Driving Automated Workflows & Accelerating Drug Development with AI-Powered Trials - with Michelle Longmire of Medable
Release Date: 01/29/2025
What Leaders Should Scope Before Investing in an AI Model - with Melissa Ramey of Salesforce
The AI in Business Podcast
Choosing an AI model without defining the task can leave organizations paying for capabilities they do not need or relying on tools that cannot handle the work. In this episode, Melissa Ramey, Director, AI Transformation – Data Insights and User Experience at Salesforce, joins Emerj’s Yolandi de Weerdt to examine how leaders can evaluate models against the work their teams need done. She discusses testing models on everyday tasks, involving employees in workflow assessment, and revisiting performance as requirements change. Learn the exact strategies we use to help leading AI brands...
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Getting Pharma AI Agents to the Right Answer by Fixing the Data and Semantic Layers - with Richard Knoche of Flatiron Health
The AI in Business Podcast
Pharma is moving toward AI agents, but agents only know the context they are given, so gaps in data and meaning turn into wrong answers at scale. In this episode, Richard Knoche, Head of Data Science and AI at Flatiron Health, explains why a strong data foundation and a well-built semantic layer determine whether AI agents can be trusted with complex real-world data. He walks through how historical human analyses can be used to build and benchmark that semantic layer, why having agents resolve ambiguity before answering improves accuracy and reduces handoffs between teams, and why leaders need...
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Building AI-Aware Controls for Enterprise Risk - with Craig Unger of Hyperproof
The AI in Business Podcast
AI is multiplying the machine identities, unapproved tools, and vendor connections that enterprise risk teams must govern. In this episode, Craig Unger, CEO and Founder at Hyperproof, explains how AI is reshaping enterprise risk and where it can help teams manage it, from scanning for regulatory change to testing entire sets of evidence instead of samples. He also outlines practical steps for leaders: inventory where AI is running and put a governance model around it, automate continuous control monitoring, make existing controls AI-aware, and extend the same scrutiny to vendors. This...
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How to Make AI-Translated Content Convert in Every Market - with Andrew Thomas of Acclaro
The AI in Business Podcast
Translating content into every language a company serves has become fast and inexpensive, but accurate translation does not ensure that content engages or converts in each market. In this episode, Andrew Thomas, Head of Marketing at Acclaro, explains why global content performance is a governance issue rather than a translation issue, and why leaders should judge localized content by the business outcome it was created to drive. He also covers testing new markets with AI-translated content before investing in local teams, building brand style guides and terminology into AI translation tools to...
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What It Actually Takes to Trust an AI System Running on Its Own - with Yogesh Bhagat of CVS Health
The AI in Business Podcast
Customer-facing AI agents often stall between pilot and production, held back by governance overhead and run costs that break the business case. In this episode, Yogesh Bhagat, Vice President of Digital and Technology at CVS Health, explains how autonomous agents earn the right to operate without human oversight by proving consistent, measurable behavior. He discusses validating a shared development platform instead of every agent, pairing small language models with larger judge models to control cost and latency, and giving a small group of customers the full AI experience before optimizing...
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From Operational Insight to Agentic Industrial AI - with Vaibhav Kumar of IFS
The AI in Business Podcast
Retiring workers can take operational knowledge with them, while difficult-to-use enterprise systems leave other information underused. In this episode, Vaibhav Kumar, Global Chief Technology Officer at IFS, joins Emerj’s Eysan Yazici to examine how conversational AI could help industrial teams capture knowledge and access business information more directly. He discusses reducing friction in enterprise software, letting users determine when agents require human involvement, and building AI literacy around systems containing meaningful business data. This episode is sponsored by ....
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Inside the Performance Constraints of Modern AI Workflows - with Cameron Bahar of Everpure
The AI in Business Podcast
GPU clusters sit idle and budgets balloon when storage can't keep pace with how fast AI workloads are scaling. In this episode, Cameron Bahar, GM of Scale AI at Everpure, explores how storage architecture must shift from rigid, single-purpose systems to flexible, cloud-like models built for constant change. The conversation covers the move from training to inference and agentic workloads, the case for separating metadata from data scaling, and what always-on, multi-tenant infrastructure looks like in practice. This episode is sponsored by . Emerj works with a select group of AI...
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How Security Leaders Are Responding to Machine Speed Threats - with Sridhar Boddula of MassMutual
The AI in Business Podcast
The cost and skill required to mount a serious cyberattack have collapsed, and most enterprise security programs still test on a quarterly or annual clock. In this episode, Sridhar Boddula, Head of Security Platform Engineering at MassMutual, breaks down why that mismatch is now the central risk for regulated enterprises and what has to change inside a security team to close it. He covers shifting from periodic testing to continuous validation, moving security from a gatekeeping function into the engineering pipeline, and the governance-first first step leaders should take before scaling any...
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Measuring Marketing When AI Makes the Click Disappear - with Gillian Hinkle of Salesforce
The AI in Business Podcast
AI-generated answers can give buyers information without a website visit, complicating how marketing teams measure visibility and conversion. In this episode, Gillian Hinkle, Senior Director of Marketing – Demand Gen, ABM, & Growth at Salesforce, joins Emerj’s Matthew DeMello to examine how teams can adapt their content and measurement practices. She discusses evaluating content for traditional search and AI-generated answers, tracking conversion by topic, and aligning website messaging with public relations and analyst coverage. Learn how to identify real AI trends by tracking...
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Preserving Field Service Expertise in the Age of AI - with Thomas Cottereau of Sightcall
The AI in Business Podcast
Service organizations hold most of their critical expertise in experienced technicians rather than manuals, and that knowledge is leaving as the workforce turns over. In this episode, Thomas Cottereau, CEO and Founder at SightCall, explores why the real challenge is capturing expertise rather than producing more documentation, and how AI can structure what experts already know into trusted knowledge. He outlines how to capture knowledge inside everyday service work, keep human experts reviewing what AI produces, and treat that knowledge as a continuous loop that feeds both technicians and...
info_outlineToday’s guest is Michelle Longmire, Co-founder and CEO of Medable. Medable is a platform technology company that accelerates drug development by improving evidence generation in clinical trials. Michelle joins us on the show today to explore how AI is transforming the clinical trial experience for patients, sites, and sponsors from start to finish. Michelle also offers valuable advice on adopting a portfolio-level digital strategy and managing the organizational change required to embrace AI innovation in clinical research. This episode is sponsored by Medable. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.