The AI in Business Podcast

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Where Agentic AI Pays Off in the B2B Back Office - with Chris Bradley of Veritiv

September 01, 2026

Large B2B operations keep running order entry, invoicing, and other repetitive back-office workflows by hand, years after most companies started investing heavily in AI. In this episode, Chris Bradley, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of AI Transformation at Veritiv, breaks down why legacy systems have kept agentic AI out of these workflows, and what changed once Veritiv began automating a process handling 1.7 million orders a year. The conversation covers the audit-trail controls needed to t...

The Real‑World Conditions That Shape Industrial AI - with Scot Burdette of ABB

August 31, 2026

Industrial environments run on a different set of constraints than the typical enterprise office — physical risk, standalone factory sites, and workflows where a fragmented handoff can cost time, quality, or worse. ​ In this episode, Scot Burdette, Global CIO of Measurement & Analytics at ABB, examines why industrial AI has to be built around knowledge capture, human-in-the-loop oversight, and frontline usability, and shares how ABB's own tools are helping a retiring generation's expertise tr...

Closing the Skills Intelligence Gap in the AI Era - with Cory Hymel of Andela

August 27, 2026

Job titles routinely undercount what employees can actually do, especially in fast-moving technical roles.   In this episode, Cory Hymel, Head of Research at Andela, explores why mapping skills instead of roles gives leaders a far more accurate picture of workforce capability and AI readiness.   The conversation covers how continuous skills assessment, rather than one-time training, keeps pace with a technical skill half-life that's now down to two or three years.   This episode is sponsored ...