About this episode

Killian O'Connor and Albena Krasteva discuss Zartis' journey in adopting AI and its implications for their business strategies.

Welcome to Design Talk. In this episode Killian O'Connor and Albena Krasteva from Zartis were in to talk to Masters students at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Killian and Albena presented a candid behind-the-scenes analysis of Zartis' initial struggles adopting AI within their own organisation. They went on to explain how their experience has led to insights that shape Zartis's AI deployment strategies and use cases for clients. Zartis is a technology services company headquartered in Cork, Ireland and is an official Anthropic partner, supporting organisations that are building with Claude and Claude Code. Notes: Zartis – https://www.zartis.com Anthropic – https://www.anthropic.com UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business – https://www.smurfitschool.ie Acknowledgements Music  Title: Calculated Awakening - "Genetic Algorithms Evolution," in the style of a Bytebeat, anchored by a base guitar. Artist: Allen Higgins  Source: https://bit.ly/2QkBzvI License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Includes samples by KORG Inc. and Lyria 3 via Gemini. Cover Art  Title: Smurfit-Zartis Artist: Allen Higgins. Photo credits: Yu Su, Denis Buleiko and Allen Higgins…

People in this episode

Host: Allen Higgins

Guests: Killian O'Connor, Albena Krasteva

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• technology services
• business strategy
• education
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Zartis, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Anthropic

Places: Cork, Ireland

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