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Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science
by Mac & Sam
AsembleAI brings you thought-provoking conversations at the nexus of artificial intelligence, innovation, and leadership. In each episode, hosts Mac and Sam, veterans in data and tech world, sit down with AI researchers, fast‑scaling founders, Fortune 500 executives, and pioneering technologists to reveal how AI is reshaping business strategy, sparking breakthrough product development, and guiding executive decisions. Tune in for actionable insights, compelling case studies, and forward‑looking perspectives on the promises and pitfalls of AI‑driven innovation.RSSVERIFY
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EP 79: The “Why Now” Test for AI Startups | Vanessa Larco, VC & Formerly NEA Partner
Vanessa Larco has sat on both sides of the table. She built products at Microsoft, Disney, Twilio, and Box, then led investments at NEA, including Mejuri and Kindred, and watched Robinhood scale to its IPO as a board observer. Sam and Mac talk with her about what actually holds up once the pitch...
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EP 78: Do You Know What Agents You Have Running? Transcend's Rowan Stewart on AI Agent Governance
Rowan Stewart has watched companies rush AI products to market without the governance to back them up, first at BCG and now at Transcend, where the clients include Robinhood, Brex, and Groupon. Sam and Rowan discuss why governance works best as infrastructure from day one, and why agents raise…
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EP 77: They Transferred $25M to a Deepfake — Why Your AI Isn't as Governed as You Think | Dr. Latha Karthigaa
In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, host Mac Goswami sits down with Dr. Latha Karthigaa — Director & Head of AI Governance at the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC) — on why most companies that think their AI is governed are dangerously wrong, and what responsible AI actually looks like....
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EP 76: Dashboards Are Wrong in the Background. AI Is Wrong in Your Face | Barr Moses, Monte Carlo
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Barr Moses — CEO & co-founder of Monte Carlo, creator of the data observability category and now builder of the agent trust platform — about what it actually takes to make AI trustworthy…
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EP 75: Inside the AI Control Plane: Governance, Guardrails, and Model Routing | Sean Lynch, ActualyzeAI
ActualyzeAI came out of stealth just days before this conversation. Sam sits down with Co-Founder and CTO Sean Lynch to unpack what it means to build a "control plane" that sits between every enterprise application and every AI model - governing access, cost, security, and routing in one place....
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EP 74: The AI Agent That Actually Fixes IT Tickets — Not Just Chats About Them | Oshri Moyal, Atera
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Oshri Moyal — CTO & co-founder of Atera, the autonomous IT platform whose agent Robin recently ranked #1 across 15 G2 Summer 2026 reports — about what genuinely autonomous IT actually…
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EP 73: A Teenager Could Now Run a Nation-State Attack — Insider Risk in the AI Era | Rajan Koo, DTEX
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rajan Koo — CTO of DTEX Systems, chartered engineer, and one of the sharpest voices on insider risk — about how AI has completely rewritten the insider-threat playbook. What's Covered:...
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EP 72: Social Robotics 101: Building Robots That Understand You | Chris Kudla, Mind Children
Most robotics companies are chasing industrial automation. Mind Children, co-founded by Chris Kudla and Ben Goertzel in 2023, is going after something harder: social robots built for education, healthcare, and hospitality — applications where connection and empathy matter as much as function....
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EP 71: The PRD Is Dead — What AI Just Did to Product Management & Cyber Defense | Ed Martin, Sophos
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Ed Martin — VP of Product Management for AI Strategy at Sophos, with 15+ years in cybersecurity across Dell, SecureWorks, BlueVoyant, and inside Microsoft's Security Deputy CISO office —...
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EP 70: The Man Who Coined "AGI" - on Why Scaling LLMs Won't Get Us There | Ben Goertzel, SingualarityNET
Ben Goertzel coined the term AGI over two decades ago — long before OpenAI, Anthropic, or the current wave of AI labs existed. Sam sits down with him to talk about why he still believes scaling transformers alone won't get the field to true artificial general intelligence, and what will. Topics...
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EP 69: "You Don't Build a Power Plant to Charge Phones" — Why Enterprise AI Should Start Big | Nikunj Bajaj, TrueFoundry
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Nikunj Bajaj — co-founder & CEO of TrueFoundry and former AI team lead at Meta — about his contrarian message for enterprises: stop starting small with AI, and go big. What's Covered: Go...
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EP 68: Filling Europe's Labor Gap with Humanoids | Olle Bergstedt, CEO, Kalk Robotics
Europe is short 5.4 million industrial laborers, and the gap is widening as younger generations move away from manufacturing work. Sam sits down with Olle Bergstedt, CEO of Kalk Robotics, to talk about how humanoid robots can help close that gap — without replacing the humans already on the…
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EP 67: "Humanity Was Dead. 36 Survivors Remained." — A Sci-Fi Author on AI, War & Our Future | Douglas Swatski
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion on the final day, where host Mac Goswami sat down with science-fiction author Douglas Swatski about his novel — two alien AI civilizations at war, humanity caught in the middle — and the ideas about AI, optimization, and our...
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EP 66: The Intelligence Dividend - Rethinking AI as Market Creation, Not Cost-Cutting | Rohit, LotusPetal AI
Most business leaders think of AI as either a cost-cutter or an efficiency multiplier. Rohit V Anabheri, CEO of LotusPetal AI and author of The Intelligence Dividend, argues there's a third and far more valuable layer: compounding — using AI to create entirely new markets and revenue, not just...
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EP 65: The AI Bottleneck Nobody's Watching | Troy Liljedahl, Backblaze
Storage is the least glamorous layer of the AI stack — and often the actual reason GenAI pipelines stall between pilot and production. Sam sits down with Troy, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze, to unpack what's really happening under the hood when AI infrastructure fails to...
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EP 64: Lack of ROI Is Actually Lack of Trust — Fixing Enterprise AI for Finance | Binny Gill, Kognitos
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Binny Gill — CEO & co-founder of Kognitos, holder of ~100 patents, who previously helped scale a company from 20 to 6,000 people and a $7B market cap — about Kognitos's newly launched...
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EP 63: From Intel to Mars: The 26-Year Story Behind OpenCV
OpenCV powers the computer vision behind your phone's camera, autonomous vehicles, hospital screening systems, and even NASA's Mars helicopter — and most people using it have no idea. Sam sits down with Satya Mallick, CEO of the nonprofit OpenCV.org, to trace its 26-year history and where it's...
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EP 62: 95% of AI Pilots Fail. Here's Why | Mohamed Battisha, VP of Engineering at WEX
What actually separates a data platform built for AI agents from the data warehouse most enterprises already have? Recorded live at Ai4 conference in Vegas, AsembleAI co-host Sam sits down with Mohammed Battisha - who leads the data engineering team at WEX and previously built Saudi Arabia's...
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EP 61: "Shadow AI" — And No One's Watching | Rafi Khardalian, Actualyze AI
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rafi Khardalian — CEO & co-founder of Actualyze AI, and a former technology leader at Cisco who helped build its container and Kubernetes platforms — about the governance, security, and...
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EP 60: Feeding the World with AI: Inside Syngenta's Data Playbook
Agriculture is the oldest industry in the world — and one of the least represented at AI conferences. In this episode, Sam talks with Jeremy Groeteke, CIO of Syngenta's vegetable division, about how a company operating in 90+ countries with 50,000 employees is building AI infrastructure to help...
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EP 59: "The Attackers Have the Advantage" — AI's SATAN Moment in Cybersecurity | Fred Rica, BDO
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Fred Rica — cybersecurity leader at BDO USA, former Big Four partner, and a regular voice at RSA and Black Hat — about why AI is cybersecurity's "SATAN moment" and what defenders have to...
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EP 58: Every Millisecond Matters: Diffusion LLMs and the Future of Voice AI | Aditya Grover, Inception
Recorded live at the Ai4 Podcast Pavilion, Sam wraps Day One with Aditya Grover, Co-Founder & CTO of Inception, on why the next generation of LLMs won't look anything like the ones we use today. What's Covered: "Every Millisecond Matters" — Why latency, not intelligence, is the real bottleneck...
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EP 57: Ai4 Podcast - Why "The Context Layer" Is What Enterprise AI Is Actually Missing | Andrei Manolache, Designverse
Recorded live at Ai4, Mac sits down with Andrei Manolache, Founder & CEO of Designverse, an AI platform that builds and delivers complex enterprise software by ingesting a company's own documentation, codebase, and internal rules. What You'll Learn: 🔹 The Model Plateau Everyone's Noticing —...
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EP 56: Ai4 Podcast - Why AI-Generated Code Needs Its Own Kind of Security | Anand Revashetti, Lineaje
Recorded live from the Ai4 podcast pavilion, Sam talks with Anand Revashetti, Co-Founder & CEO of Lineaje, about a problem most companies don't realize they have: they're confident their AI-generated code is secure, but very few actually have visibility into it. What's Covered: Where the Trust…
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Ep 55: Ai4 Podcast - Turning 35 Years of Paper Archives into AI Training Data | Dilo Wijesuriya, ARC
Recorded live from the Ai4 conference floor in Las Vegas, Sam sits down with Dilo Wijesuriya, President & COO of ARC Document Solutions, to talk about the unglamorous but essential layer of enterprise AI: getting decades of paper archives into a format models can actually learn from. What's...
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EP 54: Ai4 Podcast - Enterprise AI's "Pilot Purgatory" — and the Deepfake Threat | Kathryn Harrison, Concentrix
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Kathryn Harrison, Global VP of Strategy in AI Commercialization at Concentrix — and an exited founder who built and sold the B2B SaaS platform MakePay, founded Deep Trust Alliance, and...
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EP 53: Ai4 Podcast - Revolutionizing Healthcare: AI in Drug Discovery | Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, Sam sat down with Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder & CEO of Insilico Medicine, about what it actually takes to turn AI-generated molecules into approved drugs. What's Covered: From Laughed-Out-of-the-Room to 33 Candidates — Alex...
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EP 52: Shadow AI: Why $10.3M is Costing Your Organization More Than You Know
Shadow AI is costing organizations $10.3 million a year—more than malicious insider threats combined. Employees are using AI tools nobody approved, on data nobody's tracking, and most leadership teams have no idea it's happening at this scale. Banning AI doesn't work. You can't solve this with...
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EP 51: AI-Native Software Development: Building Production Systems with Multi-Agent AI
"AI native software development" gets thrown around everywhere right now—and almost nobody can define it clearly. Not a chatbot bolted on. Not Copilot autocomplete. We mean production-grade systems where AI agents write, orchestrate, and ship the work end-to-end. In this episode, hosts Sam Dave…
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EP 50: AI & Cybersecurity: Building Agentic AI for Real-World Threat Detection
97% false positives. Millions of alerts daily. Security tools that can't keep up. The threat landscape has outpaced traditional security operations—and Agentic AI is the answer. In this episode, hosts Mac Goswami and Sam Dey sit down with Ramya Ganesh, Top 50 Women Cybersecurity Leads in the US…
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EP 49: How to Spot the Next Healthcare AI Fraud Before It Happens
What does it take to call out billion-dollar healthcare AI companies when the system is rigged against whistleblowers? In this episode of Inside Assemble AI, hosts Sam Day and Mac welcome Sergei Polevikov, PhD-trained data scientist, AI entrepreneur, author of the widely-read Substack newsletter…
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EP 48: AI Transforms Soccer: Premier League Analytics Revolution
68.5 billion euros in EPL betting annually. 1.4 million data points per match. Soccer sits at the absolute center of the AI revolution, and it's transforming the world's most popular sport from officiating to tactical analysis. In Episode 2 of our "AI in Sports Analytics" series, hosts Sam Dave…
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EP 47: AI Revolutionizes Basketball: NBA Analytics 2020-2025
1.4 million data points per game. NBA teams now track every player movement, defensive rotation, and shot attempt with AI-powered analytics—and it's transforming professional basketball in real-time. In this first episode of our "AI in Sports Analytics" series, hosts Sam Dey and Mac Goswami…
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EP 46: New Collar Jobs: Emerging Roles That Only Exist Because of AI
143% growth for AI Engineers. 136% for Prompt Engineers. 135% for AI Content Creators. These aren't niches—they're fundamental new careers that couldn't exist before AI. In this final "Who Survives the AI Shift" episode, Sam Dey and Mac Goswami reveal 16 brand-new job titles from 2025: Knowledge...
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EP 45: Reskill or Perish? How to Future-Proof Your Career Against AI | Inside AsembleAI
50% of employees need reskilling by 2026-RIGHT NOW. Are you ready, or already falling behind? In this critical episode of "Who Survives the AI Shift," hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami expose the brutal reality: only 49% of employees feel equipped for their roles (down from 59% in 2024). Gen Z...
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EP 44: How AI Is Transforming Filmmaking - From Fear to Creative Amplification
Can AI amplify filmmaking creativity without killing the craft? Season 4 guest Sam Joos—20-year filmmaker, founder of AI Ad Studio and AI Film Society - shows how generative AI is transforming commercial production from $500K budgets to bedroom studios. Key Insights: The Breakthrough Moment…
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EP 43: On the Chopping Block - Roles Most Vulnerable to AI Automation Right Now
Which jobs are AI eliminating right now—not in five years, but today? In this hard-hitting episode of Inside AsembleAI, hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami examine the roles facing immediate AI displacement, backed by 2025 data showing actual job losses happening across industries. This is the episode...
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EP 42: Safe Zones - Jobs AI Will Augment, Not Replace (And Why)
Not all jobs are at risk from AI automation. In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, hosts Sam Dey and Mac Goswami reveal the safe zones—careers where AI enhances human work rather than eliminating it-and explain the crucial "why" behind these patterns so you can evaluate your own role's resilience....
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EP 41: The AI Job Apocalypse - Myth vs Reality | What the Data Actually Shows
Is AI really coming for your job? Or is the "AI apocalypse" just another tech scare story? In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami cut through the fear-mongering headlines to examine what's actually happening in the AI job market right now - backed by hard data from…
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EP 40: AI Analytics: From Hindsight to Foresight
AI analytics represents a fundamental shift from analyzing what happened to predicting what will happen. Traditional marketing analytics was retrospective-dashboards showing last month's performance, reports explaining why campaigns succeeded or failed. AI analytics is prospective-predictive…
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EP 39: AI Chatbots: 95% of Interactions by 2025
Servian Global Solutions projects that 95% of customer interactions will be AI-powered by 2025. We're in 2026 now-that's not a future prediction anymore, it's the present reality. The chatbot market is growing by $11.45 billion through 2026, fueled by major advances in natural language processing...
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EP 38: AI-Powered Advertising: Programmatic’s Next Evolution
Traditional ad buying involved manual targeting, static audiences, and fixed bids. AI advertising uses machine learning to optimize targeting, bidding, and creative selection in real time across millions of data points. Performance Max and Meta Advantage+ campaigns represent this evolution -...
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EP 37: AI Content Creation: 3x Output, Half the Cost
The numbers are staggering: 96% of companies now use generative AI for content production. Companies report 3-5x more content output, 30-50% cost savings, and 50% reductions in creation time. This isn't incremental improvement—it's transformational change in how marketing teams operate. AI…
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EP 36: AI Personalization: From Segments to Individuals
AI personalization has evolved dramatically from basic segmentation to true individual-level customization. McKinsey's 2025 research shows businesses using advanced personalization techniques are seeing 10-15% revenue increases, with 89% of decision makers saying AI-driven personalization will be...
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EP 35: AI Algorithmic Trading: The New Market Makers
Welcome to the final episode of the AI in Finance series, exploring algorithmic trading and AI market makers—genuinely the wild west of AI in finance. Here's context most people don't realize: 60-70% of equity market volume already comes from algorithmic trading, with high-frequency trading alone...
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EP 34: AI in Credit and Lending: Democratizing Access or Amplifying Bias?
AI in credit decisions is genuinely controversial because it could either democratize lending and expand access to underserved populations or take historical discrimination and amplify it at scale. The reality is both are happening simultaneously in different institutions—it all depends on how...
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EP 33: AI in Compliance: Turning Regulation into Competitive Advantage
Compliance has traditionally been viewed as a pure cost center—regulatory overhead that doesn't generate revenue. But AI is fundamentally changing this equation by turning compliance from a defensive obligation into an actual strategic advantage. New LSTM networks are achieving 94.2% accuracy in...
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EP 32: AI Fraud Detection - Fighting Fire with Fire
Over 50% of fraud now involves AI. FIDZY surveyed 562 fraud professionals globally and found AI-powered fraud has become the norm, not the exception. We're talking about deepfakes, synthetic identities, and AI-powered phishing so sophisticated it's basically indistinguishable from legitimate...
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EP 31: AI in Stock Prediction: The Stanford Study that outperformed 93% of Fund Managers
Stanford just dropped a bombshell study: an AI analyst made 30 years of stock picks and outperformed 93% of human mutual fund managers by an average of 600 basis points—that's 6% annually. This is absolutely massive in the investment world, kicking off Inside AssembleAI's AI in Finance series…
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EP 30: Healthcare Data Security in The AI Era
In 2024, a single cyber attack exposed the medical records of 190 million Americans. As healthcare organizations rush to adopt AI—with 38% now using it regularly—a new crisis is emerging: how do we harness AI's transformative power while protecting the most sensitive data we possess? This episode...
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AsembleAI brings you thought-provoking conversations at the nexus of artificial intelligence, innovation, and leadership. In each episode, hosts Mac and Sam, veterans in data and tech world, sit down with AI researchers, fast‑scaling founders, Fortune 500 executives, and pioneering technologists to reveal how AI is reshaping business strategy, sparking breakthrough product development, and guiding executive decisions. Tune in for actionable insights, compelling case studies, and forward‑looking perspectives on the promises and pitfalls of AI‑driven innovation.RSSVERIFY
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