The AI Adoption Podcast
The AI Adoption Podcast
Podcast Description
The AI Adoption Podcast where cutting-edge artificial intelligence meets real-world relevance. The show offers an accessible, approachable take on some of the most complex topics in AI, making the effects of AI understandable and engaging for everyone—from curious beginners to tech-savvy professionals and business leaders.
Each episode features in-depth conversations with leading AI policy makers, researchers, innovators, regulators, ethicists, and thought leaders. You will hear diverse voices, even sceptics, ensuring balanced and lively discussions, exploring the adoption of AI.
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The podcast covers diverse themes including AI advancements, ethical considerations, energy consumption in AI, and the impact of AI on various industries. Episodes explore topics such as agentic AI in organizations, achieving Green AI, and AI's role in advertising, featuring real-world applications and expert insights.
The AI Adoption Podcast where cutting-edge artificial intelligence meets real-world relevance. The show offers an accessible, approachable take on some of the most complex topics in AI, making the effects of AI understandable and engaging for everyone, from curious beginners to tech-savvy professionals and business leaders.
Each episode features in-depth conversations with leading AI policy makers, researchers, innovators, regulators, ethicists, and thought leaders. You will hear diverse voices, even sceptics, ensuring balanced and lively discussions, exploring the adoption of AI.
💡 In this wide-ranging conversation, Lord Kulveer Ranger draws on decades of experience across technology, transport, and policy to unpack how AI must be embedded into business thinking and strategic action. He says AI is more than standalone tech tools, it is a catalyst for transformation.
🚀 Topics explored in this episode:
• Why change management is central to AI success
• UK start ups are being “hoovered up” by overseas investors
• The real skill sets businesses need to drive AI adoption and many are non-technical
• Lessons from past tech waves and how to apply them to AI adoption
• Why culture, not just code, will determine an organisation’s AI maturity
🗣️ “You have to have those people who are also going to be the business change leaders for AI. The ones who understand which outcomes you want to drive through your business.” Lord Kulveer Ranger
🔎 Lord Ranger also discusses the UK’s critical need to:
• Retain and scale homegrown innovation
• Build an investment pipeline that keeps businesses sovereign
• Rethink operating models to align strategy, culture, and technology
🎙 Whether you’re a policymaker, business leader, or technologist, this episode offers strategic clarity on what enables AI to succeed in organisations and across the UK economy.
Chapters
00:00 Looking back to go forward
07:10 Lessons from Previous Technology Waves
12:28 Change Management and AI Adoption
16:32 Impact of AI on Business Models and Culture
24:09 Supporting Start ups and Scale-ups in the UK
30:45 Strategic Priorities for AI Adoption
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