Today’s guest is Dan Elton, a Staff Scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dan returns to the program to explore how AI is advancing genetic research, from protein engineering to gene editing and risk prediction. One of the most significant breakthroughs in this space is AlphaFold, DeepMind’s AI model that predicts protein structures with unprecedented accuracy. While it does not analyze genetic sequences directly, its abilit...
Apr 01, 2025•20 min
Today’s guest is Ben Webster, VP of AI Solutions at NLP Logix. NLP Logix is a fast-growing AI services firm based in Florida that serves both the public and private sectors. Ben returns to the program to explore the complexities of de-identifying patient data for AI-driven healthcare applications. Hospital chains are increasingly leveraging first-party data assets to ensure compliance while maintaining the analytical power needed for AI models. However, achieving proper de-identification is ofte...
Mar 26, 2025•20 min
Today’s guest is Nishtha Jain, Head of Innovation and Digital Technology at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Nistha returns to the program to discuss the transformative impact of AI across the pharmaceutical value chain. She and Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello explore how AI is improving drug development efficiency, addressing data challenges, and overcoming regulatory hurdles. She highlights key breakthroughs like Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold and AI-assisted clinical trial optimization, emphasiz...
Mar 25, 2025•27 min
Today’s guest is Nick Lewis, Managing Director for the High Risk Client Unit at Standard Chartered Bank. Nick joins today’s show to discuss the shifting landscape of fraud prevention and AML compliance in financial services. As governments increasingly shift regulatory responsibilities onto the private sector, banks find themselves at the forefront of both enforcement and risk management. Lewis highlights how sanctions regimes have evolved, pushing financial institutions to shoulder greater due ...
Mar 18, 2025•30 min
Today’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...
Mar 17, 2025•28 min
Today’s guest is Ylan Kazi, Chief Data and AI Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota. Ylan returns to the show to discuss the latest developments in AI adoption within healthcare. The conversation explores key obstacles, including cultural resistance, the need for an AI Hippocratic Oath, and the risks of holding AI to unrealistic standards. Ylan also examines how agentic AI—capable of operating across systems to accomplish complex tasks—is reshaping healthcare operations. From optimiz...
Mar 13, 2025•21 min
Today’s guest is Tomer Poran, Chief Evangelist and VP of Strategy at ActiveFence. ActiveFence is a leader in providing AI safety and security solutions that mitigate the risk of advanced GenAI systems, helping platforms detect and prevent harmful content, malicious activity, and emerging threats online . Tomer joins today’s podcast to explore the critical role of red teaming and security. He breaks down the challenges enterprises face in deploying AI responsibly, the evolving nature of adversari...
Mar 12, 2025•29 min
Today’s guest is Robert Rose, Senior Director of North America Customer Support at Adobe. Robert joins our conversation today to discuss the evolution of AI in customer interactions and the challenges organizations face when scaling these solutions across diverse customer bases. He shares insights on how AI-driven bots have progressed from basic transactional tools to more sophisticated systems capable of detecting customer emotions and improving responses over time. If you’ve enjoyed or benefit...
Mar 11, 2025•20 min
Today’s guest is Panos Karelis, Director of Customer Experience and Insights at Intelligencia AI. Intelligencia AI is a life sciences technology company that uses proprietary data, biomedical expertise, and AI-driven algorithms to assess the probability of technical and regulatory success for drug candidates, helping pharmaceutical companies make informed decisions on which drugs to advance or discontinue. Panos joins us on today’s show to explore the key challenges and opportunities in AI adopt...
Mar 10, 2025•22 min
Today’s guest is Mark McLaughlin, Director of Insurance in IBM’s Global Industries Unit. Mark joins the podcast to discuss the biggest challenges insurers face today and how AI is transforming workflows, risk management, and customer experience. Later, he and Emerj Managing Editor Matthew DeMello explore why insurers are embracing a mix of on-premise and cloud-based strategies, managing multiple AI models to optimize business processes while maintaining security and cost efficiency. If you’ve en...
Mar 04, 2025•19 min
Today’s guests are Chris Busch, Founder and CEO of MSTRO, and Yancey Sanford, Founder and Chief of Information and Research at MSTRO. MSTRO develops an advanced AI platform that combines data and creativity to optimize human performance. While AI reasoning models promise efficiency, are they the right approach for businesses? In this episode, Chris and Yancey join us to challenge the prevailing wisdom behind AI-driven automation. Throughout our conversation, they argue that enterprises may be to...
Mar 03, 2025•46 min
Today’s guest is Liran Belenzon, Co-founder and CEO of BenchSci. BenchSci is a global leader in AI solutions for preclinical R&D that helps decipher complex biomedical research using proprietary technology. Liran joins us to discuss how AI is transforming disease biology research, streamlining scientific workflows, and enabling better decision-making in pharmaceutical R&D. Liran shares insights into the biggest challenges facing drug discovery today, including the complexity of disease b...
Feb 26, 2025•19 min
Today's guest is Oleg Savin, Enterprise Architect and MES Expert at Unilever. Oleg is a frequent guest speaker at manufacturing conferences worldwide, including this year's Smart Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Munich. He joins us for the first of two episodes on the program today to explain why neurobiological and cybernetic AI capabilities have distinct advantages in manufacturing use cases and why it's imperative for industrial leaders to understand the difference. If you've enjoyed or ben...
Feb 25, 2025•18 min
Today’s guest is Ken Mertzel, Global Industry Leader in Financial Services at Automation Anywhere. Automation Anywhere is a global software company that develops various automation software for major industries. Before joining Automation Anywhere six years ago, Ken spent his career in the financial sector, including 15 years at Bank of America. There, he served as CFO of the insurance division and held various leadership roles in finance, risk management, and consumer operations, ultimately lead...
Feb 20, 2025•20 min
Today’s guest is Roenen Ben-Ami, Co-founder and Chief Risk Officer of Justt. Justt is an AI-driven tech company whose platform helps retail leaders and merchants reduce loss from chargebacks with automation and friendly fraud prevention. Roenen joins us on today's podcast to break down the complexities of chargebacks and how AI-driven automation can help merchants recover lost funds at scale. Together with Emerj Managing Editor Matthew DeMello, Roenen helps explain the "guilty until proven innoc...
Feb 19, 2025•25 min
Today’s guest is Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at NVIDIA. Kimberly joins us to discuss how AI is reshaping the healthcare landscape. As generative AI adoption accelerates, Kimberly shares her insights on the major challenges the healthcare industry faces, particularly in terms of technology infrastructure. Together, we explore the critical need for hybrid strategies that blend on-premise and cloud computing, enabling real-time data processing for medical imaging...
Feb 18, 2025•20 min
Today’s guests are two senior executives from Sanofi’s manufacturing division, Head of Data & AI for Manufacturing & Supply Chain Kartik Pant and Head of AI & Data Products, Manufacturing & Supply Shreyas Becker, respectively. Together they return to the podcast to cover the challenges and opportunities in adopting data infrastructure and AI solutions in life sciences manufacturing. Throughout the episode they emphasize the need for a unified data architecture, starting small, an...
Feb 11, 2025•22 min
Today’s guest is Paul Cuglietta, Head of Contact and Claims at Simplyhealth. Simplyhealth is a health insurance provider based in the UK whose history goes back to the late 1800s. Paul joins today’s discussion to unpack the challenges organizations face when driving digital transformation. With nearly two years of AI integration experience, Paul provides unique insights from his time at Simplyhealth into overcoming internal and external hurdles in their transformation journey. This episode is sp...
Feb 05, 2025•19 min
Today’s guest is Yonas Yohannes, CTO of FinTech and FIS at Oracle. An accomplished executive and author, Yonas joins us on today’s podcast to explain the evolving role of endpoint storage for driving new AI capabilities at the edge. He breaks down AI’s true value beyond the marketing hype, and its broader impact on infrastructure across industries, with a special focus on financial services. Throughout the episode, Yonas addresses the real challenges businesses face in adopting AI while ensuring...
Feb 04, 2025•22 min
Today’s guest is Duncan Cass-Beggs, Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to explore the pressing challenges and opportunities surrounding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) governance on a global scale. This is a special episode in our AI futures series that ties right into our overlapping series on AGI governance on the Trajectory podcast, where we’ve had lumi...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Today’s guests are Vrinda Khurjekar and Paul Pallath, VP of North Americas and Applied AI Lead, respectively, at Searce. Searce is a cloud computing solutions and technology services provider globally that specializes in Cloud, AI, and Analytics. Vrinda and Paul join us today to explore how regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare are navigating the complexities of AI adoption. This episode is sponsored by Searce. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media optio...
Jan 30, 2025•29 min
Today’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 inn...
Jan 29, 2025•22 min
Today’s guest is Vivek Khindria, Former SVP Cyber Security, Network and Technology Risk at Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada’s largest food retailer. With its operations spanning grocery, pharmacy, banking, and apparel, Loblaw faces unique and multifaceted fraud challenges across diverse verticals. Vivek offers expert insights into the evolving fraud landscape, highlighting the critical balance between mitigating false positives and minimizing customer friction. He shares how leveraging data, inform...
Jan 28, 2025•21 min
Today’s guest is Moutie Wali, Director of Integrated Planning & Digital Transformation at TELUS. As a leading Canadian telecommunications company, TELUS offers a wide range of products and services, including internet access, voice, entertainment, healthcare, video, smart home automation, and IPTV television. Moutie joins us on today’s show to delve into the complex intersection of privacy, security, and data governance within the telecom industry. Throughout the episode, Moutie shares actio...
Jan 27, 2025•20 min
Today’s episode is a special addition to our AI Futures series, featuring a special sneak peek at an upcoming episode of our Trajectory podcast with guest Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher, founder, and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Eliezer joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella to discuss the governance challenges of increasingly powerful AI systems—and what it might take to ensure a safe and beneficial trajectory for humanity. If you’ve enjoyed or...
Jan 25, 2025•43 min
Today’s guest is Tim Nguyen, CEO of Cloud Insurance. Cloud Insurance is a seamless and user-friendly SaaS solution made by insurance experts for insurance companies, MGAs, agents, and brokers since 2016. Tim joins the podcast to discuss the critical challenges and opportunities facing SaaS insurance leaders in their digital transformation efforts. From legacy systems and technical debt to improving customer experience, Tim emphasizes the need for insurance companies to prioritize customer-focuse...
Jan 22, 2025•21 min
Today’s guest is Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re. Michael returns to the Emerj podcast platform to discuss the evolving landscape of AI risk management and governance. Since his last appearance in 2022, generative AI has shifted from niche discussions to widespread adoption, bringing both opportunities and challenges. Throughout today’s episode, Michael explores how enterprises are moving beyond the hype cycle, adopting a more grounded perspective on AI capabilities and risks. He ...
Jan 21, 2025•21 min
Today’s guest is Faraz Shahid, Supply Chain Center of Excellence Lead at Cheniere Energy. Cheniere Energy is an American liquefied natural gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas. From automation to predictive AI, Faraz shares his perspective on how technology is reshaping procurement processes to drive efficiency and address industry challenges. Throughout the episode, Faraz highlights the unique hurdles faced by the LNG sector, including workforce shortages, data management complexities, a...
Jan 14, 2025•27 min
Today’s guest is Alex Khoroshchak, CEO of CoSupport AI. CoSupport AI makes an AI-driven platform that transforms how businesses approach customer support, from automating interactions with customers and prospects to driving business intelligence for large tech and retail organizations. Alex joins us on today’s podcast to explore the transformative power of AI in customer support and the emerging frontier of agentic systems. As call centers and customer service divisions become pivotal hubs for d...
Jan 13, 2025•20 min
Today’s guest is Salamatu Mahamadu, Global Procurement and Sourcing Leader for Wells Completion & Interventions at Baker Hughes. Salamatu joins the podcast to discuss the evolving supply chain landscape in the oil and gas industry. With a focus on green energy transitions, Salamatu highlights the critical role of supply chains in meeting ambitious carbon reduction targets and addressing challenges like supplier innovation, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity. The conversation also explo...
Jan 09, 2025•16 min
