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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[AI is Here] - Current Use-...

05.25.2022

Today’s guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company’s Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective ...

The AI in Business Podcast episodes:

05.25.2022 [AI is Here] - Current Use-Cases of NLP in Insurance - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance Today’s guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company’s Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective ...
05.24.2022 The Importance of Subject Matter Experts in AI Project Success - with Brett Beranek of Nuance Communications Today, our guest is Brett Beranek, VP and General Manager for Security and Biometrics at Nuance Communications. For an AI company, Nuance is relatively large. Microsoft recently bought the company for over $30B, and they serve a variety of industries. ...
05.20.2022 Conversational Banking, Challenges and Applications - with Ian Wilson of Strategy 4 AI Today’s guest is Ian Wilson, Managing Director at Strategy 4 AI, a strategy and consulting firm based in Cambridge in the UK. He discusses two crucial topics in this particular episode. First, where can AI actually step in, interact with ...
05.18.2022 [AI is Here] Energy Sector AI Transformation - with Dan Jeavons of Shell Today’s episode is part of our new sponsored series called “AI is Here,” where we will speak with AI experts across industries and ask them where AI is impacting their industry today and what that means for the future. In ...
05.10.2022 Keys to Creating AI-Enabled Digital Products - with Matt Berseth of NLP Logix Today’s guest is Matt Berseth, Co-Founder and CIO of NLP Logix. NLP Logix is a fast-growing AI services firm based in Florida that serves both the public and private sectors. In this episode, we’re exploring the transition from light involvement ...
05.09.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Improving Railways with AI - with Adam Bonnifield of KONUX Today’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series, where we cover one enterprise AI use-case with a measurable ROI and discuss what made it successful every Monday. Today, we’re going to explore the topic of maintaining railways. ...
05.05.2022 Improving Banking Compliance with Intelligent Document Processing - with Edouard d'Archimbaud of Kili Today’s guest is Ed d’Archimbaud, Co-Founder and CTO of Kili Technology, based in Paris, France. He has previously worked with large financial institutions such as BNP Paribas, which he speaks about in this episode. We focus on two main topics ...
05.03.2022 Creating Insurance Policies for AI Applications - with Munich Re's Michael Berger Today’s guest is Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re. In this episode, Michael brings to bear his perspective as someone with technical experience in the industry and as the leader of Insure AI at one of the ...
05.02.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Feature Engineering as a Key to AI ROI - with Chris Joynt of PTC Today in our latest AI Success Factors series episode, we are focusing on the world of heavy industry while highlighting lessons that can be applied any and everywhere. Our guest this week and Chris Joynt, AIoT Co-innovation Leader for the ...
04.26.2022 AI for Estimating Home Prices - with Stefan Boronea of Proportunity Today’s guest is Stefan Boronea, Co-Founder and CTO of Proportunity. Based in London, Proportunity is a company that has raised over $170M. In this episode, we dive into the topic of where machine learning can add value in terms of ...
04.25.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Start Small and Show Wins - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance This week’s guest on our ongoing AI Success Factors series is Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance. Until recently, he was the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence for Zurich Insurance, and he is now the COO of Zurich’s Customer Active Management ...
04.19.2022 AI for Cyber Insurance Policy Review - with Pamela Negosanti of Expert.AI Today’s guest is Pamela Negosanti, the Head of Sector Strategies for Financial Services at Expert.AI. In today’s episode, Pamela speaks to us about the policy review process for cyber insurance. There are two main stand-out points: first, how a new ...
04.18.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Using Decision Augmentation for Client Retention - with Emily Bremner of Signal AI Welcome back to our AI Success Factors series, where we publish a short episode every Monday highlighting one AI use-case and the most important factor that leads it to a positive ROI. Today’s guest is Emily Bremner, SVP of Product ...
04.12.2022 What is Data-Centric AI? - with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMinds Today’s guest is Roey Mechrez, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondMinds. BeyondMinds is an AI company based in London. Recorded live in London, this episode highlights the topic of data-centric AI. Roey provides a clear definition of this concept and discusses ...
04.11.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Construction Cost Forecasting as a Business Upside - with Dev Amratia of nPlan This week’s Success Factors series episode highlights a use-case of construction and AI. In today’s episode, we speak about one of the UK’s most prominent building and construction companies that used artificial intelligence to better estimate their cost with greater ...
04.05.2022 The Pathway from RPA to AI - with UiPath's AI Leader Sunil Tahilramani Today’s guest is Sunil Tahilramani, Director of Artificial Intelligence at UiPath. Valued at about $40B, UiPath is one of the robotics processing automation world leaders. In today’s episode, Sunil discusses what the journey from RPA to AI looks like. He ...
04.04.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Making AI Come to Life in Heavy Industry - with Nikunj Mehta Today’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series. Every Monday, we publish 15-minute episodes that focus on an enterprise success story where we discuss one particular factor that made the project successful. Today’s guest is Nikunj Mehta, ...
03.29.2022 Use-Cases for an Enterprise Data Fabric - with Amaresh Tripathy of Genpact Today’s guest is Amaresh Tripathy, Senior Vice President and Global Business Lead for Analytics at Genpact. Genpact has some 80,000 employees, and Amaresh leads a global team of nearly 8,000 analytics experts covering everything from data engineering, machine learning, data ...
03.28.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Inventory Optimization for AI Hardware Manufacturing - with Gopalan Oppiliappan of Intel This is our series on AI success factors where we cover one specific enterprise AI project that was a success, highlighting the problem, impact, and what made it a success every Monday. One of our five guests in our recent ...
03.22.2022 Building an AI Advantage in an Enterprise Environment - with Ash Fontana of Zetta Venture Partners Today’s guest is Ash Fontana, Special Advisor at Zetta Venture Partners based in the Bay Area. After recently publishing his book, “The AI-First Company,” Ash joins us again on the show to discuss some of the core transferable lessons he’s ...
03.21.2022 [AI Success Factors] - Improving Product Recommendations at Walmart - with Dr. Charles Martin Today’s guest is Dr. Charles Martin, Founder of Calculation Consulting. Charles has worked on real enterprise deployments with companies like eBay, BlackRock, and exciting startups like Aardvark, which Google acquired. Today’s episode is part of our ongoing Monday series highlighting ...
03.18.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Go After Tuna, Not Whales - with Falkonry CEO Nikunj Mehta Today is episode five out of five of this week’s special series on Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects. We’ve heard from leaders from Intel, Oracle, and other big names, and today, we’re wrapping this series up with someone from ...
03.17.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Data Quality Assessment for Non-Technical Leaders - with Dr. Charles Martin Today’s episode is part four out of five in our Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects series. This week, we have published one episode per day, starting with the Head of the AI Centre of Excellence for Intel. Today, we’re ...
03.16.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Crawl, Walk, Run - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle Today is the third episode of this five-part series being published every day this week on achieving ROI with early AI projects. We’ve heard from the Head of the AI Center of Excellence at Intel and the Head of Insure ...
03.15.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Quantifying AI Risk - with Head of AI Insurance at Munich Re, Michael Berger This is the second episode of our five-part series on achieving ROI, with early AI projects taking place this week. This series brings together great perspectives from various leaders around advice that can help us bypass typical mishaps to achieve ...
03.14.2022 [Achieving AI ROI] Best Practices for ROI Measurement - with Intel's AI Centre of Excellence Leader Gopalan Oppiliappan Today is the start of a five-day series covering achieving ROI from early AI projects. In this series, we interview diverse experts from companies large and small about what it takes to pick AI projects with the highest chance of ...
03.08.2022 Improving Drug Development Speed with AI in Life Sciences - with Emmanuel Walckenaer of YSEOP Today’s guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. YSEOP is a natural language generation AI vendor serving life sciences and drug development. In today’s episode, Emmanuel speaks about speeding up the drug development process through the lens of the life ...
03.07.2022 [AI Success Factors] Detecting COVID's Impact with AI - with Telefonica's Chief AI Strategist Richard Benjamins In the third episode of our AI Success Factors series, we’re discussing a public sector application of AI. This Monday series is designed to deliver concise, industry-agnostic insights to start your week with a specific use-case and the most crucial ...
03.01.2022 Contract Analytics in Action - with Daniele Cordioli of Expert AI Today’s guest is Daniele Cordioli, Head of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at Expert.ai. In this episode, Daniele discusses what contract analytics means and the concrete use-cases we can get from it. There are two big transferable lessons that Daniele highlights ...
02.28.2022 [AI Success Factors] Crawl, Walk, Run! - with Beena Ammanath of Deloitte This is our second episode of our new Monday series highlighting AI Success Factors. Our guest is Beena Ammanath, the current Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute. Beena is also the Founder of Humans for AI, an organization ...
02.22.2022 Open Source AI and its Enterprise Potential - with Carlos Escapa of Facebook Today’s guest is Carlos Escapa, AI Global Business Development Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), and in this episode, we explore what business leaders need to know about open source. Carlos clarifies what open source is and what is relevant for ...
02.21.2022 [AI Success Factors] Fight the Right Battles - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle Today’s episode is the first of our new Monday series, AI Success Factors. This series will feature a short episode every Monday for the next four months geared towards starting your week with a look at what it takes for ...
02.15.2022 The Path Towards Next-Level AI in Business - with Peter Tu of GE Global Research This week’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. Peter joins us to discuss the transition from the previous era of AI into the current “third wave” of AI in a way that will ...
02.08.2022 Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity, from a Practitioner's Perspective - with Rajkumar Bondugula of Verizon This week’s guest is Rajkumar Bondugula, Fellow and Luminary Scientist at Verizon. Rajkumar holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and was previously the Principal Data Scientist at Equifax. In this episode, Rajkumar clarifies some of the critical differences between business ...
02.01.2022 Current Trends of AI in Healthcare - with Stacey Shulman of Intel Our guest this week is Stacey Shulman, Vice President Internet of Things Group / GM Health, Life Sciences and Emerging Technologies at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Stacey discusses where she sees AI make its way into healthcare now, how ...
01.27.2022 AI for Inventory Prediction in Manufacturing - with Anand Mahurkar of Findability Sciences Today’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, Founder and CEO of Findability Sciences. With about 100 employees worldwide, Findability operates in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. In this episode, Anand provides an in-depth overview of the workflows that are impacted in ...
01.25.2022 The Future of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Detection in Banking - with Bob Gaines of SambaNova Today’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, ...
01.18.2022 The Practical Business Case for AI Governance - with IBM's Chief AI Officer Seth Dobrin Our guest this week is Dr. Seth Dobrin, the Global Chief AI Officer at IBM, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Seth returns to the podcast to speak about AI governance in terms of enabling ...
01.13.2022 How AI Can Improve Manufacturing Productivity - with Remi Duquette of MayaHTT Today’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at Maya HTT. Maya HTT is an engineering and industrial AI services firm that Remi’s been with for twenty years. Remi draws on his hands-on experience to discuss ...
01.11.2022 AI Transformation in Agriculture, Use-Cases and Trends - with Gregory Diamos of Landing AI This week’s guest is Gregory Diamos, Machine Learning Systems Engineering at Landing AI. Run by one of the most prominent names in the business AI world, Andrew Ng, Landing AI has raised over $50M to date. Before Andrew founded Landing ...
01.04.2022 Overcoming Hurdles to Making Conversational Interfaces Work - with Joe Bradley of LivePerson Today’s guest is Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist, SVP Data Science & ML at LivePerson. Joe was previously the Senior Director for Data and Personalization Science at Nike before joining the team at LivePerson. In this episode, Joe breaks down how ...
12.28.2021 AI Recommendations for Employee Education and Training - with Bhaskar Deka of EdCast Today’s guest is Bhaskar Deka, Global Head of Product Management and AI at EdCast. Based in the Bay Area, EdCast has raised over $100M and has more than 400 employees to date. This episode focuses on onboarding new employees and ...
12.21.2021 AI and IoT Applications in the Present and Future - with Joseph Berti of IBM Our guest this week is Joseph Berti, VP of AI Applications at IBM. In this episode, Joseph discusses the current capabilities of AI and IoT, highlighting specific use-cases where he’s seen value delivered in the industry. He also talks about ...
12.14.2021 Leveling Up from Business Intelligence with Forecasting - to Ramprakash Ramamoorthy of Zoho Our guest this week is Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research at Zoho Corporation. Based near the Bay Area, Zoho is a firm with over $600M in annual revenue that offers various software products, including CRM, business intelligence solutions, and ...
12.07.2021 Three Transformative AI Use-Cases in Manufacturing - with Everton Paulino of SambaNova This week’s guest is Everton Paulino, Business Development Executive of Automotive & Manufacturing at SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has raised approximately $1B to bring their hardware and software solutions to market. In this episode, he brings experience to bear and ...
11.30.2021 A Use-Case Deep Dive: Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing - with Faustino Gomez of NNAISENSE Today’s guest is Faustino Gomez, CEO, and Co-Founder of NNAISENSE. NNAISENSE is a firm focused on developing AI solutions for the physical world, and we spoke with their other Co-Founder, Jürgen Schmidhuber, about two years ago. If you’re interested in ...
11.23.2021 Using AI to Improve Financial Collections - with Sanjay Deshmukh of Findability Sciences Our guest this week is Sanjay Deshmukh, Executive Vice President of Findability Sciences. Findability is a SoftBank-backed firm here in the Boston area with about 100 employees around the world. In this episode, he discusses how Findability is applying artificial ...
11.18.2021 Improving Manufacturing Quality with AI - with Remi Duquette of MayaHTT Today’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at MayaHTT. MayaHTT is a services firm focused on industrial engineering and industrial AI. In this episode, he speaks to his direct knowledge of applying AI in the ...
11.17.2021 No One AI Tool Can Solve All Problems - with Jeff Mills of iMerit Technology Today’s guest is Jeff Mills, Chief Revenue Officer of iMerit Technology. Working in the data labeling and annotation space, iMerit is a company that works with some of the world’s largest autonomous vehicles, big tech, and legacy enterprises. In this ...
11.16.2021 Making AI Easier to Adopt into the Enterprise - with Marshall Choy of SambaNova Systems Today’s guest is Marshall Choy, VP of Product at SambaNova Systems. In this episode, Marshall discusses two different approaches to AI adoption: doing it yourself and leveraging AI platforms. He shares his perspective on the advantages and disadvantages to both ...

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