From Requirements to Algorithms: Why Business Analysts Are MLOps' Secret Weapon

Think your Business Analyst skills don't translate to the AI world? Think again. With the ML Ops market exploding from $2B to $16B by 2030, there's a massive opportunity hiding in plain sight.

In this episode, Ben Anchor (who's managed complex transformations at Channel 4, EveryoneTV, and major broadcasters) breaks down why 85% of ML projects fail - and it's not because of bad algorithms. It's because they're missing what Business Analysts do best: bridging business needs with technical implementation.

🎯 What You'll Learn:

• Why stakeholder management is MLOps' biggest challenge
• How process mapping directly applies to ML model lifecycles
• Real examples from broadcast system migrations that mirror MLOps problems
• The technical foundation BAs need (spoiler: it's less than you think)
• Practical steps to position yourself in this $16B growth market

Whether you're a seasoned BA looking for your next career evolution or curious about where AI meets business analysis, this episode reveals why your existing skills might be exactly what the AI industry desperately needs.

Co-hosted with DAIvid | 15 minutes of actionable insights for the AI-curious BA

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Ben and DAIvid trace a fascinating decade-long evolution in broadcast standards - from Evertz's vendor-driven ASPEN protocol in 2015 to the revolutionary Cloud Native Agile Production (CNAP) project launched at IBC 2024.

This episode explores how the BBC's decision to open-source their Time Addressable Media Store (TAMS) represents a fundamental shift from proprietary gatekeeping to radical industry collaboration. We cover the technical breakthrough that cuts workflow costs by 92%, the multi-organization demos planned for IBC 2025, and what this means for consultants and broadcast professionals.

Key topics include:

• The philosophical shift from vendor-controlled to community-driven standards
• How CNAP enables broadcast-quality workflows at cloud-native costs
• Real-world implications from Ben's IBC 2024 experience and Berkeley AI Strategy insights
• Why participation beats consumption in the new standards landscape
• Looking ahead to AI-integrated workflows and multi-organization collaboration

Essential listening for anyone navigating the transformation from traditional broadcast infrastructure to cloud-native, collaborative workflows.

This week Ben introduces DAIvid, his new AI co-host, while sharing hands-on experience testing four cutting-edge development platforms. Despite recovering from a cycling accident, Ben managed to build functional applications using Loveable, Replit, Cursor, and Framer - including an MXF file inspector that would have taken weeks using traditional coding methods.

🔧 What You'll Learn:

• What vibe coding is and why it's revolutionizing software development
• Real-world testing of Loveable, Replit, and Cursor platforms
• How to build an MXF file corruption detector in 2 minutes
• Creating dynamic podcast websites with embedded players
• Building conversational AI interfaces for content
• Using Framer's AI features for rapid website prototyping

🎯 Key Takeaways:

• Each platform has distinct strengths: Loveable for functional tools, Replit for dynamic content, Cursor for advanced development
• Vibe coding democratizes app development but still requires clear thinking about user experience
• The speed of development is genuinely revolutionary - what took weeks now happens in minutes

Perfect for broadcast professionals, content creators, and anyone curious about AI-powered development tools. Plus, hear about Ben's Berkeley AI alumni connections and upcoming projects including a conversational podcast interface.

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In this special bonus episode, Ben teams up with co-hosts ChAIse and AIva to take us back to 2015 - a pivotal year when "broadcast in the cloud" was still a radical concept. This personal journey began with a client migration project and led to an intensive deep-dive into AWS certification that would shape his consulting career.

🎯 The 2015 Landscape:

• When Fox, Sky, and Discovery were just exploring cloud as "IaaS"
• Major broadcasters delivering 152PB of content per year while questioning cloud reliability
• Industry hesitation: "Can we trust the cloud when even Amazon.com goes down?"
• The birth of live TV streaming with RTMP endpoints and early Wowza partnerships
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🚀 Ben's AWS Certification Journey:

✅ From AWSome Day workshops at Kings Place to hands-on Lambda labs

✅ Chef workflows and infrastructure as code methodologies

✅ Real client work: playout migrations and live NFL cloud operations

✅ The intense study regime: QwikLabs, exam simulators, and £1,125 workshops

✅ Technical deep-dives: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and the complexities of VPC networking

📊 Industry Reality Check:

Ben documents the actual conversations happening in 2015 - from production services teams expressing caution about cloud reliability, to the economics of being vendor partners' "1st or 2nd customer" to make cloud financially viable.

🔍 Technical Insights:

• Early cloud transcoding solutions and broadcast partnerships
• The emergence of DevOps practices in broadcast with Chef cookbooks
• Real-world AWS architecture challenges and solutions
• Why penetration testing required alerting AWS beforehand
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💡 The Transformation:

This episode captures the moment when traditional broadcast infrastructure began its cloud evolution. Ben's personal journey from skeptical consultant to AWS Solutions Architect Associate mirrors the industry's own transformation - how tough the exam was and the determination to master new paradigms.

🎬 For Today's Context:Essential background for understanding how we arrived at today's AI-driven broadcast landscape. The cloud migration lessons from 2015 directly inform current AI adoption strategies and infrastructure decisions.

From whiteboarding sessions at WeWork to late-night study sessions with Qwiklabs, this is the untold story of how one consultant embraced the cloud revolution that would define the next decade of broadcast technology.

📚 Episode includes actual notes and documentation from the 2015 journey - a time capsule of broadcast technology transformation.

More insights at Ancast.tv | Part of the ongoing Broadcast Media transformation series

In this milestone episode, Ben and co-host RAIana tackle the biggest question in tech: where is artificial intelligence actually heading? From the sobering reality of 400 million jobs at risk to the race for superintelligence, we break down what's really happening in the AI revolution.

🎯 Key Topics:

• Microsoft's shocking study: The 40 jobs most (and least) at risk from AI automation
• McKinsey's 400-800 million job displacement prediction by 2030
• Zuckerberg's $70+ billion bet on superintelligence and the talent war with $200M+ packages
• AGI vs ASI: What the timeline really looks like (spoiler: experts can't agree!)
• Real impact on broadcast media: from AI anchors to automated scheduling
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🔍 What You'll Discover:

✅ Why customer service reps, translators, and writers top the "at-risk" list

✅ How broadcast professionals are adapting (not being replaced) by AI tools

✅ The democratization of professional-grade content creation

✅ Why hallucinations mean AI is still just a tool, not a creative director

✅ Career advice for navigating the AI transformation

📊 Data Deep Dive:

Ben references his Berkeley Executive Education AI course insights, the recent AI Summit at Tobacco Dock, and connects to previous episodes on organizational transformation and neural networks. Plus analysis of Meta's unprecedented talent acquisition strategy and what it means for the industry.

🎬 For Broadcast Professionals:

Essential listening for understanding how AI is reshaping content creation, scheduling, and audience engagement while maintaining the human elements that audiences still crave.

From the optimistic potential of solving cancer in a week to the dystopian possibility of mass unemployment, this episode covers the full spectrum of AI's future impact. Whether you're a media executive, content creator, or just trying to understand where we're all heading, this conversation will reshape how you think about the next decade.

💡 Bottom Line: AI won't replace broadcasters, but broadcasters using AI will replace those who don't.

More insights at Ancast.tv | Follow the ongoing AI transformation series

🚀 Episode 15: "The AI Gold Rush - Where Are The Biggest Opportunities?"

The AI market is exploding at $243 billion and growing 28% annually - but where are the REAL opportunities hiding? In this episode, we dive deep into the industries ripe for AI disruption and how you can solve customer pain points for profit.🎯

What You'll Discover:

• Healthcare administration chaos: $3.69B market growing at 38.5% annually

• Property management revolution: AI can automate 37% of tasks = $34B in efficiencies

• Broadcast media transformation: 25% of broadcasters now using AI (doubled from last year!)

• Customer service consistency crisis and AI solutions

• My complete n8n newsletter automation workflow breakdown💡

Key Takeaways:

- Investment focus shifting from AI infrastructure to customer-facing applications

- "Pain-Point-to-Profit" framework for identifying AI opportunities

- Why cloud-native AI platforms have eliminated technical barriers

- The three-pillar business model: Voice agents, agentic workflows, strategy consulting

🔧 Technical Deep-Dive:Get the inside scoop on building automated workflows with n8n, ChatGPT-4 integration, and how Claude helped debug my code. Plus, why banner image generation is my final automation frontier.

🎪 This Week's Challenge:

Identify ONE manual process in your business that could be automated. Research the market, start small with an MVP. The AI gold rush is happening NOW!

Next Episode Preview: AI website builders showdown - Framer experiments and the Replit surprise recommendation.

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Description:Just returned from IBM's Watson X workshop and fresh off building my first N8N AI agent! In this episode, I break down three pivotal experiences that showcase the full spectrum of AI consulting in 2025.

What You'll Discover:

✅ Building a sophisticated N8N AI agent for content curation - with zero coding background

✅ Hands-on enterprise AI at IBM's Innovation Studio using Watson X Orchestrate

✅ Real client assessment work for Gen AI solutions within AWS

✅ Landing a Video Production Specialist AI Trainer contract - teaching AI systems creative workflows

✅ How AI-assisted debugging is democratizing technical capabilities

Key Insights:

• Multi-agent systems handling complex workflows from banking to employee services
• The shift from traditional consulting to AI-enhanced, prototype-driven relationships
• Why hands-on experience is becoming essential for consultant credibility
• How broadcast media can leverage agentic AI for scheduling, compliance, and operations

From personal automation to enterprise workshops to client assessments - this episode captures the reality of AI consulting today. Whether you're a broadcast professional, consultant, or tech strategist, these insights reveal what's working right now in AI implementation.

Plus: Updates on my Berkeley coursemate collaboration and the peer support networks driving AI transformation.

🎧 Essential listening for navigating the AI consulting landscape in broadcast media.

More insights at Ancast.tv#AIConsulting #BroadcastMedia #WatsonX #N8N #AIAgents #MediaInnovation

In Episode 13, Ben Anchor reflects on the powerful wave of momentum following the completion of the Berkeley ExecEd AI Strategy & Business Applications course. From receiving glowing feedback on his capstone project—focused on AI-enhanced broadcast scheduling—to deploying his very first AI voice agent on his website using ElevenLabs' v2.5 conversational model, Ben dives into what life looks like post-Berkeley.

He shares updates from recent AI events including the AWS Symposium in London, talks about networking wins, new collaborations forming, and what's brewing with tools like N8N, Framer, and ElevenLabs' upcoming v3 voice model. This episode is a real-time snapshot of what happens when theory meets execution—and why the AI journey is only just beginning.

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In this bonus episode of Ancast, I explore the current state of the UK broadcast industry—from a slowdown in contractor hiring to the rising tension around IR35 compliance. With £400M in budget cuts hitting the sector and procurement teams wary of legal risk, what does this mean for freelance and contract talent?

But it’s not all doom and gloom—AI consulting is booming. I unpack why some departments are pausing on AI adoption, what opportunities are quietly opening up, and how smart consultants might pivot into new, in-demand roles.

Recorded using NotebookLM, this episode blends data and insight into what’s happening behind the scenes in British media. A must-listen for contractors, consultants, and creatives navigating the next wave of change.

Just returned from London's massive AI Summit at Tobacco Dock - and the insights for broadcast media are absolutely revolutionary! In this milestone episode, I share my experiences from the summit's cutting-edge demonstrations, startup village discoveries, and networking revelations, all while wrapping up my intensive Berkeley Executive Education AI course.

What You'll Discover:✅ Live AI workflows from IBM & major corporations - already operational, not prototypes✅ Multi-agent AI systems transforming broadcast operations & content scheduling
✅ Startup innovations solving real media industry pain points✅ My capstone project: AI-enhanced broadcast scheduling with external signal integration✅ Predictions of fully AI-autonomous companies within 18 months✅ Creative sector concerns & the human element in AI transformation

Key Takeaways for Media Professionals:

• How major brands are implementing agentic AI workflows today
• Why broadcast scheduling is the perfect AI application case study
• Strategic frameworks for evaluating AI opportunities in your organization
• The "Real, Win, Worth It" approach to AI-driven media transformation
• Infrastructure considerations for AI adoption at any scale

From Victorian wharves to Silicon Valley-style networking, this episode captures the electric energy of AI innovation happening right now in our industry. Whether you're a content creator, broadcast executive, or media strategist, these insights will reshape how you think about AI's role in broadcast media's future.

🎧 Essential listening for anyone navigating AI transformation in media & content.

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