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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.
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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-linear careers, leadership under pressure, and why sustainability must move from glossy reports into everyday business decisions. Alex shares her journey—from hospitality and professional sailing to building a guided SaaS platform that helps businesses embed sus...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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” appro...
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, leadershi...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 business operations. Martin shares his journey from early marketing automation through to working hands-on with generative AI, explaining how tools like HubSpot, Copilot and other platforms are making advanced automation, content creation and data insight acc...
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 business and higher education, to discovering a passion for data, completing a master’s in computer science, and ultimately becoming an award-winning woman in tech. She explains how her research with Professor Sue Black revealed deeply embedded gendered and in...
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 from decades of corporate work in the US to becoming an “accidental startup” founder after discovering how dramatically generative AI could reshape her business. She shares honest insights into the early challenges, from rebuilding a client base to navigat...
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 temporary admin role opened the door to an entirely new profession, and why problem solving, creativity and curiosity were the real skills that guided her into an innovation team that has grown from four people to more than thirty. She reflects on the r...
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, Tim welcomes Dr Catriona Wolfenden, Director of Product and Innovation at Weightmans, to explore how one of the UK’s leading law firms is reshaping its approach to technology, problem solving and client service. Catriona shares her journey from practising lawyer to heading a 34-strong innovation team, and offers real examples of how Weightmans has built tools that reduce risk, streamline processes and improve decision-making for clients in areas ...
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, Tim is joined by Isabel Bathurst, solicitor, law firm consultant and co-founder of Legal AI. Isabelle shares her journey from early work with geographic information systems at Manchester University, through two decades in complex litigation, to helping law firms adopt AI in a way that actually fits how solicitors work. She explains why so many traditional case management systems frustrate lawyers, how disconnected tech stacks create inefficiency ...
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, Tim is joined by David Lane, founder of Fat Fish Digital, to explore what happens when decades of AI experience meet today’s hype cycle. David shares his journey from early AI research at BT AI Labs and the University of Sussex, through founding one of his first companies in the mid-2000s, to building Fat Fish Digital as a “technology orchestrator” working at the intersection of AI, mobile, and health tech. He talks about moving from mobile apps ...
Agentic AI isn’t just another tech trend, it's a generational shift that could rewrite how every business operates. In this episode of The Business of AI, Shashi Jagtap, founder of Super Agentic AI and former Apple engineer, reveals why he walked away from one of the world’s most coveted tech jobs to dive head-first into this new frontier. He explains how agentic systems go far beyond ChatGPT-style interactions, giving machines the power to take action, make decisions, and transform entire wo...
In this episode of The Business in AI Podcast, host Tim Flagg welcomes Barbara Bouffard, CEO of Logic Lab and James McInerney, Director of Logic Lab, to discuss how small and medium-sized businesses can harness AI automation to drive growth, boost productivity, and empower their teams. Logic Lab is on a mission to make AI practical, affordable, and empowering for businesses of all sizes. Barbara and James share their journey from leading a product design consultancy to founding Logic Lab, ex...
In this episode of the UKAI Women in AI Podcast, Zahra Shah speaks with Alyna, Founder and CEO of WeUno Technologies about her inspiring journey from design and communications into technology and artificial intelligence. Elena shares how she took a leap of faith to start her own tech company with no investors and built it into a thriving, human-centred innovation hub of over 40 developers, designers, and AI engineers. She reflects on the challenges of leadership, growth, and culture-building ...
In this episode of The Business of AI Podcast, host Tim Flagg sits down with Yomi Tejumola, founder of Algo Marketing, to explore how AI is transforming marketing teams and redefining talent. Yomi shares how Algo Marketing has built one of the largest networks of AI-trained marketing professionals ('algos') who are helping some of the world’s biggest companies, including Google, OpenAI, and Zoom, to embed AI into their daily workflows. Drawing on his background as a data scientist at Google, ...
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