Listen to conversations with AI leaders on agentic systems
with Kate Ashworth Brash, Rob Saltrese
Most enterprises think they have AI governance—they actually have a policy document. IBM's HR AI Director and Lyra Labs' COO reveal why 90% of organizations operate at "Governance 0.5" and share the four-part operating model that separates leaders from laggards. Learn who really owns AI governance (hint: it's not the CTO), how to govern agentic systems without losing human oversight, and actionable frameworks for moving beyond paperwork to operational excellence.
with Jason Smith, Rob Saltrese
Anthropic's Claude Mythos breach within days of launch triggered a White House intervention and quietly re-priced cyber risk across governments and insurance markets. Industry leaders dissect why this represents a governance reckoning for every enterprise running AI—from the 99% of boards lacking AI literacy to meet fiduciary duty, to shadow AI exposure mapping and vendor chain ownership challenges that most organizations haven't addressed.
Join industry leaders as they dissect the real challenges of scaling AI in enterprise environments. Discover why 70% of AI initiatives stall at the pilot stage and learn the proven frameworks that separate successful deployments from costly failures. Explore critical insights on governance, team restructuring, and ROI measurement that executives need to drive meaningful AI transformation across their organizations.
with Anup Khera
Most AI tools in sales become shelfware within 90 days. Anup Khera, named Top 25 CRO to Follow in 2026, reveals why AI pilots fail and shares his 3-question prioritization filter for evaluating tools. Learn about the "distraction tax," measuring AI's real value beyond activity metrics, and building AI-native sales teams without losing human connection. Insights from scaling Attentive internationally and three major exits including ExactTarget's $3B Salesforce acquisition.
with Rob Saltrese
Despite AI being CEOs' top priority, 56% of companies report zero revenue benefit and 95% of pilots fail to impact P&L. Rob Saltrese, who spent 20 years in recruitment before co-founding AI consultancy Lyra Labs, reveals why the technology isn't the problem—the leadership-workforce gap is. Learn the workflow redesign most skip, why 12-month AI strategies backfire, and how shadow AI creates governance blind spots that sabotage enterprise adoption.
with Helena Ristov
After working with dozens of Fortune 500 clients, Helena Ristov reveals why 70% of enterprise AI projects never escape pilot purgatory. Discover the exact prioritization framework that depoliticizes AI decisions, why strong prototypes fail at production scale, and the one CFO metric that actually matters. Learn how treating governance as design thinking—not compliance theater—helps companies scale AI faster by slowing down to build trust into their foundations.
with Justin Foster
Most voice AI systems hit an 83% accuracy ceiling before requiring human intervention—killing ROI for businesses operating on razor-thin margins. Justin Foster, serial founder and CRO of Incept AI, reveals how his team broke through to 97% accuracy and the deployment playbook that actually works. Discover the three-dimensional bottleneck strangling voice AI adoption and why the 90% non-intervention rate is the economic threshold separating scalable systems from expensive experiments.
with David Wood
Former Marine Corps officer David Wood reveals why 90% of AI projects stall between pilot and production—and it's not a technology problem. Drawing from 45 years of systems engineering, Wood shares military frameworks for AI deployment: the production readiness test, triage methodology for investment decisions, and governance as rules of engagement. Learn when AI should have authority versus advise, and the one metric that actually predicts enterprise AI success.
with Meshach Amuah-Foster
Serial CEO Meshach Amuah-Foster has deployed AI across 20+ companies under PE/VC pressure—including putting AI agents directly in front of customers at Kayako before it was trendy. Learn his Use Case Matrix Framework for prioritizing initiatives, why "technically impressive" AI features often fail, and how to get board buy-in by presenting multiple options with impact analysis. Plus: why shadow AI creates hidden risks in enterprise environments.
with Nathan Burke
Discover how AI agents are slashing cybersecurity investigations from 2.5 hours down to just 4 minutes in production environments. Nathan Burke from 7AI reveals the critical difference between human work and non-human work, why "time saved" is the only ROI metric that matters, and how proper governance actually accelerates AI adoption. Learn the practical framework for identifying which security tasks should never require human intervention.
with Xavier Casanova
Discover why 70% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver measurable ROI and how leading organizations are shifting from AI experimentation to compounding business impact. Xavier Casanova, CEO of Olakai and backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, reveals the critical measurement frameworks that separate successful AI deployments from expensive experiments, plus why governance actually accelerates adoption and the practical agentic AI breakthroughs arriving in 2025.
