Bots & People

In today's episode, Louise is delighted to welcome her next guest, Julia Heckenthaler, a well-versed supply chain and RPA professional with a demonstrated history of working in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. In this episode, she recaps some milestones in her career in the US and Julia specifically shares her experience with building up a Center of Expertise as they called it, in the Supp...

In today's episode, Louise welcomes Karl Olav Sunde, Automation Manager at Santander. He discusses the significance of increasing process automation awareness, as well as his extensive experience in developing a shared center of excellence for the entire Nordic region. Besides that, he also shares his experience in building up knowledge within the team and how to grow it effectively. Enjoy listeni...

In today's episode, Louise welcomes Ingomar Fellner , Head of RPA Competence Center, and Markus Ivan , RPA CoE Lead, at Wien Energie. This podcast's topics include: the overall automation journey at Wien Energie setting up governance structures creating automation roles overcoming challenges & best practices important elements of scaling process automation change management and so much more! E...

Today's episode of the Automation Insider is all about the latest announcements from Celonis and SAP. Nico and Andreas talk about the recent product announcements from Celonis and SAP: Celonis Process Sphere Celonis Business Minder SAP Build Together they discuss whether this is a revolution or just old wine and new bottles. As always, they conclude with their Learnings of the Week, which this tim...

In today's episode, Louise welcomes Pedro Berrocoso , Intelligent Automation Advisor and Digital Literacy Coach, with a passion for connecting business and people. Topics of this podcast: The setup of a Center of Excellence roles and responsibilities typical roadblocks and challenges automation culture & mindset employee upskilling and much more! Enjoy listening! Get in touch with us: Website...

In today's episode, Louise welcomes Andreas Schmelzer , Head of Digital Transformation & Services at Porsche Holding Austria. Topics of this podcast: Tasks of Head of Digital Transformation, What has changed in the Automation Market, Why Operation Excellence is so important, what the biggest challenges for companies regarding Digital Transformation are, why Change Management is inevitable to r...

In today's episode, Louise welcomes Katharina Herzog, Senior Vice President Group Finance & Tax at Hugo Boss. Together they talk about effective people development, what makes working at the fashion giant so special, challenges and goals of digitalization and process automation in particular, and much more! Enjoy listening! :) Get in touch with us: Website : https://www.botsandpeople.com/?utm...

Today's episode of Automation Insider is all about Artificial Intelligence and its implications and opportunities for us in the near as well as distant future. Nico and Andreas talk about the AI capabilities of UiPath and Celonis tools, the new version of Teslabot and the future of AI . They also take a detour in the Metaverse , talk about their Learnings of the Week and touch on other interesting...

In today's episode of the Automation Talk Louise talks to Sarah Topping, Senior Intelligence Automation Consultant at Ciklum, about the benefits and challenges of conversational AI. She is also sharing her way from studying zoology to becoming a specialist for conversational AI, her experience with bad chat bots and what to look out, when implementing conversational AI. Of course, there are many m...

In today's episode of the Automation Insider, Nico and Andreas talk about the new partnership UiPath and Microsoft announced and explain what this means for the future of both companies. Then they dive into the Top 5 reasons companies fail with their citizen development initiatives and how you can avoid them. Besides these topics, there are many more you can look forward to and the typical learnin...

In today's episode of the Automation Talk Louise talks to Volker Stiehl, Professor for business information technology and development of (process-driven) business applications, at the Univeryity of Ingolstadt. Volker shares his extensive experience from his many years working for large technology companies such as SAP or his many years researching business processes at the University of Ingolstad...

In today's episode of Automation Insider, Nico and Andreas talk about the launch of Automation Mag, news from Celonis and Roboyo, AI artists, and what Andreas learned about differences in mentality in process automation on his trip through the US, among other topics. Besides these topics, there are many more you can look forward to! Enjoy listening! :) Do you have questions, topic suggestions or y...

In this episode, Louise welcomes Philipp Schoene , Senior Manager Solutions Consulting at Workato as our guest. Philipp shares with us his view on the state of No-Code/Low-Code in one of Europe's largest focus markets, the DACH-Region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Louise and Philipp also talk about the benefits and challenges Citizen Development brings, what Workato has planned for the future,...

In this episode we welcome Adrian Kostrz, Innovation Manager at NTT DATA Business Solutions AG as our guest. Adrian shares his very interesting insights about Emotional Automation and tells how it actually works, which technologies are involved, what benefits and challenges show up. Furthermore he is talking about some use cases of Emotional Automation and automation at NTT DATA Business Solutions...

In this episode we welcome a very interesting guest: Stefan Engl, CEO and Co-Founder of the Intelligent Process Automation Platform DeepOpinion. Stefan and our host Louise talked about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models, how this technologies can enable the successful scaling of automation initiatives and ultimately making bots intelligent. Moreover they dive deeper...

In this episode Nico and Andreas take a closer look at the recent Gartner's Magic Quadrant for RPA and other exciting news about UiPath, Re:infer and much more! Moreover the main topic of this episode is upskilling in Automation. They discuss why upskilling is important, how it can be done and which methods can be used. Enjoy listening! :) Do you have questions, topic suggestions or you heard a ru...

Our host Louise welcomes an interesting guest Carsten Langhammer, Head of Competence Center RPA at Gothaer. They talked about the Automation journey of Gothaer and Automation upskilling. Furthermore Carsten shared how they manage training about 60 Citizen Developers for RPA internally. Enjoy listening! On August, 25 we have a exklusive Event with Carsten about the internal development of automatio...

In today's episode Nico and Andreas talked about the well-known research companies like Gartner, Forrester, Everest Group and HFS Research. They explain what a research company does and identify the differences. Furthermore they answer the question if you can trust research companies. Enjoy listening! :) Do you have questions, topic suggestions or you heard a rumours in the automation world? Get i...

In today's episode Louise welcomes Diana Kanostrevac. At the time of this podcast recording, Diana was Head of Operations & Innovation Champion at Generali Vitality. She talks about an Omni-Channel Initiative at Generali Vitality that transforms the customer journey into a seamless experience using a combination of RPA, Chatbots and more. Furthermore she explained the do’s and don’ts of Change...

In this episode our hosts Nico and Andreas talk about the common question RPA or iPaaS? They introduce the tools and concepts of these technologies. Furthermore they discuss in which situations it is beneficial to use RPA or iPaaS, which technology is more suitable for a start-up and much more. Have fun listening! :) Do you have questions, topic suggestions or you heard a rumours in the automation...

In this episode Julia Teufel, Process Manager at Messe Stuttgart is our guest. Julia tells about the implementation process of an Automation Strategy in a SME context. Furthermore she shared her learnings and insights about Change Management and talked about Process Automation Use Cases. Enjoy listening! Get in touch with us: Website: https://www.botsandpeople.com/?utm source=podcast&utm mediu...

In this episode our host Louise welcomes Frank Schikora, Chief Digital Officer at Roboyo and Eduard Shlepetskyy, CEO and Founder of ECTIVE Automation. Both were voted as UiPath most valuable professionals three times in a row. They talked what the UiPath MVP program is about, the benefits and what kind of dedication to the UiPath community it requires. Furthermore they reveal what their relationsh...

In this episode our Automation Experts Andreas and Nico talk about Automation Services. They discussed about the different players in the Automation Service area and their value propositions. Listen in and find out what's the smartest service for your company in different situations. Have fun listening! :) Do you have questions, topic suggestions or you heard a rumours in the automation world? Get...

In today's episode we have a very inspiring guest: Hung Dang, Founder of Y42. Hung talked about the idea behind the powerful data tool of Y42 and what's new at the latest version. Furthermore he shows how the platform integrates in an existing IT landscape. Moreover the successful Entrepreneur explained what drives him to build a billion dollar company. Enjoy listening! PS: On June, 23 we have an...

In this episode Louise welcomes the Strategic Partnership Manager of G1ANT, Jacek Glowacki.  Jacek give interesting insights how RPA with G1ANT works, his experiences in the fast developing RPA market and also the future of this technology. Furthermore he shared some unique use cases and talked about the Make or Buy decision companies faced when it comes to automation.  Enjoy listening!...