The AI in Business Podcast

Closing the Gap Between Commercial Plans and What Happens on the Shelf - with Stephanie Lilley of Reckitt

For consumer goods companies, the gap between the commercial plan agreed at head office and what gets executed on the shelf is one of the costliest disconnects in the bus

Why Traditional Training Can't Keep Technical Teams Current - with Nicola Lyons of Andela

Traditional, event-based training can't keep pace with technical skills that now shift every six to twelve months. ​ In this episode, Nicola Lyons, Senior Director of Tal

Responsible Generative AI in Healthcare and What Leaders Need to Know for 2026 - with Rhett Alden of Elsevier Health

Generative AI is entering clinical workflows just as healthcare institutions grapple with black-box outputs, unclear regulation, and the need for provable accuracy.   In

Building AI Into Systems That Can't Afford to Be Late - with Drew Barbier of MIPS

For AI systems built into vehicles, robots, and industrial equipment, being smart isn't enough — the difference between success and failure often comes down to whether re

AI-Powered Revenue Operations: The Future of Sales for SMBs - with Vanessa Tabbert of Salesforce

Enterprise sales teams routinely let the majority of inbound leads go untouched simply because there isn't enough team bandwidth to work them all. In this episode, Vaness

Where Agentic AI Pays Off in the B2B Back Office - with Chris Bradley of Veritiv

Large B2B operations keep running order entry, invoicing, and other repetitive back-office workflows by hand, years after most companies started investing heavily in AI.

The Real‑World Conditions That Shape Industrial AI - with Scot Burdette of ABB

Industrial environments run on a different set of constraints than the typical enterprise office — physical risk, standalone factory sites, and workflows where a fragment

Closing the Skills Intelligence Gap in the AI Era - with Cory Hymel of Andela

Job titles routinely undercount what employees can actually do, especially in fast-moving technical roles.   In this episode, Cory Hymel, Head of Research at Andela, expl

Scaling Agentic Automation With Open Architecture - with Arun Chandra of NICE

A quarter of enterprise teams have gotten a single AI channel into full production — the rest are stuck somewhere behind it. In this episode, Arun Chandra, Chief Operatin

AI for Patient Critical Uptime in a Shrinking Technician Workforce - with Michael Goldman

The service environment is straining under rising equipment complexity and a rapidly shrinking technician workforce, making patient‑critical uptime harder to guarantee.  

Intelligent Operations at Enterprise Scale - with Dave Glick of Walmart

Enterprise engineering teams often spend more time triaging recurring incidents than building the features customers are asking for. In this episode, Dave Glick, Senior V

How Leaders Build for the Next Era of Compute - with Sam Grove of MIPS

Consolidating hardware into fewer, more capable chips looks like an unambiguous win — until the complexity those separate components used to handle resurfaces in the soft

How Regulated Enterprises Turn Governance Into AI Scale - with Julian Tang of BlackRock

Enterprise leaders face a growing gap between AI ambition and the fragmented data, legacy systems, and cultural friction that prevent pilots from becoming scalable value.

Determining Virtual Cell Impact for Drug Discovery - with Kristóf Szalay and Gerold Csendes of Turbine

Virtual cell models promise faster, cheaper early-stage drug discovery. However, the industry still lacks a shared way to judge which of these models can actually be trus

[AI Futures] Paolo Ardoino of Tether on Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)

The rise of non‑invasive BCIs and the privacy, security, and human‑relevance questions they introduce is becoming a central concern as this technology moves toward practi

The Predictive Model Reshaping Retail Operations at Scale - with Chris Slovak of Unframe

Most retail AI pilots stall waiting on a years-long project to centralize and clean data before any agent can go live.   In this episode, Chris Slovak, Global Field CTO a

Managing Change Across Modern Financial Operations - with Ajay Swamy of JPMorganChase and Founder of FundLens.ai

Banks can process millions of transactions an hour, yet even routine steps in financial operations still require constant human judgment to hold together.   In this episo

The Future of Customer Success and Turnkey AI Agents for SMBs - Matt Kravitz of Salesforce

Service leaders are increasingly asked to deploy AI agents without a clear sense of what these systems can safely handle today, or where to start. In this episode, Matt K

What Mature Security Programs Need Before Deploying AI - with Mark Alvarado of Academy Sports + Outdoors

The security landscape is shifting as AI accelerates existing vulnerabilities faster than most retail enterprises can adapt.   In this episode, Mark Alvarado, CISO at Aca

Closing the Medical Device Knowledge Gap with AI Driven Field Service - with Ryan Makely of Bruker

A growing gap between device complexity and organizational knowledge is turning service reliability into an enterprise‑level risk for regulated industries.   In this epis