AI - All you need to know!
Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative technology since the harnessing of electricity according to former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. A world where personal AI agents anticipate our every need and are our closest companions is potentially just around the corner.
And that’s where Don’t Stop Us Now AI Edition comes in. Convinced about the mammoth impact of AI, we’re going ‘all in’ on AI for the foreseeable future. Together with leading experts, we’ll explore how your job may change or what new skills we’ll all need to stay relevant. We’ll bring you the smartest of AI tools and tips you can try out now, and our impressive guests will paint vivid, and sometimes mind blowing, pictures of how their industries will change in the coming years.
Keep listening for all you need to know and actionable insights.
The CEO Power AI User – Joseph Lyons
Interview | Episode 223
If you've ever wondered what it actually looks like when a CEO goes all in on AI, not just in their business but in their own daily work, then you are going to love this week’s conversation. Our guest is Joseph Lyons, CEO of ELMO Software, an HR and workforce management platform used across thousands of organisations. Joseph is a seasoned executive with many years at major tech companies including a stint as a regional Managing Director at accounting software powerhouse Xero. Joseph is genuinely one of the most hands-on AI leaders we've spoken to. As you’ll hear, he uses AI for everything from synthesising board papers to interrogating hundreds of customer calls for strategic insight. He describes having AI as like having a personal chief of staff that never sleeps...
Your Job, Redesigned – Helena Turpin
Interview | Episode 222
Most of us can see that AI is reshaping our working lives. But what if you could actually see the data on exactly which parts of your job are heading for automation, and which skills you should be doubling down on right now because AI can’t do them better than you? That's precisely what this week’s guest, Helena Turpin, and her company GoFIGR have built. Helena is the co-founder and CEO of GoFIGR, a workforce intelligence company that helps organisations make smarter and more human decisions about their future workforce. In this episode, Helena shares what she's seeing inside organisations right now and what typically surprises leaders when they see their GoFIGR data for the first time....
AI Agent Landscape Decoded – Claire & Greta
Top Tips | Episode 221
Are you hearing about AI agents everywhere right now? Whether it's their presence in the software you use daily, special purpose or task “agents”, or customer service “agents”, it's safe to say they are the topic 'du jour'. In this week’s episode, we segment this confusing landscape and cut through the hype to help you make more sense of it all. After weeks of interviewing guests across different corners of the agentic AI world, we realised the market has become genuinely bewildering, even for us! Listen in to hear about the simple framework we've developed to bring clarity to the whole ecosystem...
AI on the Org Chart – Patrick Forth
Interview | Episode 220
What does it actually mean to have a colleague who never sleeps, never calls in sick, and can hold thousands of conversations at once? Not in theory but right now, in real organisations? Our guest this week is Patrick Forth, an Group Executive Director at FutureSecure AI, a company that builds what they call AI co-workers: sophisticated agentic systems that sit on org charts, have names and personas, and are managed much like human employees. Patrick shares what some of the AI co-workers they’ve built so far actually do in enterprises today and what it takes to get them working inside organisations...
What Happens When AI Agents Do Your Shopping – Katja Forbes
Interview | Episode 219
AI shopping agents aren't just on the horizon, they're here, already transacting, and already raising some important questions. In this episode, we speak with Katja Forbes an award winning customer experience futurist, business strategist, and keynote speaker recognised for her insights into the intersection of AI, design, and human behaviour. She is also the author of Machine Customers: The Evolution Has Begun, a book about what happens when your best customer is no longer human. In this fascinating conversation we cover everything from what's already happening with agentic commerce right now ...