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The Business of AI
AI is our Business. Looking at how businesses are using AI to build services and tools, transforming organisations and delighting consumers. We explore the different types of businesses that are emerging and find out how they are using AI technology. UKAI is the trade association for AI businesses in the UK. The show is hosted Tim Flagg, AI entrepreneur and chief executive of UKAI. Featuring business leaders, policymakers, authors, politicians and entrepreneurs. Join us to learn how to build…
Episodes
- The Business of AI
Can Quantum Computing Make AI Better Today? with Richard Murray [105]
Quantum computing is not a distant dream: you can run real workloads on it right now. Richard, co-founder of ORCA Computing, did his PhD in quantum physics 25…
- The Business of AI
Do You Really Know How Good You Are at AI? Ozan Dagdeviren [104]
Most of us think we are better at AI than we really are, by almost 20 points on average. In this episode, Ozan, founder of AISA, an AI fluency assessment…
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AI’s Wild West: Who’s Accountable When It Goes Wrong? with Sonia Nash, Nash Consulting [103]
AI adoption is accelerating, but where is the return on investment? Too many businesses are investing in AI without defining the problem they want to solve…
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Who’s Accountable for AI Risk and Regulation? With Giovanni Coletta from Quantidal [102]
As companies race to deploy increasingly autonomous AI agents, the biggest threat isn't just technical failure. It's the growing gap between AI capabilities…
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Your Next Employee Might Be an AI Agent, with Ray Welsh, Agentic Workforce Solutions [101]
Most companies are still treating AI like software and that may be why so many struggle to turn promising pilots into enterprise value. The shift to agentic AI…
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How is the UK workforce actually using GenAI? Ben Stanton from Deloitte [100]
AI adoption is soaring, so why are half of users saving no time at all? Deloitte’s new GenAI Workforce survey of 25,000 UK workers exposes a growing gap…
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AI Data Centres: Separating Energy Myths from Facts with Spencer Lamb from Kao Data [99]
Are AI data centres really about to consume Britain’s power and water, or are the headline numbers hiding a very different story? Spencer argues that some of…
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Is AI About to Reinvent Consulting? With Neil Marley from Neologik [98]
What happens to consulting when AI can do in days what teams of consultants used to spend months delivering? Neil argues that AI is rapidly collapsing the cost…
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Robotaxis in Westminster. What Else Happened in British AI This Week - Ten Minute Take - Fri 040926
This week Tim gets a ride at the buzzy Uber x Wayve robotaxi launch in London ("AI on wheels" and, "a real milestone for the British AI industry"), digs into…
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Context Is Everything: The Secret to Better AI Design with Kevin Coyle, Drutek [95]
Why does AI-generated code so often look sloppy, even when it works? Kevin Coyle, founder of Drutek, joins the podcast to explain why the missing ingredient…
- The Business of AI
The Secret Weapon for Small Business Growth with Daniel Callis from Beyla [97]
What if every small business could access the same financial expertise as a global enterprise? This conversation with Daniel Callis from Beyla AI explores how…
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The Real Reason Your AI Strategy Is Failing (It's Not the Tech) with Kirsty Mac from Illuminate [96]
AI transformation isn't a technology challenge, it's a leadership challenge. This conversation explores why the biggest barriers to AI adoption are human, not…
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Who Gets Rewarded in the AI Economy? With Isvari Maranwe from YuVoice [094]
Social media has become exceptionally good at rewarding attention and dangerously poor at rewarding social value. This episode explores a different model…
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Why AI Leadership Must Value Humans with Jenny Garrett [093]
AI’s biggest opportunity is not simply cutting costs or accelerating output. It is improving people’s lives without leaving anyone behind. Jenny Garrett argues…
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Who Controls AI-Powered Creativity? With Tanya Samuel [92]
AI will not replace creativity, but it could reshape who gets to create, whose work is protected and which stories reach the market. Tanya argues that the real…
- The Business of AI
Why AI Leadership Needs More Women with Tram Anh Nguyen [91]
AI adoption will not create value until organisations can answer three questions: where is it changing workflows, what measurable value is it producing, and…
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How to Design AI for Scale From Day One with Tom Greenlees, Intelligent Core [090]
Most AI pilots do not fail because the technology is weak. They fail because nobody truly owns the operational problem, incentives reward the status quo, data…
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From AI Hype to Hard ROI, with Sam Jeremiah, Fern AI [087]
AI spending is rising faster than the evidence that it works. The real problem is not lack of ambition, but lack of observability: companies see the cloud…
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How to Build AI Literacy That Drives Adoption with Greg Freeman, Data and AI Literacy Academy [088]
Most AI programmes fail because companies teach tools instead of changing how work gets done. Real AI literacy is not “buttonology”; it is the confidence…
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Why AI Needs More Than an Autopilot with Ed Chinn, Kintara [089]
AI should work like autopilot: powerful enough to accelerate progress, but never trusted so blindly that people lose the ability to take control. The biggest…
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The Human Interface for Enterprise AI, with Ilann Hepworth at ShopAI [086]
Most AI adoption fails because businesses force employees into yet another system. The bigger opportunity is to bring trusted intelligence into familiar…
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Optimising the Operating Model for Continuous AI with Sarah Heffron [085]
AI transformation is the wrong goal. Businesses should be building for continuous adaptation. New tools will keep emerging, operating conditions will keep…
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Accessible AI Is Better Business, with Rachael Mole - Moleworks [084]
AI could become the most powerful workplace adjustment ever created—or another system that quietly excludes millions. The difference comes down to design…
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How Agentic AI Changes the Way We Work with Howard Chen - Alknoma [083]
AI agents will not transform productivity if employees must supervise dozens of disconnected tools. The real opportunity is orchestration: one intelligent…
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AI That Helps Humans Do Their Best Work, with Emma Beattie
Most companies are measuring AI too narrowly. The real business opportunity is not just productivity, but removing the hidden friction that stops people doing…
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Using AI to Stop Fraud Before It Starts with Heather Adams
AI’s biggest value in risk may not be faster detection, it may be stopping people before harm happens. In fraud, financial crime, and scam prevention, the next…
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Why AI Governance Unlocks Innovation with Seto Adenuga [080]
Responsible AI is often treated as a compliance burden. That is a mistake. Done properly, governance becomes an innovation gate: helping organisations build AI…
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When AI Lies About You: The New Reputation Crisis with Ian Aizikovich, Flarepoint
AI hallucinations are no longer just technical glitches. They are becoming reputational, legal and financial risks for companies, public bodies and…
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How Regulation Unlocks AI Investment with Angela Stathi
AI policy is no longer just about risk. It is becoming a lever for investment, market confidence and national competitiveness. The hardest challenge is…
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No Data Strategy, No AI Strategy with Fuad Hendricks, Hark Consultants
AI ambition is outpacing data readiness. Companies want agentic AI, automation and enterprise-scale intelligence, but many are still running on fragmented…
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Why Responsible AI Needs Different Thinkers with Petra Abbam, BBC
Most companies treat AI adoption as a technology problem. The harder challenge is cultural: helping people know when to use AI, when not to, and how to make…
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Beyond LLMs: The Future of AI Models with Manish Patel from Jiva.ai
The AI race may not be won by bigger language models. Manish argues that LLMs are powerful interfaces, but weak foundations for true intelligence because…
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AI Fraud: The Hidden Risk Behind AI Adoption with Aarti Samani
AI’s productivity promise has a darker twin: a fast-growing fraud economy built on manipulation, deepfakes, voice cloning and human psychology. The real…
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73. The AI Reputation Risk Facing Every Business with Tom Mason from Awareness AI
AI is no longer just helping people find businesses, it is becoming the first version of the business they encounter. That creates a new reputational risk: if…
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72. Symbolic AI: The next AI architecture, inspired by our brains with Nikolay Gurianov - Braintree
AI may be scaling fast, but we hear from Nikolay that the current wave has already hit a ceiling. Pattern recognition alone is not enough to deliver the next…
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71. AI Won’t Fix a Broken Operating Model - Adam Hadley - Quantspark
Most AI investments fail for a simple reason: companies start with the tool, not the business need. Productivity gains do not come from layering AI onto…
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70. Ethical AI Is a Competitive Advantage with Femma Ashraf from Astronomical AI
Ethical AI is not a compliance add-on, it is a competitive advantage. This episode makes the case that better AI outcomes come from better design choices at…
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69. Your AI Is Only As Good As Your Data with Graeme King, Amino Data
Nobody wants to be governed. Everyone wants to be excellent. That simple reframe is at the heart of this conversation with Graeme King, a data and AI…
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68. The Sustainable AI Playbook: Cutting Through the Hype with Malcolm Buckley, Bright Angles
From busting myths about energy-hungry data centres to explaining why your fridge temperature could be saving your company thousands, Malcolm brings a…
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67. Fixing Food’s Broken Economics with Sophia Fannon-Howell from Aterra.ai
What if the real problem in food is not productivity, but a deep imbalance of power? Sophia Fannon-Howell, founder of Aterra.AI argues that the UK food system…
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66. AI Adoption Is a Leadership Problem - Natalia Chronowiat - Women in AI
AI isn’t held back by technology, it’s held back by fear. The real barrier to adoption inside companies isn’t capability, but confidence: employees worry about…
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65. Who Shapes the AI Future with Baroness Manzila Uddin - Women in AI
Who decides how AI reshapes society: technologists, governments, or the communities living with its consequences? As AI and digital platforms scale rapidly…
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64. Stop watching and start building AI. With Sumathi Menon. Women in AI Special Episode.
Most people are consuming AI tools. Far fewer are building with them and that gap is where the real opportunity lies. In this episode, AI strategist Sumathi…
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62. AI for the Real World with Linda Hong Cheng, Lychee Labs
World models could be the breakthrough that takes AI beyond predicting text and into understanding reality. In this episode, Linda Hong Cheng explains how…
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63. When AI Mediates Human Conflict with Vanessa Carson - UKAI Women in AI Special
What if AI could prevent conflicts from escalating and create an auditable record of what really happens when they do? This episode explores a new category of…
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61. Who wins the AI trade war? Economist Karishma Banga joins the Women in AI podcast
AI isn’t just a technology race, it’s a trade policy battleground that will determine who captures value and who falls further behind. The real AI divide isn’t…
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60. The AI Adoption Myth: Why Access Isn’t Impact - Louise Moody from Atheni.ai
If AI is so powerful, why are most companies seeing almost no real productivity gains? This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: giving employees access to…
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59. Why AI Projects Fail: Confidence, Culture and How to Scale - with GAIL, (Global AI Leaders)
Why are so many companies investing in AI but seeing so little real impact? Is the biggest barrier bad data, or a workforce that secretly lacks the confidence…
- The Business of AI
58. How AI Optimises Infrastructure, Turning Complexity into Clarity, with Michael Avant-Smith BMA
AI can help make sense of complex infrastructure projects, turning disconnected systems into clear plans that improve efficiency at scale and help protect…
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57. Why Sustainability and AI Are About to Collide (Hard): Alex Smith
What does real sustainability look like when AI enters the room—loud, power-hungry, and ethically ambiguous? In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast…
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56. Women, Work and the Future of AI: Sheridan Ash and Tech She Can
In this episode of the UKI Women in AI podcast, Sheridan (Founder & Co-CEO of Tech She Can) tells the story from “Well Rough” (Wellingborough, as lovingly…
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55. AI, Finance & Chaos: Lida Cepuch on Risk, Governance, and Surviving the Markets
In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, Zahra sits down with Lida Cepuch — a technologist-turned-governance heavyweight whose career has zig-zagged…
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54. Governing The Machine: The UK's Chance to Lead with Ray Eitel-Porter & Paul Dongha
How do you actually govern AI so you can use it at scale without blowing up your risk register? In this episode of the Business of AI podcast, Tim chats with…
- The Business of AI
53. Work Amplifiers: How AI Agents Can Transform Non-Profits with Alex Skinner
AI agents can become “work amplifiers” for non-profits and membership organisations IF you start with the problem, not the solution. In this in-person episode…
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52. Bold, Loud, Unstoppable: How Women Can Win in AI with Ramyani Basu
Ramyani shares her 25-year journey from being the only woman in engineering classes to leading digital, analytics, and AI across Northern Europe, while…
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51. Leveraging AI as a Competitive Advantage in a Global Corporation with Bosch's Steffen Hoffmann
Bosch on Skills, Trust, and the Future of Work. What does real adoption actually look like inside a global industrial giant? In this episode, Stefan Hoffmann…
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50. Women in AI: IBM's Sharon Moore MBE on Leadership, Sponsorship, and Building a Career in Technology
In this episode of UKAI’s The Business of AI Podcast: Women in AI special, Zahra Shah, Chair of UKAI’s Women in AI Working Group, speaks with Sharon Moore MBE…
The Business of AI49. From No.10 to Next-Gen AI: Ben Turner on Behaviour Prediction & Synthetic Data
In this episode of the Business of AI podcast, we’re joined by Ben Warner, co-founder of Electric Twin, a company creating cutting-edge synthetic populations…
The Business of AI48. AI Marketing Playbook 2025: Tactics, Trends & Real Business Use Cases with Martin Broadhurst
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, host Tim Flagg sits down with chartered marketer, HubSpot Platinum Partner and AI & automation consultant Martin…
The Business of AI47. Women in AI: AI, Gender Bias and Online Safety: Insights from Researcher Sarah Wyer
In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, host Zahra Shah sits down with Sarah Wyer, a leading PhD researcher specialising in gender bias in large…