Premiering November 19
VentureBeat is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship podcast, Past the Pilot: Enterprise AI in Motion, premiering November 19 and dropped at you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco.
Enterprise AI has reached a brand new inflection level: workloads are going stay, and the constraints are getting actual. The problem for enterprise technical leaders isn’t understanding AI’s potential — it’s navigating the messy, advanced work of constructing it run reliably at scale.
Past the Pilot goes inside that actuality with candid conversations from executives who’ve moved previous experiments and into manufacturing — scaling AI and agentic programs that ship measurable enterprise worth.
“Enterprise technical leaders hold telling us the identical factor: the hype cycle is loud, however what they actually need are credible tales about what works in manufacturing,” mentioned Matt Marshall, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VentureBeat. “With Past the Pilot, we’re doubling down on VentureBeat’s mission to serve the practitioners — the individuals truly accountable for delivering AI outcomes. We’re excited to convey a brand new stage of depth, honesty, and technical perception to this dialog.”
Via in-depth, technically rigorous conversations, Past the Pilot unpacks the selections, infrastructure, and organizational adjustments behind real-world AI deployments. The consequence: a sensible take a look at what it takes to show ambition into motion.
Season 1: Actual tales from the frontlines of enterprise AI
The debut episode options Notion, the place VP AI Ryan Nystrom discusses how the corporate constructed Notion 3.0 for brokers — and what it means to create an AI-native product inside a platform utilized by hundreds of thousands.
Upcoming episodes will function leaders from LinkedIn, Reserving.com, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and LexisNexis, every sharing the within story of scaling manufacturing AI programs inside advanced world enterprises.
A podcast for enterprise AI executors
Past the Pilot is designed for senior managers, administrators, VPs, and lead engineers accountable for turning AI technique into tangible outcomes. These are the decision-makers navigating the toughest issues in enterprise AI — mannequin governance, infrastructure selections, safety constraints, scaling challenges, and actual ROI.
"At Outshift, we take rising applied sciences from experimentation to manufacturing readiness," mentioned Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM of rising tech incubator Outshift by Cisco. "That's why we're supporting VentureBeat on Past the Pilot. The podcast options tech leaders sharing how they constructed and deployed AI and agentic programs inside advanced enterprises — the true choices, the tradeoffs, what truly labored. It's the dialog the business wants proper now."
Hosted by Matt Marshall and Sam Witteveen, the present delivers genuine, technically grounded conversations. No hype. No hand-waving. Simply actionable classes from those that’ve carried out it.
Subscribe and hear
The primary episode of Past the Pilot drops November 19 on VentureBeat.com and your favourite podcast platforms.
Subscribe now to listen to how prime enterprises are turning AI ambition into motion.
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