The AI in Business Podcast

By Daniel Faggella

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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 Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.

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[AI Strategy] Five Elements...

06.25.2022

Today’s episode is the fifth and final part of our series on building an enterprise AI strategy. Our guest is Richard Benjamins, Chief AI & Data Strategist at Telefónica and author of “Data-Driven Company.” Telefónica is a $40B firm and ...

The AI in Business Podcast episodes:

06.25.2022 [AI Strategy] Five Elements of an Enterprise AI Strategy - with Richard Benjamins of Telefónica Today’s episode is the fifth and final part of our series on building an enterprise AI strategy. Our guest is Richard Benjamins, Chief AI & Data Strategist at Telefónica and author of “Data-Driven Company.” Telefónica is a $40B firm and ...
06.24.2022 [AI Strategy] Strategy Determines What You Don't Do - with Adam Bonnifield of Konux Today is episode four of five in our series, where we’re focusing on enterprise AI strategy. Our guest today is Adam Bonnifield. Adam is the CEO of Konux, an AI firm based in Germany. One of the key takeaways Adam ...
06.23.2022 [AI Strategy] Strategy Means Keeping the End User in Mind - with Sankar Narayanan of Fractal Analytics Today we dive back into our series on AI strategy and have two more days of episodes coming this week. Today’s guest is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal. Fractal is a unicorn company working on AI-related projects across ...
06.22.2022 Unlocking the Predictive Value of ERP Data - with Anand Mahurkar of Findability Sciences Today’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, CEO and Founder of Findability Sciences. Based in Boston, Findability Sciences has done a lot of work in the ERP space across different sectors. In this episode, Anand discusses some of the challenges of data ...
06.21.2022 [AI Strategy] Approaching Strategy Top-Down and Bottom-Up - with Bret Greenstein, Partner at PwC This is episode two of five in our series on AI strategy, and today, our guest is Bret Greenstein, Partner at PwC. Bret has worked at many of the largest consulting companies in the world, and he now leads AI ...
06.20.2022 [AI Strategy] How Microsoft Leveled Up AI Fluency to Build a Strategy - with David Carmona This week we are diving into the topic of AI strategy with a new series devoted to exploring how to build an enterprise-wide AI strategy and align company efforts to optimize long-term ROI while still seeing an immediate return with ...
06.15.2022 [AI is Here] AI for Guiding the Patient Journey - with Kostas Papagiannopoulos of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust This is another episode in our AI is Here series, and today, we’re focusing on AI in the hospital setting. In this episode, we discuss patient data and being able to guide a patient’s treatment journey with artificial intelligence. Our ...
06.14.2022 Successfully Adopting AI in Manufacturing - with Scott Everett of Eigen Innovations Inc. In this episode, we’re focusing on the theme of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing industry. Today’s guest is Scott Everett, CEO and Co-Founder at Eigen Innovations Inc. Scott discusses a variety of use-cases and ends this episode with some critical ...
06.08.2022 [AI is Here] Unlocking NLP's Potential in Banking - with Christophe Makni of Migros Bank Today’s guest is Christophe Makni, Head of Business Operations at Migros Bank. Christophe shares a few key insights in this episode, starting with where natural language processing is finding a fit in banking today and the real deployments in the ...
06.07.2022 Harnessing the Power of Drones and AI to Transform Clean Energy – with Nicholas Pilkington of DroneDeploy Today’s guest is Nick Pilkington, CTO of DroneDeploy. We’re focusing on clean energy in this episode, and Nick walks us through how artificial intelligence is becoming more relevant in the renewable energy sector. He goes in-depth about where drones and ...
06.02.2022 Improving Delivery Efficiency for Propane and Commodities Distributors - with Sanjay Chopra of Cognistx Today’s guest is Sanjay Chopra, CEO and Founder of Cognistx. Based in Pittsburgh, Cognistx is a firm that works with propane and commodities distributing companies. In this episode, Sanjay discusses the problem with the inefficient delivery of propane. He also ...
06.01.2022 [AI is Here] - From Manufacturing to Maintenance, the Impact of AI - with Peter Tu of GE Research Today’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. In this episode, Peter provides a full-circle perspective on how data can inform maintenance processes and optimize specific outcomes. He also discusses some of the challenges ...
05.31.2022 Augmentation, Not Replacement: Debunking Common AI Myths Life Sciences - with Emmanuel Walckenaer of YSEOP Today’s guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. In this episode, we discuss two core questions: first, how are enterprise leaders measuring the success of AI programs that are being used to augment human productivity? The second question is about ...
05.26.2022 Improving Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence for Video Processing - Use-Cases and Adoption - with Arun Iyengar of Untether AI Today’s guest is Arun Iyengar, CEO at Untether AI. Untether is a semiconductor firm based in Toronto, but with employees all over North America, including Silicon Valley. Arun previously worked with AMD, another major hardware and software firm in the ...
05.25.2022 [AI is Here] - Current Use-Cases of NLP in Insurance - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance Today’s guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company’s Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective ...
05.24.2022 The Importance of Subject Matter Experts in AI Project Success - with Brett Beranek of Nuance Communications Today, our guest is Brett Beranek, VP and General Manager for Security and Biometrics at Nuance Communications. For an AI company, Nuance is relatively large. Microsoft recently bought the company for $19.7B, and they serve a variety of industries. Our ...
05.20.2022 Conversational Banking, Challenges and Applications - with Ian Wilson of Strategy 4 AI Today’s guest is Ian Wilson, Managing Director at Strategy 4 AI, a strategy and consulting firm based in Cambridge in the UK. He discusses two crucial topics in this particular episode. First, where can AI actually step in, interact with ...
05.18.2022 [AI is Here] Energy Sector AI Transformation - with Dan Jeavons of Shell Today’s episode is part of our new sponsored series called “AI is Here,” where we will speak with AI experts across industries and ask them where AI is impacting their industry today and what that means for the future. In ...
05.10.2022 Keys to Creating AI-Enabled Digital Products - with Matt Berseth of NLP Logix Today’s guest is Matt Berseth, Co-Founder and CIO of NLP Logix. NLP Logix is a fast-growing AI services firm based in Florida that serves both the public and private sectors. In this episode, we’re exploring the transition from light involvement ...
05.09.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Improving Railways with AI - with Adam Bonnifield of KONUX Today’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series, where we cover one enterprise AI use-case with a measurable ROI and discuss what made it successful every Monday. Today, we’re going to explore the topic of maintaining railways. ...
05.05.2022 Improving Banking Compliance with Intelligent Document Processing - with Edouard d'Archimbaud of Kili Today’s guest is Ed d’Archimbaud, Co-Founder and CTO of Kili Technology, based in Paris, France. He has previously worked with large financial institutions such as BNP Paribas, which he speaks about in this episode. We focus on two main topics ...
05.03.2022 Creating Insurance Policies for AI Applications - with Munich Re's Michael Berger Today’s guest is Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re. In this episode, Michael brings to bear his perspective as someone with technical experience in the industry and as the leader of Insure AI at one of the ...
05.02.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Feature Engineering as a Key to AI ROI - with Chris Joynt of PTC Today in our latest AI Success Factors series episode, we are focusing on the world of heavy industry while highlighting lessons that can be applied any and everywhere. Our guest this week and Chris Joynt, AIoT Co-innovation Leader for the ...
04.26.2022 AI for Estimating Home Prices - with Stefan Boronea of Proportunity Today’s guest is Stefan Boronea, Co-Founder and CTO of Proportunity. Based in London, Proportunity is a company that has raised over $170M. In this episode, we dive into the topic of where machine learning can add value in terms of ...
04.25.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Start Small and Show Wins - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance This week’s guest on our ongoing AI Success Factors series is Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance. Until recently, he was the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence for Zurich Insurance, and he is now the COO of Zurich’s Customer Active Management ...
04.19.2022 AI for Cyber Insurance Policy Review - with Pamela Negosanti of Expert.AI Today’s guest is Pamela Negosanti, the Head of Sector Strategies for Financial Services at Expert.AI. In today’s episode, Pamela speaks to us about the policy review process for cyber insurance. There are two main stand-out points: first, how a new ...
04.18.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Using Decision Augmentation for Client Retention - with Emily Bremner of Signal AI Welcome back to our AI Success Factors series, where we publish a short episode every Monday highlighting one AI use-case and the most important factor that leads it to a positive ROI. Today’s guest is Emily Bremner, SVP of Product ...
04.12.2022 What is Data-Centric AI? - with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMinds Today’s guest is Roey Mechrez, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondMinds. BeyondMinds is an AI company based in London. Recorded live in London, this episode highlights the topic of data-centric AI. Roey provides a clear definition of this concept and discusses ...
04.11.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Construction Cost Forecasting as a Business Upside - with Dev Amratia of nPlan This week’s Success Factors series episode highlights a use-case of construction and AI. In today’s episode, we speak about one of the UK’s most prominent building and construction companies that used artificial intelligence to better estimate their cost with greater ...
04.05.2022 The Pathway from RPA to AI - with UiPath's AI Leader Sunil Tahilramani Today’s guest is Sunil Tahilramani, Director of Artificial Intelligence at UiPath. Valued at about $40B, UiPath is one of the robotics processing automation world leaders. In today’s episode, Sunil discusses what the journey from RPA to AI looks like. He ...
04.04.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Making AI Come to Life in Heavy Industry - with Nikunj Mehta Today’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series. Every Monday, we publish 15-minute episodes that focus on an enterprise success story where we discuss one particular factor that made the project successful. Today’s guest is Nikunj Mehta, ...
03.29.2022 Use-Cases for an Enterprise Data Fabric - with Amaresh Tripathy of Genpact Today’s guest is Amaresh Tripathy, Senior Vice President and Global Business Lead for Analytics at Genpact. Genpact has some 80,000 employees, and Amaresh leads a global team of nearly 8,000 analytics experts covering everything from data engineering, machine learning, data ...
03.28.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Inventory Optimization for AI Hardware Manufacturing - with Gopalan Oppiliappan of Intel This is our series on AI success factors where we cover one specific enterprise AI project that was a success, highlighting the problem, impact, and what made it a success every Monday. One of our five guests in our recent ...
03.22.2022 Building an AI Advantage in an Enterprise Environment - with Ash Fontana of Zetta Venture Partners Today’s guest is Ash Fontana, Special Advisor at Zetta Venture Partners based in the Bay Area. After recently publishing his book, “The AI-First Company,” Ash joins us again on the show to discuss some of the core transferable lessons he’s ...
03.21.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Improving Product Recommendations at Walmart - with Dr. Charles Martin Today’s guest is Dr. Charles Martin, Founder of Calculation Consulting. Charles has worked on real enterprise deployments with companies like eBay, BlackRock, and exciting startups like Aardvark, which Google acquired. Today’s episode is part of our ongoing Monday series highlighting ...
03.18.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Go After Tuna, Not Whales - with Falkonry CEO Nikunj Mehta Today is episode five out of five of this week’s special series on Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects. We’ve heard from leaders from Intel, Oracle, and other big names, and today, we’re wrapping this series up with someone from ...
03.17.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Data Quality Assessment for Non-Technical Leaders - with Dr. Charles Martin Today’s episode is part four out of five in our Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects series. This week, we have published one episode per day, starting with the Head of the AI Centre of Excellence for Intel. Today, we’re ...
03.16.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Crawl, Walk, Run - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle Today is the third episode of this five-part series being published every day this week on achieving ROI with early AI projects. We’ve heard from the Head of the AI Center of Excellence at Intel and the Head of Insure ...
03.15.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Quantifying AI Risk - with Head of AI Insurance at Munich Re, Michael Berger This is the second episode of our five-part series on achieving ROI, with early AI projects taking place this week. This series brings together great perspectives from various leaders around advice that can help us bypass typical mishaps to achieve ...
03.14.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Best Practices for ROI Measurement - with Intel's AI Centre of Excellence Leader Gopalan Oppiliappan Today is the start of a five-day series covering achieving ROI from early AI projects. In this series, we interview diverse experts from companies large and small about what it takes to pick AI projects with the highest chance of ...
03.08.2022 Improving Drug Development Speed with AI in Life Sciences - with Emmanuel Walckenaer of YSEOP Today’s guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. YSEOP is a natural language generation AI vendor serving life sciences and drug development. In today’s episode, Emmanuel speaks about speeding up the drug development process through the lens of the life ...
03.07.2022 [AI Success Factors] Detecting COVID's Impact with AI - with Telefonica's Chief AI Strategist Richard Benjamins In the third episode of our AI Success Factors series, we’re discussing a public sector application of AI. This Monday series is designed to deliver concise, industry-agnostic insights to start your week with a specific use-case and the most crucial ...
03.01.2022 Contract Analytics in Action - with Daniele Cordioli of Expert AI Today’s guest is Daniele Cordioli, Head of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at Expert.ai. In this episode, Daniele discusses what contract analytics means and the concrete use-cases we can get from it. There are two big transferable lessons that Daniele highlights ...
02.28.2022 [AI Success Factors] Crawl, Walk, Run! - with Beena Ammanath of Deloitte This is our second episode of our new Monday series highlighting AI Success Factors. Our guest is Beena Ammanath, the current Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute. Beena is also the Founder of Humans for AI, an organization ...
02.22.2022 Open Source AI and its Enterprise Potential - with Carlos Escapa of Facebook Today’s guest is Carlos Escapa, AI Global Business Development Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), and in this episode, we explore what business leaders need to know about open source. Carlos clarifies what open source is and what is relevant for ...
02.21.2022 [AI Success Factors] Fight the Right Battles - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle Today’s episode is the first of our new Monday series, AI Success Factors. This series will feature a short episode every Monday for the next four months geared towards starting your week with a look at what it takes for ...
02.15.2022 The Path Towards Next-Level AI in Business - with Peter Tu of GE Global Research This week’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. Peter joins us to discuss the transition from the previous era of AI into the current “third wave” of AI in a way that will ...
02.08.2022 Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity, from a Practitioner's Perspective - with Rajkumar Bondugula of Verizon This week’s guest is Rajkumar Bondugula, Fellow and Luminary Scientist at Verizon. Rajkumar holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and was previously the Principal Data Scientist at Equifax. In this episode, Rajkumar clarifies some of the critical differences between business ...
02.01.2022 Current Trends of AI in Healthcare - with Stacey Shulman of Intel Our guest this week is Stacey Shulman, Vice President Internet of Things Group / GM Health, Life Sciences and Emerging Technologies at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Stacey discusses where she sees AI make its way into healthcare now, how ...
01.27.2022 AI for Inventory Prediction in Manufacturing - with Anand Mahurkar of Findability Sciences Today’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, Founder and CEO of Findability Sciences. With about 100 employees worldwide, Findability operates in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. In this episode, Anand provides an in-depth overview of the workflows that are impacted in ...

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