S2E10: AI Adoption + Governance in Regulated Industries | HT2C Podcast With Bert Fernandez

HealthTech2Care (HT2C) Podcast featuring Marco Smit, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) & COO of DomeLabs AI, which includes the ClearPath platform. Marco Smit (Guest): 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-smit-ai 🌐 Website: http://domelabs.ai Bert Fernandez (Host): 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-fernandez 🌐 Website: https://www.healthtech2care.com 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@healthtech2care 🎙️ In this episode, Marco Smit shares how organizations in healthcare, pharma, and other regulated industries are approaching AI adoption, and why treating AI as an IT problem is one of the biggest mistakes being made today. We unpack what's driving bottlenecks in AI implementation, including real-world examples where evaluating and deploying a new AI use case can take up to 8 months, and how that delay leads to shadow AI and increased risk. Marco also explains how DomeLabs AI's ClearPath platform helps organizations move from slow, fragmented approval cycles to more structured, scalable AI governance, while balancing speed, compliance, and risk. This conversation explores what it actually takes to turn AI potential into real-world impact in regulated environments. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:18 What drew Marco to DomeLabs, and why this was the right moment to make the move 05:07 Biggest misconceptions about GenAI and agentic AI in healthcare and life sciences 08:52 What ClearPath actually does and what problems it solves 15:47 What it takes to turn AI potential into results from a governance perspective 23:41 How real the job displacement threat is and what employees should do 30:06 Whether open-source AI is a legitimate concern and how to handle it 36:02 Where people can learn more about DomeLabs and connect 🔑 Highlights: - Why AI should be treated as a business transformation, not an IT project - How long AI approval cycles create bottlenecks and risk - The rise of shadow AI in regulated organizations - How governance and control layers accelerate adoption - What organizations need to do now to stay competitive with AI 👉 Learn more about Domelabs AI (http://domelabs.ai)  🔔 Subscribe to the HealthTech2Care YouTube channel for more in-depth conversations with healthcare innovators: https://www.youtube.com/@healthtech2care #HealthTech #HealthcareAI #AIGovernance #AgenticAI #LifeSciences #DigitalTransformation