The AI with Maribel Lopez (AI with ML)
Episodes
The New Rules for Scaling AI: What Yum Brands Learned
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Picking a use case, proving value, and expanding has been the standard starting point for enterprise AI. For organizations early in their AI journey, ...
Physics AI Explained: Why Hardware Design Requires a Different Kind of AI
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Not every AI problem is a language problem. I talk with Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria about what changes when AI has to reason about the physical world.Ful...
NemoClaw, OpenClaw, and the Real Reason Enterprises Haven’t Deployed AI Agents Yet
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA’s NemoClaw adds enterprise security to OpenClaw. What it does, what it doesn’t, and what CIOs should do before deploying.FULL SHOW NOTESOpe...
Why Deploying More AI Tools Won’t Fix Your Workflows: Lessons Learned From Cisco
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most enterprises are layering AI tools on top of broken processes and wondering why ROI never materializes. In this solo episode, Maribel breaks down ...
SaaS Isn't Dead — But the "Dead" Narrative Is Leading Enterprise Buyers Astray
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: The "SaaS is dead" narrative is generating real confusion for enterprise buyers trying to make procurement decisions right ...
Agentic AI Beyond the Hype: How Banks Are Actually Deploying It
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
KeywordsAI, agentic AI, Work Fusion, RPA, intelligent automation, compliance, machine learning, LLMs, automation, enterprise technologyEpisode Summary...
Agentic Commerce QuickTake: Should Anyone Care?
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The National Retail Federation Show highlighted that Agentic Commerce is the new buzzword for 2026. But before you rewrite your roadmap, let's ta...
AI, CX, and the Shift from Automation to Action with Jarrod Johnson of TaskUs
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Agentic AI is emerging as the next evolution of artificial intelligence in customer experience (CX), moving beyond chatbots to systems that can take r...
CES Quick Take Part 1: Julie Ask of Ask Advisory
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
CES 2026 Quick Take: Physical AI, Ambient AI, and the Reality of AdoptionIn this episode, Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst at Lopez Resear...
From AI Chaos to Production: Why 2026 is the Year Enterprise AI Gets Real
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maribel Lopez reports live from AWS re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas, unpacking why the AI experimentation phase is officially over. With statistics that s...
AI Meets Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Black & Veatch’s Ian Bramson
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AI with Maribel Lopez, Maribel sits down with Ian Bramson, Vice President of Global Industrial Cybersecurity at Black & Veatch,...
Why Your Gut Instinct is Costing You Millions a Chat with Verint's AI Analytics Expert Daniel Ziv
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About This EpisodeDaniel Ziv, Global VP of AI and Analytics at Verint, reveals why experienced executives are making their worst decisions in decades—...
What's Next for Cognitive ERP and Manufacturing Intelligence with Epicor's Kerrie Jordan
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode OverviewHost Maribel Lopez sits down with Kerrie Jordan, the newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Epicor, to discuss the evolution of ER...
Racing Against AI-Powered Fraudsters: How Experian Stays Ahead
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OverviewMaribel Lopez interviews Kathleen Peters, Experian's Chief Innovation Officer, about AI's evolution in fraud detection, the shift to...
Ford Pro's Kevin Dunbar Shares How AI Transforms Fleet Management
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode SummaryKevin Dunbar joins Maribel Lopez to discuss how AI is revolutionizing commercial fleet management through Ford Pro Intelligence. With n...
Verint Executive Reveals: The 3 Best Starting Points for Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode OverviewIn this episode, Maribel Lopez sits down with David Singer, Global Vice President and Go-To-Market Strategy at Verint, to explore the ...
Cisco Live 2025: Jokel and Pandey on Enterprise AI Infrastructure and the Internet of Agents
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from Cisco Live, Maribel Lopez sits down with two Cisco executives, Vijoy Pandey, SVP of Outshift at Cisco and Nathan Jokel, SVP of Co...
AI in Retail: Best Buy's Journey from 93 Apps to One Solution
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Description: In this episode from Google Cloud Next 2025, we dive deep into Best Buy's AI transformation with Ashley Daniels, VP of Product Manag...
58. The AI Advantage With Liz Centoni: How Cisco is Making Customer Experience Hyper-Personal
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest ProfileLiz Centoni brings over 25 years of experience at Cisco where she currently leads a team of 20,000+ people dedicated to helping customers...
Securing AI: Strategies for Success with Cisco's CPO Jeetu Patel
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryIn this conversation, Maribel Lopez and Jeetu Patel discuss the transformative potential of AI in business, the challenges organizations face i...
From Concept to Value: The AI Journey With Tredence CEO Shub Bhowmick
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Maribel speaks with Shub Bhowmick, the CEO and Co-founder of Tredence on how its using AI internally and externally. Bhowmick also ...
Transforming Networking with AI: Insights from Extreme Networks' Markus Nispel
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryIn this conversation, Maribel Lopez speaks with Markus Nispel about the integration of AI in networking solutions, particularly at Extreme Netw...
The Platform Play: Zoho's Enterprise Evolution and AI Integration Strategy
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the category of better late than never, we found the missing recording file with Vijay. Enjoy!Show Notes:In this episode of "AI with Maribel L...
Harnessing AI: The Balance of Privacy and Innovation with Wipro's Ivana Bartoletti
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryIn this conversation, Maribel Lopez speaks with Ivana Bartoletti, the Global Privacy Chief Officer at Wipro, about the intersection of AI, priv...
AI Transforms Marketing: Beyond the Magic Button With Tim Marklein
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Overview:Maribel Lopez speaks with Tim Marklein, CEO of Big Valley Marketing, about how AI is changing marketing and communications. The conve...
AI with Maribel Lopez: IBM Granite Models with Kate Soule
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode SummaryIn this episode, Maribel Lopez interviews Kate Soule, Director of Technical Product Management for IBM's Granite products. They di...
Analyst Commentary on AI and the Customer Experience At Zoho Day 2025
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation explores the transformative impact of AI on business, particularly focusing on Zoho's evolution as it aims to enhance its enter...
AI in Supply Chain: Transforming Industry Through Innovation
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research interviews Kevin McInturff Chief Technology Officer of Logility. We explore the transformative impact...
How Amazon Web Services Quicksight and AI Enhance GoDaddy's Business
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research hosted a podcast at AWS Reinvent, discussing QuickSight with ATracy Daugherty GM, QuickSight at Amazon Web Service and...
AWS Re:Invent Announcement Highlights With Lopez Research and ZK Research
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy’s Serves Up AI to Enhance the Customer and Employee Experience
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every industry, including the quick service restaurant (QSR) market, plans to transform its business with artificial intelligence (AI). Several years ...
AWS Re:Invent Recap with Tim Crawford and Liz Miller
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Amazon Re:Invent, Maribel Lopez met with several industry analysts to discuss their perspectives on what happened at one of the industry's pre...
The Shifting Enterprise Security Landscape a Conversation with Cisco's Tom Gillis
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dell Technologies Chief AI Officer Shares Insight Delivering Successful AI Implementations
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Dell’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer John Roese about Dell’s enterpris...
How Cloud Computing Provides Flexible Options to Design Your AI Strategy
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary:In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Google Cloud Product Manager Bobby Allen about the current benefits and future possibilitie...
Using AI to Improve Healthcare Operations
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Qventus co-founder and CEO Mudit Garg. Mudit explains how automation can help patients rec...
AI in Healthcare with Five9's Roni Jamesmeyer
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary:In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Roni Jamesmeyer about the changing role of AI in healthcare. Roni Jamesmeyer, the the Senio...
Laying the Foundation for AI with AWS's Dr. Sherry Marcus
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary:In this episode, Maribel Lopez discusses generative AI with Dr. Sherry Marcus, the Director of Generative AI Sciences at Amazon Web Se...
How Musgrave is using AI in Retail to Improve Wireless Networking
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Kevin McCartan, Senior IT Delivery Engineer at Musgrave, about how he leverages AI (Open AI's ChatGPT and Juniper Mi...
Responsible Ai and Governance with Credo AI
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode, Maribel Lopez discusses responsible AI governance with Credo AI’s Head of Product Susannah Shattuck. Susannah buil...
Reclaiming the Customer Experience with Five9's CTO Jonathan Rosenberg
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary:In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Five9’s CTO and Head of AI Jonathan Rosenberg on AI’s potential in the Customer Experie...
IBM Think 24: A Discussion on AI Governance with AWS and IBM
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode, recorded live at the IBM Think event in Boston, Maribel Lopez moderates a panel on AI governance with key figures fr...
34. Exploring the Frontiers of AI Governance: A Chat with IBM's Heather Gentile.
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was recorded as a LInkedIn Live on managing AI risk, governance, and explainability. We also talk about the EU AI Act's impact on th...
33. Navigating AI in Contact Centers with NICE's Carmit DiAndrea
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we delve into the transformative role of artificial intelligence in modern contact centers. We had the pleasure of speaking with...
The Edge of Innovation: SiMa.ai's Vision for the Embedded Edge Market
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of Edge AI with a focus on the embedded edge market, featuring insights from Krishna Rangasayee, the foun...
31. How Healthcare AI Can Improve Patient and Practitioners Experiences
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare in areas that range from drug discover to the patient experience. In this podcast, Heather Lane from ...
Creating an AI Mindset With Arun Kumar of Hero Digital
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast we discuss how leading business create an AI mindset and how to overcome technical AI challenges. About Arun Kumar:Arun Kumar, EVP, Da...
Bonus Episode: Juniper Networks Defines What it Means to Deliver an AI-Native Networking Platform
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus podcast episode, I interviewed Juniper Networks' Chief AI Officer, Bob Friday, to discuss changes in AI and how AI impacts the ne...
28 AWS Re:Invent: Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research Recaps the AI Announcements
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Web Services held its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas at the end of November. In this podcast, Maribel Lopez recaps some of the ...
27. Elastic's Exner Share How AI Changes the Search and Observability Landscape.
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the year of generative AI and every technology category changed as a result of access to new foundation models. In this podcast, I speak wit...
Ep 26. Generative AI and Customer Experience Conversations With Verint's Jaime Meritt
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we take on questions such as how do hallucinations in AI impact the CX space? Are developers still necessary in the age of AI and wha...
Making AI Work at the Edge
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone talks about AI in the cloud. However to achieve the full business benefits of Artificial Intelligence, companies need to create a foundatio...
24. Intel's Kavitha Prasad Defines the Types of AI Acceleration and What's New in AI
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I interview Kavitha Prasad. She is Intel's VP for Artificial Intelligence Strategy. We started the conversation by defining ...
23. Wendy's Restaurants on Designing the New Customer Experience With AI and Cloud Computing
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy's CIO shares his thoughts on building a next generation customer experience, and designing with cross-functional teams. Vaconi shares how ...
22. A Conversation on Digital Inclusion, AI and the Future of Work with Christie Smith Of Accenture
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast with Accenture's Christie Smith, we discuss the organizational learnings from the company's recent book Radically Human and ...
21. Joe Burton of Telesign Shares How AI Protects Our Digital Identity
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast we discuss the intersection of digital identity, security and artificial intelligence. Joe Burton, Chief Executive Officer, Telesi...
20. Groq's Michelle Donnelly On How AI Enables New Computing Opportunities.
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I speak with Michelle Donnelly, the Chief Revenue Officer at Groq, about how advancements in AI accelerators are enabling companies t...
19. Sharon Mandell, CIO of Juniper, on How Companies Are Using AI in Networking.
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Sharon Mandell describes how AI helps her team at Juniper and Juniper Networks' IT customers to deliver better experiences. ...
18. Peter Scott On Challenges and Opportunities with AI
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Scott (AI leader and author of Artificial Intelligence and You) is an expert on all things AI, Peter Scott is on a mission to help us to get alo...
17. Tracy Frey of Uncommon Impact Ventures on Creating Diversity In Startup Funding
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy Pizzo Frey is the Founding Partner, Uncommon Impact Ventures. Founder, Restorative AI. She was a one time dancer, teacher, forest explorer, Goog...
Making Accounting Better With AI: An Interview With Vic.ai CEO
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Hagerup, the CEO of Vic.ai, shares the difference between using AI for automation versus autonomy in accounting. About Alex:Alexander is a ser...
15. IBM Research Fellow Dr. Michael Factor Discusses Hybrid Data Fabric
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are numerous challenges to working with distributed data. How do we secure, analyze and govern data in a hybrid cloud world? In this podcast, Mi...
14. Ade Adewunmi of Cloudera Fast Forward Labs Defines MLOPs and Why It Matters
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps or ML Ops) is a set of practices that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably an...
13. Merve Unevar of IBM Research on How AI Helps Automation, Data Integration and Digital Transformation
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Merve Unuvar, the Director of AI Platforms and Automation team in IBM Research AI, talks about automation trends including AI-ena...
12. Lacework's Chris Pedigo On Securing The Cloud and Machine Learning
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning and cybersecurity are tied at the hip. In this podcast, Chris Pedigo, the Go-to-market CTO for Lacework, discusses key trends, common...
#11. What's Next In Natural Language Processing and How Does It Help Business With IBM's Shila Ofek_Kiofman
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Natural Language Processing in AI isn't a new field, but it's advanced rapidly since 2019. Are we at the human-level of understanding wi...
#10. Pensa Systems on Making Retail More Efficient and Profitable WIth AI & Computer Vision
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can computer vision and machine learning change retail? In this podcast, I interview Richard Schwartz of Pensa Systems. The company offers an auto...
#9. How AR, VR and AI Help Individuals Overcome Fears With Afsana Akhter of Amelia Virtual Care
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I speak with Afsana Akhter about how Amelia Virtual care uses newer technology such as augmented reality, virtual reality and artific...
#8. Tips on Building an AI Automation Strategy From NTT DATA Services' Anisha Biggers
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI Automation is a hot topic in enterprise IT circles but getting it right requires more than a set of Robotic Process Automation tools. In this podca...
#7. Don White of Satisfi Labs Shares Why Your AI Assistants Need A Specific Purpose
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it's the virtual assistant on your phone, a chatbot in your mobile banking app or on a website, we've all experienced the good and t...
#6. Dr. Mona G. Flores Of NVIDIA Defines Federated Learning and Shares How It's Being Using In Healthcare Today
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Flores shares the opportunities for AI and federated learning . She discusses examples in healthcare including, Gatortron, the lar...
#5 Heidi Williams on NLP, AI and inclusivity
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Williams of Grammarly shares thoughts on the differences between building a Grammarly for consumers versus businesses. She also shares how the c...
#4 Four Tips for Creating Better AI and ML with Maribel Lopez
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research shares her thoughts on four components required to create better AI strategies. You can find an artic...
#3. Alice Xiang of Sony AI on the Importance of AI Ethics in Machine Learning
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Xiang is the Head of AI Ethics Office the AI Ethics Office in Sony Group Corporation, and also leads the AI Ethics Research Flagship in Sony A...
#2 Navigating the New World of Big Data With Hillary Ashton of Teradata
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hillary Ashton is the Chief Product Officer for Teradata. She leads the global products organization, a diverse team responsible for innovation, produ...
#1 Dr. Carlotta Berry on Reducing Bias in Robotics and STEM
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Carlotta A. Berry is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is also th...