Season 1, Episode 8
12/12/2021

AI: Reality check

AI: Reality check

There’s a right way and a wrong way to build an AI strategy. Two AI veterans reveal what every CIO should know.

Olaf Groth
Olaf Groth
PhD, CEO Cambrian.ai, Prof. HULT IBS & US Berkeley, Author The AI Generation
Olaf is the founding CEO of Cambrian Futures, an advisory think tank, and the concept development firm Cambrian Designs. He is the author of The AI Generation: Shaping our Global Future with Thinking Machines. He is on the faculty of Hult International Business School and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and recently served on the innovation policy committee for the Biden-Harris campaign.    
Sanjay Srivastava
Sanjay Srivastava
Chief Digital Officer, Genpact
Sanjay is chief digital officer at Genpact, a global professional services firm that drives digital transformation for Fortune500 companies. Sanjay runs their AI, data, analytics, automation, and technology services businesses. Previously, Sanjay was a serial entrepreneur and built four successful startups and has held operating leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Akamai and Sungard. If he had not been a tech executive, Sanjay’s dream job would have been a travel and food blogger. During the pandemic, he perfected the recipe for authentic charcoal fired clay pot Indian chai.
Baratunde Thurston

Meet your host

Baratunde Thurston

Host, Writer, Futurist, Great Guy to Hang Out With After Work

Baratunde is back for Season 2 and ready to get real about IT! He is an Emmy-nominated host of the PBS series America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston, creator of the podcast, How to Citizen with Baratunde, founding partner of the new media startup Puck, and author of NYT best-seller How to Be Black.

After-hours fun fact: MSNBC said Baratunde gave “one of the greatest TED talks of all time.”

Season 2 (8 episodes)
Season 1 (8 episodes)