AIAW Podcast

Join us for the Season 12 finale of the AIAW Podcast as we welcome Beatrice Bushati, COO and Co-Founder, and Rebecca Oskarsson, Co-Founder and CTO of Pirr, for a fascinating conversation about one of AI’s most unexpected applications: love stories, emotions, and interactive storytelling. We explore how Pirr is building an AI-native platform where users co-create personalized romantic narratives, w...

Is AI’s biggest limitation really intelligence—or is it memory? In Episode 185 of the AIAW Podcast, Johan Thulin, Co-Founder and CTO of Aphygo, explores why the future of AI may depend less on bigger models and more on systems that can remember, learn, and accumulate knowledge over time. We discuss the limits of context windows and RAG architectures, why hallucinations may be a symptom of missing...

In Episode 184 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by David Wallén, CEO and Co-Founder of Intric, to explore what it really takes to drive AI innovation inside governments and critical industries. Drawing on insights from more than 50 public-sector AI implementations, David breaks down the realities behind procurement structures, governance models, regulation, and organizational incentives that ofte...

In Episode 183 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Åsa Schwarz, CEO of Aranya Consulting, cybersecurity expert, board member at Precise Biometrics and Enea, and acclaimed Swedish crime fiction author, for a deep dive into the rapidly evolving intersection of AI and cybersecurity. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in cyber defense and technology strategy, Åsa explores how AI is reshaping...

 In Episode 182 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Berner Setterwall and Tom Ström, Co-Founders of Cogny, to explore how agentic AI is redefining marketing orchestration. Moving beyond traditional automation, they share how AI agents can execute, coordinate, and manage complex marketing workflows—from campaign execution to technical operations. We dive into the shift from SEO to Generative Engin...

 In Episode 181 of the AIAW Podcast, we sit down with Viktor Jarnheimer, Founding CEO of Proxify, to explore how AI is transforming productivity inside modern tech teams. Drawing on his experience building a global network of remote developers, Viktor explains why AI-augmented development is becoming the new baseline—and what that means for hiring, performance, and competitive advantage. We unpack...

In Episode 180 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Stephan Erne, former Chief Digital Officer at Handelsbanken, to explore how AI can move from experimentation to real impact in banking and other regulated industries. Drawing on his experience leading digital transformation across the Nordics and Germany, Stephan shares how organizations can align technology, compliance, and business to turn AI i...

In Episode 179 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Henrik Appert, Founder and CEO of Magma Math, for a fascinating conversation on AI and the future of mathematical thinking and learning. As AI systems become increasingly capable of solving mathematical problems instantly, the deeper question emerges: what does it actually mean for humans to think mathematically? Together with host Henrik Göthber...

In this episode of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Dr. Catherine Mulligan, technology strategist, sustainability expert, and author of Designing Resilient Digital Systems , for a timely conversation on the future of digital sustainability. Drawing on her work at the intersection of AI, blockchain, 5G, IoT, and public policy, Catherine explains why traditional digital transformation—focused prima...

In Episode 177 of the AIAW Podcast, we sit down with Magnus Hyttsten, former Google AI Engineering Lead and EU AI Act specialist, for a grounded and timely conversation on AI quality, security, and compliance at enterprise scale.   Drawing on his experience building generative AI evaluation systems at Google, Magnus breaks down the real challenge of defining “quality” in non-deterministic models a...

In Episode 176 of the AIAW Podcast, we sat down with Danilo Nobrega, Founding Go-to-Market Lead for the Nordics at LangChain, to unpack what it truly takes to scale enterprise AI agents beyond the prototype stage. Drawing on his background in data infrastructure at MongoDB and his work expanding LangChain across Scandinavia, Danilo shared practical insights into the shift from simple LLM wrappers...

In Episode 175 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Anders Hammarbäck, Co-Founder and CEO of RedpineAI, to explore why proprietary data may become the ultimate competitive advantage in the AI era. As models increasingly commoditize, Anders argues that the real moat lies in owning and structuring high-quality, licensed data. We discuss RedpineAI’s vision of a “Knowledge Layer” designed to reduce ha...

Season 12 of the AIAW Podcast kicks off with a high-stakes question: Can we reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2026? In Episode 174, we’re joined by Karim Nouira, founder of sics.ai (Superintelligence Computing Systems), for a deep and provocative conversation on the technical frontiers of AGI. From LLM limitations and JEPA’s alternative path to robotics brains and latent space reasoni...

In Episode 173 of the AIAW Podcast, we close out Season 11 with a festive and future-focused Christmas & Year-End Special —and you're invited. Together with surprise guests Patrick Couch , Jesper Fredriksson , and Fredrik Olsson , we look back at the AI rollercoaster that was 2025 : from breakthroughs in model development and enterprise AI maturity to the biggest twists in tech and regula...

We explore how to scale in the age of AI without drowning in complexity, moving from one-off pilots to reusable platforms, and from efficiency-only thinking to adaptability, trust, and aligned autonomy. Helena Hörnerbrandt shares enterprise-tested principles that travel across 65+ markets, plus a real ABS rollout that shows product over project in action. • deepfake demo as a visceral risk signal...

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In Episode 170 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Jim Dowling , CEO of Hopsworks , co-creator of featurestore.org, and author of the upcoming O’Reilly book Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store . Known as "Mr. Feature Store," Jim walks us through the evolution of AI infrastructure. From traditional batch learning to real-time, agentic workflows powered by vector databa...

 In Episode 169 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Alexander Norén , journalist and economics correspondent at SVT , for a behind-the-scenes conversation on Homo Roboticus —the newly released second season of SVT’s acclaimed documentary series that began with Generation AI . While the series dives into how artificial intelligence is transforming work and society, this episode goes further, tackl...

 In this episode of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Hugi Aegisberg , AI & Innovation Lead at the Central Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) , for a forward-looking conversation on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of central banking. From rethinking monetary policy and financial stability to building public trust through open-source AI and digital assistants, Hugi shares pr...

In this episode, Luka Crnkovic-Friis , Head of AI/ML at King (Microsoft) , joins us for a sharp, honest look at the real-world challenges of deploying agentic AI systems at scale. Drawing from his experience leading AI innovation at the company behind Candy Crush , Luka unpacks the practical bottlenecks of integrating reasoning models and autonomous agents into business processesfrom accuracy trad...

In Episode 166 of the AIAW Podcast, we sit down with Magnus Enzell and Peter Nordström from the Government Offices of Sweden to explore one of the most forward-thinking public sector AI initiatives in Europe. Together, they’ve helped launch over 30 AI agents inside Sweden’s central government—digital assistants designed to support civil servants with document handling, data processing, and smarter...

In this  Episode 165 of the AIAW Podcast, we are joined by Henrik Kniberg, an AI whisperer, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Abundly.ai, and author of Generative AI in a Nutshell, for a wide-ranging conversation about the transformative power of AI agents. With a background spanning Spotify, LEGO, and Mojang’s Minecraft, Henrik brings a rare blend of technical insight and human-centered thinking....

In Episode 164 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Mathias Sundin. He is a former Member of Parliament and Co-Founder of Warp News. He is joining us for a wide-ranging conversation on his upcoming book, The Fifth Acceleration and the societal transformations AI may unleash. We explore why Sweden is falling behind in AI adoption and literacy, the bold idea of free AI access for all citizens, and h...

In Episode 162 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Göran Sandahl, Co-Founder of Opper AI, to explore the future of building reliable AI systems at scale. Göran shares his journey from observability engineering to co-founding Opper AI, a company tackling one of the most urgent challenges in enterprise AI: making LLM-based features predictable, testable, and production-ready. We dive into Opper’s s...

In Episode 162 of the AIAW Podcast, we sit down with Minna Sandberg, Founder & CEO of Swenode.ai, for a deep-dive into how Sweden can strengthen its position in applied AI by building meaningful bridges with Silicon Valley. We explore the mission behind Swenode.ai and its role in enabling collaboration between Swedish startups, industry leaders, and the global tech ecosystem. Minna shares refl...