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Most companies are investing heavily in AI.

But how many are actually seeing meaningful business results?

In this episode of the AI Visionary Podcast, we sit down with Gavin Barfield, CTO & VP Solutions for Salesforce ASEAN, to explore the difference between AI experimentation and real AI transformation.

From Agentic AI and customer experience to leadership, trust, adoption, and ROI, Gavin shares practical insights from working with some of the region's most innovative organizations.

If you're a CEO, board member, business leader, AI practitioner, or technology executive trying to understand how to unlock value from AI investments, this conversation is for you.

In This Episode

✅ Why many AI initiatives fail to deliver ROI

✅ The difference between AI transformation and AI theater

✅ Why LLMs alone are not enough

✅ The critical role of context in AI success

✅ How Agentic AI is changing customer experience

✅ What leaders get wrong about AI adoption

✅ The future of AI-powered customer interactions

✅ Why trust is the foundation of successful AI

✅ Real-world examples of AI delivering business value

✅ How leading organizations are preparing for an AI-first future

Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction and Agentforce World Tour Singapore

00:41 – How Gavin stays ahead in the age of AI

01:37 – AI Transformation vs AI Theater

03:49 – Why most AI projects struggle with ROI

05:36 – How Agentic AI is changing customer experience

07:53 – The rise of AI agents as customers

08:39 – How AI agents will interact with software differently

10:35 – The biggest misconception about AI agents

12:26 – Why context matters more than intelligence

13:39 – Leadership lessons for AI transformation

15:02 – Strategy vs use cases: where companies go wrong

15:50 – A real AI ROI success story

17:53 – How to identify high-impact AI opportunities

18:45 – Rapid Fire Round

19:01 – Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT?

19:45 – The most underrated AI trend

20:48 – The most overrated AI trend

21:53 – Gavin's favorite AI tool

22:45 – Final thoughts

Key Takeaways

The companies generating the greatest ROI from AI are not simply deploying more models.

They're redesigning how work gets done.

The future belongs to organizations that combine trusted data, business context, and Agentic AI to create entirely new ways of serving customers and operating at scale.

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The AI Visionary Podcast is a platform where AI leaders share bold, unique and tangible insights about pathways to realizing meaningful ROI from AI, pitfalls to avoid and their success stories.

These conversations go beyond the hype to uncover what it takes for organizations to be successful in their AI transformation journeys from a leadership, talent, strategy and operating model perspective. 

Co-hosted by Joel Azariah and Milind, new episodes release every month via You Tube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and various other Podcasts Channels

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