Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science

S5 Ep80: EP 80: Govern Before You Buy: Walter Haydock on AI Governance, Risk, and Agent Security

Walter Haydock has spent his career helping data and security leaders deploy AI without fear. A former U.S. Marine officer and founder of StackAware, he joins Sam and Mac

S5 Ep79: EP 79: The “Why Now” Test for AI Startups | Vanessa Larco, VC & Formerly NEA Partner

Vanessa Larco has sat on both sides of the table. She built products at Microsoft, Disney, Twilio, and Box, then led investments at NEA, including Mejuri and Kindred, and

S5 Ep78: EP 78: Do You Know What Agents You Have Running? Transcend's Rowan Stewart on AI Agent Governance

Rowan Stewart has watched companies rush AI products to market without the governance to back them up, first at BCG and now at Transcend, where the clients include Robinh

S5 Ep77: EP 77: They Transferred $25M to a Deepfake — Why Your AI Isn't as Governed as You Think | Dr. Latha Karthigaa

In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, host Mac Goswami sits down with Dr. Latha Karthigaa — Director & Head of AI Governance at the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC)

S5 Ep76: EP 76: Dashboards Are Wrong in the Background. AI Is Wrong in Your Face | Barr Moses, Monte Carlo

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Barr Moses — CEO & co-founder of Monte Carlo, creator of the

S5 Ep75: EP 75: Inside the AI Control Plane: Governance, Guardrails, and Model Routing | Sean Lynch, ActualyzeAI

ActualyzeAI came out of stealth just days before this conversation. Sam sits down with Co-Founder and CTO Sean Lynch to unpack what it means to build a "control plane" th

S5 Ep74: EP 74: The AI Agent That Actually Fixes IT Tickets — Not Just Chats About Them | Oshri Moyal, Atera

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Oshri Moyal — CTO & co-founder of Atera, the autonomous IT p

S5 Ep73: EP 73: A Teenager Could Now Run a Nation-State Attack — Insider Risk in the AI Era | Rajan Koo, DTEX

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rajan Koo — CTO of DTEX Systems, chartered engineer, and one

S5 Ep72: EP 72: Social Robotics 101: Building Robots That Understand You | Chris Kudla, Mind Children

Most robotics companies are chasing industrial automation. Mind Children, co-founded by Chris Kudla and Ben Goertzel in 2023, is going after something harder: social robo

S5 Ep71: EP 71: The PRD Is Dead — What AI Just Did to Product Management & Cyber Defense | Ed Martin, Sophos

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Ed Martin — VP of Product Management for AI Strategy at Soph

S5 Ep70: EP 70: The Man Who Coined "AGI" - on Why Scaling LLMs Won't Get Us There | Ben Goertzel, SingualarityNET

Ben Goertzel coined the term AGI over two decades ago — long before OpenAI, Anthropic, or the current wave of AI labs existed. Sam sits down with him to talk about why he

S5 Ep69: EP 69: "You Don't Build a Power Plant to Charge Phones" — Why Enterprise AI Should Start Big | Nikunj Bajaj, TrueFoundry

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Nikunj Bajaj — co-founder & CEO of TrueFoundry and former AI

S5 Ep68: EP 68: Filling Europe's Labor Gap with Humanoids | Olle Bergstedt, CEO, Kalk Robotics

Europe is short 5.4 million industrial laborers, and the gap is widening as younger generations move away from manufacturing work. Sam sits down with Olle Bergstedt, CEO

S5 Ep67: EP 67: "Humanity Was Dead. 36 Survivors Remained." — A Sci-Fi Author on AI, War & Our Future | Douglas Swatski

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion on the final day, where host Mac Goswami sat down with science-fiction author Douglas Swatski abou

S5 Ep66: EP 66: The Intelligence Dividend - Rethinking AI as Market Creation, Not Cost-Cutting | Rohit, LotusPetal AI

Most business leaders think of AI as either a cost-cutter or an efficiency multiplier. Rohit V Anabheri, CEO of LotusPetal AI and author of The Intelligence Dividend, arg

S5 Ep65: EP 65: The AI Bottleneck Nobody's Watching | Troy Liljedahl, Backblaze

Storage is the least glamorous layer of the AI stack — and often the actual reason GenAI pipelines stall between pilot and production. Sam sits down with Troy, Senior Dir

EP 65: The AI Bottleneck Nobody's Watching | Troy Liljedahl, Backblaze

Storage is the least glamorous layer of the AI stack — and often the actual reason GenAI pipelines stall between pilot and production. Sam sits down with Troy, Senior Dir

EP 64: Lack of ROI Is Actually Lack of Trust — Fixing Enterprise AI for Finance | Binny Gill, Kognitos

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Binny Gill — CEO & co-founder of Kognitos, holder of ~100 pa

EP 63: From Intel to Mars: The 26-Year Story Behind OpenCV

OpenCV powers the computer vision behind your phone's camera, autonomous vehicles, hospital screening systems, and even NASA's Mars helicopter — and most people using it

S5 Ep62: EP 62: 95% of AI Pilots Fail. Here's Why | Mohamed Battisha, VP of Engineering at WEX

What actually separates a data platform built for AI agents from the data warehouse most enterprises already have?  Recorded live at Ai4 conference in Vegas, AsembleAI c