Bernard Marr's Future of Business & Technology Podcast

🧠 From Fluency To Thinking: Why Reasoning Models Are The Next Leap In AIFor years, AI progress has been measured by how convincingly machines can talk. The next phase is defined by how well they can think. This conversation explores why that shift matters and what it means for science, industry, and high-stakes decision-making. #MBZUAIPartnership #Sponsored In this episode, I sit down with Jon...

AI is changing filmmaking, because it is shrinking the gap between imagination and a finished frame. 🎥🤖 In this conversation with Samir Mallal and Bouha Kazmi, co-founders of OneDay, we explore how director-led AI workflows are reshaping the creative process, from story development and character choices to building cinematic scenes through rapid iteration.We talk about why iteration is becoming...

AI is changing communications and marketing faster than most organizations can keep up.In this in-depth conversation, I’m joined by Ephraim Cohen, Global Head of Data and Digital at FleischmanHillard, to explore how leading agencies are actually using AI in real workflows, not as experiments, but as everyday tools that improve strategy, creativity, and decision making. 🤖📊We cover:✅ How AI is...

🚀 AI adoption is surging in 2026, but are organizations actually ready to scale it safely and responsibly?In this interview, I sit down with Nathan Turajski, Senior Director for Product Marketing at Informatica, to explore the key findings from Informatica’s CDO Insights 2026 report and what they reveal about the next phase of enterprise AI. We discuss why trust in AI is rising faster than...

What does CES 2026 really tell us about the future of technology, business, and geopolitics? 🌐🤖In this conversation, I speak with Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and the driving force behind CES, about the trends shaping the global tech landscape.We explore how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to real productivity, why robotics, healthcare tech,...

AI is moving beyond experimentation and into the backbone of the enterprise.In this interview, I sit down with Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini, to unpack TechnoVision 2026and the five technology trends that will reach an inflection point next year. We discuss how AI is reshaping software development, cloud architectures, and enterprise operations, and what this shift means for...

When the CEO of a major freelance platform tells his own employees that AI is coming for their jobs, including his, you know we're at a real inflection point. 🚨I'm joined by Micha Kaufman, co-founder and CEO of Fiverr, to discuss why he delivered such a blunt warning instead of reassurance, the "steam engine on a carriage" problem we're facing with AI right now, why AI giving everyone...

Why are startups racing ahead with AI while half of enterprises remain stuck in pilot purgatory?🚀 I’m joined by Sasha Rubel, GenAI Policy Lead for AWS in EMEA, and Alexandru Voica, Head of Public Affairs at Synthesia, to discuss the widening two-tier AI economy, the four critical barriers holding companies back (infrastructure, regulation, funding, and skills), real-world impact stories from...

🤖 The Agentic Enterprise Revolution: Inside Salesforce's AI StrategyWhy do 95% of AI pilots fail to reach production? The answer might surprise you. In this exclusive interview from Dreamforce 2025, I sit down with Adam Evans, Salesforce's Executive Vice President of AI and General Manager for AI, to uncover what it really takes to build a successful agentic enterprise. #Salesforcepartnership...

💼 Cybersecurity is now a boardroom priority — and CFOs are at the center of it. In this conversation, I talk with Michael Wignall and Soriya Shariff from Microsoft about how finance leaders can navigate today’s AI-powered cyber threats and safeguard business resilience and profitability. #MicrosoftPartnership #Ad🔹 Why cybersecurity is a core business risk, not just an IT problem🔹 How CFOs can...