Tech Talks

We often hear about the latest, shiniest AI models, but what is the real cost of doing nothing?

Vijay Sankararaman, Chief AI Officer at Novant Health, joins David Savage to explain why he rejects the "pilot graveyard" of tech for tech's sake. Discover how AI is being deployed inside a secure, agentic walled garden to break constraints, eliminate administrative inertia, and return the clinic to its most sacred interaction: the doctor-patient conversation.

Read the article David and Sam discuss at the start of the episode here.

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If everyone has access to the same AI model, what's actually left to compete on?

AES Chief Digital Strategy and AI Officer Erin Boyd argues it's not the model, it's the data, and knowing exactly where to reinsert human friction. She explains why she told a room of executives their companies would "wither" if they don't reimagine how they work, and why burning down institutional baggage isn't about cutting jobs. This is AI leadership, unfiltered.

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Fractional CTO and AI engineering lead Jess Madhavan joins David to unpack why so many leadership teams feel like they're falling behind on AI, and why the real risk often isn't too little AI adoption, but too much of it without governance.

Jess and David dig into the shrinking junior talent pipeline, what actually helps early-career engineers stand out now, and why she credits her career less to skill than to who she chose to help along the way.

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Women are twice as likely to lose their jobs to AI as men. Heather Black, founder of Supermums, has spent ten years building the pathway for women into tech, and she's not interested in the stats alone. In this conversation, she and David get into:

➡️ Why AI is quietly widening the gender gap in tech hiring

➡️ The “digital belly flop”: what happens when a £2m AI project skips change management

➡️ The NLP Logical Levels framework Heather uses to diagnose failed tech rollouts

➡️ Why she stepped back from policy and refocused on one person at a time: starting with “Jo”

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Google had rules, but AI search is a black box.

Francisco Vigo, CEO of geoSurge, joins David Savage to unpack why large language models default to the brands they already know, and what that means if yours isn't one of them.

Francsico explains the bias built into how ChatGPT and Claude decide what to recommend, why marketers are more anxious about this shift than any before it, and the energy bottleneck nobody's pricing into the AI boom yet.

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How do you scale a platform built on getting people off their screens?

Cliq co-founder Nicola Gunby joins our host David Savage to unpack a closely-held funding round, early moves into Australia and Europe, and the tension of keeping community intimate while growing fast.

Nicola shares why her team shows up to the events they build for, why founder storytelling beats a polished pitch, and what's missing from the conversation about women in tech.

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Is your company already living in the AI 'tokenpocalypse'?

Anaconda CEO David DeSanto joins our host David Savage to unpack the hidden costs of scaling AI; from a developer burning $300,000 a month on tokens with nothing to show for it, to the compliance risks of data quietly crossing borders. They dig into why AI-native platforms are starting to redefine cloud computing, and why we're at a critical fork in the road between closed and open-source AI. It's a topic not enough are reckoning with...

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George Davis went from building a cash-flow forecasting startup in London at 18, to crypto cross-border payments, to founding Lorum; a correspondent bank for banks, chasing an OCC license in the US.

His argument? The correspondent banking system isn't broken, the incentives inside it are, and almost nobody outside the industry is talking about what happens when banks try to lend deposits that might not last the week.

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Most companies handle AI risk the same way. Lock it down, restrict access, wait and see.

Intuit tried something else.

Let people play with the new tools first, under the lightest guardrails they can get away with, and then send in the platform teams to harvest what actually worked. It sounds like chaos, but Jack Tam (SVP of Product and Engineering) says it's the opposite.

Today, we're talking to a leader who's spent over two decades inside the same company, watching the internet, mobile, and now AI transformations reshape what 'secure' even means. We're going inside the room to ask: what do you actually let go of, to build something that lasts?

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Most AI conversations are about cloud spend and token bills. Tom Bianculli, CTO of Zebra Technologies, is building the opposite: "tokenless AI" that runs directly on frontline handheld devices instead of burning tokens in the cloud.

Tom joins David Savage to unpack what that looks like on the warehouse floor, why 51% of the vote on any AI pilot comes down to whether frontline workers actually want to use it, and why real transformation means designing AI-first workflows from a blank sheet of paper rather than bolting AI onto what already exists.

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