Smart Talks with IBM

A podcast, hosted by Malcolm Gladwell, featuring the visionaries who are creatively applying technology in business to drive change.

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Season 6, Episode 1 How AI Assistants Can Transform Education

Malcolm Gladwell visits Kennesaw State University to learn about Jiwoo, an AI Assistant that helps future teachers practice responsive teaching by simulating classroom interactions with students. Discover AI’s impact on teaching methods to prepare teachers for the classroom.

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Join Malcolm Gladwell, author and host of Revisionist History, and hosts from your favorite Pushkin Industries podcasts, as they talk to visionaries who are creatively applying technology in business to drive change, and transforming their industries.

This season, we’re diving back into the world of artificial intelligence, but with a focus on the powerful concept of ‘open’ - its possibilities, implications, and misconceptions. We'll look at openness from a variety of angles and explore how the concept is already reshaping industries, ways of doing business, and our very notion of what's possible.

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Season 5 🎧
28 January 2025 | Episode 8 How infrastructure is powering the age of AI

Host:Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s)
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– Ric Lewis, IBM Senior Vice President of Infrastructure

Watch episode 8
22 October 2024 | Episode 7 How AI can accelerate cybersecurity

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):
– Jason Kelley, GM, Strategic Partners and Ecosystems at IBM
– Kristy Friedrichs, SVP and Chief Partnership Officer at Palo Alto Networks

Watch episode 7
08 October 2024 | Episode 6 Scaling AI with purpose

Host: Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):
– Rebecca Finlay, CEO of Partnership on AI

 

 

Watch episode 6
24 September 2024 | Episode 5 The power of Granite in business

Host: Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Maryam Ashoori, the Director of Product Management and Head of Product for IBM’s watsonx.ai

 

Watch episode 5
10 September 2024 | Episode 4 Education in the age of AI

Host: Dr. Laurie Santos

Guest(s):

– Justina Nixon-Saintil, Vice President and Chief Impact Officer, IBM Corporate Social Responsibility
– April Dawson, Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and a professor of law

Watch episode 4
27 August 2024 | Episode 3 How open source can democratize AI

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Mo Duffy, Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat

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13 August 2024 | Episode 2 An AI advantage for the US Open

Host: Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Brian Ryerson, Senior Director of Digital Strategy at the US Tennis Association

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25 June 2024 | Episode 1 AI and the productivity paradox

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President of Software and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM

 

 

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Season 4 🎧
10 April 2024 | Episode 8 The Power of Collaboration: How IBM Teams Up with Microsoft

Host: Tim Harford

Guest(s):

– Srinivasan Venkatarajan, Director of Global Partner Business at Microsoft

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19 March 2024 | Episode 7 AI in Healthcare: How Generative AI Is Expanding Fertility Treatment

Host: Dr. Laurie Santos

Guest(s):

– Alice Crisci, co-founder and CEO of fertility-care provider Ovum Health

 

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28 November 2023 | Episode 6 Salesforce & IBM: Revolutionizing Experiences with Generative AI

Host: Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):
Susan Emerson, Senior Vice President of Product: AI, Analytics & Data at Salesforce
– Matthew Candy, Global Managing Partner of Generative AI at IBM Consulting

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14 November 2023 | Episode 5 Generative AI: Its Rise and Potential for Society

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Dr. Darío Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at IBM

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17 October 2023 | Episode 4 Responsible AI: why businesses need reliable AI governance

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Laurie Santos

Guest(s):

– Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy and Trust Officer at IBM

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3 October 2023 | Episode 3 Hugging Face and watsonx: why open source is the future of AI in business

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford

Guest(s):

– Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at Hugging Face

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19 September 2023 | Episode 2 Transformations in AI: why foundation models are the future

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Dr. David Cox, VP of AI Models at IBM Research

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5 September 2023 | Episode 1 AI for business: multiplying the impact of AI

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Kareem Yusuf, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Growth for IBM Software

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Season 3 🎧
19 June 2023 | Episode 10 IBM and HBCUs: Fueling a New Generation of Cybersecurity Experts

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Dr. Laurie Santos

Guest(s):

– Derrick Warren, Dean of the College of Business at Grambling State University (former Associate Dean at the Southern University College of Business)

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14 February 2023 | Episode 9 355 Days in Space: Finding Meaning with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei

Host: Malcolm Gladwell


Guest(s):

– Mark Vande Hei, Astronaut, NASA

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29 November 2022 | Episode 8 Clicks, Not Code: Transforming Digital Experiences with Salesforce

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Phil Weinmeister, Head of Product, Salesforce Americas, at IBM

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15 November 2022 | Episode 7 Unlocking Data Strategy: Data Literacy for Better Business

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Ronald Young Jr.

Guest(s):

– Nicholas Renotte, Data Science and AI Technical Specialist at IBM

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25 October 2022 | Episode 6 Combatting Hiring Bias: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce with Intelligent Automation

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Angela Hood, founder and CEO of ThisWay Global

Watch episode 6
27 September 2022 | Episode 5 The Future of Supply Chain: Building Sustainable and Transparent Businesses

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford


Guest(s):

– Sheri Hinish, IBM’s Global Sustainability Services Leader and Offering Leader for Sustainable Supply Chain

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30 August 2022 | Episode 4 The Mayflower Autonomous Ship: AI and Automation at Sea

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Lauren Ober


Guest(s):

– Brett Phaneuf and Don Scott, the engineers behind the Mayflower Autonomous Ship project

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23 July 2022 | Episode 3 The Good Hacker: Hacking Businesses before Criminals Do

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford


Guest(s):

– Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers, Chief People Hacker for X-Force, IBM

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28 June 2022 | Episode 2 Building Trustworthy AI: A Holistic Approach

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Dr. Laurie Santos

Guest(s):

– Phaedra Boinodiris, Trust in AI Practice Leader within IBM Consulting

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31 May 2022 | Episode 1 Home Lending Pal: Disrupting the Mortgage Industry with Cloud and AI

Host: Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Goldstein

Guest(s):

– Bryan Young and Steven Better, the cofounders of Home Lending Pal

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Season 2 🎧
09 December 2021 | Episode 12 Managing Supply Chain Volatility in the Height of the Shopping Season

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Jonathan Wright, Global Managing Partner for Supply Chain Consulting at IBM

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02 December 2021 | Episode 11 What Does the Future of Sustainability Look Like For Your Company and Your Customers

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Marc Rolfe, Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Partners Ecosystem Success at SAP, and Jason Kelley, General Manager, IBM Strategic Partners

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19 November 2021 | Episode 10 How a Human-Centered Approach is Building Trustworthy AI

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Christina Montgomery, IBM's Chief Privacy Officer and AI Ethics Board Co-Chair, and Dr. Seth Dobrin, Global Chief AI Officer

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29 October 2021 | Episode 9 Quantum Computing is Tomorrow's Computing, Today

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Dr. Darío Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Resear

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30 September 2021 | Episode 8 Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid Cloud at the Edge

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– David Shacochis, Vice President for Enterprise Technology and Field CTO at Lumen, and Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform

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26 August 2021 | Episode 7 Why Business Needs Blockchain

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Jason Kelley, a Senior leader at IBM

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29 July 2021 | Episode 6 An Open Conversation about Open Innovation

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Jim Whitehurst, Senior advisor at IBM

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03 June 2021 | Episode 5 Couch vs. cubicle: is the future of work hybrid?

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Adam Grant, Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School

 

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27 May 2021 | Episode 4 Can AI be empathetic? Reinventing client experiences

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Anil Bhatt, Senior Vice President and CTO of Anthem, and Glenn Finch, Managing Partner of Global Business Services at IBM

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29 April 2021 | Episode 3 Reshaping the Future with Women in AI

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– SVP & CMO, Carla Piñeyro Sublett, and Chimka Munkhbayar, co-founder of Agrolly

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30 March 2021 | Episode 2 How 5G, Edge Computing and AI are Transforming Industries

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Srini Kalapala VP, Global Technology, Strategy and Network Cloud at Verizon
– Steve Canepa, Global GM & Managing Director of IBM’s Communications Sector

Watch episode 2
25 March 2021 | Episode 1 Using AI to Rethink the Way Work Gets Done

Host: Malcolm Gladwell

Guest(s):

– Rob Thomas, SVP Cloud and Data Platform at IBM

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Season 1 🎧
17 November 2020 | Episode 15 Smart Talks with IBM: Why Business Needs Blockchain

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Jason Kelley, Senior Leader at IBM

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2 November 2020 | Episode 14 Smart Talks with IBM: Coding Together for Racial Equality

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– IBM Distinguished Engineers Dale Davis Jones and Lysa Banks, along with Creative Architect Britni Lonesome

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20 October 2020 | Episode 13 Smart Talks with IBM: How P-TECH Prepares Students for the Future of Work

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– IBM's Joel Mangan, Executive Director of P-TECH, and recent P-TECH graduates Suyhalia Karim-Doran and Eric Cholula-Martinez

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6 October 2020 | Episode 12 Smart Talks with IBM: Online Privacy is More Important Than Ever

Host: Robert and Joe

Guest(s):

– Sheri Bachstein, Global Head of Watson Advertising and The Weather Company, an IBM Business.

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22 September 2020 | Episode 11 Smart Talks with IBM: Human Slavery Still Exists. Can AI Help Curb This Scourge?

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– John McGrath, Sr. Solution Architect at IBM
– Neil Giles, CEO of the Traffik Analysis Hub

Watch episode 11
28 July 2020 | Episode 10 Addressing Health Disparities during COVID-19

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Dr. Kyu Rhee, Chief Health Officer at IBM
– Dr. Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Deputy Chief Health Officer of IBM Watson Health

 

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14 July 2020 | Episode 9 A Chaning Cybercecurity Landscape

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Wendi Whitmore, VP of IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence
– Allison Ritter, Program Leader, IBM Security Command Center

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16 June 2020 | Episode 7 The Debating AI

Host: Robert and Joe

Guest(s):

– Project Debater Lead Researcher, Noam Slonim
– IBM VP for Data and AI, Madhu Kochar

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2 June 2020 | Episode 6 The Impact of AI in a Pandemic

Host: Robert and Joe

Guest(s):

– Ritika Gunnar, Vice President of IBM’s Data and AI Expert Labs and Learning
– Jay Bellissimo, IBM’s General Manager for the U.S. Public and Federal Market.

Watch episode 6
19 May 2020 | Episode 5 Re-Thinking Supply Chains

Host: Robert and Joe

Guest(s):

– Luq Niazi, IBM Global Managing Director for Consumer Industries
– Karl Haller, Partner at the Consumer Center of Competence (CoC) at IBM

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5 May 2020 | Episode 4 Working Together While Apart

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Kristin Wisnewski
– Grace Suh

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21 April 2020 | Episode 3 Accelerating an Answer to COVID-19

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Dave Turek of IBM

Watch episode 3
7 April 2020 | Episode 2 Tracking COVID-19

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Cameron Clayton, the General Manager of IBM Cloud Ecosystem and of The Weather Company

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24 March 2020 | Episode 1 Project Owl

Host: Jonathan Strickland

Guest(s):

– Bryan Knouse of Project OWL, winner of IBM's Call for Code
– Alisa Maclin of IBM

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