The AI in Business Podcast
Practical conversations on enterprise AI adoption, AI strategy, and the future of work.
The AI in Business Podcast helps business and government leaders understand how artificial intelligence is being applied in the real world.
Each week, Emerj AI Research speaks with AI executives, machine learning leaders, and enterprise innovators about AI adoption, AI strategy, and the trends shaping the future of work.
With more than 8,000,000 all-time downloads, the podcast features practical, non-technical conversations for leaders who want to understand where AI is creating real business value.
The show has featured guests from organizations including Google DeepMind, Facebook, Amazon, Accenture, IBM, Nuance, and Floodgate.
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Building Predictive Safety Systems in Energy Operations – with Patricio Rivera of Oxy
May 12, 2026
Energy organizations have made progress in safety, but most still rely on backward‑looking investigations rather than systems that anticipate when risk is rising. In this episode, Patricio Rivera, Former Vice President of HSE International at Oxy, joins host Matthew DeMello and examines how learning from good days and leveraging existing observation data can strengthen an organization's ability to predict and prevent safety‑critical events. He highlights...
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What Enterprise AI Looks Like When It’s Real – with Lawrence Whittle of HTEC Group
May 11, 2026
AI enthusiasm has outpaced enterprise readiness, leaving many organizations stuck with pilots that work in the lab but fail to deliver meaningful value in production. In this episode, Lawrence Whittle, Chief Strategy Officer at HTEC Group, joins Emerj's Marilie Fouché to examine how the gap between individual users, isolated use cases, and true end‑to‑end sequences prevents companies from moving beyond experimentation. He highlights the practical...
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From Experimentation to Clinical-grade AI in Healthcare – with Alex Tyrrell of Wolters Kluwer
May 5, 2026
Agentic AI is running into a hard limit: most enterprise systems, security layers, and operational backends aren't yet built to support automated execution at scale. Alex Tyrrel, SVP and CTO of Health at Wolters Kluwer, joins Emerj's Matthe DeMello to unpack how agentic systems adapt models to domain‑specific tasks and act directly inside regulated environments. He outlines the practical requirements for higher‑velocity automation, including tighter...
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Capturing Tribal Knowledge to Solve the Manufacturing Skills Gap – with Sebastian Dykas of Smith+Nephew
May 1, 2026
A widening gap between retiring experts, manual craftsmanship, and limited process visibility is making it increasingly difficult for manufacturers to maintain consistency, prevent errors early, and onboard new operators effectively. In this episode, Sebastian Dykas, Director of Manufacturing, Engineering, and Maintenance at Smith+Nephew, joins Emerj's Marilie Fouche to examine how capturing best practices and connecting machines for real‑time data can tighten control and reduce variability...
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Designing Supply Chains for Volatility – with Dr. Gopalendu Pal of Target
April 28, 2026
Volatility is exposing the limits of traditional scenario planning, where siloed KPIs and thin operational margins prevent enterprises from seeing how disruptions cascade across forecasting, procurement, and operations. In this episode, Dr. Gopalendu Pal, Director of Operations at Target, joins us to examine how running hundreds of interconnected simulations enables leaders to understand enterprise‑level tradeoffs and make decisions that hold up under shifting demand and...
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