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AWS - Smart Business Podcast

AWS - Smart Business Podcast

AWS - Smart Business Podcast 47 Episodes Aug 29, 2026

The AWS Smart Business Podcast explores applied generative AI for businesses and the latest technology advancements across various sectors. It features discussions with business innovators who are integrating cutting-edge technologies into their operations, covering transformative strategies and real-world applications. The podcast is essential for those looking to stay ahead in the digital landscape.

Episodes

Project Gaia: How Drones, Computer Vision and AI Are Changing Nature Conservation
Project Gaia: How Drones, Computer Vision and AI Are Changing Nature Conservation Aug 29, 2026 00:31:46 What you can count, you can protect. Willem Kellerman and Dirk Straus (Chisl Group), with Henri Zietsman (Silicon Overdrive), on using solar-charged drones, computer vision and AI to map 100,000 hectares of Sabi Sand and Timbavati in five days, and on what that kind of detail lets a reserve see, manage and protect. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Purple Group & Finch Technologies: AI Rewrote the Maths of Modernisation
Purple Group & Finch Technologies: AI Rewrote the Maths of Modernisation Aug 29, 2026 00:35:19 Paul Jansen van Vuuren (Purple Group, EasyEquities) and Kirsten Hancock (Finch Technologies), with Deon Stroebel (LSD Open), on an 18-month rebuild compressed into a 3-day prototype, why the organisational 70 percent is still the hard part, and the meter that never stops once intelligence is priced per token. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
TTS Talent & OTpro: How AI Renews Legacy Code in Record Time, and What That Means for Business
TTS Talent & OTpro: How AI Renews Legacy Code in Record Time, and What That Means for Business Aug 29, 2026 00:30:19 Renier Lewis (TTS Talent) and Reshika Ramlal (OTpro), with Saireshan Govender (Blue Pearl), on how AI agents are renewing classic codebases in a fraction of the time they used to take, what that does to the business case for modernising, and where a human still has to sign off. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Saigen: How Do You Train Speech AI on 56 Hours of Audio?
Saigen: How Do You Train Speech AI on 56 Hours of Audio? Aug 29, 2026 00:29:31 Arnold Pretorius and Felix McGregor of Saigen on training speech recognition for South Africa's languages when the flagship corpus holds around 56 hours per language and Whisper had 680,000: semi-supervised training, cross-lingual transfer, and finding GPUs on a continent short of them. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
JobZapp & Tyflex: The Real Ups and Downs of Building a Startup on AI
JobZapp & Tyflex: The Real Ups and Downs of Building a Startup on AI Aug 29, 2026 00:34:53 Thabiet Davids (JobZapp) and Tamuka Machakaire (Tyflex), with Oliver Downs (Cloud Bridge), on handing your thinking to a system: you lose control and you gain consistency. From AI-assisted vetting in Cape Town to Vekta, the commerce and fulfilment platform Tyflex is building for Zimbabwe. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Hollard Court Bonds & EKS Vehicle Tracking: You No Longer Have to Settle for Spreadsheets and Rented Software
Hollard Court Bonds & EKS Vehicle Tracking: You No Longer Have to Settle for Spreadsheets and Rented Software Aug 29, 2026 00:32:18 Martina Venter (Hollard Court Bonds) and Nelson Sithole (EKS Vehicle Tracking), with Danie du Plessis (Fuse IT), on a regulated bond process that ran on spreadsheets and a tracking business that ran on rented software, and on why building and owning your own platform is no longer the slow, expensive option it used to be. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
SA Home Loans & Rewardsco: Everyone Has an AI Pilot, Almost Nobody Has AI in Production
SA Home Loans & Rewardsco: Everyone Has an AI Pilot, Almost Nobody Has AI in Production Aug 29, 2026 00:34:30 Rowan Potgieter (SA Home Loans) and Keenen Moodley (Rewardsco), with Jonathan Oaker (CloudZA), on why the bottleneck is no longer the model but the data, platforms and governance underneath it, and whether a 27-year-old business can leapfrog or only a startup can. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Billy Grace: When AI Moves the Budget, What's Still the Marketer's Job
Billy Grace: When AI Moves the Budget, What's Still the Marketer's Job Jun 30, 2026 00:31:52 Mitch Voskuilen (Billy Grace), with Albert Argenté Nordbeck (AWS), on what's still the marketer's job once AI distributes the budget and makes the creative, and whether "creativity comes back" is a real future or a comforting story. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.
Aikido: When AI Writes the Code and the Fix, How Small Can the Team Get
Aikido: When AI Writes the Code and the Fix, How Small Can the Team Get Jun 30, 2026 00:34:36 Frederick Ryckbosch (Aikido Security), with Albert Argenté Nordbeck (AWS), on what happens when the same AI both writes the code and writes the fix, and how small a team can get while still shipping secure software at startup speed. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.
Polarsteps: On the defensibility of human content against generic AI-driven travel itineraries
Polarsteps: On the defensibility of human content against generic AI-driven travel itineraries Jun 30, 2026 00:31:10 Maximiliano Neustadt (Polarsteps), with Tarek Mahmoud (AWS), on what is the best strategy against the big AI companies when it comes to helping people plan their trips in authentic ways.
Iris.ai: Who Steers a Deep-Tech AI Roadmap, the Market or Your Conviction
Iris.ai: Who Steers a Deep-Tech AI Roadmap, the Market or Your Conviction Jun 30, 2026 00:34:58 Ivan Tsenov (Iris.ai), with Kristina Cekanauskaite (AWS), on how a 2015-era deep-tech company stays specifically valuable in a 2026 AI market that re-prioritises every quarter, and whether the roadmap is steered by market signal or by technical conviction. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.
Ravical: A Smarter Junior, or Rewiring the Whole Firm
Ravical: A Smarter Junior, or Rewiring the Whole Firm Jun 30, 2026 00:35:49 Ken Bastiaensen (Ravical), with Veronica Ostring (AWS), on whether the next frontier is a smarter junior at every desk or organizational AI that rewires how a whole expert firm works, and whether that's a real product category or features the foundation models will absorb. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

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