The Business of AI
AI is our Business. Looking at how businesses are using AI to build services and tools, transforming organisations and delighting consumers. We explore the different types of businesses that are emerging and find out how they are using AI technology. UKAI is the trade association for AI businesses in the UK. The show is hosted Tim Flagg, AI entrepreneur and chief executive of UKAI. Featuring business leaders, policymakers, authors, politicians and entrepreneurs. Join us to learn how to build your AI business.
Episodes
68 episodes
69. Your AI Is Only As Good As Your Data with Graeme King, Amino Data
Nobody wants to be governed. Everyone wants to be excellent. That simple reframe is at the heart of this conversation with Graeme King, a data and AI governance veteran who argues that the way we talk about data management is holding businesses...
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68. The Sustainable AI Playbook: Cutting Through the Hype with Malcolm Buckley, Bright Angles
From busting myths about energy-hungry data centres to explaining why your fridge temperature could be saving your company thousands, Malcolm brings a refreshingly grounded perspective to one of the most polarising conversations in business tod...
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67. Fixing Food’s Broken Economics with Sophia Fannon-Howell from Aterra.ai
What if the real problem in food is not productivity, but a deep imbalance of power? Sophia Fannon-Howell, founder of Aterra.AI argues that the UK food system is structurally tilted against farmers: they carry the risk, produce the value, and y...
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66. AI Adoption Is a Leadership Problem - Natalia Chronowiat - Women in AI
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 t...
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65. Who Shapes the AI Future with Baroness Manzila Uddin - Women in AI
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 pr...
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64. Stop watching and start building AI. With Sumathi Menon. Women in AI Special Episode.
Most people are consuming AI tools. Far fewer are building with them and that gap is where the real opportunity lies. In this episode, AI strategist Sumathi Menno argues that the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn’t technical skill but hesitati...
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62. AI for the Real World with Linda Hong Cheng, Lychee Labs
World models could be the breakthrough that takes AI beyond predicting text and into understanding reality. In this episode, Linda Hong Cheng explains how these models, which learn the physical dynamics of environments, may unlock a new generat...
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63. When AI Mediates Human Conflict with Vanessa Carson - UKAI Women in AI Special
What if AI could prevent conflicts from escalating and create an auditable record of what really happens when they do? This episode explores a new category of AI focused not on productivity, but on structuring high-stakes human communication. V...
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61. Who wins the AI trade war? Economist Karishma Banga joins the Women in AI podcast
AI isn’t just a technology race, it’s a trade policy battleground that will determine who captures value and who falls further behind. The real AI divide isn’t only about access to infrastructure, but about skills, governance, data rules, and t...
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60. The AI Adoption Myth: Why Access Isn’t Impact - Louise Moody from Atheni.ai
If AI is so powerful, why are most companies seeing almost no real productivity gains? This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: giving employees access to tools like ChatGPT or Copilot doesn’t transform a business, it just speeds up existi...
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59. Why AI Projects Fail: Confidence, Culture and How to Scale - with GAIL, (Global AI Leaders)
Why are so many companies investing in AI but seeing so little real impact? Is the biggest barrier bad data, or a workforce that secretly lacks the confidence to use it? In this conversation with Vivek and Bryan from the Global AI Leaders Netwo...
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58. How AI Optimises Infrastructure, Turning Complexity into Clarity, with Michael Avant-Smith BMA
AI can help make sense of complex infrastructure projects, turning disconnected systems into clear plans that improve efficiency at scale and help protect national infrastructure. Energy, water, and other essential networks are under growing pr...
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57. Why Sustainability and AI Are About to Collide (Hard): Alex Smith
What does real sustainability look like when AI enters the room—loud, power-hungry, and ethically ambiguous?In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, we’re joined by Alex Smith, CEO of Future Plus, to talk candidly about non-line...
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56. Women, Work and the Future of AI: Sheridan Ash and Tech She Can
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’...
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55. AI, Finance & Chaos: Lida Cepuch on Risk, Governance, and Surviving the Markets
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...
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54. Governing The Machine: The UK's Chance to Lead with Ray Eitel-Porter & Paul Dongha
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 Pa...
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53. Work Amplifiers: How AI Agents Can Transform Non-Profits with Alex Skinner
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 ...
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52. Bold, Loud, Unstoppable: How Women Can Win in AI with Ramyani Basu
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 ...
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51. Leveraging AI as a Competitive Advantage in a Global Corporation with Bosch's Steffen Hoffmann
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...
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50. Women in AI: IBM's Sharon Moore MBE on Leadership, Sponsorship, and Building a Career in Technology
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 ...
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49. From No.10 to Next-Gen AI: Ben Turner on Behaviour Prediction & Synthetic Data
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. B...
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48. AI Marketing Playbook 2025: Tactics, Trends & Real Business Use Cases with Martin Broadhurst
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, host Tim Flagg sits down with chartered marketer, HubSpot Platinum Partner and AI & automation consultant Martin Broadhurst – to explore how AI is transforming marketing, sales and wider busine...
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47. Women in AI: AI, Gender Bias and Online Safety: Insights from Researcher Sarah Wyer
In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, host Zahra Shah sits down with Sarah Wyer, a leading PhD researcher specialising in gender bias in large language models. Sarah shares her non-linear journey into AI, from starting out in busines...
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46. Women in AI: Mary Kemp on Breaking Barriers and Building Inclusive Innovation
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast: Women in AI, host Zahra Shah speaks with co-founder of AI Potential Mary Kemp, about her unexpected and transformative journey into the world of artificial intelligence. Mary reflects on moving fro...
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45. Women in AI: Beth Wells Navigating Imposter Syndrome in the Move from Biology to Legal Tech
In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, Zahra speaks with Beth Wells, Innovation Manager at Weightmans Solicitors, about her unexpected journey from studying biology to building a career in legal tech and innovation. Beth shares how a ...
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