Season 3 - Episode 1 - From AI Pilot to Business Value with Ambrish Kinariwala

In this episode of Data Tech Talks, Raed Mahboub is joined by Ambrish Kinariwala, a senior Data & AI leader with over 15 years of experience across telecommunications, financial services, health, government and consulting.

With organisations investing heavily in AI, the conversation focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing leaders today: how do you move beyond the hype and turn AI investment into measurable business value?

Raed and Ambrish discuss how organisations should prioritise AI use cases, why initiatives need to be anchored to genuine business problems, and the importance of proving value early through focused, practical use cases. They also explore why so many AI pilots struggle to make it into production and what separates an interesting experiment from an AI capability that can actually scale.

The discussion also covers the importance of data foundations, governance, workflow redesign, human-in-the-loop controls and business adoption, as well as why not every process needs AI applied to it.

A practical conversation for Data & AI leaders looking to understand how to approach AI investment with greater discipline and build solutions that deliver genuine value beyond the pilot stage.