The AI Consulting Podcast

Oct 13 2024 44 ep. 24 mins 34
The AI Consulting Podcast artwork

The AI Consulting Podcast helps AI service providers, advisors, and consultants to find more AI opportunities, grow their companies, and deliver more value to clients. Each week, Emerj founder Daniel Faggella interviews AI services and consulting leaders to discover how they started and grew their firm – and the AI skills and best practices that have allowed them to help their clients succeed. Subscribe to Emerj’s weekly AI consulting newsletter by downloading our AI consulting PDF guide: http://emerj.com/k3

  Business  Technology
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


Insights from Deloitte’s State of Gen AI Report - with Dan Helfrich of Deloitte

Oct 13 2024 27 mins  
Today’s guest is Dan Helfrich, Chair and Chief Executive Officer at Deloitte Consulting. In this conversation with Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella, Helfrich speaks about the findings of Deloitte’s research. Deloitte has polled a tremendous volume of enterprise leaders on where they are investing in AI, from operations to R&D. Helfrich also details the kinds of re

Streamlining Enterprise Workflows with Large Language Models - with Babak Hodjat of Cognizant

Aug 27 2024 31 mins  
Today's guest is Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant, the AI services giant. Babak joins us on today's podcast to discuss how large language models might bring value to the enterprise. In this conversation with Daniel Faggella, CEO and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, Hodjat explores how a series of specialized models could streamline entire segments of

Founder Story: Growing an AI Product Profitably - with Siva Pullabhotla of Docskiff

Feb 28 2022 21 mins  
In today’s episode, we speak with a founder who profitably grew by finding product-market fit early in a profitable niche. Our guest is Siva Pullabhotla, Co-Founder & CEO at Docskiff Inc. Docskiff focuses on contract intelligence in the procurement space. In this episode, Siva discusses the kinds of assumptions you should begin with if you’re looking to find a product-market fi

Landing BIG Enterprise Clients as a Small AI Consultancy, Lessons Learned - with Rick Oppedisano of Delta Bravo AI

Jan 31 2022 27 mins  
This week’s guest is Rick Oppedisano. Rick is a member of our Emerj Plus community and the Founder and CEO of Delta Bravo, an AI consulting firm based in the United States. In this episode, he shares his founder’s story, highlighting what it looks like to meet a giant enterprise customer, like Rolls Royce, and how to build those kinds of enterprise relationships for the long te

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Profitable Consulting Business - with Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success

Nov 30 2021 26 mins  
Our guest this week is Michael Zipursky, CEO and Founder at Consulting Success. Consulting Success is a firm dedicated to training consultants of various skill levels. Michael had previously run several consulting firms himself, and in this episode, he shares his insights on the best initial steps to get a consulting firm off the ground. He further discusses what to do first, how t

How Independent Consultants and Thrive in a Data-Flooded World - with COMATCH Co-founder Christoph Hardt

Nov 01 2021 27 mins  
This week’s guest is Christoph Hardt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of COMATCH. COMATCH is a platform matching consultants, mostly strategy consultants, to customers around the globe with their initial focus in the EU. The company now boasts over 100 employees and, through their success, has gained access to thousands of consultants and gained a sense of how smaller, independe

Successful AI Deployment Means Executive AI Education - with Michael Segala of SLF Scientific

Oct 04 2021 21 mins  
This week’s guest is Michael Segala, CEO at SFL Scientific. SFL Scientific is a fast-growing AI consultancy in the Boston area with about 40 team members after six years of business. After receiving his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2013, Michael held several data science positions before founding SFL Scientific. Michael has interfaced with cutting-edge startups, S&P 100 compani

Starting a New Career in AI Consulting, Lessons Learned - with Christopher Pavlak of Deloitte

Sep 28 2021 19 mins  
This week’s guest is Christopher Pavlak, a Specialist Master of AI Ethics at Deloitte. He is also a leader in AI ethics efforts with Deloitte at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the DOD. Today, Chris speaks about the transition into AI consulting. Chris also talks about his own career experience and how he was able to frame his past experience in a way that enabled him

Pivoting from an AI Services Firm to an AI Platform Company - with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMinds

Sep 19 2021 27 mins  
This week’s guest is Roey Mechrez, the CTO of BeyondMinds, an AI firm based in London. Today he speaks about the origins of BeyondMinds and how the company got off the ground by doing unique and bespoke projects. Roey also discusses how he’s aiming to transition towards offering products in addition to their existing services. While Roey is not looking to transition BeyondMinds

Why AI Governance is Relevant for Consultants and Business Leaders - with Christopher Pavlak of Deloitte

Sep 12 2021 22 mins  
Our guest this week is Christopher Pavlak, currently serving as a Specialist Master for AI Ethics and Governance at Deloitte. Today, Chris speaks with us as a consultant himself about what AI governance is at a practical level and how consultants and business leaders can think through AI governance as a framework to help them mold more successful AI adoption strategies. We’re als