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EP 53: Cognitive Surrender: The AI Engineering Mistake That Kills Projects
Season 4 Episode 53
Sam sits down with Ethan Lyon — principal AI engineer, Denver-based, MIT professional education background — for one of the most technically honest c…
13 hours ago
EP 52: The AI CEO: Leadership, Governance & the AI Gold Rush
Season 4 Episode 52
Sam sits down with Dr. Zahra Timsah — co-founder and CEO of Igentic AI and author of The AI CEO — for a direct conversation about what AI is actually…
1 week, 4 days ago
EP 51: Building AI Agents That Actually Work in Production | Shawn Kercher, CEO @HummingAgent.ai
Season 4 Episode 51
Sam sits down with Shawn Kercher — Co-Founder & CEO of HummingAgent.ai — to cut through the noise around AI agents. Shawn built his company on a simp…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
EP 50: Evolution of Enterprise Data Engineering in Gen AI Era
Season 4 Episode 50
Shashank Akinapalli is a Senior Data Engineer at TCS where he leads cloud data lakehouse initiatives and real-time streaming architectures for supply…
1 month, 1 week ago
EP 49: The Human Side of AI in Media: Speed, Trust & What's Really Changing | Karima Sharif-Ali, Media & Marketing Leader
Season 4 Episode 49
Karima Sharif-Ali — known affectionately in the industry as the Fresh Princess of Media — is the SVP of Strategic Accounts at Doceree, a platform tra…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
EP 48: From Pilots to Productivity: What It Actually Takes to Make AI Work in the Enterprise
Season 4 Episode 48
Jim Spignardo is the Director of Cloud Strategy and AI Enablement at ProArch, a global IT services and consulting firm. With 25 years in IT spanning …
2 months, 1 week ago
EP 47: The AI Pioneer Who Decided Privacy Matters More Than Hype
Season 4 Episode 47
If you ever had a document you wished you could just ask questions to - without it leaving your computer, wouldn't be pretty good from data privacy p…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
EP 46: Fix the Foundation First: Why Your Data Strategy Is Failing Before the AI Gets Involved
Season 4 Episode 46
Most companies have spent years buying tools, running pilots, and building dashboards - and they still can't answer the questions leadership needs an…
3 months, 1 week ago
EP 45: Why AI Agents Break in Production: The Missing Harness in Your Data Stack
Season 4 Episode 45
An independent evaluation of Snowflake's Cortex Analyst found 6 in 10 AI-generated queries were wrong — but they all compiled and ran without a singl…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
EP 44: Human-Centered Credit - Building Explainable AI for Lending in an Agentic World
Season 4 Episode 44
We are letting AI make life-changing financial decisions without requiring it to explain itself. The CFPB says 'insufficient information' is no longe…
3 months, 4 weeks ago