Into The Madverse

Recruitment has always been personal, imperfect, and painfully slow. In this episode, Mark Venables sits down with Tom Lakin, Global Head of Future of Work at Robert Walters, to explore how AI is rewriting the rules of hiring, automating bias, exposing trust gaps, and redefining what it really means to be human in the hiring loop.

Philosopher-turned-AI leader Filippo Sassi explores why building AI that can work is not the same as building AI that should work. In this episode, he dissects the architecture of ethical intelligence, from data bias and risk governance to the cultural and philosophical questions shaping the next frontier of responsible AI.

Gen Z is building companies with AI agents as co-founders, interns and middle managers, while legacy enterprises are still writing slide decks. In this episode, Jill Kenney, CEO of Sundae_Bar, maps the plug-and-play workflows, agent-to-agent protocols and outcome-first mindset behind this shift, and explains what leaders must change now.
 
 

While businesses rush to deploy AI for competitive advantage, cybercriminals are weaponizing the same technology to launch sophisticated attacks that would have been impossible just years ago. Ethical hacker Andre Baptista reveals how AI is democratizing cybercrime, turning novices into dangerous threat actors, and why fighting AI-powered attacks might require embracing AI as a defence, but at what moral cost?

In this episode of Into The Madverse, Edosa Odaro, Senior Executive Advisor for AI & Data, challenges the obsession with model size, speed and accuracy. He argues for a value-first approach where AI is measured by the human outcomes it creates, not the technical benchmarks it achieves.

As chips push past 2,000 watts, heat is emerging as the biggest threat to the future of AI. In this episode, Shahar Belkin, EVP at ZutaCore, explains why traditional cooling is failing, how two-phase solutions like pool boiling could redefine data centres, and why ignoring heat might stall the entire AI revolution.
 

Half of all AI projects stall after pilots, but failure isn’t the end of the story. In this episode of Into The Madverse, Mark Venables and Michael Eiden, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal, expose why most companies aren’t truly AI-ready, the hidden gaps in strategy and culture, and what it really takes to turn hype into impact.

Forget Rosie the robot, the real AI revolution is happening quietly in enterprise back-offices, where agentic systems are replacing vast swathes of clerical work and unlocking hidden value in billions of documents. John Bates, CEO of the SER Group, joins Mark Venables to explore why smart content AI is the next industrial revolution and what leaders must do now to seize the advantage.

AI has moved beyond the lab, but too many enterprises are still stuck talking instead of doing. Robbie Jerrom, Senior Principal Technologist for AI at Red Hat, joins Into The Madverse to unpack how open-source infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and agentic AI can turn lofty ambitions into scalable, governed reality.

AI is rapidly becoming both a weapon and a target in the evolving cyber threat landscape, yet most developers still ship insecure code without realising the risks. In this hard-hitting episode Michael Burch, a former Green Beret turned security strategist breaks down how AI is reshaping the battlefield, and why the future of trust depends on rewriting the rules of secure development.