In this episode of Futurise, Rob Price is joined by Professor Michael Wade to discuss how leaders can take meaningful, safe action on AI without waiting for certainty — and without exposing their organisations to unnecessary risk.
The conversation explores the challenges of operating in a fast-moving AI landscape, what lies beyond agentic AI, and why doing something deliberate now is often safer than doing nothing at all. Michael also shares how he thinks about market risk over time, including the use of tools like the AI Risk Clock to help leaders sense when conditions are changing.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why traditional AI strategies struggle in rapidly evolving markets
How leaders can start acting without locking in the wrong decisions
The difference between safe progress and reckless acceleration
What “beyond agentic AI” might mean for organisations
How to think about market risk as conditions shift
Michael Wade advises senior leaders on digital transformation and AI as a Professor of Strategy and Digital at IMD Business School in Switzerland, helping organisations balance speed, responsibility, and long-term value.
Comments are open — how are you deciding when and how to act on AI?
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In the 19th episode of Season 2 on #AgenticAI, Rob is joined by Michael Herron, CEO of Atos UK&I. Michael joined Atos at the end of January 2025 and he talks with Rob about the recent investments from Atos to a Sovereign Orchestration Hub, a Digital Agentic Centre and a #Sovereign Digital Enablement Centre, especially relevant in light of the recent UK Government commitments to AI Growth Zones. Rob and Michael also share a common passion in regard to the development of future careers in this space, and discuss how that might evolve in an Agentic powered world.
Relevant links:
https://atos.net/en-gb/united-kingdom
https://atos.net/en-gb/lp/uki-digital-sovereignty
Comments are open for questions or observations.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, an Agentic AI platform that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
#AgenticAI isn’t just changing tools — it’s changing how work gets done.
In this episode of Futurise, Rob Price explores whether existing team design models still hold in an agentic world, and what leaders need to change as AI agents become part of everyday delivery.
Featuring Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies and CEO/CTO of Conflux.
Do Team Topologies principles still apply with AI agents in the workflow?
What breaks first when teams stay “human-only” in design
How to think about accountability, flow, and boundaries in agentic teams
What organisations should start changing now, not later.
Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning Team Topologies, founder and CEO/CTO of Conflux, and a leading voice in modern organisational design.
Matthew Skelton: matthewskelton.com
Conflux: confluxhq.com/outcomes
Team Topologies: teamtopologies.com/scale
Comments are open — how do you think teams should evolve in an agentic world?
If AI agents are doing more of the work, what should teams actually be responsible for? Interested to hear how others are thinking about this.
AI systems are being built for a narrow slice of humanity.
In this episode of Futurise, Rob Price explores why endangered language models matter—not just for inclusion, but for the future of agentic AI itself.
Featuring Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, founder and Chief Futures Officer of NightOwl AI.
In this conversation, we discuss:
Why most AI models exclude entire cultures and languages
What endangered language models really are
The implications for accessibility, bias, and agentic systems
Lessons for organisations building bespoke and domain-specific AI models.
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo is the founder of NightOwl AI, a mission-driven company using AI to preserve endangered languages and combat digital exclusion. Her work focuses on ensuring AI reflects the full spectrum of human culture—not just the dominant few.
Anna Mae Lamentillo: https://www.annamaeyulamentillo.com
NightOwl AI: https://www.thenightowl.ai
Comments are open — should AI systems be required to support minority and endangered languages?
If AI agents can’t understand large parts of the world’s population, are they really fit for purpose? Curious how others are thinking about inclusion in agentic systems.
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In the 16th episode of Season 2 on #AgenticAI, Rob is joined by Husayn Kassai based out of London in the UK. Husayn is the founder and CEO at Quench.ai - the AI layer unifying how mid-market companies discover, deploy, and benchmark AI that works - all in one place. He’s the co-founder and former CEO of Onfido - the largest UK AI exit. A WEF Tech Pioneer, Forbes contributor, and “30 Under 30,” He holds a BA in Economics and Management from Keble College, Oxford.
On the podcast Rob and Husayn talk about their experiences at the heart of Agentic AI, its adoption and some of the challenges that they are seeing. Husayn also covers lessons learned from Onfido, and his current work with the London AI Hub at the heart of the startup ecosystems.
Comments are open for questions or observations.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, an Agentic AI platform that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early er adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
This Special Episode is co-hosted on FUTURISE and on THE CONSULTING GROWTH PODCAST, and released simultaneously on both podcasts.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Professor Joe O'Mahoney, based out of Cardiff University in Wales. Prof. Joe O’Mahoney helps owners of boutique consultancies 4x their equity value over a period of 2–3 years. He is a Professor of Consulting at Cardiff University, co-founder of Equity Sherpa, and an award-winning author and educator.
On the podcast Rob and Joe talk together about their respective views on the impact of Agentic AI and Large Language Models on the world of Consulting and Professional Services. Rob was previously Managing Partner in a Consulting business, and represented the MCA in their Year of Digital as one of their Digital gurus. Joe is a recognised leading authority on the advisory industry and a strategic advisor to boutique consultancies.
Links:
Website: www.equitysherpa.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeomahoney/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/consulting-growth/id1682304671
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Lyn Callender-Easby, co-founder of Dear Garden, a garden design app on your phone that is there to help you with your garden.
As we share on the podcast discussion, Rob has always been a part time plantsman and gardener, and adds his own content into the conversation, considering the impact of Agentic AI in personalisation of the app in addition to building on the last podcast content around digital twins, looking at deep gardening expertise.
Lyn Callender-Easby is the founder of DearGarden, an AI-powered app that helps busy people design, grow, and care for gardens that fit their lives. Originally from South Africa and now based in London, she combines a background in strategy consulting and customer experience with a lifelong love of gardening, bringing together creativity and AI to tackle one of gardening’s most complex challenges - making design and plant care easy and accessible to everyone.
DearGarden began with Lyn’s own experience of creating a garden from scratch in a new climate and realising how overwhelming it could be. Speaking with others juggling work, home life, and new gardens of their own, she found many shared the same challenge… too much information, too little time, but a real desire to make their outdoor spaces feel as special as their homes.
Blending creativity with practicality, she’s built an app that takes the guesswork out of gardening, offering design inspiration, personalised plant recommendations, and seasonal care guidance through Petal, DearGarden’s friendly garden sidekick. Her mission is to make gardening more accessible, mindful and joyful, helping people create thriving gardens, and grow their confidence along the way.
Download the Apple App here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/deargarden/id6743713701?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Join the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560871804299
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Franck Pivert, co-founder of Swiss 6022, based out of Paris in France, and in Switzerland. Franck talks about his work, primarily in the insurance sector, building AI Agents that can be trained as digital twins of workers, and also about the integration of blockchain into those agents, both in terms of securing identity, but also in giving them access to a Digital Wallet.
The rules of insurance and decision-making are being rewritten. With Swiss 6022- www.swiss6022.ch -, we’re pioneering blockchain-backed insurance (Protocole 6022) and redefining AI as a true business teammate (Agentic Teams)—turning complexity into competitive advantage. Franck is
ex-McKinsey, Allianz, and Wakam, and has led high-growth strategies and built tech-powered insurance models. Now, he helps top Executives and scale-ups to future-proof their business with AI and / or blockchain transformative solution
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the twelfth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Suzanne EL-Moursi, CEO of Brighthive, based out of Chicago in the USA. Suzanne talks about the criticality of data, and how Agentic AI can play a role in helping bring the value of data to the wider business.
Suzanne is an serial entrepreneur with 28 years experience specializing in digital transformations, brand strategy, growth marketing, entrepreneurship and startup operations; building new brands and successful businesses, with two exits and one life lesson. As Co-Founder & CEO, Suzanne is currently laying down every brick in building Brightive, an AI powered data management platform for everyone to work with complex data and unlock insights with BrightAgent. BrightAgent, an agentic super data companion, makes the broken data workflow journey seamless from ingestion of data, to governance, engineering, retrieval, analysis and visualization. An end to end data agent to make everyone empowered with insights.
You can find out more at
https://www.brighthive.io
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the eleventh episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Tim Flagg, CEO of UKAI, based out of London in the UK.
Tim, the founder of several AI and ed-tech businesses, now serves as CEO of UK AI, embodying his long-standing commitment to education and widening access to transformative technologies like AI. His 25-year career spans roles at BBC and NBC-Universal, with a recent focus on leveraging AI for societal and business advancements, including his position as non-executive director at Greater Than, an AI firm addressing road safety and CO2 reduction.
You can find out more at
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the tenth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Soo Ling Lim, CTO of Futuria, based out of London in the UK. This is a follow up to the Episode 17 of Season 1 with Ben Middleton, talking about Futuria.
Soo Ling Lim is CTO at Futuria, where she focuses on orchestrating multi-agent teams that are secure, observable, and enterprise-ready. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has a research background in agent-based modelling and agentic AI from UCL.
You can find out more at
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the ninth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Eric Broda, President and Co-Founder of Broda Group Software, based out of Canada. From the first moment that Eric and I met a few months ago, we've found a common passion for cracking how multi-agent teams are managed in the Enterprise. This is an emergent space, and there are no right or wrong answers at the moment, just opinions and good discussions.
Mr. Broda is the President of Broda Group Software, a boutique consulting firm that helps firms build enterprise-grade agents and the enterprise-grade ecosystems they run in. He writes extensively about agents on medium.com and is authoring his second O’Reilly book on the emerging agent ecosystem (Agentic Mesh), available in November 2025 (currently available in early release on the O’Reilly portal).
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
After a short break, we are back! Welcome to the eighth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will primarily focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Dr Shikoh Gitau, based out of Nairobi in Kenya. Shikoh is CEO of Qhala, a digital innovation company working across the African continent. We talk about AI in Africa, touching on their recent AI Talent Maturity Index, explore some of the examples of the work that has been done using AI to deliver social value, the complexities of bringing LLMs to countries with multiple languages, some of which have never been digitised and much much more.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the seventh episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Nicolas Babin, based out of France. It's a fabulous conversation based around Nicolas many years at the heart of AI, both as a founder, investor and advisor. In total he has now been involved in the founding of 26 businesses. We talk about that on the podcast, and look at the world of Agentic AI through that lens of experience and advice . Nicolas finishes with wise counsel - you have to fall down 7 times, and get up 8.
Nicolas' background as a serial entrepreneur, executive, and board member has spanned startups to multinational tech giants, with experience in Asia, North America, and Europe.
Highlights along the way have included startup growth from 0 to 8 figures in revenue, two successful IPOs, leadership within a multinational corporation, 3X to 10X revenue growth, launch and growth of 26 startups in 22 years, and leadership of €500M in global M&A.
You can find out more at
babin-business-consulting.com
babin-business-consulting.com/blog
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the sixth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Andreas Welsch, based out of Philadelphia in the US. Many of you will have seen and heard Andreas' work across LinkedIn, and indeed on his own podcast as one of the leading voices in AI adoption in the world. Rob and Andreas talk about some of the lessons from his recently published book and consider what is Agentic AI and how organisations are adopting it.
Andreas is a frequent keynote speaker and expert panelist, and has been named a LinkedIn Top Voice, Thinkers360’s Top 10 Thought Leader in Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, The Futurum Group's Top 14 AI Influencer, SwissCognitive’s Top 50 Global AI Ambassador, and engatica’s Top 200 Worldwide Business & Technology Innovator. He is an active member of the Harvard Business Review Council, a Gartner Peer Community Ambassador, and has been featured on CIO.com, VentureBeat, FOX News Digital, and other outlets.
You can find out more at
https://www.intelligence-briefing.com
https://aileadershiphandbook.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmwelsch
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the fifth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this Christmas Special episode, Rob is joined by Santa Claus and Jingles, to share their experience of superpowering the festive season using AI and AgenticAI. You might wonder how it's made a difference, and its a pleasure to welcome them both to share not only how it has made their lives easier, but the Reindeer too.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Patrick Debois, a very well known voice in the DevOps and now AI communities. He brings a breadth of experience across Dev, Sec, and Ops and GenAI continuously pushing the boundaries of his technical expertise. Known for his aptitude in harnessing emerging ideas, he skillfully guides teams and advises businesses ranging from startups to enterprises in their journey. Recognised as a trusted ally among dev, sec, ops communities.
Patrick and Rob talk further about the lessons that we might take from DevOps and apply to the emergent art of designing high performing hybrid agent and human teams, reprising some of Patricks thoughts from his presentation at the recent AI for the Rest of Us conference.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the third episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Steve Smith, owner and founder of Raise the Bar, an organisation that delivers development solutions to a global client base, including the delivery of Management Apprenticeships and Leadership training.
Some listeners may also remember Steve as an Olympian, representing Great Britain and still holder of the British High Jump record at 2.37m.
Steve talks about his passion for continuing to evolve the business, developing learning experiences that prepare future leaders with the skills they need. He describes his own personal evolution using AI and Generative AI, and then sets the scene in regard to their experience of having implemented Agentic AI (multi-agent teams) to support his teams to better enable them to deliver the best service they can to their learners.
It's a fascinating discussion, from the perspective of an early adopter of AI Agents in business operations.
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the second episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In this episode, Rob is joined by Simon Torrance, CEO of AI Risk, a Research and Advisory firm focused on the safe deployment of advanced AI systems.
Rob and Simon talk about the definition and impact of Agentic AI, looking at its application in the Insurance sector (though applicable to all knowledge based sectors) and exploring the question of how to best integrate human and agent workforces. How should we think about calibrating effectively for all stakeholders, including the employees?
Links
Insurance sector Agentic AI case study:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentic-ai-new-frontier-thats-already-here-simon-torrance-hihme/
Framework for Organisational Augmentation with GenAI: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/9-types-framework-organisational-augmentation-vision-simon-torrance-tsyse/
AI Risk & Strategy Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7201614078320984064
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams. You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.
Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of Futurise.
Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned.
In the first episode, Rob is joined by Hannah Foxwell, founder of the AI for the Rest of Us conference, together with Cien Solon, founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade.
Links
AI for the Rest of Us event
ciensolon.com - learn about AI , don't get left behind.
launchlemonade.app - the canva for AI app, build your own AI
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#Futurise is a podcast produced by Futuria.ai, a product business that helps organisations adopt AgenticAI safely to re-imagine their operating model with multi-agent high performing teams.
You can message us at Futurise@futuria.ai.
Rob is also co-founder of Digital Responsibility and hosted "A New Digital Responsibility" podcast.