The Future of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Detection in Banking - with Bob Gaines of SambaNova
Release Date: 01/25/2022
In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? - with Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Stephen Wolfram, Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Wolfram is a pioneering computer scientist and physicist, best known for creating Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and for decades of work on complexity, computation, and the foundations of how systems evolve. Stephen joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to explore how simple computational rules can give rise to complex, unpredictable systems, and what that means for the future of intelligence beyond biological life. The conversation examines concepts like computational irreducibility, adaptive evolution,...
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From Demos to Defensible in Financial Services Copyright & Compliance for Enterprise AI - Naveen Kumar of TD Bank
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Naveen Kumar, Head of AI Governance at TD Bank. With extensive experience in AI risk management and governance, he provides actionable strategies for secure AI scaling in regulated environments. Naveen joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss foundational challenges blocking AI adoption in banking, including data leakage, prompt injection, shadow AI, and hallucinations. Naveen also shares practical takeaways, such as role-based AI guardrails for data access, safe sandboxes for experimentation, hybrid deployments to protect sensitive data, and treating AI...
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Managing Third-Party Risk When You Have 10,000 Suppliers - with Dean Alms of Aravo
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Dean Alms, Chief Product Officer at Aravo. Aravo is an enterprise software company focused on third-party risk management and compliance platforms that help organizations manage vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystems across regulatory, operational, and reputational risk domains. Dean joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to examine how third-party risk has evolved into a data and AI-driven, board-level visibility and resilience challenge, and how automation is reshaping the way enterprises identify, remediate, and monitor risk at scale. Dean also shares practical...
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The Internet of Agents and What It Means for Enterprise Leaders - with Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Vijoy Pandey, Special Vice President and General Manager for Outshift by Cisco. Vijoy leads Cisco’s internal incubation and strategy efforts focused on emerging technologies, platform development, and reducing technology and market risk as new capabilities move toward enterprise adoption. Vijoy joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss how enterprises are shifting from deterministic systems to probabilistic, agent-driven architectures, and what that means for interoperability, governance, and deploying AI safely at scale. Vijoy also shares practical...
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Fixing Shadow AI and Tool Sprawl in Enterprise Marketing - with Gillian Hinkle of Salesforce
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Gillian Hinkle, Senior Director of Growth & Digital Marketing for Heroku at Salesforce. Gillian brings extensive experience in enterprise growth strategy, digital operations, and the practical deployment of data and AI across complex marketing and revenue workflows. Gillian joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to explore how enterprise leaders can distinguish automation from true AI, design human-in-the-loop systems, and deploy generative and agentic tools responsibly inside real-world data environments. The conversation also examines how to reduce tool...
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Transforming R&D with AI and Quantum Computing - with David Carmona of Microsoft
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Today’s guest is David Carmona, Vice President of Discovery & Quantum at Microsoft. David leads work at the intersection of AI, scientific discovery, and advanced computing, with a focus on scaling research innovation in complex, regulated environments. David joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss how enterprise leaders should think about AI’s role in transforming R&D beyond productivity gains—toward net-new discovery, augmented scientific reasoning, and structurally different innovation workflows. The conversation explores why R&D represents one of the...
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AI Adoption and Skepticism in Regulated Industries - with Ylan Kazi of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Ylan Kazi, Chief Data and AI Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota. Ylan joins Emerj Client Narrative & Content Strategy Lead Nick Gertsch to explore balancing AI innovation with risk governance in regulated healthcare sectors. Ylan also shares practical takeaways like forming cross-functional teams for realistic policy development, applying an AI Hippocratic Oath by starting with low-risk use cases to refine processes, and leveraging AI to improve patient experiences through lab result explanations and wait time predictions. Want to share your AI adoption...
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What Executives Need to Know About Quantum Computing and AI - with Daniel Lidar of the University of Southern California and Izhar Medalsy of Quantum Elements Inc.
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guests are Daniel Lidar, Holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at USC, Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, co-founder and CSO of Quantum Elements, Inc., and Izhar Medalsy, Co-founder and CEO of Quantum Elements. Quantum Elements develops tools to reduce noise in quantum computers for scalable performance. Daniel and Izhar join Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to explore why quantum computing is entering enterprise strategy now, explaining qubits, quantum simulation, and practical applications beyond hype. Daniel and Izhar...
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Copyright & Compliance for Enterprise AI From Demos to Defensible - Nina Edwards of Prudential Insurance
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Nina Edwards, Vice President of Emerging Technology and Innovation at Prudential Insurance. With decades of experience driving strategy, innovation, and AI-enabled growth at leading financial and consulting firms, Nina brings deep expertise in applied intelligence and emerging technology. Nina joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss how enterprises can adopt AI safely and effectively, balancing innovation with compliance while mitigating data and copyright risks. She also shares practical takeaways, including implementing instrumented sandboxes, structured...
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Translating AI Models into Business Value From Governance to Deployment - Thomas Holmes of Akur8
The AI in Business Podcast
Today’s guest is Thomas Holmes, Chief Actuary, North America at Akur8. Holmes works at the intersection of actuarial pricing, AI governance, and operationalizing analytics inside regulated insurance environments. Thomas joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to discuss how insurers move from AI experimentation to enterprise deployment — particularly when models must satisfy regulators, executives, and the realities of day-to-day actuarial and IT workflows. Want to share your AI adoption story with executive peers? Click for more information and to be a potential future guest on...
info_outlineToday’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, Deephaven Data Labs. In this episode, he brings his perspective on how this technology has evolved regarding AI’s impact in finance and where it’s going. He also discusses how AI is being used not just to look at the individual entities exchanging funds but also to look at the behavior of the entities around them and the entities they do business with. This episode is sponsored by SambaNova Systems. Visit emerj.com/ad1 to learn more about reaching our global audience.