Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we work, live, and lead. But what does that mean for Australian businesses? The AI Australia Podcast, hosted by Emma Bromet and Kathryn Collier, is your essential guide to understanding the AI revolution and its impact on Australian businesses. We cut through the jargon to bring you practical discussions and expert interviews on how AI is affecting everything from enterprise strategy to daily life, with a focus on ethical and responsible AI, diversity and inclusion, and AI-at-scale. The AI Australia Podcast is proudly hosted by Mantel, a next-gen consultancy that blends brilliant thinkers with expert...
Latest episodes
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52 min
'AI Everywhere' is over. It's time for AI accountability
In today's episode we speak to Samantha Garrett (AI & Automation Platform Lead at Canva) who reveals Canva's internal roadmap for deploying AI across business units, balancing user…
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39 min
Governance Isn't the Handbrake. It's the Green Light.
Most organisations treat AI governance as the thing that slows innovation down. Luli Adeyemo believes the opposite is true. A technology executive, entrepreneur and former BMX worl…
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47 min
Your Sales Team is only adding value for 90 minutes a day. Here's what AI should be doing with the rest
As part of our Aussie Start-Up Series we talk to Jo Thomas, founder of Enrola
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53 min
The 1800s paradox that predicts exactly what AI will do to your job
Everyone's convinced AI is coming for engineering jobs. Tom Goerke, National President of Engineers Australia, thinks that fear is almost exactly backwards, and he's got 19th-centu…
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49 min
The Governance Gap: Why most boards aren't ready for AI and what to do about It
Lee Hickin has spent 30 years at the frontier of technology, from IBM and AWS to serving as CTO of Microsoft Australia. Now, as Executive Director of the National AI Centre, he's a…
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35 min
Building the Future of Work before AI was cool: A peak inside AI hyper growth with Arvind Jain
Before ChatGPT changed everything, Arvind Jain was already four years deep into solving a problem every knowledge worker knows but no one had fixed: why is it so impossible to find…
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54 min
How to overcome the fear of failure and lead in the age of AI with Dom Price
Why are the world's most powerful executives "resting and vesting" in the corner instead of innovating? Dom Price joins the podcast to discuss the psychological warfare happening i…
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43 min
15 Years of Expertise in 10 Minutes: Democratising Drug Development with AI
What if the knowledge locked inside the heads of the world's most elite scientists could be downloaded into a "nervous system" for everyone? Craig Rayner spent decades watching lif…
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36 min
Revolutionising the Frontline: Scaling AI Agents Globally with Deputy
Can AI truly understand the nuances of a busy commercial kitchen or a retail floor? Ciaran and Deepesh from Deputy join the podcast to discuss the journey of launching Deputy AI, a…
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32 min
Building beautiful AI experiences and why the secret to high-performing AI teams might actually just be... mor…
In the world of FinTech, there are those who talk about AI, and those who ship it. Tracy Moore, GM of AI and Data at MYOB, is firmly in the latter camp. In this episode, Tracy reve…
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49 min
Leader or laggard: where do you sit in the AI divide in 2026?
We change things up in today's episode and grill two Mantel Leaders, Samuel Irvine Casey and Vihan Patel, who have been in the trenches over the past 12 months building AI and Agen…
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42 min
The Death of the Dashboard: Why ThoughtSpot's CEO Says 'AI is the New BI'
Forget building dashboards! The CEO of ThoughtSpot reveals how conversational AI is killing traditional business intelligence and putting a personal, 24/7 data analyst on every emp…
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36 min
The F1 Garage of Swimming: How Swimming Australia is leveraging AI for Olympic Success
Discover how Swimming Australia is diving deep into data and AI to secure Olympic gold! Today we chat to Jess Coronas, Head of Performance Insights at Swimming Australia, and discu…
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32 min
Learning from the Industrial Revolution: How do we re-think user experiences in the age of AI?
What does factory floorplan design during the Industrial Revolution have to do with re-imagining user experiences in the ages of AI? In today's episode, we chat to Dr. Haijun Xia,…
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37 min
AI-Powered Development: How GitHub is democratising software development and transforming productivity
Join us for a conversation with Sharryn Napier, Vice President for APAC at GitHub, as she discusses leading the company's strategic direction and business growth across the region.…
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46 min
From Human to Agentic: What it takes to be an AI-Native business
In this episode, we talk with David Hyman, CEO and co-founder of Lendi Group, the company behind Australia's leading digital mortgage brand, Lendi, and the iconic Aussie franchise.…
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48 min
AI's Palm Pilot Era: Why we're using a game-changing tech all wrong
In this episode of the AI Australia podcast, hosts Kat and Emma speak with David Brudenell, Executive Director of Decidr, an Australian AI software company. David, a veteran of the…
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36 min
The AI-First Shift: How Brands Can Win in the Age of Generative AI
In a world where nearly half of Australians have adopted generative AI, traditional marketing is being reshaped. This episode features Celia Harding, an expert in Language Engine O…
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35 min
Don't build AI into broken processes: Unlocking business potential with Process Mining
In this episode, we chat with Professor Wil van der Aalst, the "Godfather of Process Mining." He's the brains behind a multi-billion dollar industry that started 25 years ago in hi…
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25 min
The Human Touch: Navigating AI in Finance and Beyond
In this episode, May Lam, Chief Information Officer at Australian Payments Plus, shares her incredible journey from a software engineer tackling Y2K bugs to a leading voice in paym…