Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science

Rowan Stewart has watched companies rush AI products to market without the governance to back them up, first at BCG and now at Transcend, where the clients include Robinhood, Brex, and Groupon. Sam and Rowan discuss why governance works best as infrastructure from day one, and why agents raise the stakes.

Topics covered:

• "Pilot purgatory": why promising AI proofs of concept die at the edge of production
• The cost of rushing: lost c...

In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, host Mac Goswami sits down with Dr. Latha Karthigaa — Director & Head of AI Governance at the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC) — on why most companies that think their AI is governed are dangerously wrong, and what responsible AI actually looks like.

What's Covered:

"A Policy Is Not Governance" — The biggest myth in enterprise AI. Latha's highway analogy: governance is...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Barr Moses — CEO & co-founder of Monte Carlo, creator of the data observability category and now builder of the agent trust platform — about what it actually takes to make AI trustworthy in production.

What's Covered:

"AI Is Wrong in Your Face" — Barr's framing of the trust gap: dashboards were always wr...

ActualyzeAI came out of stealth just days before this conversation. Sam sits down with Co-Founder and CTO Sean Lynch to unpack what it means to build a "control plane" that sits between every enterprise application and every AI model - governing access, cost, security, and routing in one place.

Topics covered:

• What a control plane for enterprise AI actually does, and why it requires zero code changes to adopt
• Aggregating inference...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Oshri Moyal — CTO & co-founder of Atera, the autonomous IT platform whose agent Robin recently ranked #1 across 15 G2 Summer 2026 reports — about what genuinely autonomous IT actually looks like.

What's Covered:

AI That Fixes, Not Just Chats — Why Robin isn't another chatbot. It navigates complex network...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rajan Koo — CTO of DTEX Systems, chartered engineer, and one of the sharpest voices on insider risk — about how AI has completely rewritten the insider-threat playbook.

What's Covered:

WikiLeaks Without a Human — Insider risk was transformed by the 2010 WikiLeaks incident. Raj explains why a recent AI-driven...

Most robotics companies are chasing industrial automation. Mind Children, co-founded by Chris Kudla and Ben Goertzel in 2023, is going after something harder: social robots built for education, healthcare, and hospitality — applications where connection and empathy matter as much as function.

Topics covered:

• Why Mind Children bet on social robotics despite a harder-to-prove ROI than industrial robots
• Cody's modular operating...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Ed Martin — VP of Product Management for AI Strategy at Sophos, with 15+ years in cybersecurity across Dell, SecureWorks, BlueVoyant, and inside Microsoft's Security Deputy CISO office — for a two-in-one conversation on AI-powered defense and what AI is doing to product management itself.

What's Covered:

What AI A...

Ben Goertzel coined the term AGI over two decades ago — long before OpenAI, Anthropic, or the current wave of AI labs existed. Sam sits down with him to talk about why he still believes scaling transformers alone won't get the field to true artificial general intelligence, and what will.

Topics covered:

• The "common model of cognition" from cognitive science — working memory, episodic memory, metacognition, goals &mdas...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Nikunj Bajaj — co-founder & CEO of TrueFoundry and former AI team lead at Meta — about his contrarian message for enterprises: stop starting small with AI, and go big.

What's Covered:

Go Big, Not Small — Why a pile of disconnected pilots never generates enough business value to justify real infrastructur...

Europe is short 5.4 million industrial laborers, and the gap is widening as younger generations move away from manufacturing work. Sam sits down with Olle Bergstedt, CEO of Kalk Robotics, to talk about how humanoid robots can help close that gap — without replacing the humans already on the floor.

Topics covered:

• Kalk Robotics' focus on manufacturing and industrial humanoid deployment across Europe
• Why Europe faces a 5.4 mil...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion on the final day, where host Mac Goswami sat down with science-fiction author Douglas Swatski about his novel — two alien AI civilizations at war, humanity caught in the middle — and the ideas about AI, optimization, and our future that run underneath it.

What's Covered:

Humanity Caught in the Crossfire — The premise: two vastly advanced alien A...

Most business leaders think of AI as either a cost-cutter or an efficiency multiplier. Rohit V Anabheri, CEO of LotusPetal AI and author of The Intelligence Dividend, argues there's a third and far more valuable layer: compounding — using AI to create entirely new markets and revenue, not just optimize existing ones.

Topics covered:

• Rohit's journey from cybersecurity (Osprey Security) into AI, and the shifts from LLMs to RA...

Storage is the least glamorous layer of the AI stack — and often the actual reason GenAI pipelines stall between pilot and production. Sam sits down with Troy, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze, to unpack what's really happening under the hood when AI infrastructure fails to scale.

Topics covered:

• What actually happens when a GPU sits idle — and the opportunity cost most teams don't account for
• Why ...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Binny Gill — CEO & co-founder of Kognitos, holder of ~100 patents, who previously helped scale a company from 20 to 6,000 people and a $7B market cap — about Kognitos's newly launched Context Graph for Finance: deterministic, hallucination-free AI for the office of the CFO.

What's Covered:

A Genius With Amnesi...

OpenCV powers the computer vision behind your phone's camera, autonomous vehicles, hospital screening systems, and even NASA's Mars helicopter — and most people using it have no idea. Sam sits down with Satya Mallick, CEO of the nonprofit OpenCV.org, to trace its 26-year history and where it's headed next.

Topics covered:

• OpenCV's origins at Intel in 2000 under Dr. Gary Bradsky, and why it was open-sourced to democratize co...

What actually separates a data platform built for AI agents from the data warehouse most enterprises already have? 

Recorded live at Ai4 conference in Vegas, AsembleAI co-host Sam sits down with Mohammed Battisha - who leads the data engineering team at WEX and previously built Saudi Arabia's national AI platform as CTO of SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority), with earlier leadership roles at LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Microsoft ...

This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rafi Khardalian — CEO & co-founder of Actualyze AI, and a former technology leader at Cisco who helped build its container and Kubernetes platforms — about the governance, security, and orchestration layer most enterprises are missing.

What's Covered:

The Foundation for Enterprise AI — Rafi lays out why ...

Agriculture is the oldest industry in the world — and one of the least represented at AI conferences. In this episode, Sam talks with Jeremy Groeteke, CIO of Syngenta's vegetable division, about how a company operating in 90+ countries with 50,000 employees is building AI infrastructure to help feed the world.

Topics covered:

• Syngenta's approach to merging AI, data science, and physical science in agriculture
• Using computer ...