Episodios

  • Ep175: Agentic AI - From Hype to Business Impact with Kore AI & SS&C Blue Prism
    Nov 24 2025

    Industry leaders from Kore AI, SS&C Blue Prism and AWS reveal what actually works in agentic AI deployment, from contact center automation to employee productivity, with proven strategies for regulated industries.

    Topics Include:

    • Kore AI and SS&C Blue Prism leaders discuss achievable agentic AI actions
    • Three deployment areas show real ROI: customer service, employee automation, and process workflows
    • Kore AI handles billions of annual interactions, with 85% focused on contact center operations
    • SS&C Blue Prism achieved $200 million annual savings using agentic AI across 120 internal use cases
    • The company processes 6 million transactions monthly consuming 10-12 billion tokens in production
    • Regulated industries like financial services and healthcare successfully deploy agentic AI with proper guardrails
    • eBay case study demonstrates measurable productivity gains tied directly to AI agent implementation
    • Two identical pilot programs yielded different results: one tied to business outcomes, one didn't
    • ISVs should stop chasing shiny objects and focus on solving customers' stickiest problems instead
    • Design for scale from day one and accept no single vendor solves everything alone
    • Employee-facing use cases carry less risk than customer-facing applications for initial AI deployments
    • Combining deterministic automation with AI plus governance creates more viable and trustworthy solutions


    Participants:

    • Erik Walton - EVP of WW Sales/Partner Sales, Kore AI
    • Satish Shenoy - VP, Global Technology Alliances & AI GTM, SS&C Blue Prism
    • Arym Diamond – Head of North America Data & AI Sales, Amazon Web Services


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    33 m
  • Ep174: How Voice AI Is Transforming Industries with Deepgram
    Nov 20 2025

    CEO Scott Stephenson explains how Deepgram's voice AI technology powers everything from pharmacies to drive-thru ordering and why, after so many years, Voice AI is now ready for prime time.

    Topics Include:

    • Scott Stephenson introduces Deepgram as an audio AI company building speech products
    • Major brands like CVS and Anthropic use Deepgram to power voice agents
    • CVS handles prescription status calls where 25-40% ask if prescriptions are ready
    • Voice technology now accurately understands diverse accents and speech patterns from callers
    • Automated systems free pharmacists to focus on their actual jobs instead
    • Jack in the Box uses Deepgram for drive-thru ordering with natural conversations
    • Previous McDonald's and Wendy's failures happened because the technology wasn't ready yet
    • Voice AI can handle any task with text input like CRM notes
    • Healthcare companies adopted voice AI faster than expected despite compliance hurdles
    • Staffing shortages drove hospitals to push through HIPAA and regulatory red tape
    • First misconception: AI will never match human performance in customer interactions
    • Second misconception: one product should solve all voice-related business problems
    • Companies must strategically decide what to build, partner on, or buy
    • Deepgram's research team controls speech speed and outputs conversational data like timestamps
    • Adoption will feel slow initially but suddenly be everywhere within three years


    Participants:

    • Scott Stephenson – Co-Founder & CEO, Deepgram


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    37 m
  • Ep173: Simplifying Elasticsearch at Scale: How Elastic Built Their Serverless Platform
    Nov 19 2025

    ** AWS re:Invent 2025 Dec 1-5, Las Vegas - Register Here! **

    Uri Cohen reveals how Elastic transformed from managing 50,000 complex clusters to building a seamless serverless platform that eliminates operational overhead while scaling globally

    Topics Include:

    • Johan Broman of AWS hosts Uri Cohen who leads Elastic's platform products team
    • Uri shares his nine-year journey at Elastic from small company to global scale
    • Elasticsearch started 15 years ago, becoming popular for search, logs, and security events
    • Elastic Cloud launched 2015, but users struggled with shards, nodes, and infrastructure complexity
    • Serverless eliminates operational concerns, letting users just ingest and analyze their data
    • Design goal: maintain familiar Elasticsearch experience while removing all infrastructure management burden
    • Chose complete architectural redesign over retrofitting auto-scaling to existing infrastructure
    • New architecture uses S3 persistence with lightweight routing layer serving 50,000+ clusters
    • Cell-based design limits blast radius and improves multi-tenancy across 40+ global regions
    • Learned S3 API costs can explode unexpectedly without careful request pattern optimization
    • AI transforms security workflows: 10,000 alerts become 3 actionable attack summaries automatically
    • Weekly continuous deployment enables faster innovation delivery without waiting for version releases


    Participants:

    • Uri Cohen – Vice President of Product Management, Platform, Elastic
    • Johan Broman – EMEA ISV Head of Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services


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    33 m
  • Ep172: Scaling AI from Day One: SS&C Blue Prism on Governance, Guardrails, and Growth
    Nov 17 2025

    SS&C Blue Prism's VP reveals how they achieved $200M annual savings and $600M revenue growth by deploying 3,000 AI agents, processing 6 million documents monthly as their own first customer.

    Topics Include:

    • SS&C Blue Prism evolved from RPA leader to agentic automation provider over 25 years
    • Serves 22,000 clients in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail
    • Offers AI agents, governance gateway, and secure enterprise chat leveraging AWS Bedrock
    • As "customer zero," they deployed 3,000 agents processing 6 million documents monthly
    • Generated $200M annual savings and $600M revenue growth using their own technology
    • Financial services client unlocked unstructured document processing previously impossible with traditional automation
    • Healthcare client's AI processes MRIs more accurately than human radiologists
    • Key lesson: Focus on business outcomes first, not just implementing AI everywhere
    • Critical insight: Plan for scale on day one, not after pilots succeed
    • AWS Marketplace streamlined purchasing, especially in challenging Latin American markets
    • Future vision: B2A economy where agents negotiate parking, shopping, and services autonomously
    • Predicts agent-to-agent communication will revolutionize healthcare monitoring and wealth management


    Participants:

    • Satish Shenoy – Global Vice President, Technology Alliances and GenAI GTM, SS&C Blue Prism


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    33 m
  • Ep171: Responsible Business Innovation with Generative AI
    Nov 14 2025

    ** AWS re:Invent 2025 Dec 1-5, Las Vegas - Register Here! **

    Three enterprise AI leaders from Archer, Demandbase, and Highspot reveal how top companies are implementing AI responsibly while navigating data privacy, bias prevention, and regulatory compliance challenges.

    Topics Include:

    • AWS Security GM Brian Shadpour hosts three AI leaders discussing responsible enterprise deployment
    • Demandbase's Umberto Milletti explains tenant-based models ensuring first-party customer data remains confidential
    • Highspot's Oliver Sharp uses behavior-specific feedback frameworks to eliminate bias in sales assessments
    • Real-time AI evaluation proves challenging when assessing dynamic sales conversations and customer interactions
    • Companies create "second-party data" networks where customers opt-in to share insights collectively
    • Open-source models gain traction but require significant expertise for enterprise-grade implementation
    • EU AI Act mandates human oversight, reshaping how companies design AI systems globally
    • Archer's Kayvan Alikhani extends identity management principles from web applications to AI agents
    • Unattended AI agents performing tasks autonomously create new security and accountability challenges
    • Human-in-the-loop oversight remains essential, especially for high-stakes decisions affecting customers
    • Future challenge: Determining when AI accuracy justifies removing costly human oversight
    • Enterprise data hygiene becomes critical as AI systems need clean, reviewed internal data


    Participants:

    • Kayvan Alikhani - Global Head of Engineering- Emerging Solutions, Archer Integrated Risk Management
    • Umberto Milletti - Chief R&D Officer, Demandbase
    • Oliver Sharp - Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer, Highspot
    • Brian Shadpour - General Manager, Security, Amazon Web Services


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    41 m
  • Ep170: From Open Source to AI Agents – Inside SnapLogic’s Transformation with AWS
    Nov 12 2025

    ** AWS re:Invent 2025 Dec 1-5, Las Vegas - Register Here! **

    SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone reveals how they evolved from open-source to AI-powered integration platform, doubled AI adoption with one UX change, and delivers measurable enterprise ROI.

    Topics Include:

    • SnapLogic CTO shares their decade-long journey building AI-powered integration with AWS partnership.
    • SnapLogic drives "human cost of integration to zero" for thousands of global companies.
    • Started as open-source project, pivoted to cloud in 2015 with AWS infrastructure.
    • Began AI workloads in 2018, predicting next steps in integration workflows using models.
    • Became AWS Bedrock launch partner, completely reinventing their product for generative AI era.
    • SnapLogic lives through transformations first, then credibly helps ISV customers do same.
    • Helped Adobe migrate entire CRM from Salesforce to Microsoft over single weekend.
    • Built normalized data architecture using S3, Iceberg, Glue for analytics-ready enterprise data.
    • SnapGPT copilot converts plain language prompts into complete integration pipelines in minutes.
    • Live demo shows generating Salesforce-to-Redshift pipeline with filters using natural language commands.
    • Small UX tweak adding helpful header doubled monthly active users of SnapGPT.
    • Changed legal agreements in 2017 to capture metadata, enabling AI features years later.
    • Agent Creator delivers ROI across customers: Inspirant, Core Plus, AstraZeneca use cases.
    • SnapLogic's own finance team cut order reconciliation from 40 hours monthly to 90 minutes.
    • Key lessons: governance first, understand business impact, use AWS native patterns consistently.


    Participants:

    • Jeremiah Stone – Chief Technical Officer, SnapLogic
    • Olawale Oladehin – Managing Director, NAMER Technology Segments, Amazon Web Services


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    31 m
  • Ep169: Connecting Everything Everywhere: How Boomi Powers Enterprise Integration with AWS
    Nov 11 2025

    ** AWS re:Invent 2025 Dec 1-5, Las Vegas - Register Here! **

    Vice President of Solution Engineering Chris Timmerman reveals how Boomi's integration platform evolved into a no-code AI agent builder on AWS, serving 22,000 enterprises while solving the 95% failure rate in AI production deployments.

    Topics Include:

    • Chris Timmerman shares his 9-year journey from Field CTO to VP Solution Engineering at Boomi
    • Boomi connects cloud and on-premise systems, helping enterprises move data seamlessly since early 2000s
    • The platform serves 22,000+ customers, from order-to-cash processes to complex M&A integrations
    • New CEO Steve Lucas pivoted Boomi toward generative AI when ChatGPT emerged
    • Boomi approaches AI three ways: internal automation, product enhancement, and customer enablement
    • AI Agent Studio lets users build agents on AWS Bedrock without writing code
    • Agent Garden marketplace allows partners to share specialized agents for Salesforce, NetSuite, and more
    • Chris reveals 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to reach production due to data issues
    • AWS partnership since 2018 provides infrastructure plus hands-on engineering collaboration for problem-solving
    • Hackathons with AWS engineers generate excitement and innovative solutions for customer challenges
    • Chris advises new AWS partners: "Don't be afraid to ask for help" and be transparent
    • Future vision: Partner with market leaders like AWS rather than reinvent foundational AI frameworks


    Participants:

    • Christopher Timmerman – Vice President, Solution Engineering, Boomi


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    30 m
  • Ep168: Scaling Agentic Workloads: Why Reliable Infrastructure is Non-Negotiable for Enterprise AI by Anyscale
    Nov 7 2025

    ** AWS re:Invent 2025 Dec 1-5, Las Vegas - Register Here! **

    Learn how Anyscale's Ray platform enables companies like Instacart to supercharge their model training while Amazon saves heavily by shifting to Ray's multimodal capabilities.

    Topics Include:

    • Ray originated at UC Berkeley when PhD students spent more time building clusters than ML models
    • Anyscale now launches 1 million clusters monthly with contributions from OpenAI, Uber, Google, Coinbase
    • Instacart achieved 10-100x increase in model training data using Ray's scaling capabilities
    • ML evolved from single-node Pandas/NumPy to distributed Spark, now Ray for multimodal data
    • Ray Core transforms simple Python functions into distributed tasks across massive compute clusters
    • Higher-level Ray libraries simplify data processing, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and model serving
    • Anyscale platform adds production features: auto-restart, logging, observability, and zone-aware scheduling
    • Unlike Spark's CPU-only approach, Ray handles both CPUs and GPUs for multimodal workloads
    • Ray enables LLM post-training and fine-tuning using reinforcement learning on enterprise data
    • Multi-agent systems can scale automatically with Ray Serve handling thousands of requests per second
    • Anyscale leverages AWS infrastructure while keeping customer data within their own VPCs
    • Ray supports EC2, EKS, and HyperPod with features like fractional GPU usage and auto-scaling


    Participants:

    • Sharath Cholleti – Member of Technical Staff, Anyscale


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    25 m