In this episode of the IEEE AI Podcast Series, host Daswin De Silva of LaTrobe University and Christine Miyachi of Microsoft chat with Kuo-Ming ("K-M") Chao, Distinguished Professor at University of Roehampton London, and the General Chair of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI). Together they discuss the highlights of CAI, including a range of diverse AI-related topics, perspectives from industry and academia, and AI research ideas to be pursued for next year’s conference.