Physical AI is showing up across the industry as sensors, connected devices, and foundation models move from the cloud into the real world. After years of IoT wiring everything to the internet, the big shift is turning raw measurements and video into meaning, not just dashboards. For day-to-day teams, that changes how you monitor equipment, detect failures, and decide what to do next. When thousands of sensor streams hit storage, who turns them into insights and recommendations fast enough to matter? Can one model generalize across different sensors and conditions? And what must run on the asset versus the cloud?

Dr. Ivan Poupyrev is CEO and Founder of Archetype AI, where he is building a multimodal AI foundation model that combines real-time sensor data and natural language to help people and organizations better understand and act on the physical world. The company is developing a developer platform to unlock new applications of Physical AI across industries.

Previously, he was Director of Engineering at Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division, where he founded and led large cross-functional teams to create Soli, a radar-based sensing platform, and Jacquard, a connected apparel platform powered by smart textiles and embedded ML. These technologies shipped in more than 15 products across 33 countries, including collaborations with Levi’s, YSL, Adidas, and Samsonite, and were integrated into flagship devices such as Pixel 4 and Nest products. His work has been widely published, recognized with major international awards, and featured in global media.

In the episode, Richie and Ivan explore physical AI beyond robotics, turning IoT sensor streams into insights, recommendations, and automation, why physical foundation models differ from LLMs, sensor-fusion wins like wind-turbine failure alerts, edge deployment and privacy, how to pick a first project in practice, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Archetype AI
2. Attention Is All You Need (Original Transformer Architecture Paper)
3. A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Shannon, 1948)
4. Connect with Ivan
5. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
6. Related Episode: Enterprise AI Agents with Jun Qian, VP of Generative AI Services at Oracle
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Quantum computing is advancing fast, but it comes with a core industry challenge: noise. The big promise—better simulations, faster optimization, and maybe new kinds of AI—depends on quantum error correction and scaling from physical qubits to reliable logical qubits. For working professionals, that translates into system design questions, not just theory. How do you budget for the overhead of error correction? What does a hybrid quantum‑classical workflow look like when classical processors must process error data in real time? If a quantum approach shows “advantage” today, how do you know a better classical heuristic won’t catch up next month? Where should you focus first: hardware readiness or use cases?

Dr. Yonatan Cohen is a physicist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Quantum Machines, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. He earned his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, focusing on quantum electronics, superconducting–semiconducting devices, and microfabrication. He is also a co-founder and former managing director of the Weizmann Institute’s entrepreneurship program and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with recognized contributions to quantum computing. As CTO, Dr. Cohen has played a key role in developing the Quantum Orchestration Platform, a first-of-its-kind control and operating system for quantum computers that accelerates the path to practical, useful quantum systems.

In the episode, Richie and Yonatan explore near-term quantum simulation, encryption risks, the open question of quantum AI, noisy qubits and error correction, physical vs logical scaling, the need for algorithms and use cases, how to try quantum coding via Amazon Braket, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Quantum Machines
2. Amazon Braket
3. IBM Qiskit
4. NVIDIA Cuda Quantum
5. Google Cirq
6. Connect with Yonatan
7. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
8. Related Episode: Developing Better Predictive Models with Graph Transformers with Jure Leskovec, Pioneer of Graph Transformers, Professor at Stanford
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AI moves fast, and the news cycle can feel like a fire hose. New tools like agents and digital twins promise to help, but they also add more choices and noise. In day-to-day work, the challenge is less about knowing every breakthrough and more about deciding what matters, then making time to act. How do you cut meetings down, say no without friction, and still ship real work? How do you open your mind to new ideas while avoiding hype? And when you do spot a signal, how do you turn it into action across teams, stakeholders, and shifting priorities.

As the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, Brian Solis drives vision and strategy for future-focused innovation. He has three decades of experience as a technology leader, and Forbes called him "one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time". Previously, Brian was VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce. He has written nine books, including the best selling "Mindshift". Brian is an author of the ServiceNow Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2025 Report.

In the episode, Richie and Brian explore the challenges of staying updated with AI advancements, the importance of mindset shifts for innovation, the role of storytelling in driving change, and practical strategies for managing information overload, fostering organizational transformation, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Brian’s Book: Mindshift
2. ServiceNow
3. Connect with Brian
4. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
5. Related Episode: The New Paradigm for Enterprise AI Governance with Blake Brannon, Chief Innovation Officer at OneTrust
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AI leaders talk about innovation, but the wider reality is messy: fast change, uneven guardrails, and threats that span cyber, reputation, and customer harm. Industry-wide, organizations are shifting from one-off compliance to lifecycle governance—from inception to decommissioning—supported by boards, CEOs, and frontline teams. For professionals, that shows up as coordination work: shared metrics, incentives for responsible delivery, embedded ethics partners, and rapid-response groups when a new risk appears. How do you decide who is accountable for model behavior? What signals should trigger escalation? And what sources can you trust to stay informed without getting overwhelmed?

Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD/PhD, is founder and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, a board member, strategic advisor, and award-winning author. She specializes in the governance of change, advising companies, NGOs, and governments on global strategic risk, leadership trust, geopolitics, sustainability, cyber resilience, and exponential technologies. A former C-suite executive at four global companies, including Bertelsmann and PSEG, she has held roles spanning legal, risk, ethics, sustainability, and cybersecurity, and currently serves on multiple boards and advisory boards.

Andrea is a Senior Fellow at The Conference Board, NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, and an AI Ethics Strategy Fellow at the American College for Financial Services. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and media commentator, appearing in outlets such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and The New York Times. She is the author of several books, including Gloom to Boom and most recently, Governing Pandora: Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology.

In the episode, Richie and Andrea explore the rapid advancements in AI, the balance between innovation and risk, the importance of adaptive governance, the role of leadership in tech governance, and the integration of ethics in AI development, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Andrea’s Book—Governing Pandora: Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology
2. MIT AI Risk Repository
3. Connect with Andrea
4. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
5. Related Episode: Rebuilding Trust in the Digital Age with Jimmy Wales, Founder at Wikipedia
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Data and AI teams are drowning in tools, but the big trend is consolidation and speed. AI-driven building is making dashboards, internal apps, and even data workflows feel more like products than reports. Custom interfaces, interactive presentations, and ad hoc apps are becoming easier to create than traditional BI artifacts.

For working professionals, this raises practical questions: should you build a bespoke reporting site instead of another spreadsheet? Can you connect secure data views and prevent leaks by design? What does quality control look like when an agent writes the code—separate chats, clear plans, and tests? And what’s the real cost of going from idea to deployed app: a few dollars, or hundreds?

Matt Palmer works at the intersection of developer experience, product marketing, and AI education. Leading Developer Relations at Replit, he helped grow Replit's revenue from $5M to $100M+. He creates content on vibe-coding, data transformation, AI, and more—blending technical depth with accessibility to empower developers and make complex tools approachable.

In the episode, Richie and Matt explore the power of vibe coding, how non-developers are building impactful tools, the potential of AI in app development, the role of Replit in simplifying coding, and the future of personalized applications in data teams, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Replit
2. Course: Vibe Coding with Replit
3. Your Guide to Replit
4. Connect with Matt
5. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
6. Related Episode: Building & Managing Human+Agent Hybrid Teams with Karen Ng, Head of Product at HubSpot
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AI tools are becoming part of daily work for more professionals than ever before, yet adoption rates vary significantly across functions and company sizes. What separates organizations that successfully integrate AI from those that struggle? How do psychological factors like identity and autonomy shape how workers respond to AI implementation? And what role does corporate culture play in determining whether AI becomes a source of innovation or a point of resistance?

Stefano Puntoni is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School. Prior to joining Penn, Stefano was a professor of marketing and head of department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in marketing from London Business School and a degree in Statistics and Economics from the University of Padova, in his native Italy.

His research has appeared in several leading journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Nature Human Behavior, and Management Science. He also writes regularly for managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Most of his ongoing research investigates how new technology is changing consumption and society, including how humans are adopting and evolving with AI.

He is a former MSI Young Scholar and MSI Scholar, and the winner of several grants and awards. He is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consumer Research and at the Journal of Marketing. Stefano teaches in the areas of marketing strategy, new technologies, brand management, and decision making.

In the episode, Richie and Stefano explore the challenges of AI adoption in businesses, the psychological impacts on workers, the balance between human expertise and AI, the potential mental health effects of AI chatbots, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Wharton School
2. Connect with Stefano
3. MIT Report—The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
4. Wharton Report—Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise
5. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
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2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for data, AI, and how we work. From step-change improvements in foundation models to AI-native workflows reshaping careers, commerce, and education, the pace of change shows no signs of slowing. After revisiting and scoring their previous predictions, Richie, Jo, and Martijn turn their focus to what’s coming next in 2026.

Building on last year’s discussion, we explore how AI will transform hiring and career progression, why personal AI tutors could become the default learning experience, how AI agents may begin executing real economic activity, and whether we’re on the brink of another “GPT-3 moment” driven by new hardware and scaling.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Blog: The Junior Hiring Crisis
2. Blog: The agentic commerce opportunity: How AI agents are ushering in a new era for consumers and merchants
3. Alex Banks on the ChatGPT era ending
4. Spec & Evals Driven Agent Development (SEDAD) Template
5. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
6. Related Episode: Reviewing Our Data Trends & Predictions of 2025 with DataCamp's CEO & COO, Jonathan Cornelissen & Martijn Theuwissen
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2025 was another huge year for data and AI. Generative AI continued to reshape how we work and interact with technology, with organizations moving beyond experimentation and pushing AI firmly into production. We saw major progress in foundation models, the rise of long-running AI agents, production-ready generative video, and wider adoption of synthetic data. At the same time, AI literacy, adoption, and ROI became central concerns for boards and executives, not just technical teams.

This time last year, DataCamp Co-Founders Jonathan and Martijn made a series of predictions about data and AI for 2025. Today, they join Richie to reflect on how those predictions played out—and to share their vision for where data and AI are headed next.

In the episode, Richie, Jonathan, and Martijn review the real-world adoption of generative AI, the shift from hype to production, the growing importance of AI literacy and usage at the executive level, the rise of longer-running AI agents, the near-mainstreaming of generative video, Europe’s position in the global AI race, why educators may be among the biggest AI adopters, and why AI hype continues to thrive—plus what they got right, what they got wrong, and what comes next.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. The DataCamp Data & AI Literacy Report 2025
2. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
3. Related Episode: Data Trends & Predictions 2025 with DataCamp's CEO & COO, Jonathan Cornelissen & Martijn Theuwissen
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Self-service analytics has been a goal for data teams for years, but recent advances in AI are accelerating progress in unexpected ways. The combination of natural language interfaces and spreadsheet-like tools is lowering barriers to data access across organizations. But how do you balance the freedom of self-service with the need for governance and accuracy? What skills do analysts need to work effectively with AI systems that don't always produce the same results twice? And when AI-generated answers might be slightly off, how do you know when to trust them?

Mike Palmer is Chief Executive Officer of Sigma , where he leads the company’s strategy and growth as a cloud-native analytics and business intelligence platform. Since joining Sigma in 2020, he has focused on expanding access to cloud data by enabling business users to analyze data warehouses through familiar, spreadsheet-based workflows. Prior to Sigma, Mike served as Chief Product Officer at Druva, where he was part of the executive team scaling the company’s cloud data management platform and supporting rapid revenue growth. Before that, he was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Veritas Technologies, leading the transformation and modernization of a large enterprise data protection portfolio following its separation from Symantec. Earlier in his career, he held senior general management and executive roles at Seagate Technology and Verizon Enterprise Solutions, overseeing large-scale cloud, security, and enterprise infrastructure businesses. Mike is based in San Francisco and has spent his career building and operating enterprise data and analytics platforms at scale.

In the episode, Richie and Mike explore the journey towards self-service analytics, the role of AI in democratizing data access, the challenges of stochastic processes, the evolution of analytics applications, how businesses can leverage AI for personalized insights, the future of enterprise software, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. Sigma
2. Connect with Mike
3. Course: Introduction to Sigma
4. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
5. Related Episode: Self-Service Generative AI Product Development at Credit Karma with Madelaine Daianu, Head of Data & AI at Credit Karma
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AI governance is becoming critical as organizations deploy more intelligent systems across their operations. With predictions of over a billion AI agents entering the workforce in the coming years, traditional governance approaches simply cannot keep pace. How do you ensure your AI systems are using data responsibly without slowing down innovation? What happens when an AI agent makes decisions that were never explicitly programmed? And how do you build governance processes that scale alongside rapidly expanding AI adoption while maintaining trust with customers and regulators?

Blake Brannon is Chief Innovation Officer at OneTrust, where he leads product vision and strategic direction for the company’s AI-ready governance platform. He has been with OneTrust since 2017, previously serving as Chief Technology Officer, and has played a key role in scaling the platform to support privacy, data governance, risk, and responsible AI initiatives for large enterprises. Blake is based in Atlanta and holds an academic background from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with early research experience in network systems and wireless communications.

In the episode, Richie and Blake explore AI governance disasters, the importance of consent and data use, the rise of AI agents, the challenges of scaling governance processes, the need for continuous observability, the role of governance committees, strategies for effective AI governance in organizations, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

1. OneTrust
2. Connect with Blake
3. AI-Native Course: Intro to AI for Work
4. Related Episode: From City Sewers to Sovereign AI with Russ Wilcox, CEO at ArtifexAI
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