Every enterprise vendor is talking about AI agents — but without understanding how your business actually operates, the returns will fall short. In this episode, diginomica's Derek du Preez talks with Carsten Thoma, President of Celonis, about why operational context is the missing ingredient for enterprise AI. From freeing processes from vendor lock-in to the SaaS-pocalypse debate to a renegotiation of the social contract, Thoma makes the case for operational truth before automation.

Every enterprise vendor has an AI strategy - but Zoho's approach is different. During this two-in-one podcast, diginomica's Jon Reed talks with Ram Ramamoorthy is Director - AI Research at Zoho & ManageEngine. followed by Raju Vegesna, Zoho Chief Evangelist. From data sovereignty to delayering the stack, from data privacy to the dangers of outsourcing your "intelligence," Ramamoorthy and Vegesna take us inside Zoho's unique AI philosophy.

EBRD CIO Subhash Chandra Jose joins the diginomica network podcast to discuss leading a five-year technology modernisation at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development — a bank that was never meant to last this long — and why geopolitical upheaval has made its mission more critical than ever.

Holland & Barrett CFO Vineta Bajaj joins the diginomica network podcast to discuss the wellness retailer's 2025 annual results - including £43.5 million invested in technology - and why building your own tech stack beats buying off the shelf.

Deb Ashton has been one of the constants at Certinia through more than two decades of change. In this podcast, she reflects on some of the lessons learned, the challenges for services businesses today, and being ready to seize opportunity.

Does AI make cloud ERP irrelevant - or deliver on its promise? And how to we line up AI innovations with customer needs, rather than sell them on tech for its own sake? In the lead up to Acumatica Summit 2026, Jon Reed had an open discussion with Acumatica's Ali Jani and Miten Mehta. But would Jani and Mehta share Jon's AI hype frustrations, or counter them? Listen in...

Mollie Brentnall, Director of IT for Crawford & Company UK, discusses how her background as a professional fencing coach shaped her approach to technology leadership, networking, and supporting diverse talent in the tech sector.

Thomas Kleine-Möllhoff, CIO of garden tools manufacturer Gardena and VP of IT at parent company Husqvarna Group, discusses how standardisation creates the foundation for innovation rather than stifling it. Drawing on his experience at Pfizer and Coca-Cola, Kleine explains how a 60-year-old gardening company empowers staff to experiment with AI and emerging tech while maintaining operational discipline.

In this episode of Executive Intelligence, diginomica's Derek du Preez speaks with Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder, about transforming supply chain management — from fragmented point solutions to an integrated end-to-end platform approach, and how AI is pragmatically being applied to deliver real examples of business value rather than hype. 

In our latest Executive Intelligence podcast, Phil Wainewright speaks to Kriti Sharma, CEO IFS Nexus Black, for an inside view on IFS' pursuit of industrial AI. The two explore the upside of industrial AI but also how to address the risk factors. Is autonomous AI viable in industrial settings? If so, how should it be managed? Listen in...