In this episode, Bernhard Ritz (CEO & Founder, Ainzel) and Andreas Welsch discuss supercharging your business processes with collaborative AI agents. Bernhard shares his insights on introducing AI agents into business functions and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to elevate their business operations with the help of a virtual team of expert agents.

Key topics:
- Describe the opportunity to bring AI agents into your business processes
- Determine the challenges of bringing AI agents to human-AI teams
- Quantify the value of collaborative AI agents for business functions
- Recommend how to start exploring AI agents

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- Take a business look at AI and re-imagining your business processes
- Learn to work with AI agent frameworks
- Define management as a function spanning humans and AI agents
- Articulate limitations and guardrails for using AI agents

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In this episode, Jeremy Gilliland (Automation & AI Leader) and Andreas Welsch discuss how Generative AI enables next-level process automation. Jeremy shares his learnings on vendors adding agentic AI to their RPA products and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to explore both technologies together..

Key topics:
- Describe how Generative AI expands traditional RPA
- Assess the potential for IT and Automation leaders when combining technologies
- Leverage both technologies’ advantages when integrating them
- Decide how to start using Generative AI and RPA together

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- Benefit from RPA and Generative AI integration
- Leverage Generative AI agents and RPA for business model transformation
- Minimize dependencies within your tech stack and have an AI and automation platform for increased efficiency

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In this episode, Nicole Wieberneit (Sales & Go-To-Market Leader) and Andreas Welsch discuss scaling go-to-market (GTM) for enterprise Generative AI. Nicole shares her approach to introducing technology innovations such as AI to sales teams, and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to scale their product sales through an enabled and engaged sales force.

Key topics:
- Be aware of marketing and sales' frequent reputation as overhyping capabilities or being overly shallow
- Approach GTM design for AI differently from traditional SaaS
- Balance product knowledge and depth with sales teams’ quarterly incentives
- Adapt incentive structures within a software company for sales teams to become a true advisor to customers
- Focus on vertical markets for AI SaaS

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- Focus on a product, industry, or region to maximize your impact
- Articulate the problem you solve and build your pitch around it
- Understand your target buyer before creating your sales orchestration
- Test, experiment, and be open to feedback and adjustments

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In this episode, Steve Wilson (Co-Lead OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps & Author) and Andreas Welsch discuss red-teaming and safeguards for LLM applications. Steve shares his insights how Generative AI vulnerabilities have evolved from embarrassing to financially risky and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to improve the security of their Generative AI applications.

Key topics:
- One year after OWASP Top 10 for LLM apps, how have LLM security and vulnerabilities evolved?
- How do you build Generative AI safeguards into your app? What’s the impact on cost for checking and regenerating output?
- How can you red-team your LLM apps?
- Which roles or skillsets are best suited to improve security?

Listen to this episode and learn how to:
- Become aware of new ways bad actors can exploit your LLM-based apps and assistants (prompt injection, supply chain attack, data exfiltration, etc.)
- Understand the characteristics of your LLM supply chain and new vulnerabilities
- Consider the implications of using agents on your security

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In this special episode, Andreas Welsch launches his new AI Leadership Handbook together with fellow AI leaders:
- Matt Lewis (Founder & CEO, LLMental)
- Brian Evergreen (CEO of The Future Solving Company)
- Maya Mikhailov (Founder & CEO, SAVVI.AI
- Paul Kurchina (Enterprise Architecture Community Leader)
- Harpreet Sahota (Developer Relations Expert)
- Steve Wilson (Chief Product Officer at Exabeam and Co-Author of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications)

Key topics:
- What’s keeping Chief AI Officers up at night?
- What’s the hardest part for new AI leaders coming into an AI leadership role?
- What does a future with AI agents look like?
- How can AI leaders succeed in this phase of AI adoption where we’re just coming off the hype?
- Why do we still need to educate business leaders and stakeholders about AI?
- Why is AI here to stay this time and why should IT teams and CoEs care?
- How has RAG evolved over the last 12 months?
- How does data play into concepts like RAG and agents? And why is it important to still keep an eye on technology?
- What is happening in the cybersecurity space since the release of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps?
- How are bad actors exploiting LLMs’ personalization capabilities and why do leaders need to know about LLM vulnerabilities?

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- The sheer possibility of what AI can do now can seem overwhelming—even for AI experts and leaders.
- AI agents promise autonomy, automation, and optimization beyond anything currently possible, with agents negotiating with other agents to find an optimal solution.
- Data remains a critical ingredient for any successful AI project that many leaders still neglect.
- IT leaders are asking for tangible examples and return on their investment when working with embedded AI solutions.
- Agentic RAG has emerged as the latest iteration of RAG systems—however, data quality remains critical to achieve high quality outputs.
- The cybersecurity discourse has evolved from avoiding embarrasing PR to avoiding data leakage and legal consequences with bad actors looking to exploit these new LLM-based systems.

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In this episode, Quentin Reil (Founder & Chief AI Officer) and Andreas Welsch discuss the four key challenges of Generative AI that you can't ignore. Quentin shares his story about leveraging business data as a differentiator and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to overcome the most common issues surrounding Generative AI applications.

Key topics:
- Describe the impact of the evolving Generative AI landscape on business strategies
- Assess the “fitness” of different Large Language Models to solve particular customer needs
- Select technologies that can address the challenges of Generative AI
- Understand the role of data in the current regulatory landscape

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- Concentrate on the problem rather than the technology
- Leverage your business data as a differentiator of your AI applications
- Drive business outcomes based on data-centric products and applications

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In this episode, Lasse Rindom (AI Lead, BASICO) and Andreas Welsch discuss leveraging the AI hype and disillusionment to drive business impact. Lasse shares his story from previous hype cycles in Automation and AI to the latest one of Generative AI and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to get actionable insights into driving AI adoption in their business.

Key topics:
- Assess the current AI adoption phase in the market between AI hype and disillusionment
- Leverage the Generative AI momentum to drive business impact
- Evaluate analysts’ forecasts to continue the AI momentum in business and focus on promising areas
- Decide why to continue investing in AI solutions for business growth

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- Focus on delivering business value through AI and automation rather than fixating on Generative AI as a technology
- Provide tangible examples and training for employees to become skilled users of AI-enhanced tools
- Drive AI innovation while understanding and mitigating the risks
- Countries like Denmark are leading the way in exploring Digitalization and AI, and are actively driving adoption

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In this episode, Marek Kowalkiewicz (Professor & Author) and Andreas Welsch discuss how AI agents will change the way we work. Marek shares his insights on the economy of algorithms that guide our everyday lives and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to learn how AI agents will shape our workplace.

Key topics:
- Describe the evolution from manual to digital and AI labor
- Anticipate change in business functions because of increased AI
- Support your business teams to prepare for a shift towards AI labor
- Share examples of algorithmic decision-making

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- Anticipate AI algorithms influencing our behavior just as much as we influence theirs
- Expect colleagues will assume you have used AI, even when you have created it yourself
- Learn to collaborate with AI and AI agents to improve results
- Encourage employees to use Generative AI and share their approach with peers

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In this episode, Pedro Berrocoso (Digital Procurement & Automation Advisor) and Andreas Welsch explore Generative AI in Procurement. Pedro shares example) on leveraging the latest generation of AI in Procurement and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to identify opportunities for leveraging this technology in their own business.

Key topics:
- Assess the Generative AI opportunities in Procurement
- Learn from a tangible example of adopting Generative AI and the associated challenges
- Anticipate AI agents that autonomously negotiate on behalf of a supplier and a customer
- Prepare Procurement leaders to explore using Generative AI

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- Determine Generative AI’s potential within Procurement along 4 pillars
- Apply Generative AI selectively to address specific pain points in your source-to-pay process
- Promote trust, acceptance, and adoption of the AI solutions that you deploy
- Establish basic AI literacy within your Procurement organization, as your suppliers will leverage the technology when sending you information

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In this episode, Mark Beccue (Independent Market Analyst) and Andreas Welsch cut through the Generative AI hype. Mark shares examples of B2B software vendors leading the Generative AI development and adoption based on past learnings, and provides valuable advice for listeners looking to ascertain where the AI market is going.

Key topics:
- Assess the current phase of AI adoption between AI hype and disillusionment
- Recognize software vendors’  sound AI strategy and what they do they do well for their customers
- Evaluate commercial models that resonate the most with B2B buyers (transaction- or user-based)
- Anticipate where Generative AI go within the next 6 months

Listen to the full episode to hear how you can:
- Follow incumbents in the software industry who have learned from and improved after the machine learning hype
- Glean at responsible AI practices and operationalization by industry leaders for your own business
- Start with a business problem first before chasing technologies such as Generative AI
- Keep AI projects pragmatic to avoid disillusionment

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