The AI in Business Podcast

By Daniel Faggella

Technology Business

What's The AI in Business Podcast about?

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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Today’s guest is Kai Schrimpf, Global Head of Transaction Monitoring at UBS. UBS is a financial services organization doing more than $35 billion in annual revenue based in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland. In this episode, we dive into compliance in ...

The AI in Business Podcast episodes:

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 ...
01.25.2022 The Future of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Detection in Banking - with Bob Gaines of SambaNova Today’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, ...
01.18.2022 The Practical Business Case for AI Governance - with IBM's Chief AI Officer Seth Dobrin Our guest this week is Dr. Seth Dobrin, the Global Chief AI Officer at IBM, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Seth returns to the podcast to speak about AI governance in terms of enabling ...
01.13.2022 How AI Can Improve Manufacturing Productivity - with Remi Duquette of MayaHTT Today’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at Maya HTT. Maya HTT is an engineering and industrial AI services firm that Remi’s been with for twenty years. Remi draws on his hands-on experience to discuss ...
01.11.2022 AI Transformation in Agriculture, Use-Cases and Trends - with Gregory Diamos of Landing AI This week’s guest is Gregory Diamos, Machine Learning Systems Engineering at Landing AI. Run by one of the most prominent names in the business AI world, Andrew Ng, Landing AI has raised over $50M to date. Before Andrew founded Landing ...
01.04.2022 Overcoming Hurdles to Making Conversational Interfaces Work - with Joe Bradley of LivePerson Today’s guest is Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist, SVP Data Science & ML at LivePerson. Joe was previously the Senior Director for Data and Personalization Science at Nike before joining the team at LivePerson. In this episode, Joe breaks down how ...
12.28.2021 AI Recommendations for Employee Education and Training - with Bhaskar Deka of EdCast Today’s guest is Bhaskar Deka, Global Head of Product Management and AI at EdCast. Based in the Bay Area, EdCast has raised over $100M and has more than 400 employees to date. This episode focuses on onboarding new employees and ...
12.21.2021 AI and IoT Applications in the Present and Future - with Joseph Berti of IBM Our guest this week is Joseph Berti, VP of AI Applications at IBM. In this episode, Joseph discusses the current capabilities of AI and IoT, highlighting specific use-cases where he’s seen value delivered in the industry. He also talks about ...
12.14.2021 Leveling Up from Business Intelligence with Forecasting - to Ramprakash Ramamoorthy of Zoho Our guest this week is Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research at Zoho Corporation. Based near the Bay Area, Zoho is a firm with over $600M in annual revenue that offers various software products, including CRM, business intelligence solutions, and ...
12.07.2021 Three Transformative AI Use-Cases in Manufacturing - with Everton Paulino of SambaNova This week’s guest is Everton Paulino, Business Development Executive of Automotive & Manufacturing at SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has raised approximately $1B to bring their hardware and software solutions to market. In this episode, he brings experience to bear and ...
11.30.2021 A Use-Case Deep Dive: Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing - with Faustino Gomez of NNAISENSE Today’s guest is Faustino Gomez, CEO, and Co-Founder of NNAISENSE. NNAISENSE is a firm focused on developing AI solutions for the physical world, and we spoke with their other Co-Founder, Jürgen Schmidhuber, about two years ago. If you’re interested in ...
11.23.2021 Using AI to Improve Financial Collections - with Sanjay Deshmukh of Findability Sciences Our guest this week is Sanjay Deshmukh, Executive Vice President of Findability Sciences. Findability is a SoftBank-backed firm here in the Boston area with about 100 employees around the world. In this episode, he discusses how Findability is applying artificial ...
11.18.2021 Improving Manufacturing Quality with AI - with Remi Duquette of MayaHTT Today’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at MayaHTT. MayaHTT is a services firm focused on industrial engineering and industrial AI. In this episode, he speaks to his direct knowledge of applying AI in the ...
11.17.2021 No One AI Tool Can Solve All Problems - with Jeff Mills of iMerit Technology Today’s guest is Jeff Mills, Chief Revenue Officer of iMerit Technology. Working in the data labeling and annotation space, iMerit is a company that works with some of the world’s largest autonomous vehicles, big tech, and legacy enterprises. In this ...
11.16.2021 Making AI Easier to Adopt into the Enterprise - with Marshall Choy of SambaNova Systems Today’s guest is Marshall Choy, VP of Product at SambaNova Systems. In this episode, Marshall discusses two different approaches to AI adoption: doing it yourself and leveraging AI platforms. He shares his perspective on the advantages and disadvantages to both ...
11.14.2021 The Fundamentals of Enterprise Data Fabric - Unlocking the Value in Enterprise Data - with Daniel Hernandez of IBM Today’s guest is Daniel Hernandez, General Manager of Data and AI for IBM. In this episode, we discuss the topic of the access and governance of data. Daniel discusses the concept of a data fabric and what it means from ...
11.09.2021 AI Trends That Will Impact Business Leaders - with Bestselling Author Martin Ford Today's guest is Martin Ford, futurist and New York Times best-selling author of the 2015 book “Rise of the Robots.” Martin’s most recent book, “Rule of the Robots,” highlights where artificial intelligence is likely to impact day-to-day life, business, and ...
11.06.2021 Turning Data Strategy into AI ROI - with TJ Shembekar of IBM Today’s guest is TJ Shembekar, Director of IT for IBM Global Financing. TJ has been with IBM for over 15 years and has gone through the entire journey of bringing AI to life in the Financing wing of IBM, from ...
11.05.2021 What it Takes to Make AI Part of the Lifeblood of a Company - with Stacey Shulman of Intel This is the final episode in our five-part series on AI culture change in the enterprise. Every day this week, we have published an episode covering this topic with guests from Facebook, IBM, and other organizations. Today’s guest is Stacey ...
11.04.2021 The Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity - with Domino Data Lab CEO Nick Elprin As episode four of five in our series on enterprise culture change for AI adoption, we speak with Nick Elprin, CEO of Domino Data Lab. His company has currently raised nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to bring their ...
11.03.2021 Lifting the “AI Fluency” of Enterprise Teams at Scale - with Andreas Welsch of SAP This is episode three in our series on AI culture change in the enterprise taking place this week through Friday. We will be publishing episodes daily highlighting actionable insights for developing an AI-ready culture within your enterprise from leaders at ...
11.02.2021 How Culture Separates Top-Performing AI Teams - with Carlos Escapa of Facebook In the second episode of our five-part series on AI culture change, our guest is Carlos Escapa, Global Business Development Manager for Facebook AI. Previously the Global AI and ML Practice Leader for Amazon Web Services, Carlos shares insights from ...
11.01.2021 What "Building an AI Culture" Really Involves - with IBM's Chief AI Officer Seth Dobrin This week's guest is Dr. Seth Dobrin, Chief AI Officer for IBM. As one of the best-known AI companies in the world, IBM has over 300,000 employees. As the first episode in this series on AI culture, Seth provides unique ...
10.26.2021 End-User Impact is the Best Way to Make the AI Business Case - with Gaurav Srivastava of FarEye Today’s guest is Gaurav Srivastava, CTO at FarEye. Having recently raised another $100M, FarEye has now raised a total of $150M to bring artificial intelligence to the supply chain. In this episode, Gaurav talks about how end-user impact is what ...
10.19.2021 Everything Will Be Digitized: The Future of AI in Heavy Industry - with Joseph Berti of IBM Our guest this week is Joseph Berti, VP of AI Applications at IBM. This week, Joseph discusses high-level trends in how AI is making its way into heavy industry. He also speaks about what the world will look like as ...
10.12.2021 How AI Adoption Differs from Analytics Adoption - with Bhaskar Roy of Fractal Analytics Today’s guest is Bhaskar Roy of Fractal Analytics. Bhaskar previously held high-level analytical roles at Target and Accenture before joining Fractal Analytics and taking on more artificial intelligence projects. In this episode, Bhaskar discusses the conceptual and practical differences between ...
10.05.2021 Unlocking the Predictive Value of AI in Retail - with Levi’s Chief AI Officer Katia Walsh This week’s guest is Katia Walsh, Ph.D. and Chief Strategy Officer for Levi Strauss & Co. Levi’s is one of the best-known apparel brands in the world at $5.5B in annual revenue. Katia holds an important position in that company ...
09.28.2021 AI in the Workplace, What it Means for Employees - with Emily He of Oracle Today’s guest is Emily He, SVP of Human Capital Management at Oracle’s Cloud Business Group. Currently ranked the 80th in the Fortune 100, Oracle is well-known for enterprise software and IT solutions. Emily has also managed the research that Oracle ...
09.21.2021 How an Established Enterprise Builds an AI Team - with Ramprakash Ramamoorthy of Zoho This week’s guest is Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research at Zoho Corporation. Based in the Bay Area, Zoho makes over $600M in annual revenue and offers a variety of software products, including CRM, business intelligence solutions, and more. Today, ...
09.14.2021 Medical Device AI at the Edge - Use-Cases and Challenges - with Patrick Bangert of Samsung SDS Today’s guest is Patrick Bangert, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Samsung SDS, the services wing at Samsung. With $200B in annual revenue, Samsung is the 15th largest company in the world according to the Global 500. Today, Patrick discusses the ...
09.07.2021 Intersection AI and RPA - Two Ways to Find Efficiency Opportunities, with Merve Unuvar of IBM This week’s guest is Merve Unuvar, Director of AI Platforms and Automation at IBM Research AI. This week’s focus is on the intersection of AI and RPA, which is a technology separate from AI, and how to identify places where ...
08.31.2021 Personalized Medicine Before and After AI - with Alexandre Le Bouthillier of Imagia Our guest this week is Alexandre Le Bouthillier, Co-Founder of Imagia. Imagia is a firm based in Montreal that leverages artificial intelligence for medical analysis. Today, Alexandre discusses personalized medicine before and after artificial intelligence. He also brings to bear ...
08.24.2021 AI-Powered Appointment Setting, a Use-Case Deep Dive - with Nikola Mrkšić of Poly AI Today’s guest is Nikola Mrkšić, CEO and Co-Founder of PolyAI. PolyAI is an AI voice company based in the United Kingdom. Nikola previously appeared on an episode with us to discuss the future of voice AI for the customer experience. ...
08.19.2021 Unlocking Data's Value in Life Sciences, from Diagnosis to Telehealth and Beyond - with Bill Fox of SambaNova Today’s guest is Bill Fox, Business Development Executive for Healthcare Strategy at SambaNova Systems. Founded in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova offers hardware, software, DataFlow-as-a-Service, and more. Today, Bill speaks about what SambaNova’s team is seeing in terms of near-term future ...
08.17.2021 Post-COVID Strategy for AI Startups - with Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures Today’s guest is Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures. Rudina has been a previous guest on The AI in Business Podcast, and today she speaks with us about how AI startups are pivoting their strategy by restructuring ...
08.10.2021 Enterprise Lessons in AI Safety and Ethics - with Caroline Gorski of Rolls Royce Today’s guest is Caroline Gorksi, Group Director at R2 Data Labs of Rolls Royce. Rolls Royce is a well-known company involved in the heavy-industry space based in the United Kingdom. Caroline was a previous guest on the show and spoke ...
08.07.2021 [AI Futures - S2E8] The Dangers and Opportunities of AI and Brain-Computer Interface - with Dr. Susan Schneider of Florida Atlantic University Today’s guest is Susan Schneider, Founding Director at the Center for the Future Mind of Florida Atlantic University, NASA Chair in Astrobiology Exploration and Technical Innovation, and Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. In this week’s episode, Susan ...

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