The CAIO Connect Podcast (Chief AI Officer Connect Podcast)

How is AI transforming financial markets and the future of the Bloomberg Terminal? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Emanuel Bettelheim, a senior product and AI leader at Bloomberg, about AI agents, generative AI, financial data, and how Bloomberg is using AI to transform financial research and decision-making. The conversation explores trustworthy AI, knowledge graphs, AI governance, model selection, AI costs, BQL, MCP, and why human judgment remains essential in financial markets.

How is AI transforming higher education, and what does the future CIO look like in an AI-first world? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Dr. Lin Zhou, CIO and Executive Director of AI & Quantum Computing at Texas Tech University, about CIO 3.0, AI agents, hybrid AI infrastructure, AI governance, and the future of education and work. The conversation explores how universities can adopt AI while balancing privacy, security, cost, and human skills—and why education must evolve beyond knowledge transfer in the age of AI.

How is AI transforming lending, customer service, fraud detection, and financial inclusion? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Manoj Mathew, CTO & CRO at LendingUSA, about deploying AI agents in highly regulated financial environments. The conversation explores AI governance, accountability, explainability, AI-powered lending, fraud detection, financial inclusion, and why Agentic AI may be overhyped.

How is AI transforming manufacturing, supply chains, and the future of enterprise work? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, about AI agents, automation, data governance, AI sovereignty, and scaling AI across a global organization. The conversation explores how enterprises can encourage AI innovation while balancing security, cost, governance, and business value.

How can enterprises move from AI experimentation to real-world transformation? Recorded live at AI4 2026, Sanjay Puri speaks with Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, about AI agents, enterprise transformation, governance, cybersecurity, shadow AI, and the future of the Chief AI Officer. Derek shares practical lessons on moving AI from pilots to production while balancing speed, security, change management, and trust.

How is AI transforming the world's largest restaurant companies? Sanjay Puri speaks with Karthik, Director of Data Strategy, MDM and Data Governance at Yum! Brands, about AI across more than 65,000 restaurants in 120+ countries. The conversation explores AI-powered drive-throughs, self-healing restaurant systems, Agentic AI, AI governance, data quality, personalization, and how Yum! is measuring AI's real business impact.

How do you secure AI agents without slowing innovation? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Krista Arndt, Associate CISO at St. Luke’s University Health Network, about AI security, governance, non-human identities, data protection, shadow AI, and the challenges of deploying AI safely in healthcare. The conversation explores how CISOs can enable AI innovation while building the security, trust, and governance needed for an AI-first enterprise.

How can banks safely deploy AI agents while balancing innovation, privacy, compliance, and trust? Sanjay Puri speaks with Ron Whitener, Chief Privacy Officer at Truist Financial, about AI governance, privacy by design, AI compliance, third-party risk, and the challenges of deploying autonomous AI in highly regulated industries.

How do organizations move from talking about responsible AI to actually putting it into practice?

Recorded live at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Sanjay Puri speaks with Rebecca Finlay, CEO of Partnership on AI, about turning responsible AI principles into real-world governance. They discuss AI agents, enterprise adoption, workforce transformation, public trust, multilingual AI, and the practical frameworks organizations need to innovate responsibly while managing risk.

Recorded live at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Sanjay Puri speaks with Enrica Porcari, CERN's first Chief Information Officer, about leading AI and digital transformation at one of the world's most innovative scientific organizations. Discover practical lessons on AI leadership, cybersecurity, open science, data governance, and how enterprise leaders can balance innovation with trust in the age of artificial intelligence.