The AI in Business Podcast

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The AI in Business Podcast

Daniel Faggella

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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 research staff and journalists interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption. Visit our advertising page to learn more about reaching our executive audience of Fortune 2000 AI adopters: https://emerj.com/advertise

Episodes

Closing the Skills Intelligence Gap in the AI Era - with Cory Hymel of Andela

<div>Job titles routinely undercount what employees can actually do, especially in fast-moving technical roles.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode, Cory Hymel, Head of Research at Andela, explore...
Aug 27, 202626m

Scaling Agentic Automation With Open Architecture - with Arun Chandra of NICE

<div>A quarter of enterprise teams have gotten a single AI channel into full production — the rest are stuck somewhere behind it.</div> <div>In this episode, Arun Chandra, Chief Operating Officer at N...
Aug 26, 202623m

AI for Patient Critical Uptime in a Shrinking Technician Workforce - with Michael Goldman

<div>The service environment is straining under rising equipment complexity and a rapidly shrinking technician workforce, making patient‑critical uptime harder to guarantee.</div> <div> </div> <div>In...
Aug 25, 202622m

Intelligent Operations at Enterprise Scale - with Dave Glick of Walmart

<div>Enterprise engineering teams often spend more time triaging recurring incidents than building the features customers are asking for. In this episode, Dave Glick, Senior Vice President of Growth T...
Aug 24, 202622m

How Leaders Build for the Next Era of Compute - with Sam Grove of MIPS

<div>Consolidating hardware into fewer, more capable chips looks like an unambiguous win — until the complexity those separate components used to handle resurfaces in the software binding everything b...
Aug 20, 202625m

Transforming Cardiovascular Care — How AI-Driven Insights Unlock Value for Hospitals and Clinics - with Jim Hartman of Cleerly

<div>Hospitals and clinics continue to face a central challenge: extensive cardiac testing still fails to deliver clear, consistent diagnostic answers, slowing decision‑making and creating downstream ...
Aug 20, 202626m

How Regulated Enterprises Turn Governance Into AI Scale - with Julian Tang of BlackRock

<div>Enterprise leaders face a growing gap between AI ambition and the fragmented data, legacy systems, and cultural friction that prevent pilots from becoming scalable value.</div> <div> </div> <div>...
Aug 18, 202618m

Determining Virtual Cell Impact for Drug Discovery - with Kristóf Szalay and Gerold Csendes of Turbine

<div>Virtual cell models promise faster, cheaper early-stage drug discovery. However, the industry still lacks a shared way to judge which of these models can actually be trusted on a given problem.</...
Aug 17, 202641m

[AI Futures] Paolo Ardoino of Tether on Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)

<div>The rise of non‑invasive BCIs and the privacy, security, and human‑relevance questions they introduce is becoming a central concern as this technology moves toward practical use.</div> <div> </di...
Aug 15, 202640m

The Predictive Model Reshaping Retail Operations at Scale - with Chris Slovak of Unframe

<div>Most retail AI pilots stall waiting on a years-long project to centralize and clean data before any agent can go live.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode, Chris Slovak, Global Field CTO at U...
Aug 13, 202637m

Managing Change Across Modern Financial Operations - with Ajay Swamy of JPMorganChase and Founder of FundLens.ai

<div>Banks can process millions of transactions an hour, yet even routine steps in financial operations still require constant human judgment to hold together.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode,...
Aug 13, 202621m

The Future of Customer Success and Turnkey AI Agents for SMBs - Matt Kravitz of Salesforce

<div>Service leaders are increasingly asked to deploy AI agents without a clear sense of what these systems can safely handle today, or where to start. In this episode, Matt Kravitz, Head of Customer ...
Aug 12, 202624m

What Mature Security Programs Need Before Deploying AI - with Mark Alvarado of Academy Sports + Outdoors

<div>The security landscape is shifting as AI accelerates existing vulnerabilities faster than most retail enterprises can adapt.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode, Mark Alvarado, CISO at Academ...
Aug 11, 202628m

Closing the Medical Device Knowledge Gap with AI Driven Field Service - with Ryan Makely of Bruker

<div>A growing gap between device complexity and organizational knowledge is turning service reliability into an enterprise‑level risk for regulated industries.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode...
Aug 7, 202631m

How Industrial Leaders Are Redefining AI for the Factory Floor - with Antoine Bisson of Poka

<div>Industrial AI is forcing leaders to confront a fundamental gap between digital systems built for offices and the high‑risk, real‑time demands of the factory floor.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this...
Aug 7, 202632m

Machine‑Speed Security Risk in the Age of AI - with Niro Rajadurai of XBOW

<div>AI is generating code and surfacing vulnerabilities faster than security teams can review them, compressing the time between a vulnerability discovery and its exploitation.</div> <div> </div> <di...
Aug 6, 202638m

Accelerating Evidence to Action in Pharma with Practical AI Adoption - with Nabil Khan of Pfizer

<div>Pharma organizations are generating more clinical and scientific evidence than ever, yet the path from that evidence to a confident strategic call hasn't kept up.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this ...
Aug 4, 202624m

AI for Industrial Service Leaders Improving Diagnostics and Field Efficiency - with Scot Burdette of ABB

<div>Industrial service teams are facing two compounding pressures at once: decades of hands-on expertise walking out the door through retirement, and the equipment itself growing more complex to diag...
Aug 3, 202617m

Risk and Cost Governance for AI Agents in Regulated Institutions - with Shahir Daya of Zafin

<div>As AI agents move from pilots into live financial workflows, most institutions still can't answer a basic question: who authorized this action, and what evidence backs it up?</div> <div> </div> <...
Jul 29, 202629m

Turning Manual Manufacturing Variability into Data‑Driven Control – with Sebastian Dykas of Smith+Nephew

<div>A persistent gap remains between what modern manufacturing technology makes possible and how day‑to‑day work is still executed, with paper workflows, limited machine visibility, and siloed data p...
Jul 28, 202632m