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Join host Ritu Jyoti and other visionaries as they explore AI’s impact—uncovering essential, actionable insights on AI-native infrastructure, trending use cases, and frontier innovations.
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Guest: Jake Rothman, GTM and Partnerships, Decart
As a frontier AI lab, Decart knows the value of relentless efficiency and fail-fast iteration, which enable its teams to move quickly from fascinating experimentation to real impact. Hear how they zero in on customer-focused use cases for their AI-driven interactive experiences—and get them to market, fast.
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Guest: Chen Goldberg, EVP of Product and Engineering, CoreWeave
AI deployments are scaling from experimentation to production, creating real value and impact across industries and within organizations. In a wide-ranging discussion, this episode showcases how CoreWeave customers around the world are using AI as a core enabler of their success, growth—and non-stop innovation.
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Guest: Susanne Seitinger, VP of Product Marketing, CoreWeave
Marketing teams are using AI-driven synthetic research to test and validate critical decisions on strategies, messaging, naming, and more. Find out how to balance simulated buyer behavior with real customer contact. And explore other sweet spots for AI within the marketing mix.
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Guest: Camille Fournier, VP of Engineering, CoreWeave
While the impact of agentic coding is undeniable, so is the value of developers exploring new ways of addressing organizational pain points. This episode explores how agentic coding opens up strategic opportunities for developers to transform the organizations they serve.
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Guest: Dimitris Tsementzis, Founder and CEO, hLevel
Applying AI to the volatile, real-time environment of financial markets requires sophisticated tools and robust guardrails to mitigate risk and deliver real value. Explore the frontier of this vital industry, where AI creates significant opportunities for innovation and transformation.
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Guest: Richard Ahlfeld, SVP for Physical and Scientific AI, CoreWeave
Physical AI is enabling advanced engineering teams and manufacturing organizations to streamline simulations and other complex, time-consuming processes. Get insights on the current status of this exciting, vital area of AI deployment—and explore the possibilities on the horizon.
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Guest: Mac Moore, Head of Media & Entertainment, CoreWeave
AI is a powerful enabler bringing new creativity and capabilities to media and entertainment groups. Find out how assistive AI is empowering creatives and streamlining workflows. And learn how an AI-native cloud delivers real value to this evolving industry.
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Guests: Jean English (CoreWeave, CMO)
This hard-hitting C-suite conversation confronts the single decisive strategic choice facing every executive—is their cloud infrastructure driving profit margins or is it an escalating cost center? We will explore why running AI on general-purpose hyperscalers guarantees sub-optimal ROI and a hidden drag for enterprise P&L.
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Guests: Corey Sanders (CoreWeave, Senior Vice President)
Enterprise leaders have to confront a primal fear—the perceived complexity, high cost, and risk of downtime associated with moving to a specialized AI-native cloud. We debunk this "Migration Myth" by advocating for parallel adoption and an incremental, zero-downtime strategy over the risky “big bang” method.
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Guests: James Higgins (CoreWeave, CISO)
Existing cloud security protocols create a dangerous “AI Risk Blind Spot,” since traditional security protects the container but not the algorithmic integrity of the AI model itself. The solution is an AI-native cloud that is purpose-built to embed specialized security, governance, and compliance throughout the AI lifecycle.
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Guests: Lavanya Shukla (Weights and Biases, Director of AI)
The general-purpose cloud’s complexity can turn Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) into a high-cost, low-return project: the “AIOps Black Hole.”
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Guest: Jacob Feldman, Lead Solution Architect, CoreWeave
Why is an AI-native cloud the smart choice for enterprise AI? Maximum compute performance is a start. But an infrastructure optimized for speed and efficiency is essential to escape pilot purgatory—and scale.
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The most significant threat to enterprise AI? Spiraling costs. Find out how an AI-native cloud addresses the costly shortcomings of general-purpose clouds, stops budget bleed-out—and avoids the Hyperscaler Tax.
Hear Pim de Witte, Co-founder and CEO of General Intuition, describe how his frontier AI lab is teaching AI how to perceive, anticipate, and interact with the physical world—and how his lean research team keeps up its exceptionally fast pace of innovation.
Ritu Jyoti is an award-winning AI thought leader and value strategist who has spent more than 25 years at the crossroads of technological innovations and strategic business outcomes. She draws from this deep experience to help organizations integrate disruptive innovation and unlock new efficiency. Ritu gained her deep AI experience during her time as GM/GVP of AI and Data at IDC, where she guided global vendors, end-users, and investors with actionable research. She is also an expert contributor to CIO Online’s popular blog series “Leading the Agentic Age.”
A seasoned go-to-market and partnerships leader, Jake Rothman specializes in turning complex platforms into scalable commercial businesses. At Decart, he builds partnerships across gaming, ads, robotics, and virtual commerce—helping identify new ways to use Decart’s cutting-edge world models to create high-value interactive experiences.
An industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Chen Goldberg has spearheaded global engineering organizations at the leading edge of cloud and AI innovation. She directs the teams building CoreWeave’s AI-native cloud, delivering the high-performance infrastructure and services that empower the next generation of AI.
A seasoned marketing leader, Susanne Seitinger develops the core messaging for all layers of CoreWeave’s AI-native cloud platform and executes impactful product launches and other high-priority programs that drive CoreWeave’s business growth. She holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab, MCP from MIT, and a BA from Princeton.
Camille Fournier is a distinguished technology strategist, author, and engineering leader. She draws from a wealth of experience in high-growth leadership roles, including serving as CTO of Rent the Runway and Managing Director at Two Sigma and JPMC.
Dimitris Tsementzis is an expert in the foundations of mathematics and a former logician who leads hLevel. He leverages his extensive technical background, including his previous role as head of Applied AI at Goldman Sachs, to drive innovation in the financial services.
Dr. Richard Ahlfeld is an expert in physical and scientific AI who joined CoreWeave following its 2025 acquisition of Monolith, the AI platform he founded. He helps the world’s leading automotive, aerospace, and industrial engineering companies accelerate innovation and optimize performance.
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Mac Moore brings a deep knowledge of this exciting industry and the technology that fuels it. As CEO of Conductor Technologies (acquired by CoreWeave in 2023), Mac developed Conductor, a platform that enables visual storytellers to render and create at massive scale.
Jane English leads CoreWeave’s global marketing and communications strategy, accelerating the company’s brand, market presence, and business growth.
Corey Sanders leads the development and execution of CoreWeave's strategic initiatives, focusing on scaling innovation and driving sustainable growth in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
A seasoned technology and business leader with 30+ years of experience in advanced technology, James Higgins specializes in information security and public-private collaboration.
Lavanya Shukla is on a mission to put powerful developer tools in the hands of every machine learning engineer and researcher on the planet.
A long-time member of the CoreWeave team, Jacob Feldman works closely with customers across industries and use cases to design and engineer solutions that achieve incredible feats in the cloud.
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