The people behind the ideas
Founders, researchers, and leaders exploring how AI changes companies, work, and society.
28 guests · A–Z
Antti Karjalainen is a co-founder of Sema4.ai and the founder and former CEO of Robocorp. His work focuses on open-source automation, AI agents, and helping organizations turn software into practical tools for everyday work. He brings a software engineering background and experience building communities around automation as code.
Baris Gultekin is Vice President of AI at Snowflake, where he leads the Cortex AI product portfolio and drives the company's AI product roadmap and strategy. He built Snowflake's AI product suite from the ground up after joining in 2023 through the acquisition of nxyz, the blockchain data infrastructure company he co-founded and served as CEO. Previously, Baris spent 16 years at Google, where he co-created Google Now and served as Product Director for Google Assistant, growing it from 10M to 500M monthly users. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford.
Ben Katz is the co-founder ofHybrd, a Y Combinator-backed AI-powered fitness platform built for serious multi-discipline athletes. Before founding HYBRD, Ben spent several years in the Boston tech ecosystem — starting in sales, moving into analytics at Wayfair, then serving as a growth product manager at Whoop, where he helped shape the product strategy for one of the most iconic wearable brands in fitness. He then joined Apex, a mobile app portfolio company, where evaluating founders gave him the final push to start his own company. The HYBRD founding team includes three former Whoop employees and one senior AWS engineer. Their training plan engine is built in partnership with Complete Human Performance and the University of Utah sports science program. Ben is a former college athlete, Ironman finisher, marathon runner, and self-described "washed-up college athlete" — exactly the user HYBRD is built for. He lives in Boston and is an active voice in the Massachusetts AI ecosystem.
Bernard Aceituno is a co-founder of StackAI, where he works on bringing AI agents and workflow automation into enterprises. He earned his PhD at MIT, with research spanning robotics, machine learning, and planning under uncertainty. His work connects academic AI research with practical tools for business teams.
Brinnae Bent is a Duke University faculty member who teaches AI and cybersecurity and directs the TRUST Lab. Her work brings together responsible AI, applied machine learning, and public education. She has developed algorithms for applications ranging from health monitoring to wildlife conservation, with a focus on building technology people can trust.
Donald Sweeney is a co-founder and co-CEO of Ashling, where he helps enterprises improve business processes through automation and AI. He previously co-founded and led Emerging Solutions, a professional services firm focused on enterprise applications. His career connects technology implementation with practical improvements in how organizations work.
Enis Hulli is a general partner at e2vc, investing in founders from Türkiye and Emerging Europe with ambitions to build global technology companies. His investment work focuses on connecting the region's technical talent with international markets and the Silicon Valley ecosystem. He previously helped build 500 Istanbul and 500 Emerging Europe.
Eric Daimler is the co-founder and CEO of Conexus, which applies mathematical methods to enterprise data integration and verification. He served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow advising on AI at the White House and as an assistant dean at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. He holds a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon.
George Roth is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Recognos. His work has focused on AI, intelligent document processing, and enterprise software. He joined UiPath after its 2018 acquisition of Recognos's document-processing technology and later served as a technology evangelist for Document Understanding.
Gokhan Egri is the founder of Brainbase Labs, a Y Combinator-backed company building AI agents, environments, and tools for enterprise work. He previously co-founded Leo, an AI grading company, and pursued doctoral research in computer science at Harvard before leaving to build Brainbase. His work focuses on automating repetitive business workflows.
Guy Kawasaki is Canva's chief evangelist, an author, and the creator of the Remarkable People podcast. He previously served as Apple's chief evangelist and helped popularize technology evangelism. His books, including The Art of the Start and Enchantment, explore entrepreneurship, innovation, and how ideas gain momentum.
Hassan Sawaf is the founder and CEO of aiXplain, a platform for building and operating AI agents. He brings more than three decades of experience in artificial intelligence, including work at Meta, Amazon, eBay, and Leidos. His work focuses on making AI capabilities accessible and usable within enterprise systems.
Ian Barkin is an automation strategist and educator with more than 25 years of experience in digital operations and robotic process automation. He has led innovation initiatives and developed digital operations strategies at Symphony Ventures. Through his writing and courses, he explores how AI and automation change the way organizations work.
Jason Rosoff is the co-founder and CEO of Radical Candor, helping organizations build stronger working relationships through clear, caring feedback. He previously served as chief product officer and chief people officer at Khan Academy and led product design at Fog Creek Software. His work combines product development, leadership, and organizational culture.
Jonathan Corbin is the founder and CEO of Maven AGI, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer operations. He previously led global customer success and strategy at HubSpot and held leadership roles at Adobe, Marketo, and Sprinklr. His work focuses on helping companies scale customer experiences through AI and connected business systems.
Jonathon Reilly, also known as Jon Reilly, is a co-founder and co-CEO of Akkio. The company builds AI tools that help media and advertising teams turn data into decisions. His work focuses on making analytics and generative business intelligence accessible to the people planning, evaluating, and improving campaigns.
Joy Mountford is a design leader whose work spans human-computer interaction, user experience, and interface design. She led Apple's Human Interface Group and has built design and innovation teams at Ford, Yahoo, Akamai, and Interval Research. Her career includes interfaces for computers, aircraft, consumer electronics, and musical instruments, and she received the SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award in 2012.
Kaspar Korjus is a co-founder and CEO of Pactum, which develops AI agents for commercial negotiations and procurement. His work focuses on using technology to help organizations reach better agreements and automate operational tasks. Before Pactum, he helped build Estonia's e-Residency program.
Marshall Sied is a co-founder and co-CEO of Ashling, helping organizations improve operations through automation, AI, and business process redesign. He previously worked at Gartner on strategic planning, emerging technologies, and operating models, and at Emerging Solutions on enterprise applications. His work connects technology adoption with measurable business outcomes.
Maxime Labonne is Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI and a machine learning researcher, author, and open-source contributor. He holds a PhD in machine learning from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. His work includes language-model fine-tuning, evaluation tools, the LLM Course, and books such as LLM Engineer's Handbook.
Param Kahlon is an enterprise software product leader and former chief product officer at UiPath, where he led product strategy and the roadmap. He previously served as a general manager at Microsoft overseeing Dynamics 365 customer engagement applications and held product roles at SAP and Siebel/Oracle. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Ramesh Raskar is an MIT professor and researcher known for building ambitious, system-level technologies spanning computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and decentralized AI. Across academia and industry, he has worked on problems at the intersection of intelligence, networks, and real-world impact—from early work in research labs like Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) to leading initiatives that connect AI with security, trust, and societal-scale coordination. In this episode, he shares his vision for Agent Zero and Project NANDA (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture)—a proposed foundation for a safer, open “agentic web.”
Rob Enslin is president and chief commercial officer at Workday, leading global sales, partnerships, and customer experience. He previously served as CEO of UiPath and president of cloud sales at Google Cloud. Earlier, he spent 27 years at SAP, culminating in leadership of its Cloud Business Group and service on its executive board.
Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. A physicist and computer scientist, he is the author of A New Kind of Science and the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project. His work explores computation as a foundation for understanding science, intelligence, and the natural world.
Tatyana Mamut is the co-founder and CEO of Wayfound, which builds tools for supervising and improving AI agents. Her career spans technology and product leadership at IDEO, Salesforce, AWS, Nextdoor, and Pendo. She holds a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and brings a human-centered perspective to technology, organizational change, and the future of work.
Todd Schiller is the co-founder and CEO of PixieBrix and a computer scientist with a PhD. His work focuses on browser extensions, software engineering, and the interaction between human knowledge and AI systems. Through PixieBrix, he builds tools that help organizations adapt and automate the web applications their teams use.
Tom Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and a co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics. An author and adviser on AI, analytics, and business processes, he helped establish the idea of competing on analytics. His work examines how organizations use data and intelligent systems to improve decisions and redesign work.
Wil van der Aalst is a professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he leads the Process and Data Science group, and chief scientist at Celonis. A pioneer of process mining, his research connects event data with the analysis and improvement of business processes. His work spans process intelligence, workflow automation, data science, and artificial intelligence.