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Imagine two mates at the bar. Thirty years of business between them. And all they want to talk about is AI.
That's "This Week in Leading AI". The podcast where Kieron and Neil cut through the hype, share what's really working in the world of Generative AI, and helping people figure out this AI thing without the techno-babble.
Just honest conversation, real stories from the AI coalface, and the kind of straight-talking advice you'd only get from people who've worked together for 30+ years, been there, done that, broken things, gone "Oh S***!, fixed it, and lived to tell the tale. They claim Leading AI is the best job they've ever had and are having a blast doing it. It shows.
Warning: may cause you to actually enjoy learning about AI
Pull up a stool. We'll get the beers in.
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
40 minutes
English
United Kingdom
34 episodes
since March 3, 2026
episodic
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Week 33, and the sun is out at both ends of the call.
Neil asked AI how Disney would handle AI adoption. It said Copilot is a ticket to the car park and KnowledgeFlow is a ticket to the theme park. That line is ours now. Kieron takes the Disney idea further: give people a castle to walk towards ins…
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This week we moan on about lots of things like a couple of old twiners at the bar.
We start with Microsoft telling us we've all been doing AI adoption wrong. In their playbook published this week, they say they first treated AI like a traditional software rollout — deploy it, train people, dri…
Both Kieron and Neil have been gallivanting round the country all week, both are recording on a Friday afternoon with the pub in sight, and Neil has already had a text from a mate asking where he is.
Housing Community Summit — a full room, and one uncomfortable answer Kieron was back in Liverpool, …
There's a button that does the work for you. But nobody presses it. Why is that?
Neil spent this week with a customer struggling with AI adoption, and got something you rarely get: time with the leadership team, the managers, and the people actually doing the job.
The leadership were saying al…
It's a famous quote from Winston Churchill, but Kieron uses it about this podcast. Six months in, and nearly three years of Leading AI. Some of the challenges have changed markedly. Some haven't changed at all.
Complaints are now a token war. The BBC published a piece this week on AI-driv…
Six legs on the pantomime horse, and this time we didn't have to explain what a pantomime is because Juliana Smith who is from Brazil, now lives in Manchester and has a seven-year-old in a Manchester primary school, so she's already sat through Aladdin.
Juliana's route here is unlik…
Six legs on the pantomime horse again — and this time we had to explain what a pantomime horse actually is. Su Belagodu joins us from Winchester, Massachusetts (yes, we compared notes on the other Winchester), introduced by our previous guest Nicole Alos. Her first question after the explanation: &…
Some university leaders believe AI is free.
Not cheap. Free.
That's one of the findings from research by our special guest this week — Cameron Mirza, who leads major education projects in Jordan for IREX, the NGO working in over 100 countries, and who has just surveyed university AI readiness …
Six legs on the pantomime horse this week. This time the third stool goes to the man who started it all, the on, the only Donald Allison, CTO and architect of KnowledgeFlow.
The origin story is better than any of us remembered. In June 2022 Neil was getting ready to retire. Donald said don't …
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