This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "How technology is impacting drug discovery", which covers two articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: AI is critical to solving new complexities in drug discovery and The push towards lab automation in biopharma. In the first article, Andrew Radin, Chief Executive Officer of Aria Pharmaceuticals, on the critical use of artificial intelligence in solving some of drug discovery’s most new and complex challenges. In the second article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Peter Walters, Director Advanced Therapies, CRB, and Grace Linton, Director Process Architecture, CRB about automation within laboratory settings and its effect on the pharmaceutical industry.