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
How to Measure the ROI of AI - With Sankar Narayanan of Fractal Analytics
This month, we focus on the ROI of AI, and our guest this week is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics, a global AI & Analytics firm headquartered in New York City.
In this e…
Getting Started with AI, Best-Practices - With Daniel Faggella of Emerj
This is the final episode in the month-long series on getting started with AI. In this episode, Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella breaks down the key insights from all four of this month's interviews, distil…
Misconceptions About AI Adoption, and How to Overcome Them - with Jan Kautz of NVIDIA
This week we interview Jan Kautz, Vice President of Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA. Kautz talks about what people underestimate when they start an AI initiative. In addition, he emphasize…
Scaling AI Best-Practices in the Enterprise - with Jan Neumann of Comcast
This week, we speak with Jan Neumann, Senior Director of Applied AI Research at Comcast. Comcast is an enormous company; it has lots of data, lots of application areas for AI, and a lot of opportunit…
Critical Questions to Ask Before Adopting Artificial Intelligence - With David Carmona of Microsoft
This week we speak with David Carmona, General Manager of AI at Microsoft. Carmona discusses how redefining a business process is a very different kind of AI adoption project than working on somethin…
Table Stakes AI Insights for the Enterprise - with Vlad Sejnoha of Glasswing Ventures
It's the first episode of the new style of AI in Industry, in which we spend a month at a time on a specific theme. This month is AI adoption.
This week we speak with Vlad Sejnoha at Glasswing Ventur…
Where AI is Driving Value in Insurance (and Where It's Not) - With Jerry Overton, Head of AI and Fellow at DXC Technology
This episode of the AI in industry podcast is all about where the rubber meets the road for AI in Insurance. We interview Jerry Overton, Head of AI and a Fellow at DXC Technology. He speaks to us abo…
What's the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence? - With Elif Tutuk, Senior Director at Qlik Research
When we polled our audience about what they were interested in, the most selected response was "business intelligence." As a follow-up, we asked them what business intelligence meant to them, and the…
How Lenders Can Win More Business with Machine Learning
This week, we interview Jay Budzik, CTO at ZestFinance, about where AI applies to the world of auto-lending. We speak with Budzik about how underwriting and credit scoring is evolving as a result of …
China's AI Education Initiatives and What It Means for the US
Some say that the competitive dynamics between the US and China in terms of AI are overblown, but there's a lot of truth to them. The US has access to more of the base research, but China can orchest…
How to Maximize ROI From AI in Finance: Banking, Investing, and Insurance
While AI is certainly finding its footing in finance, we still find most of our subscribers are in a phase where they're trying to catch up in terms of data and data infrastructure and figure out whe…
How to Get Started With an Effective AI Strategy
Building an AI strategy - there's hardly anything more vague and open-ended than that. Business leaders have probably gotten the idea that they should develop one, but where should they start? That's…
AI Business Strategy Basics - Critical Insights on AI Adoption
One of the best conversations I ever had on the topic of AI business strategy on the podcast was with the guest I've brought back this week: Madhu Shekar, Head of Digital Innovation for Amazon Intern…
Five AI and Data Science Terms People Get Wrong
As it turns out, often times terms like predictive analytics and data science are used incorrectly. By the end of this podcast, you'll have greater clarity on five potentially vague AI and data scien…
AI Enterprise Adoption Lessons From Building a National AI Strategy
This week, we interview Arnab Kumar, Founding Manager, Frontier Technologies for the NITI Aayog, the wing of the Indian government focused on rolling out AI into areas like healthcare and agriculture…
Adopting AI at the Department of Homeland Security
Erin Knealy is the portfolio manager of the cybersecurity division of the Us Department of Homeland Security. She is the interface between the US government and the startup and tech ecosystems. We sp…
How to get an ROI from AI Internet of Things Solutions
It's curious to see how much more there is of sensor tech and internet of things than there was 18 months ago. This week, we speak with Cormac Driver, PhD and Head of Product Engineering at Temboo, a…
AI Search Applications for Compliance, Contracts, and Human Resources
There's an entire artificial intelligence ecosystem for enterprise search. Most of this is in a purely digital world. Most vendors help with a layer of AI-enabled search that understands terms or phr…
What It Looks Like to Adopt AI for Competitive Advantage
The AI in Industry podcast is all about transferrable lessons. Today we speak with Andrew Byrnes, an investment director at Comet Labs in San Francisco about the competitive edge with AI. What does i…
AI Integration Challenges in Manufacturing
We did a lot of focus on healthcare for the World Bank, and we presented a lot of that research in South Africa. When I was there, I interviewed DataProft cofounder Frans Cronje about the intersectio…