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Hosted by Subrata Kar · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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Extracting scaling patterns from 200+ conversations with leaders building AI, healthcare, and enterprise systems.This isn't theory—it's what's working in production. Each episode breaks down decisions, frameworks, and approaches practitioners used to scale successfully (and what failed).Topics: AI governance, enterprise scaling, product-market fit, GTM strategy, leadership hiring, deeptech innovation.Host: Subrata Kar, mentor at T-Hub & NASSCOM DeepTech Club, 40 years in enterprise systems.For founders and CTOs who need specifics, not buzzwords.
Subrata Kar hosts The Spark & The Forge: Patterns That Actually Work, a business show with 17 episodes published.
Who decides when an algorithm gets it wrong? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Professor Renée Cummings —a criminologist who spent two decades in criminal justice before becoming one of the world
Your AI contract was written for a per-seat world. The meter is running in a token world. Microsoft reversed course on Claude Code. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Both for the same r
AI is changing software engineering faster than most teams are prepared for. AI coding tools are generating code faster than engineers can review it. Junior hiring is slowing down. And the value of engineering work is sh
In April 2026, Anthropic released Mythos — an AI model that read a 30-year-old system and found what humans missed for 27 years. Autonomously. This is not a security story. It is a contracts story. Every managed-services
Software is getting 60-80% cheaper to build. That's changing everything about buying versus building enterprise software. Last September, Chamath Palihapitiya made a bold claim: one company is replacing a $15 million-per
Insurers have stopped covering AI failures. Claudionor Coelho Jr. — ex-Chief AI Officer at Zscaler & Avantest, Stanford PhD — breaks down why. 95% of AI pilots never make it to production. Not because the AI fails. Becau
Most companies didn't choose AI dependency. They drifted into it — one tool at a time, one workflow at a time.In this episode, I speak with Tamsin Deasey-Weinstein, who leads AI strategy for the Cayman Islands — a financ
Air Canada's chatbot gave a passenger wrong information about bereavement fares. The customer followed it, booked the flight, and applied for a refund. Air Canada rejected it. In court, Air Canada's defense: "The chatbot
Only 5% of enterprise AI projects ship. Not because the model failed — because the system wasn't designed. Noelle Russell — CEO of the AI Leadership Institute and 5x Microsoft Trustworthy AI MVP — has built enterprise AI
Black Space explores the unexplored idea regions humans are not equipped to search — and what happens when machines can. In Episode 70 of The Spark & The Forge, Subrata Kar speaks with Jepson Taylor (Founder & CEO of VEO
8,000 rural women achieve 94% health behavior change while India's digital platform struggles with 20% useful outcomes. How is this possible? Mukti Bosco built a healthcare revolution from the ground up. Starting with on
🚨 We've scaled telehealth to hundreds of millions of consultations worldwide. But are we actually improving patient care?Dr. Aditi Joshi - practicing ER physician, global telehealth consultant, and co-creator of the Tel
From dreaming of cricket in small-town Andhra pradesh to helping steer India’s global startup ambitions—Murali Bukkapatnam’s journey is full of pivots, purpose, and persistence.In this episode of The Spark & The Forge, M
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The future of work isn’t in 2030. It’s now.This episode goes beyond the usual “AI will steal your job” panic and instead asks:❝ How is AI changing who we become through work? ❞Through real voices from Delhi to Tokyo, and
Everyone’s saying it—“AI is just hype.” But is that the full story? AI is turning geopolitics and international relations on their head, impacting trade, power, and the global order. In this no-fluff, straight-talking ep
Everyone’s saying it—"SaaS is dead." But is that the full story? Klarna ditched SaaS for AI and saved $40M—so does that mean SaaS is obsolete, or is it transforming into something more powerful? In this no-fluff, straigh
📦 Global supply chains are in turmoil. Freight bottlenecks, volatile pricing, and constant disruptions cost businesses billions in lost revenue. But can AI truly revolutionize logistics and bring order to the chaos?In t
re you worried that AI will wipe out jobs? Think again. In this episode of The Forge POV, I, Subrata Kar, challenge the common narrative that automation spells doom for employment. Drawing on history, economic trends, an
Generative AI Is REVOLUTIONIZING Business In 2025 | The Future of AI & Work Generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace. But what’s next? In this episode of The Spark & The Forge Podcast, host Subra
Brian Samson
Plugg Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Chamath Palihapitiya
1 appearance on this show
Malcolm Hawker
Master Data Management and Data Governance evangelist, ex-Gartner Analyst and Podcaster · Profisee
1 appearance on this show
Noelle Russell
CEO · AI Leadership Institute
1 appearance on this show
Tamsin Deasey-Weinstein
Cayman Islands
1 appearance on this show
Jepson Taylor
VEOX
1 appearance on this show
Murali Bukkapatnam
TiE Global
1 appearance on this show
Subhendu Pattnaik
Covasant
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Raghavendra Hunasgi
Zeebu
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