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The AI Corner — 60 episodes

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Node co-founder Steven Baker on diagnosing broken workflows, the disappearing CIO role, and building an AI-native company from New Zealand | The AI Corner Ep: 53 Steven Baker

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AI, copyright, and why developers can't give an IP indemnity on AI‑built product anymore | The AI Corner Ep: 52 Andrew Dentice

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How a Napier creative agency is using AI to rebuild pre-earthquake Pā sites and tell Holocaust survivor stories | The AI Corner Ep: 51 Dan Browne

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From data scientist to enterprise AI leader at NZ Post | The AI Corner Ep: 50 Tom Lintern

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How a 200-person airport runs AI like a small city | The AI Corner Ep: 49 Fiona Millar

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From exec buy-in to build vs buy: AI lessons from a billion-dollar food business | The AI Corner Ep: 48 Sean Narayan

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From Air NZ engineer to AI founder: Solving AI search invisibility for NZ brands | The AI Corner Ep: 47 Derrick Edward

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AI transformation lessons across Fonterra, One NZ and Spark, shadow AI risks, and measuring invisible human value | The AI Corner Ep: 46 Habib Baluwala

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NZ's first ChatGPT App: Trade Me Property; the distribution shift coming for every business; and why marketing to AI agents is the next frontier | The AI Corner Ep 45

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From agency leader to solo founder building Geodde with Claude Code, GEO vs SEO, and staying lean in the AI age | The AI Corner Ep 44: Toby Cox

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What is OpenClaw / Clawdbot, its security risks, and building 24/7 with AI agent teams | Adam Holt: The AI Corner - Episode 43

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AI On The Couch Ep 6 - Building The AI Corner: 0 → 6,000 Subscribers In One Year

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26 years of AI lessons, why RAG isn't just bigger memory, how AI cut his recruitment from 290 hours to 10, plus why NZ needs local GPUs | Damon Kelly: The AI Corner - Episode 42

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The AI Bubble, tech feudalism, China's AI strategy, and what NZ must do before it's too late | Ben Reid: The AI Corner - Episode 41

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How NZ AI start-up Contented transforms conversations into insights, the 70 coffee challenge, and why AI shouldn't overshadow humans | Hannah Hardy-Jones: The AI Corner - Episode 40

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Automating work humans shouldn't be doing with Dave Howden from Superhuman AI, and why doing nothing with AI impacts everyone in your business | The AI Corner - Episode 39

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ProCare CEO Bindi Norwell on AI in healthcare, preventative care strategy, and empowering 2,500 clinicians | The AI Corner - Episode 38

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How AI mirrors reflect our assumptions, auto-fabrication over automation, and AI in education with Dr Guy Bate | The AI Corner - Episode 37

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How NZ SMBs Access Enterprise AI to grow profitably with Asa Cox (Arcanum AI) | The AI Corner Ep 36

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Mike's Musings | Agentic Commerce Explained: AP2, ACP & The Rise of AI Shopping Agents

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How to drive AI adoption using real‑world training with Cowan Henderson at Avocado AI | The AI Corner - Episode 35

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How AI is reshaping work, leadership, and talent in NZ with Fiona Hewitt: Episode 34

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Talking Agentic commerce and voice agents with Leo Garcia‑Curtis: Episode 33

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The AI Corner Ep 32: Emily Makere Broadmore | Redefining the creative industry with AI, and how she trains Juniors for the AI era

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The AI Corner Ep 31: Serge van Dam | Reveals his two-hour weekly AI training system, four AI adoption personas, and why New Zealand's small market is an advantage

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The AI Corner Ep 30: Taru Peters-Naug | Building AI products that drive Kiwi business growth, and how to turn AI strategy into real‑world business value

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The AI Corner Ep 29: Caelan Huntress | Turning marketers into AI‑enabled professionals, and how he uses playful workshops to integrate generative AI into everyday work

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The AI Corner Ep 28: Hitarth Sharma | Building next‑gen AI agents, and memory architectures

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The AI Corner Ep 27: Gavin Sharkey | Embedding AI in businesses, avoiding pilot traps & enabling teams

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The AI Corner Ep 26: Jacob Bank | Building no-code AI agents with Relay.app to power your AI stack, automate workflows, and rethink how lean teams get real work done

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The AI Corner Ep 25: Frances Valentine | How AI can scale NZ, fix productivity & train future leaders

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AI On The Couch Ep 5 | How To Teach ChatGPT To Know You

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The AI Corner Ep 24: Leslie Tan | The rise of GEO & how AI is changing search for NZ

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AI On The Couch Ep 4 | What is Google's Nano Banana?

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The AI Corner Ep 23: Mark Laurence | How NZ execs can lead AI adoption: culture, use cases & senior leadership fluency

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The AI Corner Ep 22: Bex Rose & Sam Gibson on building AI-ready schools in New Zealand

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The AI Corner Ep 21: Tom Barraclough on what sovereign AI means, why law‑as‑code matters, and risks if NZ leaves AI control to others

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The AI Corner Ep 20: Blake Harkness reveals how MainPower is reshaping essential services with AI workflows

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The AI Corner Ep 19: Simon Archer & Scott Houston | AI meets insurance disruption

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The AI Corner Ep 18: Tane van der Boon | How Inviol’s AI is reshaping workplace safety

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The AI Corner Ep 17: Matteo Castiello | Turning Gen AI from point solutions into scalable enterprise tools

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AI On The Couch Ep 3 | What AI Tools to use?

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The AI Corner Ep 16: Justin Flitter | The NZ leaders’ guide to building practical AI systems, developing AI muscle, and embedding AI into workflows

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The AI Corner Ep 15: Young Kiwi founder Nikolas Hardwick on starting an AI‑IoT startup (Quela.io), and what happens when you found your first company at 16.

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AI On The Couch Ep 2 | What is Vibe Coding?

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The AI Corner Ep 14: Daniel Xu | how ElementX AI built with AI before the ChatGPT hype, and NZ’s early AI wins and lessons

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AI On The Couch Ep 1: Agent Mode

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The AI Corner Ep 13: Nadia Ellis | How to build with AI agents and scale adoption in your business

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The AI Corner Ep 12: Karrina Mountfort | Connecting women in AI, building inclusive communities and lifting all voices

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The AI Corner Ep 11: Heath Waugh | How AI-powered photography cuts shoot costs by 30%, and why furniture and homeware brands are leading the AI wave

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The AI Corner Ep 10: Stephen Morison on scaling AI at Fonterra, change management, and Copilot rollouts

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The AI Corner Ep 9: David Dempsey shares how AI transforms engineering education, curriculum redesign & real‑world skills

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The AI Corner Ep 8: Practical AI for SMBs - Matt Browning on tailored software, workshop light-bulb moments, and the opportunities Kiwis are missing

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The AI Corner Ep 7: John-Daniel Trask unpacks the launch of AutoHive, how it powers AI agents for teams, and why New Zealand businesses must lean in now

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The AI Corner Ep 6: Susana Tomaz on AI literacy in schools, building strategy at Westlake Girls, and future-ready students

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The AI Corner Ep 5: John-Daniel Trask on the rise of AI Agents, and why NZ must shift the narrative to move faster and solve productivity challenges.

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The AI Corner Ep 4: Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru on Māori data sovereignty, AI ethics, and indigenous leadership in technology

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The AI Corner Ep 3: Matt Ensor on building agents, breaking AI fear, and why NZ’s just 8 hours from AI transformation—plus the story behind ‘No Voice Left Behind’

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The AI Corner Ep 2: Joe Sutheran reveals how he went from analyst to AI specialist, built agent‑powered content workflows, and shares lessons in people‑first automation

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The AI Corner Ep 1: Dan Fowlie reveals how he builds with AI, the two types of businesses left in 2030, and everyday AI use cases