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The In-Between Tech and Trust Podcast

Eva Simone Lihotzky

The podcast explores how we build, break, and rebuild trust in a world shaped by accelerating technology and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Eva Simone Lihotzky, AI adoption and ethics expert with 12+ years of experience in tech, the podcast creates in-depth conversations at the intersection of AI, business, ethics, and human connection. Through various lenses - across business, politics, neuroscience, tech and systems thinking in organizations - it hosts expert conversations for you to deep

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00:33:41

Where Frontier Tech Earns Trust - Dr. Zina Jarrahi...

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2026/07/31

🎙️ with Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, General Director MATTER GroupWhere does AI trust get built between people whose fields are drifting apart? Physicist Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker spends millions engineering the rooms where that happens, and she counts what comes out of them. This episode is for anyone who has sat through a briefing on a technology that will reshape their sector, understood roughly none of it, and said nothing.🧬 In this episodeDr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker looks at biology the way an engineer

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00:22:38

Responsible AI as a Growth Driver: Setting Up...

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2026/07/24

🎙️ A solo episode with Eva Simone LihotzkyResponsible AI stops being a compliance exercise the moment an agent acts without you. Only 21% of organisations deploying AI agents have a mature governance model for them, and 35% concede they could not shut one down if it went wrong. This episode is for leaders running agentic pilots who could not, if pressed, name the person who answers when one of them fails.🧭 Episode overviewEva Simone Lihotzky takes the Harvard Business Review's claim that trust is

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00:20:46

The Tech Naivety Undermining Democracy - Erdem Ovacik...

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2026/07/09

🎙️ with Erdem OvacikAI trust in our institutions is falling, and Erdem Ovacik argues it will keep falling. The technology is not what fails him here. The governance underneath it was never built to earn that trust, and pouring more AI into unfit democratic institutions is like adding fuel to a fire no one has learned to contain. This is for anyone watching their organisation or their government absorb technology faster than it can govern it.🎧 Episode overviewOvacik has spent his career at the

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00:31:39

Two Fears Behind Every AI Transformation - Dr....

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2026/07/02

🎙️ Dr. Charlotte Blum - Director Change & Organisational Design, edding GroupTwo fears run underneath every AI rollout, and most companies manage neither. Dr. Charlotte Blum works the human emotions of AI transformation - the fear, identity, and trust that decide whether adoption sticks - from a board-level role most organisations don't have. This is a conversation about why people resist AI, and why the technology itself may be the hardest thing in the room to trust.📌 The episodeCharlotte

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00:22:46

Tech and Trust at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation...

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2026/06/25

🎙️ Sarah Marie Sandmann, Innovation & Intrapreneurship, Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation HubAI trust in defence starts where slides end: with a soldier under pressure who needs to understand, rely on, and account for the technology in their hands. Sarah Marie Sandmann works at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub in Innovation and Intrapreneurship, the official innovation unit of the German armed forces. Sandmann treats trust in defence technology as a capability criterion, something tested under

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00:22:16

Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7...

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2026/06/19

🎙️ solo episode with host Eva Simone LihotzkyAnthropic's frontier AI model was pulled offline for every non-American in three days, and suddenly Europe's AI access looked less like something it owns and more like a permission. This is a week where digital trust stopped being abstract: one US export directive, one warning about Europe's compute future, and one lunch table where the people who build AI sat with the people who govern it. For any leader applying AI inside an organisation,

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00:26:37

AI and The Cognitive Atrophy Trap: What Happens When...

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2026/06/11

🎙️ Tobias Burkhardt, Founder of The Shift SchoolAI, trust and learning are on a collision course, and the casualty is judgment. Tobias Burkhardt, founder of the Shiftschool, argues that the way individuals and organisations are adopting AI in learning is a cultural problem: the reflex to make learning faster and cheaper is precisely what makes AI dangerous to the people using it. This conversation is for anyone who suspects the upskilling programmes around them are solving for the wrong problem.💡

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00:31:08

Tech and Democracy: How Can Both Be Connected to...

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2026/06/04

🎙️ with Magnus Strobel, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus PoliticsTrust in politics has been eroding across Western democracies for over a decade, and Magnus Strobel thinks the failure is in how democracy works, in the process that has stopped feeling participatory. His company, Nexus Politics, is a for-profit platform built to map the distance between what citizens actually think and what politicians actually do - and to make that distance impossible to ignore.🔍 Episode overviewThis is a conversation

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00:33:37

AI in China and in Europe: Trust, Differences, and...

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2026/05/28

Europe and China are on different AI paths at different speeds. Vincent Xiang has spent years inside that corridor: He has been working as a translator between Chinese AI founders and European investors and corporates, and this conversation dives into his experiences, conversations, and operations on the ground and in-between.🧭 Episode overviewEuropean executives are excited about Chinese AI momentum. But they're also stuck before they act. Chinese founders interpret some of Europe's

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00:38:25

The Agentic AI Gap: When Tech is Used Before its...

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2026/05/21

Most enterprises have the technology to run agentic AI. They do not yet have the data architecture, identity layer, or empowered workforce to actually trust it. Anthony Alcaraz argues that the bottleneck for agentic AI has shifted from building the agents to building everything around them — and that the organisations most at risk are the ones keeping a human in the loop and calling it transformation. This conversation is for leaders sitting between AI pilots that worked and production systems that

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00:34:32

Why AI is making political authenticity harder to...

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2026/05/14

AI has collapsed the cost of producing political content. Verifying it is another matter, and Cohen has spent two decades watching that gap widen from inside campaigns and classrooms. He has a three-part test for practitioners navigating it — real, authentic, factual — and this conversation is about why he thinks it has to be taught before anyone reaches the job.📻 Episode overviewCohen runs Congress in Your Pocket, teaches digital campaign strategy at Johns Hopkins and NYU, and serves as executive

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00:31:20

Why security intelligence fails before the attack -...

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2026/03/19

Most security failures are organisational: This episode is about the gap between threat intelligence that exists and the human systems that never act on it, and what that costs the organisations that keep losing to attacks they already understood.Assaf Kipnis has spent over a decade inside the threat intelligence and trust and safety functions of some of the world's largest platforms. In this conversation, he maps a structural failure that runs across the industry: the team that identifies

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00:36:07

AI as a Mirror: How Your Organization's Trust Culture...

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2026/03/14

🎙️ Simon Berkler, Co-Founder of The Dive🎧 About this episode This episode of The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast asks a question every leader is quietly facing: what does AI actually do to the trust inside your organization — and what does your trust culture do to AI? Simon Berkler, organizational development expert and co-founder of The Dive, argues that technology doesn't change organizations. It reveals them. The conversation is for leaders, HR professionals, and anyone navigating

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00:29:08

Trust, Creativity, and What We Risk When Adopting AI...

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2026/03/05

🎙️ Iwona Fluda, expert for creativity & ethics🧭 OpeningThis week's episode of the in-between tech & trust podcast examines how AI is reshaping creativity, trust, and responsibility in everyday work. If you work in creative fields, technology, or organizational leadership who are dealing with AI as a practical reality rather than an abstract future, then this podcast is for you. 🗣️ Episode overviewEva Simone Lihotzky is joined by creativity and ethics expert Iwona Fluda, founder of

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00:35:35

Designing a Sovereign Operating System for...

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2026/02/26

🎙️ Timo Spring, Co-Founder of Alma🎧 About this episodeThe latest episode of The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast explores how AI systems quietly extract human and organizational knowledge, and what it takes to design infrastructure that preserves sovereignty instead. The conversation is for leaders, founders, and technologists working with AI in real organizational settings, especially where trust, regulation, and long-term control matter.Rather than focusing on models or product features, the

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00:40:04

Navigating the AI Slop: How Editorial Judgment Is...

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2026/02/19

💬 Summary This week's episode of the in-between tech & trust podcast examines how AI is being used inside one of the largest media organizations in Germany, with a focus on trust, transparency, and day to day editorial practice - steered by Dr. Paul Elvers, Head of AI at Funke Medienhaus and podcast host Eva Simone Lihotzky. The conversation is for media specialists, editors, product leaders, and anyone working close to news production and consumption. The episode dives deep into the

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00:36:19

Foresight, Tech and Trust: How to Plan Ahead When The...

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2026/02/12

OpeningEpisode 19 of the in-between tech & trust podcast explores how organizations can make better decisions under uncertainty through foresight and scenario planning. In conversation with Heiko von der Gracht, professor at the University for Continuing Education Krems and long-standing practitioner of foresight practices, the discussion looks at how trust, technology, and perception shape what leaders think is possible. It is especially relevant for people working with strategy, innovation, or

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00:35:52

Parenting, Tech & Transformation in Times of...

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2026/02/05

🎙️Grisha Pavlotsky, Chief Transformation Officer at MiroOpening paragraphThis episode shares a conversation between Grisha Pavlotsky, CTO of Miro, and Eva Simone Lihotzky. It examines trust as a practical design problem in teams, AI systems, and everyday decision-making. The conversation is for leaders, builders, and parents trying to make sense of how judgment, accountability, and authority shift when AI becomes part of how work and learning happen. It focuses on what needs to be made explicit -

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00:32:41

WEF26: The Politics of Tech, AI Agent Systems &...

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2026/01/29

OpeningThis solo episode of The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast reflects on conversations from Davos and what they reveal about where tech, politics, and trust are heading into 2026. It’s for leaders, operators, and policy-adjacent roles who are trying to make sense of AI adoption beyond tooling. The focus is on what actually changes inside organizations, institutions, and collaborations when AI becomes infrastructure.🎧 Episode overviewEva Simone Lihotzky unpacks four threads that kept

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00:39:09

The Widening AI Value Gap: What Scaling AI Really...

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2026/01/15

🎙️ with Dr. Marc Roman Franke, Partner & Associate Director AI and digital transformation at BCG💬 OpeningEva Simone Lihotzky speaks with Marc Roman Franke, Partner & Associate Director AI and digital transformation at BCG, about how trust is built - or lost - during AI transformation inside large organizations. The conversation is for leaders, product owners, and transformation teams trying to move beyond pilots and into real operating change. It focuses on why execution, governance, and

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