Humans & AI
by AI Frontier Network
Innovators, leaders, and builders share their stories, insights, and visions for the future of artificial intelligence. The Humans & AI Show is hosted by Flor Laorga, Co-Founder of AI Frontier Network—a global community focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and the people driving AI forward.
Episodes
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Chen Amit — Why finance can't tolerate AI hallucinations (and what to do)
Chen Amit is the Co-founder and CEO of Tipalti. A veteran high-tech executive and repeat entrepreneur, before Tipalti he was CEO of Atrica, a Carrier Ethernet company acquired by Nokia-Siemens. Prior to Atrica, he was Co-founder and CEO of Verix, a business intelligence software provider. At ECI...
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Rachel Kirkham — AI for Audit: Full-Population Analytics, Risk Scoring & Trust
Rachel Kirkham is CTO at MindBridge, where she leads product strategy, data science initiatives, and the development of the company risk-scoring approach. Rachel Kirkham LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-ai/ Flor Laorga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flor-laorga/ X:...
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Kevin Surace — AI-First Leadership, QA Automation, and the Future of Work
Kevin is the father of the Virtual Assistant and a Silicon Valley innovator, serial entrepreneur, CEO, and futurist. He was INC Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, a CNBC top Innovator of the Decade, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Chair of Silicon Valley Forum, Planet Forward Innovator of…
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Anya Cheng: Why “Ideas Are Cheap” and Unique Data Is the Real Moat
Anya Cheng is the Founder & CEO of Taelor, an AI-powered men's clothing subscription service promoting sustainable fashion. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur, she has been recognized among "Girls in Tech 40 Under 40" for her expertise in tech product management and marketing. Anya played a pivotal…
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Jimmy Mesta — Why Security Teams Must Fight AI with AI
Jimmy Mesta is the founder and Chief Technology Officer at RAD Security. He is responsible for the technological vision for the RAD Security platform. A veteran security engineering leader focused on building cloud-native security solutions, Jimmy has held leadership positions with enterprises...
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Mike True — How AI is Redefining AdTech, Attribution & Multi-Channel Growth
Mike True is the co-founder and CEO of Prescient. Before founding the company in 2019, he helped clients at App Annie, IBM, and Oracle grow revenue through AI and analytics solutions. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Salve Regina University. Mike True LinkedIn:...
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John Bates — AI, Sentient Documents & Reinventing Enterprise Content Management
Dr. John Bates, a former Cambridge computer science and deep learning expert, is a five-time software CEO in the European tech startup scene. He currently leads SER Group, a German enterprise content management company, and serves as a non-executive Director at Sage, the UK’s second-largest tech...
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Onur Alp Soner — Privacy-First Analytics, AI Ethics & Open Source Innovation
Onur Alp Soner is the co-founder and CEO of Countly, a digital analytics and in-app engagement platform. A technologist and self-starter, he bootstrapped Countly to give companies more control over how they understand and interact with users. Under his leadership, Countly has become a trusted...
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Gerald Kierce — Building Scalable, Responsible AI Governance Systems
Gerald Kierce is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trustible, a technology provider of responsible AI governance software that helps AI/ML and legal teams manage risk and comply with regulations. He previously served as Vice President & General Manager at FiscalNote, leading its AI Solutions division and...
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Seena Rejal — Scaling Custom AI, Bridging Tech & Business, UK’s AI Future
Dr. Seena Rejal is Chief Commercial Officer at NetMind.AI, a distributed cloud computing network offering LLM-powered, API-first products for enterprise and developer clients. A two-time AI founder with 20 years of experience in deep tech ventures across the US and UK, he holds a Master’s and PhD...
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Anand Subbaraj — How a Broken Fridge Sparked a Field Service Tech Revolution
Anand Subbaraj is the CEO and co-founder of Zuper, a provider of solutions for modernizing and scaling field service businesses. With over 17 years in technology, including 13 at Microsoft, he specializes in big data, cloud computing, and SaaS. He focuses on advancing the field service industry...
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Anders Lillevik — Why Disconnected Data is Costing Companies More Than They Know
Anders Lillevik is the Founder and CEO of Focal Point, an enterprise procurement orchestration platform. With over 20 years of experience as a Chief Procurement Officer, he has led procurement operations at organizations like Fannie Mae, QBE Insurance, and Webster Bank, managing teams of over 120...
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Alex Frenkel — How AI & Clinicians Together Are Transforming Mental Health Care
Alex Frenkel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kai.ai, an AI-powered mental health platform combining digital therapy tools with licensed clinical oversight to increase access to support. With a background in clinical psychology and product leadership, Alex brings a unique perspective from years as a...
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Peter Cousins — Fighting Financial Crime at Scale with Trustworthy, Explainable AI
Peter Cousins is the CTO at WorkFusion, leading the company’s next phase of product innovation and growth. He previously held CTO roles at Bottomline Technologies, focusing on digital banking and intelligent processing, at Operative, a provider of cloud-native SaaS for media advertising, and at...
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Jim Wetekamp — Connected Risk, AI as Co-Pilot & the Future of Resilience
Jim Wetekamp is the CEO of Riskonnect, a provider of integrated risk management software. He is a recognized expert in insurable risk, enterprise risk, and organizational resilience, leading a global team focused on helping organizations manage strategic and operational risks. Jim Wetekamp...
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Priya Vijayarajendran — Building Scalable, Ethical AI That Solves Real-World Problems
Priya Vijayarajendran is CEO of ASAPP, where she leads efforts to improve contact centers through AI-powered automation. She specializes in engineering scalable, cloud-native SaaS AI products and services, focusing on solving real business challenges. A data-driven leader, Priya is known for...
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Gabi Tarcic — AI-Driven Drug Discovery, Strategic Pivots & Ethical Innovation
Dr. Gabi Tarcic is Vice President of Product at Evogene, appointed in September 2024. With over a decade of experience in biotechnology leadership, he previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Fore Biotherapeutics (formerly NovellusDx Israel). He has a strong background in R&D and biotech...
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Leon Lim — Industry 5.0, Cognitive Maintenance & AI-Powered Machine Health
Leon Lim is the CEO and Founder of Groundup.ai, a Singapore-based startup helping industrial companies prevent unplanned downtime using IoT and AI. With a decade in tech and AI, he has built and exited two ventures and once managed over 3,000 servers in one of Singapore's first large-scale...
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Benjamin Alarie — How AI Is Revolutionizing Tax Research
Benjamin Alarie is the CEO and Founder of Blue J and the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto. A leading expert in tax law, he has pioneered the use of generative AI to improve tax research and decision-making. His academic work includes dozens of peer-reviewed publications…
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Rajeev Butani — Leading the Shift from SaaS to Outcome-Driven AI Operations
Rajeev Butani, Chairman & CEO of MediaMint, has over 30 years of tech leadership experience. He was previously CEO of HeadSpin and spent 25 years at Accenture, where he led global technology strategy and partnerships for clients including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Rajeev Butani LinkedIn:...
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Matthijs De Vries — Fixing AI Hallucinations with Verifiable, Traceable Data
Matthijs de Vries is the founder of Nuklai, a data infrastructure provider behind Nexus, a query engine backed by io.net, Filecoin, and Fetch, designed to address AI hallucinations through traceable, source-connected insights. A serial entrepreneur with a passion for blockchain, data, and AI,...
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Somya Kapoor — Leading the AI Agent Revolution from SAP to Startup CEO
Somya Kapoor is the CEO and co-founder of TheLoops, an AI Agentic operations platform. Based in the Bay Area, she has led product development in machine learning and AI throughout her career, with past roles at SAP and ServiceNow. An experienced entrepreneur in Enterprise software, Somya is also…
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Baker Johnson — Transforming CX by Putting AI Behind People, Not Between Them
Baker Johnson is the Chief Business Officer at UJET and a strategic growth executive with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in customer experience (CX), AI, data, and technology. He has a proven track record in building growth strategies for high-growth, VC- and PE-backed SaaS companies,...
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Christina Brady — From Sales Pro to AI CEO Transforming How Teams Learn
Christina Brady is the CEO and Co-Founder of Luster AI, which helps go-to-market teams prevent revenue-impacting mistakes through skill-gap diagnostics and personalized enablement. With nearly 20 years in sales and over a decade in executive leadership, she has led teams at Sales Assembly,...
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Murray Thom - How a Quantum Computer Beat a Powerful Supercomputer By a Million Years
Murray Thom is the Vice President of Quantum Technology Evangelism at D-Wave, with over 20 years of experience in quantum computing. He helps organizations understand and apply quantum technology. At D-Wave, he previously led development of the Leap quantum cloud service and Ocean open source...
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Stephanie Stockin — Data Quality, Expert-in-the-Loop & Responsible AI
Stephanie Stockin is the Vice President of AI Data Services at Qualitest, with over 15 years of experience guiding enterprises and Big Tech companies in delivering quality AI solutions. She leads global AI data operations, including data collection, labeling, model evaluation, and safety…
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Jon Fry: From Strategy Games to Scaling Lendflow with AI-Driven Lending
Jon Fry is the CEO and Founder of Lendflow, a company that provides embedded finance infrastructure for fintechs, lenders, and vertical SaaS companies. Prior to founding Lendflow in 2019, he launched ChannelGrowth, specializing in loan originations, and Quickline Credit, where he developed...
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Jeremy Pease: From Skipping College to CEO — Building the Infrastructure Powering AI
Jeremy Pease is the CEO of Hivelocity, bringing over 20 years of experience in the data center and cloud hosting industry. Known for his focus on servant leadership and client satisfaction, he has held senior roles at Contegix, Aptum, and DataBank, where he led product development, global...
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Arun Ahuja — How AI Is Transforming Patient Care & Tackling Workforce Gaps
Arun Ahuja is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare and Corporate at Transact + CBORD, where he leads strategy and delivery of technology solutions to enhance efficiency and user experience across healthcare, higher ed, and corporate environments. With over 20 years of…
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Kaitlyn Albertoli: From California Wildfires to Leading AI in Grid Reliability
Kaitlyn Albertoli is the CEO and co-founder of Buzz Solutions, a company focused on reducing catastrophic events in energy infrastructure. A Stanford graduate with a background in sustainability and finance, she previously worked as a wealth management analyst at JP Morgan Chase. In 2021, she was...
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Spence Green — Building AI with a Human Touch for High-Stakes Language Challenges
Spence Green is the CEO and Co-Founder of LILT, an AI-powered language translation company helping enterprises communicate across languages. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford, where he researched machine translation and natural language processing. Spence Green LinkedIn:...
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Jonathan Yunger on Why Actors Should Embrace AI (Not Fear It)
Jonathan Yunger is the Co-Founder & CEO of Arcana Labs, a generative AI platform designed for filmmakers and content creators. With over 15 years in film finance, production, and global distribution, he also serves as President at Millennium Media, where he’s worked on over 50 films including The...
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Binny Gill — English-as-code, Democratizing AI & Human Control
Binny Gill is the Founder and CEO of Kognitos, an AI-powered business automation company he started in 2020 to enable machines to understand and interact in human language. With nearly 100 patents in computer science, he previously served as CTO at Nutanix, where he played a key role in scaling…
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Joaquin Cuenca on Startup Lessons, Google Acquisition & Freepik’s AI Reinvention
Joaquín Cuenca is the CEO and co-founder of Freepik, a global platform in AI-driven design serving over 150 million monthly users. Under his leadership, Freepik has grown from a small startup into a key resource for marketers, designers, and content creators, offering tools that integrate AI to...
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Gavin Stone — AI, Omics & the Future of Early Disease Detection
Gavin Stone is Chief Business Officer at Pleno, where he leads product development, marketing, and business development. An electronic engineer by training, he has 25 years of experience spanning wireless communications, semiconductors, and life sciences. He previously led software product...
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Steven Toy — How the Memrise CEO is Reinventing Language Learning with AI
Steven Toy is the CEO of Memrise, an AI-powered language learning platform with over 75 million monthly users. He leads the company’s AI-driven approach to language acquisition, combining vocabulary learning, native speaker comprehension, and conversation practice. Steven Toy LinkedIn:...
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Autumn-Kyoko Cushman — Fixing Broken Healthcare with AI and Human-Centered Design
Autumn-Kyoko Cushman is the CEO and Co-Founder of ShiftRx, an AI-native company addressing structural issues in clinical staffing. A former Navy corpsman and first-generation founder, she has led national initiatives at NIH and IBM Watson Health, bringing a deep understanding of care systems from...
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Charlie Silver — Why High-Quality, Permissioned Data Will Power the Next AI Wave
Charlie Silver is the Founder and CEO of Permission and an entrepreneur with successful startups in tech, media, and finance. He pioneered RealAge, a permission marketing company acquired by Hearst after reaching 60 million users. He also co-founded Onramp Invest, Blockforce Capital, and Reality...
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Joy Dasgupta — Joy Dasgupta — Safe Enterprise AI, Global Leadership & Explainable AI
Joy Dasgupta is the CEO of Gyan, with over a decade of C-suite experience at companies like Hewlett Packard, American Express, Genpact, and Rage Frameworks. Before joining Gyan, he led AI-focused ventures PrismX and Empirican. A BITS Pilani graduate, Joy has managed teams across Asia Pacific,...
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Darren Kimura — Building Energy, AI, and VC Ventures With a Human-Centered Mindset
Darren Kimura is the CEO and President of AI Squared, bringing over 25 years of experience in scaling technology companies and integrating AI with enterprise solutions. He joined AI Squared in 2024 as President and COO, playing a key role in the company’s operational growth and strategy. He...
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Diederik Greveling — Early Passion for Computers and Engineering Mindset, Balancing Leadership With Tech Expertise, AI as an Enabler, Scalable AI Use Cases, Democratizing AI in Enterprises
Diederik Greveling is the CTO of Xebia Base, focusing on data, ML, and cloud infrastructure. He helped grow the unit to over $2M in annual revenue within two years. With a background as a data engineer, he holds a Master of Science in Computing Science (cum laude) from a top 100 university....
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Kevin Frechette — Origins of Fairmarkit, AI in Procurement, Agentic Engineers, Human Oversight in Automated Workflows
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fairmarkit, an AI-powered autonomous sourcing platform helping organizations source more competitively at scale. Before founding Fairmarkit, he held various roles in the tech industry, including positions at IBM and Dell. He lives in the greater Boston...
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Luca Zambello — Entrepreneurial Journey, AI Integration and Strategy in Hospitality, Challenges and Cultural Shifts in AI Adoption, AI as an Enhancer Not a Replacement
Luca Zambello is the co-founder and CEO of Jurny, a hospitality tech company focused on on-demand, tech-first accommodations. He launched one of the first professionally operated Airbnb vacation rental companies in 2012, leading to the creation of Jurny to streamline hospitality for guests and...
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David Brudenell — Agentic Apps vs AI Agents, Guidance for Emerging AI Professionals, AI for Productivity
David Brudenell is an Executive Director with senior leadership experience across public, private, and startup companies from Sydney to San Francisco. He led Global Solutions & Advanced Research at Appen, a leader in AI/ML training data. He has held executive roles at firms including Pureprofile,...
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Georg Ell — Early Passion for Tech, Localization and AI Applications, Human-Centered Technology and Ethical AI
Georg Ell is the CEO of Phrase, a localization technology company serving clients like Uber and Shopify. With two decades in tech, he has held leadership roles at Tesla, Microsoft, and Yammer. He began his career at Microsoft as the first enterprise cloud salesperson in Europe, later leading…
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Dr. Alan Roth — AI in Drug Discovery, AI Innovation and Limitations, Human Oversight
Dr. Alan Roth, CEO of Oxford Drug Design, has a diverse background in life sciences spanning research, capital markets, consultancy, and company leadership. He began as a chemist at Merck in New Lead Discovery, later serving as a consultant at McKinsey and Director at Commerzbank Asset Management...
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Dinesh Goel — Evolving Startup Challenges, AI Product Development and Market Fit, Employment and Productivity
Dinesh Goel is the Founder & CEO of Robylon, an agentic AI automation platform for customer support and presales. A 3-time founder with over 12 years of tech startup experience, he previously founded Aasaanjobs, a recruitment platform acquired by OLX, and Oneworldnation, a blockchain gaming...
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Lasse Finderup — Entrepreneurial Journey, Company Culture, Product Development Strategy, Funding Approaches, Market Adoption and User Growth
Lasse Finderup is the co-founder and CEO of Good Tape, a Copenhagen-based company specializing in AI-powered speech-to-text transcriptions. Since its founding in 2022, Good Tape has gained 2.5 million users and reached key milestones such as 500,000 unique users within eight months and $2 million...
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Lisbeth Votruba — AI Applications in Nursing, Human-Centered Virtual Care, Wellbeing and Mental Health
Lisbeth Votruba is the chief clinical officer of AvaSure, where she leads efforts in inpatient telehealth care through compassionate leadership and advocacy for the dignity, safety, and quality of care for patients, families, and healthcare professionals. Lisbeth Votruba LinkedIn:...
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Srikrishnan Ganesan — AI, Customer Experience & the Future of Services Delivery
Srikrishnan Ganesan is the Co-founder and CEO of Rocketlane, a PSA and client onboarding platform focused on improving project outcomes and team efficiency. With a passion for customer experience and startups, Sri has spent over a decade building and scaling SaaS businesses. He previously...
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Innovators, leaders, and builders share their stories, insights, and visions for the future of artificial intelligence. The Humans & AI Show is hosted by Flor Laorga, Co-Founder of AI Frontier Network—a global community focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and the people driving AI forward.
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