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Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science

Mac & Sam

79 episodes

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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  1. EP 79: The “Why Now” Test for AI Startups | Vanessa Larco, VC & Formerly NEA Partner

    · 42 min · S5 E79

    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…

  2. EP 78: Do You Know What Agents You Have Running? Transcend's Rowan Stewart on AI Agent Governance

    · 32 min · S5 E78

    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…

  3. EP 77: They Transferred $25M to a Deepfake — Why Your AI Isn't as Governed as You Think | Dr. Latha Karthigaa

    · 33 min · S5 E77

    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…

  4. EP 76: Dashboards Are Wrong in the Background. AI Is Wrong in Your Face | Barr Moses, Monte Carlo

    · 27 min · S5 E76

    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…

  5. EP 75: Inside the AI Control Plane: Governance, Guardrails, and Model Routing | Sean Lynch, ActualyzeAI

    · 21 min · S5 E75

    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…

  6. EP 74: The AI Agent That Actually Fixes IT Tickets — Not Just Chats About Them | Oshri Moyal, Atera

    · 14 min · S5 E74

    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…

  7. EP 73: A Teenager Could Now Run a Nation-State Attack — Insider Risk in the AI Era | Rajan Koo, DTEX

    · 25 min · S5 E73

    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…

  8. EP 72: Social Robotics 101: Building Robots That Understand You | Chris Kudla, Mind Children

    · 16 min · S5 E72

    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…

  9. EP 71: The PRD Is Dead — What AI Just Did to Product Management & Cyber Defense | Ed Martin, Sophos

    · 21 min · S5 E71

    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,…

  10. EP 70: The Man Who Coined "AGI" - on Why Scaling LLMs Won't Get Us There | Ben Goertzel, SingualarityNET

    · 26 min · S5 E70

    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…

  11. EP 69: "You Don't Build a Power Plant to Charge Phones" — Why Enterprise AI Should Start Big | Nikunj Bajaj, TrueFoundry

    · 12 min · S5 E69

    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…

  12. EP 68: Filling Europe's Labor Gap with Humanoids | Olle Bergstedt, CEO, Kalk Robotics

    · 13 min · S5 E68

    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…

  13. EP 67: "Humanity Was Dead. 36 Survivors Remained." — A Sci-Fi Author on AI, War & Our Future | Douglas Swatski

    · 15 min · S5 E67

    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,…

  14. EP 66: The Intelligence Dividend - Rethinking AI as Market Creation, Not Cost-Cutting | Rohit, LotusPetal AI

    · 13 min · S5 E66

    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:…

  15. EP 65: The AI Bottleneck Nobody's Watching | Troy Liljedahl, Backblaze

    · 26 min · S5 E65

    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…

  16. EP 64: Lack of ROI Is Actually Lack of Trust — Fixing Enterprise AI for Finance | Binny Gill, Kognitos

    · 23 min

    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…

  17. EP 63: From Intel to Mars: The 26-Year Story Behind OpenCV

    · 18 min

    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,…

  18. EP 62: 95% of AI Pilots Fail. Here's Why | Mohamed Battisha, VP of Engineering at WEX

    · 18 min · S5 E62

    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…

  19. EP 61: "Shadow AI" — And No One's Watching | Rafi Khardalian, Actualyze AI

    · 18 min

    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…

  20. EP 60: Feeding the World with AI: Inside Syngenta's Data Playbook

    · 18 min · S5 E59

    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…

  21. EP 59: "The Attackers Have the Advantage" — AI's SATAN Moment in Cybersecurity | Fred Rica, BDO

    · 18 min

    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…

  22. EP 58: Every Millisecond Matters: Diffusion LLMs and the Future of Voice AI | Aditya Grover, Inception

    · 16 min · S5 E58

    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:…

  23. EP 57: Ai4 Podcast - Why "The Context Layer" Is What Enterprise AI Is Actually Missing | Andrei Manolache, Designverse

    · 23 min · S5 E57

    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…

  24. EP 56: Ai4 Podcast - Why AI-Generated Code Needs Its Own Kind of Security | Anand Revashetti, Lineaje

    · 25 min · S5 E56

    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,…

  25. Ep 55: Ai4 Podcast - Turning 35 Years of Paper Archives into AI Training Data | Dilo Wijesuriya, ARC

    · 8:32 · S5 E55

    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…

  26. EP 54: Ai4 Podcast - Enterprise AI's "Pilot Purgatory" — and the Deepfake Threat | Kathryn Harrison, Concentrix

    · 31 min

    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…

  27. EP 53: Ai4 Podcast - Revolutionizing Healthcare: AI in Drug Discovery | Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine

    · 41 min · S5 E53

    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…

  28. EP 52: Shadow AI: Why $10.3M is Costing Your Organization More Than You Know

    · 48 min · S5 E52

    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…

  29. EP 51: AI-Native Software Development: Building Production Systems with Multi-Agent AI

    · 40 min · S5 E51

    "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…

  30. EP 50: AI & Cybersecurity: Building Agentic AI for Real-World Threat Detection

    · 48 min · S5 E50

    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…

  31. EP 49: How to Spot the Next Healthcare AI Fraud Before It Happens

    · 58 min · S5 E49

    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…

  32. EP 48: AI Transforms Soccer: Premier League Analytics Revolution

    · 16 min · S5 E48

    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…

  33. EP 47: AI Revolutionizes Basketball: NBA Analytics 2020-2025

    · 18 min · S5 E47

    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…

  34. EP 46: New Collar Jobs: Emerging Roles That Only Exist Because of AI

    · 21 min · S4 E46

    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"…

  35. EP 45: Reskill or Perish? How to Future-Proof Your Career Against AI | Inside AsembleAI

    · 21 min · S4 E45

    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%…

  36. EP 44: How AI Is Transforming Filmmaking - From Fear to Creative Amplification

    · 48 min · S4 E44

    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…

  37. EP 43: On the Chopping Block - Roles Most Vulnerable to AI Automation Right Now

    · 18 min · S4 E43

    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…

  38. EP 42: Safe Zones - Jobs AI Will Augment, Not Replace (And Why)

    · 17 min · S4 E42

    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…

  39. EP 41: The AI Job Apocalypse - Myth vs Reality | What the Data Actually Shows

    · 15 min · S4 E41

    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…

  40. EP 40: AI Analytics: From Hindsight to Foresight

    · 18 min · S3 E40

    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…

  41. EP 39: AI Chatbots: 95% of Interactions by 2025

    · 16 min · S3 E39

    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…

  42. EP 38: AI-Powered Advertising: Programmatic’s Next Evolution

    · 14 min · S3 E38

    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…

  43. EP 37: AI Content Creation: 3x Output, Half the Cost

    · 20 min · S3 E37

    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…

  44. EP 36: AI Personalization: From Segments to Individuals

    · 14 min · S3 E36

    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…

  45. EP 35: AI Algorithmic Trading: The New Market Makers

    · 17 min · S3 E35

    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…

  46. EP 34: AI in Credit and Lending: Democratizing Access or Amplifying Bias?

    · 17 min · S3 E34

    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…

  47. EP 33: AI in Compliance: Turning Regulation into Competitive Advantage

    · 17 min · S3 E33

    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…

  48. EP 32: AI Fraud Detection - Fighting Fire with Fire

    · 19 min · S3 E32

    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…

  49. EP 31: AI in Stock Prediction: The Stanford Study that outperformed 93% of Fund Managers

    · 18 min · S3 E31

    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…

  50. EP 30: Healthcare Data Security in The AI Era

    · 21 min · S3 E30

    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…

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