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 delivered to you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco.
Enterprise AI has reached a brand new inflection level: workloads are going dwell, and the constraints are getting actual. The problem for enterprise technical leaders isn’t understanding AI’s potential — it’s navigating the messy, complicated 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 techniques that ship measurable enterprise worth.
“Enterprise technical leaders keep telling us the same thing: the hype cycle is loud, but what they really need are credible stories about what works in production,” mentioned Matt Marshall, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VentureBeat. “With Beyond the Pilot, we’re doubling down on VentureBeat’s mission to serve the practitioners — the people actually responsible for delivering AI outcomes. We’re excited to bring a new level of depth, honesty, and technical insight to this conversation.”
By means of in-depth, technically rigorous conversations, Past the Pilot unpacks the selections, infrastructure, and organizational modifications behind real-world AI deployments. The consequence: a sensible have 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 characteristic leaders from LinkedIn, Reserving.com, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and LexisNexis, every sharing the within story of scaling manufacturing AI techniques inside complicated international enterprises.
A podcast for enterprise AI executors
Past the Pilot is designed for senior managers, administrators, VPs, and lead engineers chargeable 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 emerging technologies from experimentation to production readiness," mentioned Vijoy Pandey, SVP/GM of rising tech incubator Outshift by Cisco. "That's why we're supporting VentureBeat on Beyond the Pilot. The podcast features tech leaders sharing how they built and deployed AI and agentic systems inside complex enterprises — the real decisions, the tradeoffs, what actually worked. It's the conversation the industry needs right 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 accomplished 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 high enterprises are turning AI ambition into motion.
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