Oct 27, 202638 minS3
After two episodes on what goes wrong in execution and deployment, this episode zooms out to the questions that keep boardrooms busy: What return can we realistically expect? How do we organize for this? And what does a...
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AI and the Executive Table
Hosted by Kenza Ait Si Abbou · business · EN
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The Podcast where AI meets real world decisions Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini | Scailers GmbH AI and the Executive Table is the podcast for C-suite leaders and board members navigating the real decisions of AI transformation. Hosted by AI strategist and Spiegel bestselling author Kenza Ait Si Abbou, each episode unpacks the human, organizational, and technological shifts that turn AI from boardroom pressure into lasting business value. No hype. No theory. Just the conversations that matter at the top. ------- About Kenza Kenza Ait Si Abbou-Lyadini is one of Germany’s most sought-after voices on AI transformation and leadership in uncertain times. Born in Morocco, she studied electrical engineering in Spain and industrial engineering in Berlin. As a former CTO and board member at Fiege Logistik, as well as a senior manager at IBM and Deutsche Telekom, she brings operational credibility across all scales, from global techno
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The Podcast where AI meets real world decisions Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini | Scailers GmbH AI and the Executive Table is the podcast for C-suite leaders and board members navigating the real decisions of AI transformation.
Who hosts AI and the Executive Table?
AI and the Executive Table is hosted by Kenza Ait Si Abbou. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
What has AI and the Executive Table covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Management Illusions About Agentic AI (Part 2)" (27 October 2026, 38 minutes), "Management Illusions About Agentic AI (Part 1)" (20 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "AI-Augmented Forecasting" (13 October 2026, 26 minutes).
How often does AI and the Executive Table publish?
AI and the Executive Table publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 19 episodes.
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Oct 20, 202633 minS3Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by end of 2027, according to Gartner. Many more remain stuck in experimentation. And even those that scale often fail to deliver the intended return on investment. The...
Episode #17
AI-Augmented Forecasting
Oct 13, 202626 minS3Show Notes Most executive decisions are forecasts in disguise. 'Will this market grow?' 'Will this AI initiative deliver ROI?' 'Will this acquisition integrate well?' These are all probability estimates — and most...
Episode #16
New Frontiers
Oct 6, 202638 minS3Show Notes Nearly 9 in 10 organizations report using AI regularly. Only 37% say AI has made a positive contribution to their EBIT. And only 6% qualify as genuine AI high performers. The rest? Optimizing. Automating...
Episode #15
From Insight to Innovation
Sep 29, 202633 minS3Every week, AI teams deliver insights. Dashboards fill up. Reports multiply. And in most organizations nothing changes. Not because the AI didn't work. Because the insight never became a decision. In this episode, Kenza...
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Episode #14
Data Governance & Trust
Sep 22, 202629 minS3Most organizations have data governance policies. Far fewer have data governance that actually works when it meets day-to-day operations. In this episode, Kenza and Pascal move beyond the theory and into the...
Episode #13
Data Is Organizational Memory
Sep 15, 202630 minS3"Data is the new oil." It's one of the most repeated phrases in every AI conversation - and one of the most misleading. Data is not valuable in itself. It is dead storage space until it is connected, trusted...
Sep 8, 202630 minS3Legacy systems are not just old technology. They are the accumulated result of past decisions — many of them made for good reasons at the time — that now constrain everything a company wants to do with AI. In this...
Episode #11
IT & Technology | No AI Without IT
Sep 1, 202635 minS3Most companies talk about AI strategy. Far fewer ask the more uncomfortable question: is our technology foundation actually ready for it? In this first episode of Season 3, Kenza and her new co-host Pascal challenge the...
Jul 28, 202620 minS3The Middle East is not just a market to expand into; for the right founders, it may be the best place to build. Countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are making AI a national strategic priority, moving faster...
Jul 21, 202627 minS3In this episode, Kenza speaks with Dr. Abir Haddad, legal futurist and advisor to governments and regulators across multiple jurisdictions, for a clear-eyed view of what the global regulatory landscape actually looks...
Jul 14, 202626 minS2When executives talk about AI risk, the conversation usually starts with regulation. But many of the real risks appear much earlier — inside everyday decisions, inside teams experimenting with new tools, inside the...
Jul 7, 202631 minS2When compliance enters an AI initiative at the end of the process, it becomes friction. When it is built in from the beginning, it creates clarity — and clarity allows organizations to move faster. That shift, from...
Jun 30, 202626 minS2AI responsibility is quietly moving up the executive agenda. The question is no longer whether to use AI — but how to govern it properly while still moving fast. And that is where many organizations hesitate: they...
Jun 23, 202617 minS1SHOW NOTES Once organizations move beyond early AI experiments, a new question appears: Do we have the right people to scale this? Eventually internal learning reaches its limits. You need deeper expertise. But hiring...
Jun 16, 202619 minS1SHOW NOTES When organizations talk about AI transformation, the instinct is often to hire. But that is usually the wrong starting point. The real question is how to enable the people already inside the business. In this...
Jun 9, 202621 minS1SHOW NOTES When executives ask about AI transformation, the question is often: what is the right organisational design? Central team or decentralised? The honest answer is: you need both - and the balance shifts as your...
Jun 2, 202626 minS1<p>When organizations talk about AI transformation, the instinct is often to ask: how do we measure culture? But the harder question is how to shape it. Culture is not what is written on a values poster - it is what...
May 16, 20266 minS1<p>Right now, in boardrooms everywhere, the same question keeps coming up: What are we actually doing about AI? Not in theory. Not in a pilot. But in the business.</p><br><p>In this first episode, Kenza and her co-host...
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