused on rolling out AI…
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Adopting AI at the Department of Homeland Security
Erin Knealy is the portfolio manager of the cybersecurity division of the Us Department of Homeland Security. She is the interface between the US government…
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How to get an ROI from AI Internet of Things Solutions
It's curious to see how much more there is of sensor tech and internet of things than there was 18 months ago. This week, we speak with Cormac Driver, PhD and…
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AI Search Applications for Compliance, Contracts, and Human Resources
There's an entire artificial intelligence ecosystem for enterprise search. Most of this is in a purely digital world. Most vendors help with a layer of…
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What It Looks Like to Adopt AI for Competitive Advantage
The AI in Industry podcast is all about transferrable lessons. Today we speak with Andrew Byrnes, an investment director at Comet Labs in San Francisco about…
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AI Integration Challenges in Manufacturing
We did a lot of focus on healthcare for the World Bank, and we presented a lot of that research in South Africa. When I was there, I interviewed DataProft…
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Adopting AI into Healthcare Workflows
This week we speak with founder and CEO of Aidoc, Elad Walach, about the challenges of adopting AI to become part of a workflow in healthcare. We speak to him…
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How Machines and Robots Learn - the Progression of AI
This week, we speak with arguably one of the best-known folks in the domain of neural networks: Jurgen Schmidhuber. He's working on a lot of different…
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Ensuring a Positive Posthuman Transition - Perspectives from Jaan Tallin
The AI In Industry podcast is often conducted over Skype, and this week's guest happens to be one of its early developers. Jaan Tallinn is recognized as sort…
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How Business Leaders Should Think About AI Hardware
In this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we speak with Marshall Choy, VP of Product at SambaNova, an AI hardware firm based in the Bay Area. SambaNova…
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Training Self-Driving Cars in Simulations – The Future of Automotive
Danny Lange heads up the AI efforts at Unity, one of the better-known firms in terms of simulations and computer graphics. They work in several different…
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Speech Recognition and Transcription in Law and Legal
Have you ever been frustrated with how Alexa or Siri don't always understand your verbal requests? If so, then you already understand the problem that our…
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Speech Recognition and Transcription in Law and Legal
Have you ever been frustrated with how Alexa or Siri don't always understand your verbal requests? If so, then you already understand the problem that our…
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Why Executives Should Keep Up with AI Trends in Business
I hope that by the end of this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, you'll not only be able to hire better data scientists who will be a fit for your…
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The Strengths of the AI Ecosystem in China - Perspectives from a UN Leader
If you want to understand the international competitive dynamics of artificial intelligence, particularly the US and China, starting with the United Nations is…
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AutoML and How AI Could Become More Accessible to Businesses
Discover how so-called autoML, or automated machine learning, could bring AI to more businesses by allowing users to build AI models faster and cheaper. Read…
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AI for Enterprise Legal Departments - Contract Analysis and More
AI has numerous use cases in legal, from document search to compliance and contract abstraction. This week, we speak with Lars Mahler, Chief Science Officer…
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Data Challenges in the Healthcare Industry
There's a lot of venture money pouring into artificial intelligence in healthcare. From pharma to hospitals and beyond, the potential applications in…
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Success Factors for AI Business Models - A Venture Capitalist's Perspective
Saying that your company does artificial intelligence might still have a slightly cool ring to it if you're talking to one of your peers at a conference, but…
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What Makes a Successful AI Company? - A Venture Capitalist's Perspective
If one wants to start a general search engine, they're going to have to compete with Google. If one wants to start a general eCommerce platform, they'll have…
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Why It's Exceedingly Difficult to Build and Adopt AI in Business
A lot of AI in the press is CMOs or marketing people talking about what a company can do in a way that really is aspirational. They're speaking about what they…
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How to Build Data Science Teams for AI Projects
This week we interview a leader at Facebook. Jason Sundram is the lead of World.ai at Facebook, which is one of their efforts to work with public data around…