Information is everywhere. For businesses, information is everything. The roles of CIOs, CTOs and other transformative leaders have evolved to impact all areas of business, from employee experience and digital labor to product development and the customer experience.
Hosted by Ann Funai, CIO and VP of Business Platforms Transformation at IBM, Transformers the podcast takes you behind the scenes and screens of these transformative leaders, exploring their real-world challenges, inspiring lessons, and best practices. From personal transformations to the transformative influences around them, Ann and her guests explore what it is to be transformers. Tune in every other Wednesday at 7am EST.
Information is everywhere. For businesses, information is everything. The roles of CIOs, CTOs and other transformative leaders have evolved to impact all areas of business, from employee experience and digital labor to product development and the customer experience.
Hosted by Ann Funai, CIO and VP of Business Platforms Transformation at IBM, Transformers the podcast takes you behind the scenes and screens of these transformative leaders, exploring their real-world challenges, inspiring lessons, and best practices. From personal transformations to the transformative influences around them, Ann and her guests explore what it is to be transformers. Tune in every other Wednesday at 7am EST.
In this episode of Transformers, Ann Funai sits down with Mark Polyak, Chief Product & Technology Officer at MINT.ai, to explore how multimodal AI and intelligent automation are reshaping the future of work, marketing and human innovation.
Drawing from his background in counterterrorism and real-time data systems, Mark shares how data integrity, transparency and human oversight are essential to successful AI implementation. The conversation explores the shift to prescriptive analytics, the rise of agentic AI and how multimodal systems are driving workflow automation, a creative production boom, and business ROI.
Chapters
00:00 – From conflict zones to campaigns: Using data to get closer to truth
04:52 – Why data integrity matters: Guardrails, transparency and trust in AI systems
06:35 – Beyond descriptive: Unlocking prescriptive analytics for smarter business decisions
12:34 – Adapt or stagnate: The rise of multimodal AI and intelligent automation
15:33 – AI and the workforce: How technology is reshaping labor trends
21:20 – 3 ways AI is changing marketing: Automation, creativity and ROI
25:00 – Most AI solutions are failing: The role of trusted partners in driving real results
28:55 – The ‘glue’ role: Why business translators are essential to success with AI
31:44 – Responsible innovation in action: Building multiagentic AI with guardrails
36:20 – Spotting AI hype: How to tell real value from empty promises
39:55 – Team of Teams: Leadership lessons from high-security environments
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