1147: The Smart Cube — The Analytics Player in Supply Chain Sourcing
Release Date: 03/20/2020
Slalom On The AI Leadership Gap Between Confidence And Capability
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What happens when leaders are confident about AI, but the people expected to use it are not ready? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sat down with Caroline Grant from Slalom Consulting to explore one of the most persistent tensions in enterprise AI adoption right now. Boards and executives are spending more, moving faster, and expecting returns sooner than ever, yet many organizations are struggling to translate that ambition into outcomes that scale. Caroline brings fresh insight from Slalom’s latest research into how leadership, culture, and workforce readiness are shaping what...
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LastPass CEO: If the Browser is AI's New Interface, What Does it Mean for Security?
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Is the browser quietly becoming the most powerful and dangerous interface in modern work? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sat down with Karim Toubba, CEO of LastPass, to unpack a shift that many people feel every day but rarely stop to question. The browser is no longer just a window to the internet. It has become the place where work happens, where SaaS lives, and increasingly, where humans and AI agents meet data, credentials, and decisions. From AI-native browsers to prompt-based navigation and headless agents acting on our behalf, the way we access information is changing fast, and...
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Harness And The AI Velocity Paradox Slowing Software Delivery
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What really happens when AI helps teams write code faster, but everything else in the delivery process starts to slow down? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined once again by returning guest and friend of the show, Martin Reynolds, Field CTO at Harness. It has been two years since we last spoke, and a lot has changed since then. Martin has relocated from London to North Carolina, gaining back hours of his working week. Still, the bigger shift has been in how AI is reshaping software delivery inside modern enterprises. Our conversation centers on what Martin calls the AI velocity...
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FreedomPay on The $44.4 Billion Payment Risk Facing Retail And Hospitality
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What really happens to a business when payments stop working, even for a few minutes? I recorded this episode live at Dynatrace Perform in Las Vegas, inside the Venetian, surrounded by engineers, operators, and business leaders all wrestling with the same uncomfortable reality. Payment outages are no longer rare edge cases. They are becoming a routine operational risk, and the cost is far higher than many organizations realize. To unpack that shift, I sat down with Victoria Ruffo, Software Engineering Team Lead at FreedomPay, for a grounded and practical conversation about resilience,...
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What Bubble Learned About Responsibility in AI-built Apps
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In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Josh Haas, co-founder and co-CEO of Bubble, to unpack why the next phase of software creation is already taking shape. We talk about how the early excitement around AI-powered code generation delivered fast demos and instant gratification, but often fell apart when teams tried to turn those experiments into durable products that could grow with a business. Josh takes us back to Bubble’s origins in 2012, long before AI hype cycles and trend-driven development. At the time, the idea was simple but ambitious: give more people the ability to...
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Cloudinary and the Business Case for Developer-Led Product Growth
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How do you turn a developer-first product into a growth engine without losing trust, clarity, or focus along the way? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Sanjay Sarathy, VP of Developer Experience and Self Service at Cloudinary, for a grounded and thoughtful conversation about product-led growth when developers sit at the center of the story. Sanjay operates at a rare intersection. He leads Cloudinary’s high-volume self-service motion while also caring for the developer community that fuels adoption, advocacy, and long-term loyalty. That dual perspective, part business, part...
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Syntax - From AI First Thinking To Data First Reality
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What happens when the rush toward AI collides with the messy reality of enterprise data that was never designed for it? That is exactly where this episode with Kevin Dattolico from Syntax begins. Before we even hit record, we were swapping stories about music, travel, and a certain farewell concert that set the tone for a conversation that was both grounded and unexpectedly human. But once we got going, the discussion quickly shifted to one of the biggest blind spots I keep hearing about at tech conferences around the world. AI ambition is running far ahead of data readiness. Kevin leads...
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Neurosymbolic AI And Why Reasoning Matters More Than Scale
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Why do today’s most powerful AI systems still struggle to explain their decisions, repeat the same mistakes, and undermine trust at the very moment we are asking them to take on more responsibility? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Artur d'Avila Garcez, Professor of Computer Science at City St George's University of London, and one of the early pioneers of neurosymbolic AI. Our conversation cuts through the noise around ever-larger language models and focuses on a deeper question many leaders are now grappling with. If scale alone cannot deliver reliability,...
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Why Stability Is Emerging As A New Performance Signal In Healthcare Tech
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Why does healthcare keep investing in new technology while so many clinicians feel buried under paperwork and admin work that has nothing to do with patient care? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Dr. Rihan Javid, psychiatrist, former attorney, and co-founder and president of Edge. Our conversation cuts straight into an issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves, the quiet toll that administrative overload takes on doctors, care teams, and ultimately patients. Nearly half of physicians now link burnout to paperwork rather than clinical work, and Rihan explains why this...
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Why Relationship-First Platforms Will Win The Next AI Wave
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The Smart Cube researches, analyses, and addresses the needs of businesses in today’s intelligence age with tailored sector-specific solutions. Primarily serving the CPG, Energy & Chemicals, Financial Services, Industrials, Life Sciences, and Retail sectors, they work with a third of companies in the Fortune 100, helping them make smarter decisions, accelerate value and gain a competitive edge.
Prasad Kothari, VP Data Science, and AI join me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. We explore several data science and AI topics and discuss the future of AI/Machine Learning/Data Science.
Prasad is an analytics and data science leader who has worked extensively building high-performing teams for various organizations and has provided consulting to many fortune 500 clients. At The Smart Cube, he focuses on helping clients realize the value of data science to solve priority business problems, including customer analytics, marketing analytics, RWE/RWD, and supply chain analytics.
He has also been able to help clients leverage data science to drive innovation and top-line and bottom-line impact. Prasad has published healthcare data science research papers across leading journals, such as the American Journal of Public Health and American Journal of Psychology, as well as published books in AI. Further, he is part of the editorial board of leading research journals.
Prasad has collaborated with several universities in the US and given guest lectures on Quantum Machine Learning, NLP/NLU, topological data analysis, and computer vision research. He spends his weekends reading AI books and listening to Indian classical music.