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Ep 47 | What AI Is Teaching Us About the Next Great Companies with Alex Kantrowitz

The AI era is redefining what it takes to stay on top. Success won’t come from protecting the status quo, but from embracing the “always day one” mindset—where reinvention, adaptability, and bold experimentation drive progress. Drawing on Big Tech’s playbook, Alex Kantrowitz, former journalist and now founder of Big Technology, joins host Paul Muller on The AI Forecast to discuss why continuous reinvention is the key to thriving in this new landscape, and how leaders can navigate AI’s impact on business, culture, and society.

The AI-Powered Telecommunications Enterprise: Zain KSA's Strategy

The AI-Powered Enterprise: A Zain KSA Blueprint In the competitive telecommunications sector, how does a leading communications service provider move its AI strategy into action? This interview with Zain KSA’s Analytics General Manager, Hamzeh Saud Aldraaee, reveals their powerful blueprint for success.

Accelerating the AI Journey Together: Logicalis + Cloudera

The future of AI is powered by data and success depends on the right partners. Logicalis and Cloudera are enabling organizations to confidently navigate their AI journey, from data strategy to execution, with scalable, secure, and intelligent solutions. I will send a CTA once Lan determines what makes sense.

Ep 46 | Keeping Humanity in the Age of AI with Jess Von Bank

What does it mean to design AI with humanity at its core? Jess Von Bank—futurist, HR transformation leader, and president of Diverse Daisies—joins The AI Forecast to discuss. With host Paul Muller, the two explore how AI is reshaping the workforce and our very sense of what it means to be human. From AI-driven recruiting and workforce redesign to the mental health crisis and the erosion of human connection, Jess challenges leaders to slow down, think deeply, and build technology that serves people—not replaces them.

The Inevitable Outage: Why Your Hybrid Strategy Needs Multi-Cloud Resilience

The recent global IT outage experienced by a major cloud hyperscaler was a disruptive, real-world reminder that downtime and service disruptions are inevitable. The event impacted services across banking, retail, and healthcare, and served as a powerful warning that relying on any single provider, or even a single cloud region, creates a critical business vulnerability. This outage highlights the critical risk of a single-provider strategy, rather than an inherent problem with the cloud.

Ep 43 | Private AI: Big Data's Third Era with Sergio Gago

We’re entering a new era of Big Data defined by convergence—where on-premises and cloud systems come together to power trusted, private AI. By integrating AI with modern data architectures, organizations can harness the full value of their information, drive innovation, and enable a new wave of business outcomes in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Cloudera CTO Sergio Gago joins host Paul Muller to unpack the “third wave” of data and AI.

Fueling the AI Future: Data, Deployment, and Tangible Outcomes with Patrick Moorhead

The future will not be decided by who experiments with AI first, but by who can operationalize it at scale - turning messy, fragmented data into trusted insights, deploying models seamlessly across hybrid environments, and delivering measurable business outcomes. To discuss, we’re joined by Patrick Moorhead, Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

Ep 43 | Mike Walsh Returns: Are AI Agents the New Workforce?

Fresh off his keynote at Cloudera’s EVOLVE NYC, futurist and author Mike Walsh returns to The AI Forecast to share bold insights on the rise of AI agents and what they mean for business, culture, and society. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mike explores how AI is evolving from simple automation into a limitless digital workforce, and why the real disruption lies in the second- and third-order consequences of this transformation.