AI-Dialogos
AI Essentials for Leaders Podcast
A podcast and Substack series exploring AI strategy, implementation, and ethics.
Hosted by Alfred Essa and Teresa Martín-Retortillo.
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#5: Why Will You Win? Differentiation in the Age of AI, Part I
In this episode of AI-Dialogos: AI Essentials for Leaders, Teresa Martin-Retortillo and Alfred Essa welcome Ton Dobbe, author of The Remarkable Effect, to explore what it takes for software companies to stand out as generative and agentic AI reshape competition.
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# 4: AI Infrastructure Geopolitics in Europe
Oct 26, 2026What will it take for Europe to turn AI ambition into real economic and social value?
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#3: Leadership with AI and Trust
Aug 11, 2026Co-hosts Alfred Essa and Teresa Martín-Retortillo welcome Dr. Alex Zarifis—research affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and author of Leadership with AI and Trust—to explore why trust has become essential to effective leadership in the age of AI. They dis…
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#2: AI and Social Entrepreneurship
Jul 5, 2026Robert Hacker joins Alfred Essa and Teresa Martín-Retortillo on AI-Diálogos to discuss social entrepreneurship in the age of AI. Drawing from his recent book The Second Renaissance, Hacker explains how AI can help entrepreneurs reframe problems, scale social impact, and maximi…
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#1: AI + Cloud: Strategies for Governance and Risk Management
Jun 1, 2026In this first episode of AI-Dialogos, we explore one of the central tensions facing leaders today: the promise of AI is real, but so is the organizational chaos surrounding it. While many conversations about AI focus on utopian futures or urgent fears of being left behind, the…
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View all →#5: Why Will You Win? Differentiation in the Age of AI, Part I
Nov 6, 2026Watch now (19 mins) | Ton Dobbe: Founder, Value Inspiration
# 4: AI Infrastructure Geopolitics in Europe
Oct 26, 2026Eulalia Flo, Regional Vice President at Equinix. Board member European Data Centre Association (EUDCA)
#3: Leadership with AI and Trust
Aug 11, 2026Alex Zarifis. Lecturer University of Southampton. Author: Leadership with AI and Trust.
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AI Essentials for Leaders
Concise, non-technical primers on artificial intelligence for business leaders, practitioners, and policymakers, published by De Gruyter Brill and co-edited by Alfred Essa and Teresa Martín-Retortillo.