AIP Podcast

This episode's guest, Bradley Bloch, Founder and CEO of Factura.ai , joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming one of the most overlooked yet critical business functions: accounts payable. Drawing on his experience in billion-dollar M&A transactions and private equity, Bradley shares how he uncovered a major operational challenge facing multi-location businesses and built Factura....

This episode's guest, Joseph Wehbe, Founder and CEO of DAIMLAS , joins host Anne to explore why building AI ecosystems—not just deploying AI tools—may be the key to long-term success in the age of artificial intelligence. Joseph shares his journey from Silicon Valley to becoming a World Economic Forum AI Entrepreneurship Expert, and discusses how DAIMLAS is helping governments, enterprises, a...

This episode’s guest, Ehsan Mirdamadi, Co-Founder and CEO of Codalio , joins host Anne to explore the realities behind the rise of agentic AI and “vibe coding.” Ehsan shares his journey from early cloud computing pioneer to startup advisor, and how those experiences led him to build Codalio—an AI-augmented platform designed to help founders move from idea to enterprise-ready product faster and mor...

This episode’s guest, Greta Cutulenco, Co-Founder and CEO of Acerta , joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming quality and decision-making in manufacturing. Greta shares her journey from automotive engineer to AI founder, and how firsthand experience with slow, manual quality processes inspired her to build Acerta’s LinePulse platform. She explains how combining machine learning with prod...

This episode’s guest, Daniel Escott, CEO of Formic AI , joins host Anne to tackle one of the most urgent challenges in artificial intelligence: hallucinations and the trust gap in enterprise AI. Daniel shares his unexpected journey from federal court law clerk to CEO of an AI Company, where drafting AI guidelines for Canada’s Federal Court sparked a deeper mission to solve the reliability crisis f...

This episode’s guest, Prakash Sundaresan, Co-Founder and CEO of Defang , joins host Anne to unpack the growing complexity of cloud deployment in the era of agentic AI. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience across Microsoft, AWS, and multiple startups, Prakash shares what inspired him to build Defang and tackle one of the most overlooked challenges in modern AI adoption: deploying applicati...

This episode’s guest, Edouard Reinach, Founder and CEO of Trampoline , joins host Anne to explore one of the most overlooked yet mission-critical challenges in enterprise operations, which is the chaos of RFP responses. Edouard shares his unexpected journey from teenage coder and global communicator to AI founder, shaped by curiosity, diverse international experiences, and a drive to solve real op...

This episode’s guest, Zameer Rizvi, Founder and CEO of Odesso , joins host Anne to explore one of the most urgent challenges in modern healthcare: the widespread fragmentation caused by disconnected and siloed systems. Zameer shares how his global upbringing and engineering background shaped his mission-driven, first principles approach to fixing healthcare’s lack of continuity, an issue that driv...

This episode’s guest, Ryan Austin, Founder and CEO of Cognota , joins host Anne to explore how organizations can finally measure and maximize the impact of corporate learning. Ryan shares his unconventional journey from “bad student” to tech founder, revealing how his hands-on approach to entrepreneurship led to the creation of Cognota—the world’s first LearnOps platform built to optimize enterpri...

This episode’s guest, Kulan Kahadugoda, Founder and CEO of AutoAccru , joins host Anne to uncover how AI is transforming one of the world’s oldest professions—accounting. Kulan shares how a frustration with bookkeeping led him to build AutoAccru, now recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 AI Startups , and how their agentic AI doesn’t just process data but understands businesses, learns nuances, an...

In this episode, Rajiv Chatterjee, Co-Founder and CEO of Triyo, joins host Anne to share how his company is reinventing compliance and reporting for the financial industry. Rajiv discusses his journey from building enterprise tech in San Francisco to founding Triyo in Toronto, and how a project helping U.S. veterans reintegrate into their communities inspired Triyo’s mission: driving transparency...

This episode’s guest, Humera Malik, Co-Founder and CEO of Canvass AI , joins host Anne to explore how AI is reshaping the future of industrial operations. Humera shares her journey of pioneering AI in conservative sectors like oil & gas, manufacturing, and food production—long before AI became a buzzword. She discusses the biggest challenges facing industrial transformation, from change manage...

This episode’s guest, Michael Scelzi, CEO and President of Talos IoT , joins host Anne to explore how IoT and connected systems are transforming one of the world’s most essential yet overlooked industries: HVAC. Drawing on 30 years of experience in energy and building systems, Michael shares why many HVAC units fail prematurely and how Talos IoT is addressing the issue with predictive diagnostics,...

This episode’s guest, Oliver Scott-King, CEO and Founder of SmartR AI , joins host Anne to explore how assistive AI is reshaping the future of work, wellbeing, and human–machine collaboration. From his early experiments with Palm Pilots to building cutting-edge behavioral intelligence systems, Oliver shares the journey behind Smartr AI’s mission to create private, safe, and personalized AI assista...

This episode's guest, Francois Labrie, CEO of AI Outcome , joins host Anne to dive into the critical yet often overlooked world of intelligent facilities management. Francois shares how he found his calling in transforming building operations, a field essential to our daily lives but rarely in the spotlight, by leveraging AI to solve complex challenges. He discusses overcoming skepticism abou...

This episode's guest, Karthik Ramakrishnan, CEO of Armilla AI , shares how he has worked globally to address the risks involved in the development, deployment and implementation of AI and launched Armilla AI, an insurance solution that directly addresses the risks of AI, to help companies protect their interests in the fast-approaching age of AI. Armilla AI is a provider of AI risk mitigation...

This episode's guest, Alon Bochman, CEO of RagMetrics, discusses how his decades spent working with AI teams in Azure and Google Ads brought him to start RagMetrics and his journey to help companies prove the ROI on LLMs. Today, RagMetrics helps LLM builders prove ROI and optimize performance through tailored, scalable, automated evaluations. The AIP Podcast is hosted by the CEO and Founder o...

This episode's guest, Andrew Kiguel, Chairman & CEO of Realbotix , shares his journey from co-founding a bitcoin mining company called Hut8, one of North America's largest bitcoin miners, to now leading Realbotix in creating next-generation humanoid robotics powered by AI made to improve the human experience through learning, connection and play. Realbotix boasts patented technologie...

This episode's guest, Lisen Kaci, Co-founder and CEO of Discrepancy AI , discusses how his team's solution aims to become the Stripe for no-code document processing. Built to index and analyze complex unstructured documents while detecting anomalies, fraud, and security issues, Discrepancy AI works with Images, unformatted PDFs, forms, charts, tables, financial records, tax documents, re...

This episode's guest, Ibrahim Ashqar, Co-founder and CEO of Lumi AI , discusses how Lumi's platform makes it easy for data teams to enable conversational self-service analytics. This allows non-technical users to access specific insights without SQL/Python expertise and inaccessible through centralized dashboards, freeing data teams for strategic work. By eliminating manual analytics, mi...

This episode's guest, Michelle Eatherton, Chief Business Officer at Liminal shares how her team's platform helps organizations to safely empower employees to experience the productivity benefits of generative AI across any website, application, and platform while providing unparalleled data protection, observability, and governance. Liminal delivers robust security and a delightful user...

This episode's guest, Anirudh Narayan, Chief Growth Officer (CGO) and co-founder of Lyzr ,  shares how Lyzr enables enterprises to build fully autonomous AI agents on their full-stack agent platform. Their agents run locally on your cloud server, ensuring 100% data privacy and compliance. With a 3-month free pilot offering and the ability to deploy through AWS, Lyzr empowers company leaders a...

AIP Affiliate, Agtools is a dashboard platform for agribusiness operators from farmers to distributors to marketers. Their proprietary award-winning supply chain technology increases profitability and reduces food supply chain waste through timelier, more informed decisions.  Experienced agriculture industry professionals and past retail buyers created it. Agtools aggregates public and industry da...

AIP Affiliate, ConeLabs , has built an AI-powered technology platform and team to help make the world's infrastructure safer. Their high-resolution 3D models and AI-powered analysis delivers actionable insights that help companies plan and execute building maintenance with precision. The ConeLabs platform automates issue detection and eliminates manual, time-consuming, and often dangerous tas...

AIP Affiliate, Prodago created its very own bottom-up framework called Unified Data Governance. The Unified Data Governance approach was designed to run context-based and pragmatically. Equipped with the SaaS solution that Prodago developed, organizations can operationalize the framework. By connecting the dots between the desire to maximize value from data and the needs of quality, compliance, an...