Bernard Marr's Future of Business & Technology Podcast

What does CES 2026 really tell us about the future of technology, business, and geopolitics? 🌐🤖

In this conversation, I speak with Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and the driving force behind CES, about the trends shaping the global tech landscape.

We explore how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to real productivity, why robotics, healthcare tech, and mobility are becoming central themes at CES 2026, and how regulation can either enable or suppress innovation. We also discuss tariffs, export controls, and why uncertainty is becoming one of the biggest risks to global investment.

Gary shares his perspective on how democracies can compete with centralized tech strategies, the growing importance of energy and nuclear power for AI and data centers, and why collaboration between governments, industry, and startups matters more than ever.

If you want to understand where technology is heading next, and what it means for business leaders and policymakers, this conversation offers a clear and candid view.

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AI is moving beyond experimentation and into the backbone of the enterprise.

In this interview, I sit down with Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini, to unpack TechnoVision 2026and the five technology trends that will reach an inflection point next year. We discuss how AI is reshaping software development, cloud architectures, and enterprise operations, and what this shift means for business leaders who want measurable impact rather than hype. #CapgeminiPartner #Sponsored

🎯 In this conversation, we explore:
• The year of truth for AI and why 2026 is about proof-of-impact
• How AI is eating software and redefining the software lifecycle
• Cloud 3.0 and why hybrid, sovereign, edge, and multi-cloud matter for AI at scale
• The rise of Intelligent Ops and Human-AI co-steering
• The borderless paradox of tech sovereignty and resilient interdependence

This is a practical discussion for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and transformation leaders who want to understand where technology is really heading and how to turn it into business value.

👇 Let me know which trend you believe will matter most for your organization.

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When the CEO of a major freelance platform tells his own employees that AI is coming for their jobs, including his, you know we're at a real inflection point. 🚨

I'm joined by Micha Kaufman, co-founder and CEO of Fiverr, to discuss why he delivered such a blunt warning instead of reassurance, the "steam engine on a carriage" problem we're facing with AI right now, why AI giving everyone superpowers means it gives no one superpowers, how velocity (not just speed) becomes the ultimate competitive advantage, what skills will actually matter in an AI-augmented world, and why he's more worried about society's response to displacement than the technology itself. 🤖💼

Why are startups racing ahead with AI while half of enterprises remain stuck in pilot purgatory?

🚀 I’m joined by Sasha Rubel, GenAI Policy Lead for AWS in EMEA, and Alexandru Voica, Head of Public Affairs at Synthesia, to discuss the widening two-tier AI economy, the four critical barriers holding companies back (infrastructure, regulation, funding, and skills), real-world impact stories from Rwanda to Ukraine, the rise of agentic AI, and why the future of work will be tech-enabled but fundamentally human-centered. 💡🤖

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🤖 The Agentic Enterprise Revolution: Inside Salesforce's AI Strategy

Why do 95% of AI pilots fail to reach production? The answer might surprise you. In this exclusive interview from Dreamforce 2025, I sit down with Adam Evans, Salesforce's Executive Vice President of AI and General Manager for AI, to uncover what it really takes to build a successful agentic enterprise. #Salesforcepartnership #Sponsored

🎯 What You'll Learn:

✨ The Three Critical Use Cases for AI Success

Serving customers more effectively
Boosting employee productivity with AI agents
Implementing agentic workflows and operations

🏢 Real World Agentic Enterprise Examples

How Engine (European travel company) is building with AI from day one
Financial services firms using proactive AI to enhance client meetings
Companies moving from experimentation to production scale

⚡ Why Most AI Projects Fail

The truth behind the 95% failure rate for AI pilots
The difference between creating demos and shipping production-ready agents
What separates prototypes from scalable AI solutions

🛠️ Essential Platform Capabilities for AI Success

Agent Force platform and tooling ecosystem
Agent Force Fabric for monitoring multi-agent networks
MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent to Agent) protocols
Agent Script for hybrid deterministic and prompt logic
Testing centers and observability tools

🌐 Managing the Multi-Agent Ecosystem

How to control competing agents across your organization
Agent Force Vibes for rapid agent development with natural language
Policies and guardrails for agent networks
Understanding network traffic and tool usage

💡 Practical Implementation Advice

How to choose the most strategic use cases (not all 100 of them!)
Designing performance measurement upfront
Moving from experimentation to focused production
Realizing actual business value from AI investments

🔍 Competitive Landscape Insights

How Salesforce differentiates from OpenAI, ServiceNow, and SAP
Why scalability and integrated tooling matter
The importance of connecting agents across channels
Analytics, memory capacity, and data management for AI

Adam goes beyond the AI hype to provide actionable insights and real world examples that will help you avoid the pitfalls causing 95% of AI initiatives to fail. Whether you're just starting your AI journey or looking to scale existing pilots, this interview offers invaluable guidance.

🎤 Guest: Adam Evans, EVP of AI & GM for AI at Salesforce
🎙️ Host: Bernard Marr, Futurist & Best Selling Author

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