Episode #12: Beyond the AI Hype - What Companies Are Getting Right and Wrong

About this episode

In this episode, Jon Humphries discusses the current state of AI with industry experts, exploring what companies are getting right and wrong.

🚨 Out now!! Last week I sat down in the studio with 3 people deep in the thick of AI right now Federico Lucignano – CTO at Honey Insurance, previously at AWS where he led the launch of Amazon Polly, one of their flagship AI services. Paulwyn Devasundaram – 2 weeks into her role as Head of Engineering at Relevance AI, building the tools companies are now using to deploy AI agents across their businesses. Devesh Maheshwari – CTO at Lendi Group, leading one of the most ambitious transformatio...

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Guests: Federico Lucignano, Paulwyn Devasundaram, Devesh Maheshwari

Topics covered

• AI
• business transformation
• technology

Keywords

• AI deployment
• engineering
• technology leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Polly, Amazon Polly, AI agents

Books & works: Beyond the AI Hype

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