Martin leads Teradata’s EMEA technology pre-sales function and organisation and is jointly responsible for driving sales and consumption of Teradata solutions and services throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to taking up his current appointment, Martin ran Teradata’s Global Data Foundation practice and led efforts to modernise Teradata’s delivery methodology and associated tool-sets. In this position, Martin also led Teradata’s International Practices organisation and was...

My distinguished guest is Vili Lehdonvirta from University of Oxford. He is a social scientist leading a research group that studies how digital technologies are reshaping the organization of economic activities in society, from gig platforms to online marketplaces and virtual currencies to crowdfunding. His new book "Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control" was published by MIT Press in September 2022. His previous book "Virtual...

My distinguished guest is Vili Lehdonvirta from University of Oxford. He is a social scientist leading a research group that studies how digital technologies are reshaping the organization of economic activities in society, from gig platforms to online marketplaces and virtual currencies to crowdfunding. His new book "Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control" was published by MIT Press in September 2022. His previous book "Virtual...

My distinguished guest today is Tim Estes. I had very good reasons to invite him on the show. Tim envisioned a new way computers could learn to understand language. In 2000, while he was still a student at University of Virginia he founded Digital Reasoning Systems, one of the first AI companies. Tim is one of Nashville's early tech pioneers. He is a leading influencer, advocate and public speaker on the use of technology and analytics to achieve social good in financial services,...

My distinguished guest today is Carlos Kuchovsky, an expert in emerging technologies with a special focus on quantum computing. Carlos was formally the Chief Technology and R&D Officer for new Business at BBVA, Global Head of Research and Patent Office for the same bank. Since 2021, Carlos is the cofounder of QCentroid, a startup working at the convergence of Quantum Tech & Web3 to generate exponential impact for sustainable transformation of business and society, at...

My distinguished guest today is Josh Nonet-Black graduated in the UK in 2020 with a degree in astrophysics and then joined Deloitte’s data science and AI team in the Risk Analytics function. Josh is not the usual senior guest you are used to meet on my podcast, who can share their decades of wisdom. I, however, invited Josh to teach us wisdom that not so many of us have: he has been blind since birth. And this hasn't stopped him reading astrophysics, skiing, or building...

Charles Radclyffe is partner and co-founder of Ethics Grade, a specialist startup in technology governance with a dedicated focus on AI ethics. Ethics Grade rates companies on their governance of technology. They rate over 300 companies from all sectors: financial services, energy, pharmaceuticals, transport and others. In this episode we talk technology governance, ESG data, ethics vs compliance and Wirecard grading and red flags in other companies. Full show notes...

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc is a globally recognised risk and corporate governance expert. Andrea’s work spans across decades and it is quoted in leading corporate governance journals. Andrea is the CEO and Founder of GEC Risk Advisory, a global firm that provides strategic and tactical governance, reputation, and crisis advice to boards, executives, and investors. Andrea is the author of many books, including Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk Into Resilience and Value. In this...

In this episode, I sit down with Zor Gorelov, CEO and co-founder of Kasisto, the digital experience platform for financial services, one of the global leaders in conversational AI for finance. A spin-off Stanford’s famous SRI, Kasisto has a special pedigree Kasisto provides specialist-trained virtual assistants to banks and wealth management through their platform, KAI. KAI is trained and ready to host the humanizing experiences that customers seek, while intuitively opening doors to deeper...

Dr. Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence practitioner who has dedicated her career to applying AI to some of the most pressing problems of our society. She founded a few startups and also Socos Labs, a philanthropic data science incubator with a mission to maximise human potential. From education to type 1 diabetes, from social inclusion to Alzheimer's and climate change, Vivienne is trying to find meaningful answers in the data. She is leading the...

Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Programme Co-Director for Artificial Intelligence at the Alan Turing Institute in London. He  has been an AI researcher for more than 30 years, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject.  Professor Wooldridge’s main research interest is in the field of multi-agent systems, and his current focus is on developing techniques for understanding the dynamics of multi-agent systems. His...

Artificial intelligence, AI, has taken financial services by storm. AI is complex and confusing, especially for financial boards and executive management who typically have no technology experience. Decoding AI aims to decode all that confusing jargon, explaining concepts in plain language and putting them in a business context.  Decoding AI is an audio extension of the highly acclaimed book, Decoding AI in Financial Services written by the host of this podcast, Clara Durodié. Clara is a...