AI Copyright Risk in Financial Services and the Limits of Legacy Licensing - with Roanie Levy of CCC
Release Date: 06/26/2026
Why Data‑Driven Efforts Stall in Fragmented Environments - with Jason Loomis of Freshworks
The AI in Business Podcast
Enterprise AI adoption is moving faster than security and governance frameworks can follow, forcing organizations to make difficult trade-offs between competitive urgency and operational risk. In this episode, Jason Loomis, CISO at Freshworks, examines why most enterprises have not yet resolved the tension between AI deployment speed and security maturity, and outlines a sequenced approach; beginning with regulatory compliance, advancing through data trust, and extending into AI-specific security frameworks. The conversation covers how leadership can build the investment case for AI, how...
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From Connected Agents to Collective Intelligence with Guillaume De Saint Marc of Outshift by Cisco
The AI in Business Podcast
As enterprises move from single to multi-agent AI deployments, a coordination infrastructure problem is emerging that connectivity protocols alone cannot solve. In this episode, Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP of Engineering at Outshift, examines why agents that can communicate still fail to collaborate — and outlines the semantic alignment, shared memory, and authorization architecture required to address it. The discussion covers specific failure modes in production multi-agent systems, the organizational security and observability decisions that determine whether agentic deployments scale,...
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Building Compute Foundations for the Physical Economy - with Drew Henry of ARM
The AI in Business Podcast
A widening gap between mature digital compute and the newly awakening physical world is forcing enterprises to rethink how they embed AI into logistics, manufacturing, and other high‑stakes environments where errors carry real operational risk. In this episode, Drew Henry, Executive Vice President for Physical AI at Arm, joins host Daniel Faggella and examines how leaders are navigating the shift from fixed automation to model‑driven intelligent control, and what it takes to make confident, high‑impact infrastructure decisions amid rapid algorithmic and hardware change. The discussion...
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AI Copyright Risk in Financial Services and the Limits of Legacy Licensing - with Roanie Levy of CCC
The AI in Business Podcast
A surge in AI adoption is creating a rights gap inside financial institutions, where everyday workflows now generate copyrighted reproductions at a scale existing governance models were never built to manage. In this episode, Roanie Levy, Licensing and Legal Advisor at CCC, joins host Yolandi de Weerdt and examines how AI‑driven content use is outpacing traditional licensing frameworks and why leaders must verify rights before embedding copyrighted material into AI systems. The discussion highlights the operational decisions executives need to make around content governance, rights...
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How Financial Services Leaders Operationalize Safe AI - with Dr. Oscar A. Rodriguez of Citi
The AI in Business Podcast
The rapid expansion of AI in financial services is creating a widening gap between enterprise ambition and the operational readiness required to deploy systems that are secure, compliant, and trusted. In this episode, Dr. Oscar A. Rodriguez, Vice President of Data Analytics at Citi, joins Daniel Faggella, Emerj CEO and Head of Research, to describe how leaders build the operating model for safe AI at scale, from aligning stakeholders to embedding governance, accountability, and data quality from the start. The discussion highlights practical decisions around cross‑functional alignment,...
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Closing the Decision Gap in Volatile Supply Chains - with & Prasad Mahajan of Optilogic and Dr. Gopalendu Pal of Target
The AI in Business Podcast
Supply chains are moving from predictable planning cycles to a reality where volatility demands continuous redesign and faster decision‑making. In this episode, Dr. Gopalendu Pal, Director of Operations at Target, and Prasad Mahajan, Senior Director of Customer Engagement at Optilogic, examine how leaders can adapt by tightening the gap between sensing disruption and adjusting operations, as Emerj’s Daniel Faggella guides the discussion toward the implications for enterprise decision speed. They outline the practical shifts required — reassessing outdated constraints,...
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Why AI in Document-Heavy Workflows Fails Without the Right Foundation - with Sumedh Chaudhary of IBM
The AI in Business Podcast
Enterprise AI initiatives consistently break down in document-heavy environments, not because the underlying models are inadequate, but because fragmented data silos, page-break context loss, and uncoordinated extraction tools erode the semantic layer AI needs to reason accurately. In this episode, Sumedh Chaudhary, CTO US Industry Market at IBM, breaks down why a multi-agent architecture is the operational prerequisite for AI to function reliably in regulated, document-intensive workflows. The conversation covers how governance frameworks with measurable error-rate targets distinguish pilot...
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AI-Empowered Customer Service, From Hype to Scalable Operations - with Shri Nandan of Comcast
The AI in Business Podcast
Significant enterprise investment in AI-driven customer service is producing inconsistent outcomes — and the gap between deployment ambition and measurable business value remains striking. In this episode, Shri Nandan, VP of AI Products and Experiences at Comcast, examines why organizational culture and readiness are the primary determinant of whether AI in CX delivers results that move the needle. The conversation covers how to define resolution in an agentic AI environment, how context transforms the role of human agents, and why a conservative, staged rollout reduces the risk of...
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Unified Predictive Decision Making for Retail Growth - with Felix Hoffman of 7Learnings
The AI in Business Podcast
Retailers managing pricing, marketing, and inventory through separate teams with separate data are losing margin not to market volatility, but to decisions that were never designed to work together. In this episode, Felix Hoffmann, CEO at 7Learnings, examines how predictive, unified commercial decision-making replaces reactive, rules-based approaches — and why most retailers underestimate how much revenue they leave on the table by optimizing each function in isolation. The conversation covers how AI-driven demand simulation enables coordinated pricing, marketing, and reordering decisions,...
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How Commerce Leaders Avoid Renewal Traps and Vendor Drag - with David Cost of Rainbow Apparel
The AI in Business Podcast
Enterprise software costs are rising while vendor performance often isn’t, and AI has fundamentally changed what enterprises can credibly threaten to build in-house. In this episode, David Cost, Chief Digital Officer at Rainbow Apparel, explores how enterprise leaders can restructure vendor contracts to maintain exit leverage, eliminate auto-renewal traps, and use AI-enabled build alternatives as a legitimate negotiating tool. The conversation examines the cost-benefit calculus of build versus buy in the AI era, red flags in service-level agreements, and how to negotiate exits from...
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