The AI Visionary Podcast is a platform where AI leaders share bold, unique and tangible insights about pathways to realizing meaningful ROI from AI, pitfalls to avoid and their success stories.
These conversations go beyond the hype to uncover what it takes for organizations to be successful in their AI transformation journeys from a leadership, talent, strategy and operating model perspective.
Co-hosted by Joel Azariah and Milind, new episodes release every month via You Tube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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Donald, a seasoned AI leader, reveals how organizations, not AI, fail to deliver business value, offering insights into successful AI transformation.
22 Sept 2026
AI won't fix your silos
Satyen Desai, Regional Vice President, ASEAN at Tanium, discusses how AI fails to solve organizational silos in this interview with The AI Visionary Podcast host.
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why AI Efficiency Won't Give You a Competitive Advantage | Don Scheibenreif
Send us Fan Mail AI efficiency won't give you a competitive advantage. So what will? AI is rapidly changing how businesses operate—but most companies are still using it to make existing processes faster, cheaper and more efficient. In this episode of The AI Visionary Podcast, Joel Azariah and Milind sit down with Don Schibenreif, former Gartner executive and co-author of When Machines Become Customers, to explore why the next phase of AI will fundamentally change how companies compete. Don ar...
7 Aug 2026
How One Bank Democratized Data Across the Enterprise
Send us Fan Mail How do you transform a bank from data silos to 600 business users writing SQL? In this episode of @TheAIVisionaryPodcast Chief Data Officer Celine Le Cotonnec shares the playbook behind one of the most impressive data transformation stories in banking. Instead of creating another centralized data team, Celine's team built a single source of truth, empowered business users to become self-service, and transformed data from an IT function into an enterprise capability....
21 Jul 2026
Why Most Companies Still Get AI Wrong | Anthropic & xAI Investor
Send us Fan Mail Artificial Intelligence is transforming every industry, yet most companies are still struggling to generate meaningful ROI from their AI investments. In this episode of The AI Visionary Podcast, host Joel Azariah sits down with Matthias Hendrichs, Managing Director, APAC at Pit, former Apple executive, founder of a US$1.5 billion technology company, and investor in leading AI companies including Anthropic and xAI. Drawing on decades of experience building, scaling, and invest...
30 Jun 2026
The Hidden Reason Why Companies Waste Millions on AI
Send us Fan Mail Most companies are pouring millions into AI and have very little to show for it. The problem isn't the technology. It isn't the budget. And it isn't the team. Dr. Brindha Jeyaraman has seen it from every angle as a regulator, inside big tech, as Head of AI Governance at a major regional bank, and now as founder of an AI governance infrastructure company. The reason most AI transformations fail starts at the top. In this episode, Brindha breaks down what most organizations ...
8 Jun 2026
Why Most AI Projects Never Deliver ROI - A Salesforce CTO's Fix
Send us Fan Mail AI Transformation or AI Theater? What CEOs Get Wrong About AI ROI Most companies are investing heavily in AI. But how many are actually seeing meaningful business results? In this episode of the AI Visionary Podcast, we sit down with Gavin Barfield, CTO & VP Solutions for Salesforce ASEAN, to explore the difference between AI experimentation and real AI transformation. From Agentic AI and customer experience to leadership, trust, adoption, and ROI, Gavin shares practical...
17 May 2026
AI Will Replace More Than Customer Service | The Rise of Machine Customers
Send us Fan Mail What happens when AI becomes the customer? In this episode of the AI Visionary Podcast, we sit down with Katya Forbes — globally recognized CX strategist, futurist, and author of Machine Customers: The Evolution Has Begun. We explore the rise of AI agents, machine customers, agentic commerce, and what business leaders must do NOW to survive the next wave of AI transformation. From trust, ethics, and AI-driven purchasing… to why brand loyalty may no longer matter in an AI-f...
13 Apr 2026
AI Doesn't Fail, Leadership Does with Dr. David Hardoon
Send us Fan Mail 91% of AI transformations fail. Not because of the technology. But because of the questions nobody asks, the structures nobody wants to change, and the human side of transformation that gets quietly shelved in favour of another pilot. In this episode of the AI Visionary Podcast, Joel Azariah and co-host Milind sit down with Dr. David Hardoon, one of the most candid and experienced AI leaders in the world today. David has taken a path very few leaders in this space have. Fr...
8 Mar 2026
Top Google Cloud and McKinsey Expert: "Stop Wasting Money on AI - Do This Instead"
Send us Fan Mail Most companies aren’t failing at AI because of the technology. They’re failing because of leadership, incentives, and execution. And it’s costing them millions. In this episode, a former CIO, Stanford AI PhD, and global AI transformation leader breaks down why most AI initiatives never deliver meaningful ROI — and what business leaders must do differently. If you’re a CEO, board member, Chief Data Officer, or senior executive navigating AI investments, this conversation w...
Inside a recent episode
Why AI Efficiency Won't Give You a Competitive Advantage | Don Scheibenreif
Published 21 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You also have auto adapting products. These are products that change after you buy them. So every time a Tesla gets a software update, it actually becomes a new product. So that's the third element. The fourth element is what we call the augmented workforce, which is How are people using AI to do what they do better? Not limiting jobs, but just being able to do what they do better. And then we also talk about the programmable economy, which is how do things like blockchain and cryptocurrency factor in to how business is transacted? So all five of those elements, Malin, are comprised of what we call autonomous business, what Gartner calls autonomous business. […]
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