AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders

395: Lev Gonick, CIO at Arizona State University: Why Higher Education Must Disrupt Itself and the New Definition of AI Literacy 29.06.2026 41p

Send us Fan Mail Lev Gonick is the CIO at Arizona State University, one of the largest and fastest-growing universities in the United States, with over 200,000 students across campuses in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Washington, and 35 partner institutions around the world. He won an ORBIE Award in 2023 as a top large Enterprise CIO, was named a Top 50 Educational Technology Influencer by EdScoop in 2022, and holds a PhD in International Political Economy from York University. Before joining ASU, he...

394: Dr. Muthu Alagappan, CEO of Counsel Health: Democratizing Primary Care with Semi-Autonomous AI 22.06.2026 37p

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Muthu Alagappan is the Founder and CEO of Counsel Health, the company automating access to high-quality, personalized medical advice from doctors. Counsel recently closed a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, following an $11M seed round that included A16Z, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Floodgate Fund, and Pear VC. He holds an MD from Stanford Medicine and a B.S. in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford, and was among the earliest AI researchers...

SE 26: Designing AI for Accountability and Harmony with Leaders from Honeycomb, FieldAI, Archetype AI, and Zoom | Live from HumanX 2026 Special Episode 18.06.2026 29p

Send us Fan Mail In this special compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you four conversations recorded live on the show floor at HumanX 2026. This is the second and final compilation of our three-part HumanX Live series. Our first compilation explored how AI amplifies the human potential it can never replace. This one turns to the technical side, and to a question that gets harder the more these systems touch our lives: how do you build AI you can actually trust no...

XD Huang, CTO at Zoom | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 22p

Send us Fan Mail XD Huang is the CTO of Zoom, where he is leading the company's shift from hosting meetings to completing work, a vision he calls conversation to completion. He joined Zoom after 30 years at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and a Technical Fellow and helped ship Azure OpenAI Services. A pioneer in speech recognition for four decades, he led the Microsoft team that first reached human parity in transcribing conversational speech. Recorded live from the floor of ...

Dr. Jaime Lien, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Archetype AI | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 21p

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jaime Lien is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Archetype AI, where she is building a foundation model that turns complex sensor data into meaning people can actually act on. A signal processing scientist by training, she earned her PhD working on RF imaging from satellites and later helped develop the first radar embedded in consumer smartphones at Google, before leaving with four colleagues to start Archetype AI. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, ...

Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and Co-Founder of FieldAI | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 20p

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ali Agha is the CEO and co-founder of FieldAI, where he is building general-purpose "brains" for robots across different forms, environments, and tasks. He has spent nearly two decades in AI autonomy, including years at NASA JPL and research roots at MIT, putting software and intelligence on drones, legged robots, and other platforms. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what it takes to bring AI safely into the physical world, ...

Christine Yen, CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 18p

Send us Fan Mail Christine Yen is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, the observability platform that helps engineering teams understand what their software is actually doing. A developer by background, she built products at Facebook before co-founding Honeycomb to bring fast, flexible observability to the rest of the world. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what observability means now that both humans and agents are writing, shipping, and debu...

393: Dan Roth, Editor in Chief at LinkedIn, on Career Skills Rewarded in the AI Age 15.06.2026 37p

Send us Fan Mail Dan Roth is the Editor in Chief and a Vice President at LinkedIn, where he has led the world's largest professional editorial operation since 2011. Business Insider once called him the most powerful business journalist on the internet, and over more than a decade he has helped turn LinkedIn from a networking site into a global media platform, building out its editorial team, top voices, and Influencer Program. He also hosts the popular This Is Working podcast. Over 15 years w...

392: Sophia Kianni, CEO of Phia, on Scaling to 1.4 Million Users Through Feedback, Experimentation, and AI-Driven Efficiency 08.06.2026 23p

Send us Fan Mail Sophia Kianni is the co-founder and CEO of Phia, an AI shopping agent with more than 1.4 million users that has raised over $43 million from an investor list that includes Kris Jenner, Sara Blakely, and Hailey Bieber. Sophia and her co-founder built the company out of their Stanford dorm room on a single thesis: in the future, every consumer will have a personal AI shopping assistant. Sophia is also the co-host of The Burnouts, a podcast with more than 600,000 followers and o...

SE 25: What AI Can't Replace, with the CEOs of Scribe, Operative Games, and Dataiku, and the CBO of Zensai | Live from HumanX 2026 Special Episode 04.06.2026 27p

Send us Fan Mail In this special compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you four conversations recorded live on the show floor at HumanX 2026. This is the second episode of our three-part HumanX Live series. In an era dominated by headlines about displacement and disruption, these four founders share a grounded optimism about what AI cannot replace: human judgment, creativity, and the drive to do work that matters. Each of these leaders is building in a different sp...

Florian Douetteau, CEO at Dataiku | Live from HumanX 2026 04.06.2026 20p

Send us Fan Mail Florian Douetteau is the CEO and co-founder of Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform he has been building for over a decade to make data and AI accessible at scale. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores how the rise of agents is reshaping the role of data teams and what a genuinely AI-native way of working looks like in practice. Florian and host Dan Turchin go deep on where agentic AI actually creates economic value, why most enterprises ar...

Jon Snoddy, CEO at Operative Games | Live from HumanX 2026 04.06.2026 24p

Send us Fan Mail Jon Snoddy is the CEO of Operative Games and a veteran storyteller with a career spanning NPR, Lucasfilm, Disney Imagineering and a co-venture with Spielberg and Sega. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what happens when you combine Disney-level character craft with large language models to create a completely new kind of interactive storytelling. Jon and host Dan Turchin dig into how Operative builds AI-powered characters that feel emo...

Robin Daniels, Chief Business Officer at Zensai | Live from HumanX 2026 04.06.2026 20p

Send us Fan Mail Robin Daniels is the Chief Business Officer at Zensai and a seasoned tech executive with stints at Salesforce, LinkedIn, Box and WeWork. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what it really takes to create an environment where people are motivated to grow, learn and do their best work every day. Robin and host Dan Turchin dig into why most LMS platforms have failed employees, how AI is changing the relationship between learning and perform...

Jennifer Smith, CEO at Scribe | Live from HumanX 2026 04.06.2026 20p

Send us Fan Mail Jennifer Smith is the CEO of Scribe and a former McKinsey consultant turned venture capitalist who interviewed over 1,200 enterprise CIOs before founding her company. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round covers how AI is helping organizations finally understand how work actually happens inside their teams. Jennifer and host Dan Turchin explore why even Fortune 500 leaders don't truly know how their companies operate, and what that means for AI tra...

391: Andrew Palmer from The Economist on Why AI Productivity Isn’t Showing Up Yet 01.06.2026 45p

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Palmer is a long-time editor and columnist at The Economist, where he writes the widely read Bartleby column on work and life. He also hosts Boss Class, one of The Economist's most popular podcasts, whose most recent season explored generative AI in the workplace, a topic Andrew approached not just as a journalist, but as a self-described unsophisticated user determined to get smarter by doing. In this episode, Andrew draws on his reporting and interviews with leaders ...

390: Automate the Work, Amplify the Humanity, with Snowflake's CPO Arnnon Geshuri 25.05.2026 44p

Send us Fan Mail Arnnon Geshuri is Chief People Officer at Snowflake, where he leads culture development, talent strategy, and organizational design at one of the world’s leading data cloud companies. His career spans decades of scaling high-growth technology organizations, including leadership roles at Google, Livongo Health, and Tesla, where he oversaw its growth from a 400-person startup to a 35,000-person transportation juggernaut. Throughout his career, he has consistently chosen compani...

SE 24: Special Episode: Why Real AI Progress Starts With Saying "I Don’t Know", with Stefan Weitz, CEO of HumanX - Live from HumanX 2026 21.05.2026 48p

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you an exclusive conversation recorded live on the show floor at the HumanX 2026 event. This full interview kicks off a special three-part series, with the upcoming two episodes releasing in a compilation format. To start things off, we are sharing our uncut conversation with the man who made this entire gathering possible. Stefan Weitz is the Co-founder and CEO of HumanX, an organization and premier event ...

389: Building AI for Human Connection, Not Dopamine Hits, with Robb Wilson, CEO of OneReach.ai 18.05.2026 43p

Send us Fan Mail Robb Wilson is the CEO and co-founder of OneReach.ai, an agent-building platform focused on complex enterprise use cases across healthcare, government, and telecommunications. A serial entrepreneur and former creative executive at Time Warner, Robb has spent decades working at the intersection of design and technology. He is also the co-owner of UX Magazine, a global community of more than 640,000 members, and the author of two bestselling books, including Age of Invisible Ma...

388: From AI Hype to Real Deployment: What Enterprise Leaders Keep Getting Wrong, with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies 11.05.2026 45p

Send us Fan Mail Matt Fitzpatrick is the CEO of Invisible Technologies, an AI platform used to improve models for more than 80% of the world’s leading AI companies, including Microsoft, AWS, and Cohere. The company has raised $100 million and scaled to $134 million in revenue, making it one of the fastest-growing AI companies globally. Before joining Invisible, Matt was the Global Head of QuantumBlack Labs at McKinsey, where he led large-scale AI and data engineering efforts and helped enterp...

SE 23: Special Episode: Inside the 2026 Work Trend Index with Matt Firestone, General Manager for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents 07.05.2026 23p

Send us Fan Mail Your employees are already ahead of you on AI. The data is in and the question is no longer whether this is happening, but what leaders choose to do about it. That is one of the key findings from Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index, and it is the starting point for this week's special episode. PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin sits down with Matt Firestone, General Manager at Microsoft leading product marketing for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents, to unpack what trillions of anonymi...