Smart Talks with IBM features innovators and industry leaders who are using AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies to redefine how they operate.
Join Malcolm Gladwell, author and host of Revisionist History, in conversation with leaders from global organizations as they navigate technological change in real time.
Season 7 features candid conversations with voices from HEINEKEN, UFC, AXA, Cleveland Clinic, and more, exploring the real-world impact of AI, quantum, cybersecurity, and emerging technology.
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Season 7, Episode 4 |
Trust Needs Proof: Who Really Controls Your AI?As AI adoption accelerates and global regulations evolve, digital sovereignty has shifted from policy concept to board-level priority. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell sits down live at VivaTech with IBM’s Ana Paula Assis and AXA CIO Giovanni D’Aniello to explore how organizations can balance innovation, control, trust, and resilience in the age of AI.
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- Trusted AI, Security and Society
- AI Transforming Consumer Industries
- Quantum Computing & the Future of Business
- AI & Quantum in Science & Healthcare
- AI in Sports & Fan Experience
Malcolm Gladwell sits down live at VivaTech with AXA CIO Giovanni D’Aniello and IBM’s Ana Paula Assis to explore how organizations can balance innovation, control, trust, and resilience in the age of AI.
The HEINEKEN Company is one of the world’s pioneering global brewers. Founded in 1864, it continues to innovate as it pursues its ambition to become the world’s best‑connected brewer. For the Season 7 premiere of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Surajeet Ghosh, HEINEKEN’s Chief AI Officer, explore how the company is using data and AI to become the world’s best-connected brewer.
Malcolm Gladwell sits down with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna to discuss the groundbreaking potential of quantum computing, the transformative impact of AI on business, and how Krishna’s visionary predictions from the 90s continue to guide IBM’s innovations.
When Dr. Lara Jehi began treating epilepsy patients in the 2000s, critical surgical decisions were driven more by clinician intuition and expertise than data. Today, she is a leader of IBM and Cleveland Clinic’s Discovery Accelerator, using advanced AI and quantum computing to transform how researchers analyze data, simulate molecules, accelerate drug discovery, and develop more precise treatments.
- Smart Talks Cleveland Clinic episode webpage
- Learn more about the quantum workflow behind protein simulation
Most of what happens inside the UFC Octagon is too fast for the human eye to follow. Enter Alon Cohen who has spent 15 years developing the AI that can catch them. Malcolm Gladwell sits down with him to show how UFC and IBM bring clarity and insight to the sport’s quickest action.
Meet our guests
- Digital Sovereignty
- Cleveland Clinic
- UFC
- HEINEKEN
Senior Vice President and Chair for IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pasific
Group CIO, AXA
Chief Research Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Executive Vice President of Innovation, TKO
Chief AI Officer, HEINEKEN Company
About the host
Malcolm Gladwell is the co‑founder of Pushkin Industries and host of the hit podcasts Revisionist History and Smart Talks with IBM. He is a journalist, speaker, and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Tipping Point, Outliers, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia.
