HeyJaredThe AI Frontier Playbook
AI Frontier Playbook exists because the real conversations about enterprise AI deserve to be heard. The guests here are the practitioners, researchers, and executives actually making decisions inside organizations, not summarizing trends from the sidelines.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 18, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest episodes
STOP Asking If AI Can Build It — Ask If You Can Trust It? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Customers almost never ask "can you build this" anymore. What they actually want to know is "can I trust it." In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook , I sit down with Sapna Grover, Senior Director at Microsoft leading the Cloud, Data & AI Center of Excellence. Before this, she spent close to three decades in software, as a scientist at India's Defense Research and Development Organization, in leadership roles at Pegasystems, and in engineering leadership at Microsoft across Windows and Sear
Why the Biggest AI Transformation in Retail Is Not What Customers See (opens the original)
Read excerpt
AI in retail isn't the chatbot on the website — it's the frontline worker running the store floor, and that's where the real transformation is happening. In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook , I sit down with Ghazanfar Riaz , Senior Vice President of the Global Digital Solutions Group for the Microsoft Business Unit at Visionet, who has spent 20 years shipping enterprise technology and is now deploying AI into some of the biggest retailers in North America. We're not talking about shoppin
The REAL Reason AI Gets the Attention But Trust Gets the Purchase Order (opens the original)
Read excerpt
AI gets the attention, but trust gets the PO. The coolest demo in the world means nothing if an enterprise does not believe you are safe, compliant, and serious about data. In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook, I sit down with Tom Davis, Partner at Microsoft for Startups, who founded Solair in 2011, built it on Azure, and sold it to Microsoft in 2016. Tom has spent the last several years helping thousands of founders turn AI and cloud innovation into real business outcomes, and he brings
MS Copilot Studio CVP: Why Most AI Projects Are Solving the Wrong Problem From Day One (opens the original)
Read excerpt
AI projects stall when nobody names the real business bottlenecks first. In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook, I sit down with Ryan Cunningham, Microsoft CVP of Copilot Studio and Power Platform, to talk about why, and what actually separates a good AI use case from a wasted one. Ryan leads agents, apps, and automation across the entire Microsoft stack, and in this conversation we get into why most AI projects stall before they even start, whether apps and low code still matter now that y
AI Expert: Stop Automating Your Entire Department — Do This Instead (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Learn how to automate sales and back-office processes with AI for business, without overwhelming your team. In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook, I sit down with Eric Murray, Director of Innovation at Kezber, a Microsoft partner in Quebec, to break down AI implementation and business workflow automation with Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio. Many companies fail when they try to automate an entire department at once. Eric's approach starts instead with repetitive tasks
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.