The Business of AI – Détails, épisodes et analyse

AI isn’t held back by technology, it’s held back by fear. The real barrier to adoption inside companies isn’t capability, but confidence: employees worry about job loss, leaders struggle to change established workflows, and organisations lack the internal structures to make AI usable day-to-day. The companies that win won’t simply deploy AI tools; they’ll invest in education, shared knowledge systems, and cultural change that helps teams see AI as an amplifier of human capability rather than a replacement.

Natalia Chronowiat, a business director at AI-driven digital agency Push, focuses on translating AI from hype into practical business infrastructure. Her work centres on workshops, training and internal “knowledge libraries” that help teams and clients integrate large language models into everyday operations. For Natalia, the next phase of AI adoption is organisational: building environments where experimentation is encouraged, curiosity replaces fear, and employees take ownership of learning new tools. As AI reshapes work, she argues the competitive edge will come from companies that cultivate adaptability, challenge assumptions, and empower people to actively shape how AI is used.

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Who decides how AI reshapes society: technologists, governments, or the communities living with its consequences? As AI and digital platforms scale rapidly, policymakers face a difficult balance: enabling innovation and economic growth while protecting citizens from online harms, safeguarding children, and ensuring new technologies do not deepen existing inequalities.

Baroness Uddin believes the answer lies in widening who participates in technology governance. A social worker turned member of the House of Lords, she brings decades of community advocacy into debates on AI, digital assets, and online safety. Through parliamentary groups and cross-sector roundtables with startups, academics, and major tech firms, she works to connect policy with real-world experience. Her approach reflects a core lesson for the AI era: effective regulation isn’t just written in legislatures, it emerges from sustained dialogue between innovators, policymakers, and the communities technology will ultimately reshape.

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In this episode of the UKI Women in AI podcast, Sheridan (Founder & Co-CEO of Tech She Can) tells the story from “Well Rough” (Wellingborough, as lovingly rebranded by its own sign-vandals) to global consulting, to launching a charity that’s reached hundreds of thousands of children with tech-for-good education.

You’ll hear:

How an undiagnosed dyslexia and leaving school with few qualifications didn’t end the story—it started it

The early rebellion: campaigning at school so girls could do metalwork and welding (because stereotypes deserve to be mocked, not obeyed)

Why curiosity and preparation beat “having a perfect plan” (spoiler: plans rarely survive contact with reality)

Lessons from Accenture and PwC—and how Sheridan helped move the needle on women in tech inside a major UK firm

The research that exposed why many girls don’t choose tech (hint: it’s not “lack of ability”—it’s lack of invitation and visibility)

Building Tech She Can through the pandemic, scaling resources, and focusing now on work experience, apprenticeships, and pathways—especially for young people without easy access to “who you know” networks

Leadership habits that actually work: relentless note-taking, diverse teams, and staying coachable (even when your ego wants a throne)

Sheridan also talks about the power of storytelling—personally and structurally—and shares how role models (from Wonder Woman to Lyra) can widen what young people believe is possible.

If you care about AI, skills, education, and the pipeline into tech that isn’t quietly rigged for the already-privileged: this one’s for you.

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In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, Zahra sits down with Lida Cepuch — a technologist-turned-governance heavyweight whose career has zig-zagged through derivatives trading floors, complex risk management, and the boardrooms of some of Europe’s most regulated financial institutions.

Lida cuts through the usual platitudes and lays out the raw mechanics of building a career at the intersection of technology, finance, and governance, starting from her early days in computer science at the University of Waterloo (back when coding required punched cards) all the way to shaping AI strategy for a UK-regulated alternative investment manager.

Across this conversation you’ll hear about:

Surviving Black Monday (1987) and making decisions with imperfect information

Remote team leadership long before Zoom made it fashionable

How technological literacy became her most valuable long-term asset

The structural reasons girls fall out of STEM at age 11–12

Why governance around AI is still a conceptual minefield

How allyship, networks, and unvarnished mentorship shape a career

The reality of navigating male-dominated rooms in the 80s and 90s

Raising four children while handling high-volatility roles in finance

Her current project Lectern, using AI to help families save for education

Why society cannot afford a generation priced out of university

How AI can support — rather than distort — education, decision-making, and equity

Lita also speaks frankly about personal challenges, and how resilience, clarity of thought, and a deep network of mentors carried her through chaotic inflection points — from 9/11 to market collapses.

If you’re interested in:
AI governance, female leadership in finance, long-term strategy, risk, education policy, or the hard practicalities of deploying AI responsibly, this episode is essential.

Connect with Lita: linkedin.com/in/lidacepuch

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How do you actually govern AI so you can use it at scale without blowing up your risk register?

In this episode of the Business of AI podcast, Tim chats with Ray Eisel Porter (former Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture) and Dr Paul Donga (Head of Responsible AI & AI Strategy at NatWest) about their new book, Governing the Machine – a practical blueprint for AI governance in real organisations, not in theory slides.

They unpack:

What agentic AI really was in the 1990s – and why today’s “agents” are nowhere near the autonomous rational planners people are hyping.

How to build AI governance as an enabler, not a tick-box brake on innovation.

Why generative AI widens and deepens the risk landscape, especially in financial services.

The emerging role of the Chief AI Officer and where responsible AI, ethics boards and risk teams fit in.

How to make governance relevant to actual workers, not just a PDF policy nobody reads.

Why the UK has a genuine opportunity to lead globally on responsible AI, given its regulators, legal culture, and new AI Safety Institute.

In this conversation, we cover:

Ray’s journey from leading global responsible AI at Accenture to co-authoring Governing the Machine

Paul’s background in agentic AI research in the 1990s and his move into banking and AI ethics

The mindset shift: governance as a way to sleep at night and unlock AI value

Practical steps to get started:

Identifying checkpoints where “does this include AI?” gets asked

Using risk triage to decide when heavier governance is needed

Embedding questions through the AI lifecycle, not as a final checklist

Why FOMO about agentic AI is misplaced – and what today’s “agents” really do (mostly advanced search and orchestration, not deep planning)

How to keep governance flexible as technology and regulation move, including using standards beneath policies

The human side: training, culture, new roles (AI ethicists, data curators, responsible AI leads), and using AI to augment work rather than replace it

The UK’s regulatory positioning vs the EU AI Act and the US – and why a pro-innovation, guidance-driven approach might actually work

If you’re a business leader, risk professional, data/AI lead, or policymaker wondering where to start with AI governance – or whether you really need a Chief AI Officer – this episode will give you a concrete framework and a reality check on the current hype.

📖 The book: Governing the Machine – available now from major booksellers.
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👉 Watch / Listen and let us know in the comments:

Do you think your organisation is ready for agentic AI?

Should the UK aim to lead the world on responsible AI – and is it doing enough?

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AI agents can become “work amplifiers” for non-profits and membership organisations IF you start with the problem, not the solution. In this in-person episode, Alex Skinner (CEO & Co-founder of Pixl8) explains how AI can help lean teams do more with less: automating document-heavy workflows, triaging submissions, and turning messy archives into searchable knowledge.

We dig into:
* Why many AI projects fail by starting with a solution instead of a clear objective,
* Alex’s “recipes” approach: matching the right model/tool to the right workflow,
* How to pilot safely, measure success, and scale from proof-of-concept to production,
* The new reality of testing: using AI to test AI in a probabilistic world,
* Practical risk controls: human-in-the-loop, auditing, least access, and separating duties,
* Sensitive data strategies: orchestrators, data security, open-source models, and private deployments,
* What Alex is most excited about for 2026: 'Lane Assist', moving beyond chat into proactive, workflow-based AI.

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Ramyani shares her 25-year journey from being the only woman in engineering classes to leading digital, analytics, and AI across Northern Europe, while championing diversity and lifting other women as she climbed. She opens up about a defining early-career moment: being told to tone down her bold colours and emotions and why choosing authenticity became a turning point. Ramyani makes the case that AI is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for women because it rewards problem-solving, leadership, and collaboration, not just coding. Expect practical advice (passion, resilience, learning through failure), a look at major AI transformation programs she’s leading in banking and heavy industry, and a powerful call to use women’s “superpower” alongside technology to create lasting business and societal impact.
Ramyani Basu is a senior partner at Kearney.

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Bosch on Skills, Trust, and the Future of Work. What does real adoption actually look like inside a global industrial giant? In this episode, Stefan Hoffmann, President of Bosch for Northern and Eastern Europe, cuts through the noise to explain how AI is already transforming manufacturing, HR, energy, and R&D. From training 65,000 employees and building trust in AI tools, to green energy, hydrogen, and automated driving, this fascinating conversation explores how businesses can use AI to boost productivity, stay competitive, and prepare people, not replace them, for the future of work.

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In this episode of UKAI’s The Business of AI Podcast: Women in AI special, Zahra Shah, Chair of UKAI’s Women in AI Working Group, speaks with Sharon Moore MBE, CTO for Public Sector and Technology at IBM.

Sharon shares her career journey into technology, from early exposure to computer-aided design to senior leadership roles, and reflects on the moments that shaped her path. The conversation explores career challenges, learning new industries quickly, and the difference that mentors, allies, and sponsors can make, particularly for women navigating large organisations.

A practical and encouraging discussion on leadership, confidence, and building a sustainable career in AI and technology.

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In this episode of the Business of AI podcast, we’re joined by Ben Warner, co-founder of Electric Twin, a company creating cutting-edge synthetic populations to help organisations understand and predict human behaviour at unprecedented speed. Ben shares his journey from academic physicist at UCL, to applied AI leader at Faculty, to chief adviser in Number 10 during the Covid-19 crisis. That experience revealed a fundamental gap in our ability to model real-world behaviour, inspiring Electric Twin’s mission: to give decision-makers rapid, accurate insights that once required weeks of surveys and complex research.

Ben breaks down how Electric Twin builds “digital audiences” using advanced AI models, data science and social science, enabling companies to test ideas, messages and products in seconds rather than months. He also discusses powerful applications across marketing, product development, public policy and even predicting behavioural responses in areas like health or political engagement. With examples ranging from media companies to telecoms firms, Ben shows how synthetic audiences can accelerate decision-making and reduce reliance on slow, expensive traditional research. The conversation also explores the UK’s broader AI opportunity, the future of behavioural modelling, and how tools like Electric Twin could help shape smarter, evidence-driven policy.

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