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Lead With AI

Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories. Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You"ll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff,

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Former Docker VP Reveals the AI Security Gap Costing...

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2025/12/09

Most companies deploying AI models right now cannot prove what's actually running in production. Jesse Williams, Co-founder and COO of Jozu and former VP at Docker, built infrastructure that cuts model audit compilation from three weeks to seconds while solving the security gap keeping enterprise teams awake at night. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Jesse about the moment defense contractors discovered their ML pipeline had no single source of truth, how a malicious

Google Director Reveals How Two Billion People Now...

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2025/12/02

Two billion monthly users now interact with Google through conversational AI instead of traditional keyword searches. Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Director of Product Management for Google Search, leads the team that transformed how humanity discovers information through AI Overviews and AI mode. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Soufi about the query fan out technique that breaks complex questions into subtopics and researches them simultaneously, mimicking how humans naturally

How This AI Memory App Is Helping Us Preserve the...

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2025/11/25

What started as morning text prompts to her mother became an AI platform preserving family memories before it's too late. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Kimberly Carson, former IBM Watson researcher and founder of Ancestral Echoes, and explains how sensory questions like "What did Sunday morning smell like in your childhood?" unlock stories that heal rather than just create nostalgia. A beta tester who lost her mother unexpectedly found voice memos that felt like

Meet the AI Framework That Turns LLMs Into Fully...

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2025/11/18

Most AI development tools hide what's happening under the hood. Scott Vance built the opposite. Convo Lang is a plain text framework that exposes every part of the AI interaction process, making context engineering precise and visible. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Scott, a creator and developer from Cincinnati who spent nearly 20 years building software tools. Scott explains how Convo Lang started as a small library to eliminate repetition in his AI projects

This AI Operating System Is Teaching Technology To...

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2025/11/11

Most AI systems operate as applications on top of existing infrastructure. Nguyen Duc Tri is building intelligence into the infrastructure itself. At 21 years old, the Vietnam-based cybersecurity researcher created Adaptive OS, an operating system where AI exists at the foundation level with three distinct layers.In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Nguyen about why he believes current operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Android need to evolve beyond static

AI That Curates Gifts Based on People &...

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2025/11/04

88% of moms handle all gift planning in their households, tracking birthdays, researching ideas, and managing delivery schedules across 10 to 20 occasions annually. Rose Arendarczyk experienced this firsthand as a consultant leading multimillion-dollar transformations while struggling to remember her brother's tournaments and her nephew's graduations. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Rose, founder and CEO of GiftEase, about building an AI platform that starts with

This AI Beauty Bestie Knows Your Face Better Than Any...

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2025/10/28

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall explores how Sophie is building MYRRAR (My Realistic, Reliable Augmented Reality)—an AI-powered beauty advisor that scans your unique facial features and recommends products specifically for YOU, not some Euro centric beauty standard. The platform acts as your personalized bestie, complete with adjustable sassiness levels, offering relief to women who've spent years feeling inadequate because mainstream beauty culture never represented them. Sophie

This AI Answers Every Restaurant Call So That You...

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2025/10/21

What happens when four of six top restaurants don’t return your call for a private dining event? You take your $10,000 party elsewhere. In this episode of the Lead with AI podcast with Dr. Tamara Nall, Alex Sambvani, CEO of Slang AI, shares how he faced this problem firsthand while planning a birthday at some of New York’s finest restaurants. His journey from aspiring chef inspired by his grandmother’s soul food kitchen to Wall Street analyst and then Spotify data scientist led him to address the

Cold Emails Destroying Your Focus? See how AI ‘Cold...

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2025/10/15

Are you drowning in hundreds of unread emails every day? Discover how AI is transforming inbox management with Cold Defence, the revolutionary tool that automatically filters out unwanted emails without touching your private data. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Justin Abrams, CEO of Aryo Consulting Group, to explore how Cold Defence is helping professionals reclaim focus, reduce stress, and boost productivity. Justin shares the story behind Cold Defence, how it

Cybersecurity Veteran Built His Own AI Clone (Then...

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2025/10/07

What happens when a cybersecurity expert who defended against nation-state attacks for 30 years warns that major AI companies will face massive security breaches? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Ron Gula, co-founder of Gula Tech Adventures, who took Tenable Network Security public after 16 years as CEO and now invests in 30+ cybersecurity and AI startups. Gula reveals that AI has already embedded itself invisibly into the business tools you use daily, from animation

The 3 Minute AI Setup That Eliminates Event Planning...

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2025/09/30

What if every guest at your event had their own personal concierge answering questions instantly? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Frances Quarcoopome, founder and CEO of JamJar, who built 'Chaperone' - an AI event assistant that eliminates help desk chaos and guest confusion. As an event planner who organized flawless experiences across Africa for 12 years, Frances experienced firsthand how guests ask endless questions despite having PDFs, apps, and all the

An AI that Reads Client Emotions and Takes Perfect...

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2025/09/23

What happens when AI can read client emotions while taking perfect meeting notes? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Daniel Yoo, founder of FinMate AI, who built an AI platform that listens to financial advisor calls, generates instant summaries, and tracks client sentiment in real-time. As a former TD Ameritrade senior advisor managing $1 billion in assets, Yoo experienced how manual note-taking distracted from client needs and created compliance issues. His AI solution

Hello Patient: The AI Revolution That's Fixing...

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2025/09/16

What if calling your doctor's office actually worked? Alex Cohen, founder and CEO of Hello Patient, has cracked the code on healthcare's biggest pain point: those infuriating phone calls that leave you on hold forever or trapped in endless automated menus. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall dives deep into how Hello Patient uses advanced AI to handle everything from appointment scheduling to prescription refills, serving millions of patient conversations while maintaining strict

This AI Gives Your Business Immortal Life by...

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2025/09/09

What if your business could outlive you? Femi Bejide, CEO of Statisense, has built Immortal AI to make that vision reality. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall explores how this trailblazing platform connects to over 100 different business applications, from social media and HR systems to stock exchanges, pulling scattered data into one unified dashboard. Femi reveals how 9 out of 10 businesses are completely data-blind, operating without insights from the very apps they use daily

This AI Prevents Murders While Protecting Privacy at...

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2025/09/02

This isn't sci-fi. 145,000 surveillance cameras across North America are now monitored by AI, one that doesn't know your name but can predict what happens next. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Alex Vourkoutiotis, CTO of ECAM, whose AI security systems have literally prevented murders and assaults while maintaining complete anonymity for everyone they monitor. Alex shares how their patented Blackout technology uses advanced computer vision to focus only on specific

Undergrad Founder's AI Personalizes Learning for 3...

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2025/08/26

What if education finally worked the way your brain actually learns? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Affan Shaikhsurab, an undergraduate founder who's tackling the biggest problem in education: the gap between memorizing for tests and actually understanding concepts. His platform JourneyNext uses AI to create personalized learning experiences that adapt to whether you're a visual learner, need hands-on examples, or prefer audio content. Shaikhsurab reveals how 90% of

This CEO’s AI Saves $10K Per Course and Builds...

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2025/08/19

In this episode of Lead with AI, the conversation explores how traditional training methods are failing the 2.6 billion deskless workers who keep industries running daily. So-Young Kang, founder and CEO of GnowbeAI, reveals how her platform transforms the painful 3-6 month training creation process into a 3-6 minute mobile experience. Kang shares how her vision to "humanize the world through technology" led to building an AI agent trained in micro-learning, instructional design, and gamification

Norton Neo: The AI Browser That Thinks Before You Do

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2025/08/12

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Howie Xu, Chief AI and Innovation Officer at Gen Digital, who reveals Norton Neo just 24 hours after its launch. Xu shares how their new AI-powered browser aims to disrupt the 30-year-old browsing paradigm by learning user behavior and staying ahead of their needs, like having "Superman sitting next to you" while you browse. With Gen Digital's 500 million users and world-class cybersecurity intelligence behind Norton and LifeLock, Xu

PhD Student Builds AI That Turns Months of Research...

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2025/08/05

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Damon Burrow, co-founder of Scholar AI and Duke PhD student, whose research assistant is transforming how scientists access knowledge. Scholar AI ranks among the top 5 GPTs in ChatGPT's store by solving a problem every researcher faces: drowning in data while starving for actionable insights. Burrow shares how his tool goes beyond simple keyword searches, extracting semantic meaning from papers, graphs, and tables to deliver

Tech Marketer's Wife Sparks AI Hair App That Could...

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2025/07/29

What started as a husband's joke about alerting his wife to "hair night" just became the solution millions have been waiting for. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Tori Elstrom, founder of SmartHair, who built an AI app that analyzes your hair's health, porosity, and density from a single selfie in under 60 seconds. After his wife followed an AI-generated routine for just one month, her hair had never looked healthier, sparking friends to beg for access and pushing

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