The AI in Business Podcast

The AI in Business Podcast

by Daniel Faggella

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
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Episodes 1218 total

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

Aug 26, 2026 · 23m

A quarter of enterprise teams have gotten a single AI channel into full production — the rest are stuck somewhere behind it. In this episode, Arun Chandra, Chie…

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

Aug 25, 2026 · 22m

The service environment is straining under rising equipment complexity and a rapidly shrinking technician workforce, making patient‑critical uptime harder to gu…

Intelligent Operations at Enterprise Scale - with Dave Glick of Walmart

Aug 24, 2026 · 22m

Enterprise engineering teams often spend more time triaging recurring incidents than building the features customers are asking for. In this episode, Dave Glick…

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

Aug 20, 2026 · 25m

Consolidating hardware into fewer, more capable chips looks like an unambiguous win — until the complexity those separate components used to handle resurfaces i…

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

Aug 20, 2026 · 26m

Hospitals and clinics continue to face a central challenge: extensive cardiac testing still fails to deliver clear, consistent diagnostic answers, slowing decis…

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

Aug 18, 2026 · 18m

Enterprise leaders face a growing gap between AI ambition and the fragmented data, legacy systems, and cultural friction that prevent pilots from becoming scala…

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

Aug 17, 2026 · 41m

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 actual…

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

Aug 15, 2026 · 40m

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 tow…

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

Aug 13, 2026 · 37m

Most retail AI pilots stall waiting on a years-long project to centralize and clean data before any agent can go live. In this episode, Chris Slovak, Global Fie…

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

Aug 13, 2026 · 21m

Banks can process millions of transactions an hour, yet even routine steps in financial operations still require constant human judgment to hold together. In th…

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

Aug 12, 2026 · 24m

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 episo…

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

Aug 11, 2026 · 28m

The security landscape is shifting as AI accelerates existing vulnerabilities faster than most retail enterprises can adapt. In this episode, Mark Alvarado, CIS…

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

Aug 7, 2026 · 31m

A growing gap between device complexity and organizational knowledge is turning service reliability into an enterprise‑level risk for regulated industries. In t…

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

Aug 7, 2026 · 32m

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 flo…

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

Aug 6, 2026 · 38m

AI is generating code and surfacing vulnerabilities faster than security teams can review them, compressing the time between a vulnerability discovery and its e…

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

Aug 4, 2026 · 24m

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 u…

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

Aug 3, 2026 · 17m

Industrial service teams are facing two compounding pressures at once: decades of hands-on expertise walking out the door through retirement, and the equipment…

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

Jul 29, 2026 · 29m

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 evidenc…

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

Jul 28, 2026 · 32m

A persistent gap remains between what modern manufacturing technology makes possible and how day‑to‑day work is still executed, with paper workflows, limited ma…

Building the Infrastructure Behind AI-Enabled Field Service - with Deniz Mullis of Cytiva

Jul 27, 2026 · 24m

Experienced field engineers are retiring or moving on faster than ever, and the troubleshooting knowledge they carry rarely makes it into a manual before they g…