Matthew DeMello says agentic AI was the buzzword of 2025 for the general public.
“agentic AI sort of was kind of the word of 2025, especially for the lay public.”
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- 21 Jul 2026Models, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Readiness for Agentic AI - with Alex Tyrrell of Wolters Kluwer23m
- 24 Mar 2026From AI Experiments to Enterprise Value Driving Real Business ROI - with Dan Diasio of EY39m
- 19 Mar 2026From Multi Agent Systems to Institutional Learning in the Enterprise - with Papi Menon of Outshift by Cisco31m
- 24 Feb 2026Overcoming Skepticism and Driving AI Adoption - with Umesh Rustogi of Microsoft27m
- 17 Feb 2026Enterprise AI Adoption at a Moment of Maximum Skepticism - with Nishtha Jain30m
- 27 Jan 2026AI Adoption and Skepticism in Regulated Industries - with Ylan Kazi of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota21m
- 21 Jan 2026Translating AI Models into Business Value From Governance to Deployment - Thomas Holmes of Akur826m
- 8 Jan 2026How Open Context Layers Help Enterprises Build, Govern, & Scale Agentic AI - with Prukalpa Sankar of Atlan24m
Matthew DeMello says conversations in 2023 centered on foundational versus bespoke models, a framing that has since evolved.
“This was definitely the majority of the conversations we had in 2023. There was this language of bes- uh, foundational models and bespoke models, and that has evolved.”
Dan Diasio holds the titles of Global AI Consulting Leader and Americas Consulting CTO at EY.
“Today's guest is Dan Diasio, Global AI Consulting Leader and Americas Consulting CTO at EY.”
Host Matthew DeMello said David Carmona of Microsoft had recently been a guest on the AI in Business podcast.
“We had a guest on on the show not too long ago, David Carmona at at Microsoft”
Host Matthew DeMello cited reports from MIT and others that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail or stall.
“despite the bad news from MIT and all these places saying 95% of pilots uh uh fail and or die on the vine, yet progress stalls”
Outshift by Cisco operates as Cisco's internal incubator for emerging technologies.
“Outshift operates as Cisco's internal incubator for emerging technologies, focused on reducing risk and delivering innovative results.”
Matthew DeMello said David Glick of Walmart previously described deploying thousands of small task-specific agents.
“we had, uh, one of our friends of the show, David Glick of Walmart, come on and talk about how they're dispersing literally thousands upon thousands of agents.”
Matthew DeMello dated the generative AI explosion that followed ChatGPT to the end of 2022.
“even after the chat GPT and generative AI explosion that we saw at the end of 2022.”
Matthew DeMello says guests on his show have recommended solving about 10% of an important problem very well, leaving 90% of the space for experimentation.
“you want to do 10% of an important problem very, very well, which gives you 90% space to mess around, get your hands dirty”
Rustogi says low accuracy would force nurses to spend more time editing results and would block adoption of the tool.
“if the accuracy of the solution was not good enough, then nurses will have to spend lot more time editing or correcting the results versus just reviewing and accepting it”
Nurse leaders and informatics teams can track adoption trends using analytics in the Dragon Admin Center or by working with Microsoft adoption consultants.
“would use uh adoption analytics available through our Dragon Admin Center or work with our adoption consultants to track adoption trends within their uh nurse population.”
Matthew DeMello says that at Emerj, large language models have improved the product but have not shortened every workflow.
“thanks to LLMs, the product is better, but not e- every, uh, workflow is necessarily taking a shorter amount of time.”
Nishtha Jain is an AI innovation and strategy leader in the biopharma industry at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
“Today's guest is Nishtha Jain, AI Innovation and Strategy Leader in the biopharma industry at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.”
The show stated that Nishtha Jain's views in the episode do not reflect those of Takeda Pharmaceuticals or its leadership.
“Just a quick note for our audience that the views expressed on today's program by Nishtha do not reflect that of Takeda Pharmaceuticals or its leadership.”
Host Matthew Demello summarized that leaders should measure AI value through employee experience, process quality and organizational learning speed, not only cost and headcount.
“Second, ROI needs to be measured beyond cost and headcount. Leaders should evaluate value through employee experience, process quality, and organizational learning speed”
Emerj AI Research says the AI in Business podcast has nearly a million annual listeners.
“With nearly a million annual listeners, AI in Business is the go-to destination for enterprise leaders navigating real-world AI adoption.”
Akur8 provides software for non-life insurers to support pricing and reserving work, according to host Matthew DeMello, with over 300 customers in over forty countries.
“Akur8 provides software for non-life insurers to support pricing and reserving work for over 300 customers across over forty countries.”
Matthew DeMello says the AI in Business podcast has nearly a million annual listeners.
“With nearly a million annual listeners, AI in Business is the go-to destination for enterprise leaders navigating real-world AI adoption.”
Matthew DeMello cited an MIT study as saying 75% to 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail in production.
“why seventy-five to 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail in production, at least according to MIT.”