The AI in Business Podcast

By Daniel Faggella

Technology Business

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The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.

Each week, Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.

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Cultivating ‘Value Driven D...

11.28.2023

Today’s guest is Edosa Odaro, Chief of Data Analytics and Privacy Officer at Tawuniya and former Chief Data Officer at AIG. He is also the author of two books on overcoming data challenges, ‘Making Data Work’ and his latest, ‘Value ...

The AI in Business Podcast episodes:

11.28.2023 Cultivating ‘Value Driven Data’ in Insurance - with Edosa Odaro of Tawuniya Today’s guest is Edosa Odaro, Chief of Data Analytics and Privacy Officer at Tawuniya and former Chief Data Officer at AIG. He is also the author of two books on overcoming data challenges, ‘Making Data Work’ and his latest, ‘Value ...
11.22.2023 AI Solutions for B2B Customer Experiences - with Shahar Chen of Aquant Today’s guest is Shahar Chen, CEO and Co-founder of Aquant. Aquant is an AI-powered tech company that builds a co-pilot platform for service workflows. Shahar joins us on today’s show to talk about the role generative AI-enhanced co-pilot platforms can ...
11.21.2023 The Role of Humans in AI-Enhanced Logistics Workflows - with Dr. Yossi Sheffi Today’s guest is Dr. Yossi Sheffi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of ‘The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI and the ...
11.17.2023 The Implications of Generative AI on Investment Banking - with Andrea Haskell and Val Srinivas of Deloitte Today’s guests are Andrea Haskell, Principal of Strategy and Analytics at Deloitte Consulting, and Val Srinivas, Research Leader in Banking and Capital Markets for Deloitte. They join Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to discuss the trends and ...
11.16.2023 The Benefits of AI-Enhanced Developer Workflows - with Jason Wells of Pattern Today’s guest is Jason Wells, Chief Technology Officer at Pattern. Pattern is a tech company that builds an AI-driven platform to help businesses grow faster and sell more on eCommerce marketplaces. Jason joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel ...
11.15.2023 Generative AI Approaches for eCommerce and Retail Fraud - with Srihari Govindarajan of Paypal Today’s guest is Srihari Govindarajan, Senior Director of Finance Transformation at PayPal. Srihari joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella on today’s show to talk about how PayPal approaches fraud and policy abuse – including how they leverage ...
11.14.2023 New Approaches to AI in Patient Experiences - with Dan Buckland of Duke University Health Systems Today’s guest is Dan Buckland, Medical Director of Duke University Health System. Dan is also an assistant professor at Duke University as well as a deputy human system risk manager at NASA. Obviously, he’s no stranger to the latest and ...
11.07.2023 AI’s Impact on the Drug Targeting Process - with Ramesh Durvasula of Lilly Today’s guest is Ramesh Durvasula, Senior Vice President of R&D; IT at Lilly. Ramesh joins us on the program today to discuss AI’s impact on the drug targeting process, particularly in helping pharmaceutical leaders like Lilly better predict what potential ...
10.31.2023 How to Think of the Future of Finserv in the Age of GenAI - with Marco Argenti of Goldman Sachs Today’s guest is Marco Argenti, Chief Information Officer at Goldman Sachs. Before working with Goldman Sachs, Marco served as SVP of Developer Services at Nokia, then Vice President of Technology of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2013, where he started ...
10.26.2023 Solving Software Developer Challenges with AI - with Tsavo Knott of Pieces Today’s guest is Tsavo Knott, Co-founder and CEO of Pieces. Pieces is an AI-driven software company that builds a platform to enable software developers to work more efficiently. Tsavo joins us on today’s program to talk about the ways that ...
10.25.2023 Decreasing Friction in the Patient Experience with AI - with Leonardo Lambert of Corti Today’s guest is Leonardo Lambert, Director of Commercial at Corti. Corti is an AI-driven software company that develops a digital assistant for augmenting caretakers in improving patient outcomes and internal performance. Leonardo joins us on today’s program to talk about ...
10.24.2023 What Large Language Models Mean for Lawyers - with Danny Tobey and Bennett Borden of DLA Piper Today’s guests are DLA Piper's Partner, Chief Data Scientist, Bennett Borden, and Partner, Chair AI and Data Analytics Practice, Danny Tobey. DLA Piper is among the world’s leading law firms and as Bennett and Danny explore with Emerj Senior Editor ...
10.17.2023 Building a Data-Driven Go-To-Market Engine in Retail - with Michael Tambe of Amazon Today’s guest is Michael Tambe, Head of Scaled Insight Science, Amazon Ads. Mike has led data science efforts in sales and marketing and leading edge companies like Amazon Ads and LinkedIn. Through these experiences he’s become an advocate of enterprises ...
10.13.2023 [AI Futures] Dataiku's CEO on "Growing Up in a GenAI World" - with Florian Douetteau Today's episode marks the return of our 'AI Futures' series, where we explore what AI means for the future of our society and species with a more academic caliber of guests. Today's guest is Florian Douetteau, Co-founder and CEO of ...
10.12.2023 Looking at Refund and Loyalty Programs in Retail From a Data Perspective - with Jeff Otto of Riskified Today’s guest is Jeff Otto, Chief Marketing Officer at Riskified, a publicly traded SaaS company that specializes in fraud and chargeback prevention. In conversation with Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella, Jeff shares findings from Riskified’s new survey ...
10.12.2023 Looking into Our GenAI Future Across Industries - with Carm Taglienti of Insight Today’s guest is Carm Taglienti, Chief Data Officer and Data/AI Portfolio Director for Insight. Insight is a leading IT solutions provider specializing in streamlining enterprise data infrastructure. Carm returns to the program to talk about the future of generative AI ...
10.10.2023 Looking at Insurance Challenges from a Telecom Perspective - with Haden Kirkpatrick of State Farm Today’s guest on the ‘AI in Business’ podcast is Haden Kirkpatrick, Vice President of Innovation and Venture Capital at State Farm. Haden began his position at State Farm in February 2021 and has spent much of the last decade in ...
10.03.2023 The Essentials on the Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry - with Don McGuire of Qualcomm Today’s guest is Don McGuire, Chief Marketing Officer at Qualcomm. A wireless technology pioneer, Qualcomm invented the foundational technologies for 3G, 4G, and 5G, and today, Qualcomm technology can be found in just about every handset and many devices that ...
09.30.2023 [Beyond GPU] Finding ROI for AI at the Edge - with Gordon Wilson of Rain Today’s episode is the fourth in a special series we’re calling ‘Beyond GPU,’ taking a look at edge AI computing challenges and solutions with help from guests at leading vendors and superscale global tech brands. Our fourth guest in the ...
09.29.2023 [AI Futures] What is Life Like When the Internet is “Generative”? - with Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation Today’s episode marks the return of our ‘AI Futures’ series, where we explore what AI means for the future of our society and species with a more academic caliber of guests. Today’s guest is Mark Surman, President and Executive Director ...
09.26.2023 The Impact of Generative AI on Healthcare - with Heather Lane of Athenahealth Today’s guest is Heather Lane, Senior Architect at athenahealth. athenahealth is one of the leading U.S. providers of network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps. Heather joins us on today’s program to discuss the implications of new, emerging generative ...
09.23.2023 [Beyond GPU] A Closer Look at Manufacturing Challenges for Computer Vision - with Peter Tu of GE Research Today’s episode is the third in a special series we’re calling ‘Beyond GPU,’ taking a look at edge AI computing challenges and solutions with help from guests at leading vendors and superscale global tech brands leading the most advanced hardware ...
09.19.2023 AI Solutions for R&D Challenges in Life Sciences - with Ramesh Durvasula of Eli Lilly Today’s guest is Ramesh Durvasula, Senior Vice President of R&D; IT at Eli Lilly. Ramesh joins Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello on the program today to survey the biggest challenges in biotech research and how emerging capabilities, particularly in generative ...
09.18.2023 How to Identify High-ROI Use Cases for GenAI and Achieve Success Quickly - with Carm Taglienti of Insight Today’s guest is Carmen Taglienti, Chief Data Officer and Data/AI Portfolio Director at Insight. Insight is a leading IT solutions provider specializing in streamlining enterprise data infrastructure. Carmen returns to the program today to discuss high-ROI use cases in generative ...
09.16.2023 [Beyond GPU] AI Hardware for Computer Vision - with Adam Burns of Intel Today’s episode is the second in a special series we’re calling ‘Beyond GPU,’ taking a look at edge AI computing challenges and solutions with help from guests at leading vendors and superscale global tech brands leading the most advanced hardware ...
09.15.2023 [AI Futures] A Debate on What AGI Means for Society and the Species - with Roko Mijic and Roman Yampolskiy In another installment of our ‘AI Futures’ series on the ‘AI in Business’ podcast, we host a debate on what Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will mean for society and the human race writ large. While opinions on the subject diverge ...
09.12.2023 LLMs and Generative AI for Financial Planning and Life Insurance Workflows - with Christian Mitchell of Northwestern Mutual Today’s guest is Christian Mitchell, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Northwestern Mutual. Christian joins us on the program to talk about the impact that large language models and generative AI tools will have on creating more enhanced ...
09.09.2023 [Beyond GPU] Solutions for AI Hardware Challenges from Infrastructure to Deployment - with Mark Heaps of Groq Today’s episode is the first in a special series we’re calling ‘Beyond GPU,’ taking a look at edge AI computing challenges and solutions with help from guests at leading vendors and superscale global tech brands leading the most advanced hardware ...
09.06.2023 Exploring Use Cases in Foundational Models for Life Sciences, Retail and Manufacturing - with Alberto Rizzoli of V7 Today’s guest is Alberto Rizzoli, Co-founder and CEO of V7. V7 is an AI-first software company that builds a high-quality image and video training platform for model and database management. Alberto returns to the program to examine larger use cases ...
09.05.2023 Facing Retail Challenges in the Era of Generative AI - with Alan Boehme of H&M Today’s guest is Alan Boehme, Chief Technology Officer at H&M.; Alan has also served at a number of Fortune 500 companies, assisting them through their digital transformations, including Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble. Alan joins us on the program today ...
09.01.2023 [AI Futures] AI and the Future of Intimacy - with Professor Pani Farvid of the New School Today’s episode marks the return of our ‘AI Futures’ series, where we explore what AI means for the future of our society and species with a more academic caliber of guests. Today’s guest is Dr. Pani Farvid, Associate Professor at ...
08.31.2023 Overcoming Healthcare Challenges with Generative AI and Deep Learning - with Erik Duhaime of Centaur Labs Today’s guest is Erik Duhaime, Co-founder and CEO of Centaur Labs. Centaur Labs helps AI developers and data scientists label medical and scientific datasets at scale so that they can build and improve their models more quickly and easily. He ...
08.30.2023 Operationalizing GenAI Models to Increase Business Value - with Carm Taglienti of Insight Today’s guest is Carm Taglienti, Chief Data Officer and Data/AI Portfolio Director for Insight. Insight is a leading IT solutions provider specializing in streamlining enterprise data infrastructure. On today’s show, Carm joins Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello to discuss where ...
08.29.2023 The Impact of AI on Drug Target Discovery and the Personalization of Healthcare - with Leo Barella of Takeda Today’s guest is Leo Barella, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Takeda. He joins Senior Editor Matthew DeMello on this week’s program to talk about the biggest challenges facing the healthcare and life science spaces and where we’re ...
08.28.2023 [Winning Executive Buy-In] Winning Executive Buy-In, From a Vendor’s Perspective - with Zohar Bronfman of Pecan Today’s guest is Zohar Bronfman, CEO and Co-founder of Pecan. Pecan is a predictive analytics software company that works with companies across retail, eCommerce and manufacturing spaces. Zohar joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella in another installment ...
08.23.2023 Telling Fact from Fiction in Launching Enterprise AI and Bespoke LLMs - with Alberto Rizzoli of V7 Today’s guest is Alberto Rizzoli, Co-founder and CEO of V7. V7 is an AI-first software company that builds a high-quality image and video training platform for model and database management. Alberto joins us on the program to discuss what generative ...
08.22.2023 AI Regulations and Enterprise Legal Exposure - with Anna Gressel of Paul, Weiss Today’s guest is Anna Gressel, Counsel at Paul, Weiss. Paul, Weiss (short for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) is a law firm based in New York City with over 1,000 lawyers on staff. Previously, Anna served as Senior ...
08.18.2023 [AI Futures] Intensive vs. Laissez-Faire Approaches to AI Governance - with Robin Hanson of George Mason University Today’s guest is Dr. Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Dr. Hanson is a prominent contributor to discussions on the implications of AI applications on realpolitik going into the future. In conversation with Emerj CEO and ...
08.15.2023 Machine Learning and Large Language Models in Healthcare - with Dr. Arta Bakshandeh of Alignment Health Today’s guest is Alignment Health Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Dr. Arta Bakshandeh, D.O., M.A. Alignment Health is a tech-enabled Medicare Advantage healthcare firm that celebrated its first year as a public company in March. He joins us on the program ...
08.08.2023 AI and B2B Customer Journey Signals - with Carlos Quezada of Hewlett Packard Enterprises Today’s guest is Carlos Quezada, Vice President of Customer Experience Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprises. He joins Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello on the program to talk about building customer journeys simultaneously from the B2B and infrastructure perspectives. Later, they ...
08.01.2023 AI for Insurance, Insurance for AI - with Edosa Odaro of Tawuniya Today’s guest is Edosa Odaro, Chief of Data Analytics and Privacy Officer at Tawuniya, former Chief Data Officer at AIG, and author of two books on overcoming data challenges. For the first of a two-episode appearance on the podcast, Edosa ...
07.26.2023 Winning Buy-In From Logistics Leaders for AI Projects - with Dorothy Li, CTO of Convoy Today’s guest is Dorothy Li, Chief Technology Officer of Convoy, a logistics and software company based in Seattle that has raised nearly a billion dollars in funding. Dorothy spent over a decade at Amazon, where she served as vice president ...
07.25.2023 Leveling Up Road Safety through AI in Automotive - with Frantz Saintellemy of LeddarTech Today’s guest is Frantz Saintellemy, President and Chief Operating Officer of LeddarTech. LeddarTech is a global software company headquartered in Québec City, Canada, that develops and provides comprehensive perception software solutions that enable the deployment of advanced driver assistance systems ...
07.24.2023 How Asset Protection Teams can Win Executive Buy-In from Data and Storytelling- with Adam Oberdick of CVS Health Today’s guest is Adam Oberdick, Lead Director of Asset Protection at CVS Health. Adam has over 15 years of experience in asset protection across the retail sector for such name brands as Kmart, Target and Nike. In conversation with Emerj ...
07.20.2023 Solving Logistics Challenges with AI - with Dr. Yossi Sheffi of MIT Today’s guest is Dr. Yossi Sheffi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of ‘The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI and the ...
07.13.2023 AI Data Management for Clinical Trials - with Melissa Easy and Tim Riely of IQVIA Today’s guests are Melissa Easy, Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Technologies at IQVIA, and Tim Riely, Vice President of Clinical Data Analytics at IQVIA. They return to the program to talk with Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello about ...
07.11.2023 The Future of Legal Document Management - with Danny Tobey and Bennett Borden of DLA Piper Today’s guests are DLA Piper Chief Data Scientist Bennett Borden and Chair of DLA Piper’s AI Practice Danny Tobey. DLA Piper is among the world’s leading law firms, and as Bennet and Danny explore with Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello ...
07.06.2023 AI Tools for Improving Experiences for Patients and Healthcare Providers - with Dr. Nele Jessel of Athenahealth Today’s guest is Dr. Nele Jessel, Chief Medical Officer at Athenahealth. Athenahealth is one of the leading U.S. providers of network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps. She joins us on the program to talk about the biggest challenges ...
07.05.2023 The Impact of AI-Enhanced Clinical Trials on Patient Experiences - with Melissa Easy and Tim Riely of IQVIA Today’s guests are Melissa Easy, Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Technologies at IQVIA, and Tim Riely, Vice President of Clinical Data Analytics at IQVIA. They join Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello on the program to talk about the ...
07.04.2023 What AI Means for Telecommunications - with Alek Liskov of Verizon Today's guest is Alek Liskov, Verizon's Director of AI & Data Product Management. In conversation with Emerj Senior Editor Matthew DeMello, Alek discusses the telecom industry's biggest challenges and how AI capabilities provide solutions on both the supply and demand ...

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