Tackling Retail Crime and Loss Prevention with AI Driven Video Security - with Mike Matta of Solink
Release Date: 03/17/2025
How Industrial Leaders Are Redefining AI for the Factory Floor - with Antoine Bisson of Poka
The AI in Business Podcast
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 floor. In this episode, Antoine Bisson, CEO & Co‑founder at Poka, joins host Marilie Fouché and dissects why industrial environments require contextual data, strict governance, and human‑validated autonomy to safely scale AI‑driven operations. The conversation surfaces practical considerations for executives, from structuring governance and standardizing workflows to determining where autonomous agents can...
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Machine‑Speed Security Risk in the Age of AI - with Niro Rajadurai of XBOW
The AI in Business Podcast
AI is generating code and surfacing vulnerabilities faster than security teams can review them, compressing the time between a vulnerability discovery and its exploitation. In this episode, Niro Rajadurai, Chief Revenue Officer at XBOW, examines how autonomous offensive security can match that pace, in conversation with host Marilie Fouché. He discusses why distinguishing exploitable vulnerabilities from false positives is critical at scale, how pairing multiple AI models improves results without costly retraining, and why governance has to be built into automated security systems from...
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Accelerating Evidence to Action in Pharma with Practical AI Adoption - with Nabil Khan of Pfizer
The AI in Business Podcast
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 up. In this episode, Nabil Khan, Medical Director for Internal Medicine Antivirals at Pfizer, digs into where AI genuinely helps medical affairs and clinical teams move faster from raw data to decisions, in conversation with host Yolandi de Weerdt. He lays out the risk of treating AI output as fact rather than a starting point, why training is the piece organizations most often shortchange, and what it realistically takes to build...
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AI for Industrial Service Leaders Improving Diagnostics and Field Efficiency - with Scot Burdette of ABB
The AI in Business Podcast
Industrial service teams are facing two compounding pressures at once: decades of hands-on expertise walking out the door through retirement, and the equipment itself growing more complex to diagnose and maintain. In this episode, Scot Burdette, Global Division CIO at ABB, unpacks how remote diagnostics and AI-driven insights are reshaping who does the work of keeping industrial equipment running, in conversation with host Yolandi de Weerdt. He outlines how leaders can prioritize the most critical processes first, build the data discipline needed to support predictive maintenance, and...
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Risk and Cost Governance for AI Agents in Regulated Institutions - with Shahir Daya of Zafin
The AI in Business Podcast
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 evidence backs it up? In this episode, Shahir Daya, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Zafin, examines why uniform governance policies fail at scale and what a tiered, control-tower approach to agent oversight looks like in practice. The conversation covers execution-layer governance, cost visibility across models, and the shift required to move agentic work from promising pilot to defensible production. This episode is...
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Turning Manual Manufacturing Variability into Data‑Driven Control – with Sebastian Dykas of Smith+Nephew
The AI in Business Podcast
A persistent gap remains between what modern manufacturing technology makes possible and how day‑to‑day work is still executed, with paper workflows, limited machine visibility, and siloed data preventing real operational control. In this episode, Sebastian Dykas, Director of Manufacturing, Engineering, and Maintenance at Smith+Nephew, examines with host Marilie Fouché how tighter data capture and connected systems can move leaders toward real‑time process control and reduced variability. The discussion highlights practical shifts in measurement, machine connectivity, and...
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Building the Infrastructure Behind AI-Enabled Field Service - with Deniz Mullis of Cytiva
The AI in Business Podcast
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 go. In this episode, Deniz Mullis, Senior Director of Global Technical Operations at Cytiva, examines why closing that knowledge gap takes daily feedback loops, cleaner documentation, and technician trust. Deniz joins Emerj’s Yolandi de Weerdt to walk through what breaks first during a rollout, how her team builds confidence in AI-assisted guidance, and what has to be true inside a service organization before an AI investment...
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How to Reset Your IT Operations and Build for Intelligent Response - with Luke Rotta of Charles Schwab
The AI in Business Podcast
The pace of modern IT operations is collapsing under the volume of alerts and the slow speed at which teams can contextualize data during active incidents. In this episode, Luke Rotta, Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Charles Schwab, examines how fragmented tooling, slow triage, and human‑driven workflows create persistent drag on response speed in conversation with host Yolandi de Weerdt, and why AI‑driven pattern recognition and automation meaningfully change that equation. He highlights how leaders can reduce operational noise, build trust in automation through...
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Driving Operational Impact in BFSI with Agentic AI - with Yoav Naveh of Reindeer AI
The AI in Business Podcast
Financial institutions are pushing agentic AI past pilot mode and into document-heavy, regulated workflows like AML alerts and account closures, but many leaders still lack a clear model for where automation should run freely and where human judgment has to stay in the loop. In this episode, Yoav Naveh, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at , examines how banks are structuring agent oversight so automation earns trust incrementally instead of replacing compliance teams outright. The conversation covers how to identify workflows ready for agentic AI, what signals show an agent is learning rather than...
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Agentic CRM for SMB Automation - with Sharif Karmally of Salesforce
The AI in Business Podcast
CRM is shifting from a static repository to the core system that supplies the real‑time customer context required for dependable AI‑driven work. In this episode, Sharif Karmally, VP of SMB Product Marketing at Salesforce, explores with host Daniel Faggella how unified CRM data supports automated lead handling, accurate record updates, and predictive sales and service actions. Leaders will hear practical guidance on system integration, governance for human‑agent workflows, and building a data foundation that scales. This episode is sponsored by Learn how leading...
info_outlineToday’s guest is Mike Matta, Co-founder and CEO of Solink. Solink is a cloud video security and analytics platform that works with your existing cameras, access controls, and operational technologies like POS and labor management, helping you modernize and improve security and operations without costly upgrades. Mike joins today’s show to discuss how AI-driven video data is helping retailers mitigate risk, improve loss prevention strategies, and drive operational efficiencies. Today’s episode is part of a special series on driving video security in retail through data sponsored by Solink. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.