The AI in Business Podcast
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 AI Research CEO Daniel Faggella and team interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 1015
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Identifying AI Opportunities, a Key to AI Readiness - with Mark Ewing of Eastman Chemicals
Mark Ewing, Sr. Technologist and Architect at Eastman Chemicals, emphasizes identifying key leverage points for AI as foundational for successful and profitable AI adoption in the enterprise. He asse…
AI Transformation in Banking Compliance - with Mark Gazit of Thetaray
Today I'm excited to share a conversation with Mark Gazit, CEO of ThetaRay. This New York-based fintech firm raised over $80 million to expand threat detection solutions to critical infrastructure, f…
![[AI Futures] Artificing a Superintelligent Future - with Roman Yampolskiy of the University of Louisville (S1E6)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/0/b/8/c0b8b9e29f9943a0/Roman_Yampolskiy_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] Artificing a Superintelligent Future - with Roman Yampolskiy of the University of Louisville (S1E6)
Today I'm excited to welcome back long-time friend and alumnus of the podcast, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. Roman is Director of the University of Louisville's Cybersecurity Lab. He has authored four books …
AI for Competitive Advantage - with Priya Rajagopalan of FourKites
Priya Rajagopalan, Chief Product Officer of FourKites, shares how to leverage AI for a real competitive advantage. FourKites has raised over $100 million in venture capital to build an end-to-end sup…
Recommendations for Banking User Experience - with Tanushree Luke of US Bank
Dr. Tanushree Luke, Head of AI at US Bank (USA's 5th largest bank), shares pragmatic opportunities for improving customer experience in banking, by learning from customer interactions. For example: h…
![[AI Futures] How Might AI Transform Global Politics? - Zoltan Istvan of the US Transhumanist Party (S1E5)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/f/b/f/3fbf6bb4a6faf6a5/Zoltan_Istvan_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] How Might AI Transform Global Politics? - Zoltan Istvan of the US Transhumanist Party (S1E5)
Our AI Futures series aims to share perspectives from those pushing the boundaries of technology, and this episode's discussion steps toward farther-out potential futures.
Before founding the US Tran…
The Truth About Enhancing Software Products with AI - with Manny Medina of Outreach.io
Manny Medina, CEO and co-founder of unicorn startup Outreach.io, shares wisdom from the trenches of AI adoption. We're excited to have him on for many reasons - to celebrate his success (Outreach's v…
Drones and AI for Industrial Equipment Inspection - with Nick Pilkington of Drone Deploy
Nicholas Pilkington, CTO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy, breaks down drone technology trends and dives into some powerful use cases in heavy industry. Notably, drones are transforming best practices f…
![[AI Futures] Centralized vs Decentralized AI Governance - with Ben Garfinkel of Oxford's FHI (S1E4)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/a/8/b/fa8b7cf032aa953b/Ben_Garfinkel_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] Centralized vs Decentralized AI Governance - with Ben Garfinkel of Oxford's FHI (S1E4)
Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at Oxford's Future of Humanity Insitute (FHI). In this episode, he breaks down key issues central to the near-term formation of good AI governance, such as: the com…
Tech Investments Post Covid - with Brett Beranek of Nuance
Today's discussion is with Brett Beranek of Nuance Communications, arguably the best-known NLP company in the world. Nuance has been selling AI to enterprises for decades, earning billions of revenue…
The Future of Pharma Data, AI, and Drug Development - with Glen de Vries of Medidata
Glen de Vries cofounded Medidata in 1999, offering SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers' clinical trials, and 20 years later the company - which he still …
![[AI Futures] Formation of Ethically Aligned AI Standards - with Dr. Karachalios PhD, Managing Director of IEEE Standards (S1E3)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/2/5/b/425b19f009e16923/Konstantinos_Karachalios_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] Formation of Ethically Aligned AI Standards - with Dr. Karachalios PhD, Managing Director of IEEE Standards (S1E3)
Today's interview is with, Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (ieee.org).
Konstantinos earned a Ph.D. in Energy…
Defining AI Readiness - with Joel Minnick of Amazon, Databricks
In this podcast Joel Minnick, AI & ML Strategy Leader at Amazon Web Services (now VP at Databricks), shares his valuable perspective on what defines "AI Readiness" for large enterprises. Want to disc…
Can AI Reduce Physician Burnout? - with Peter Durlach of Nuance Communications
Today, Peter Durlach, Senior Vice President of Nuance Communications, joins the podcast to discuss important and timely opportunities for AI in Healthcare. Peter shares how enhancing and automating k…
![[AI Futures] Karine Perset, Economist at the OECD's AI Observatory, on AI Governance (S1E2)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/c/6/6/6c66291b9f0de35d/Karine_Perset_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] Karine Perset, Economist at the OECD's AI Observatory, on AI Governance (S1E2)
In June 2019, the G20 adopted human-centered AI Principles that draw from the OECD Principles on AI. Emerj was invited to Paris to collaborate with the OECD's AI Governance efforts, and today we're e…
How to Make Sure AI Pilots Actually Get Deployed - with Sankar Narayanan of Fractal Analytics
Today's guest is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics, a unicorn company in Bangalore. Sankar's last interview with Emerj was last year's most popular episode: "How to measur…
Applying AI in Europe, What's So Different? - with Martin Musiol of IBM
Today we kick off the first in a series of discussions about AI in Europe with Martin Musiol, Sr. Data Scientist at IBM. Martin is a member of IBM's Technical Expert Counsel, and in this episode he s…
![[AI Futures] Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley on AI Governance (S1E1)](https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/2/4/e/e24ea2129069a9bd/Stuart_Russell_card.jpg)
[AI Futures] Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley on AI Governance (S1E1)
In this first episode in our 12-part Saturday "AI Futures" series, UC Berkeley Professor and renown AI expert Stuart Russell shares his perspectives on the near and long-term considerations of AI gov…
Go After Big Problems First in Your AI Approach - with Babak Hodjat of Cognizant
Today we interview Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, one of world's largest IT integration & service firms. Babak has 20+ years of AI experience, starting his first AI startup in 1998…
Two Areas of AI Impact in Logistics - with Jim Barnebee of GetSwift
Today's guest is Jim Barnebee, VP of AI and Infrastructure at GetSwift, a public company that has raised $143 million to bring AI to the world of Delivery - with a smart platform enabling driver mana…