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In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

Day One® 80 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

Stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of technology with the In the Blink of AI podcast. Host Georgie Healy leverages 15 years in tech with a vibrant Aussie sense of humor to interview leading experts in Artificial Intelligence, unpacking AI’s transformative potential and providing weekly commentary on the latest headlines. The podcast's mission is to demystify AI jargon and provide real human insights for everyone from the AI-curious to seasoned experts. In the Blink of AI is a Day One® show, a podcast network dedicated to founders, operators, and investors.

Episodes

We're afraid of the wrong thing in AI - with Paloma Newton
We're afraid of the wrong thing in AI - with Paloma Newton Aug 21, 2026 58:16 Paloma Newton is the founder of Elita, a longevity platform for dogs that combines biological testing, clinical history, and the changes owners notice day to day into one picture of how a dog is ageing. She built it backwards by most startup standards, a stem cell bank before a product, years of science before a single marketing push, all under one rule: don't promise more than the platform can ba
Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence) on AI's Real Bottleneck, and Why He's Betting on Australia
Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence) on AI's Real Bottleneck, and Why He's Betting on Australia Aug 14, 2026 01:02:31 Benjamin Plummer has one of the stranger CVs in Australian tech: nine years inside Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, building an AI lab alongside IBM Watson's inventor, scaling a startup he says went from $10M to $160M in revenue in eighteen months as CEO, and now running Dragonfly Intelligence, a firm that buys ordinary services businesses and rebuilds them as AI-native comp
Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code
Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code Aug 7, 2026 49:19 Dan Westgarth has spent 7 years helping build Deel from a contractor invoicing tool into one of the most valuable HR and payroll platforms in the world, and he did it after cutting his teeth as an early operator at Revolut. As COO, he sits across nearly every function the AI conversation touches: finance, sales, engineering, and the sheer operational load of running a company at global scale.In th
Lucas Cantor: "I Don't Think Anybody Knows What AI Is"
Lucas Cantor: "I Don't Think Anybody Knows What AI Is" Jul 31, 2026 58:09 Lucas Cantor has an unusual claim on the AI conversation. In 2019, Huawei asked him to finish Schubert's Unfinished Symphony using artificial intelligence, and he did it. He's an Emmy-winning composer who has worked on every Olympics since 2002, produced a cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World with Lorde, and now invests in music technology. His new book is Unfinished: The Role of the Artist
Why AI Can't Replace Marketing Strategy - with LinkedIn's Robin O'Connell
Why AI Can't Replace Marketing Strategy - with LinkedIn's Robin O'Connell Jul 24, 2026 52:48 Robin O'Connell spends his days inside LinkedIn's marketing and advertising team in Australia, working with founders and brands on content strategy - which makes him a rare voice on where AI genuinely helps marketers, and where it still falls flat. In this episode, Robin makes the case that the smartest move for any marketer right now is trying to replace parts of your own job with AI, just to fin
"The SaaS Apocalypse Is A Myth" with Freddie McKenzie, Co-Founder & CEO of Manifest
"The SaaS Apocalypse Is A Myth" with Freddie McKenzie, Co-Founder & CEO of Manifest Jul 17, 2026 57:04 Freddie McKenzie is the co-founder and CEO of Manifest, an AI platform that helps creative and marketing agencies capture the real value of their work without timesheets. Before Manifest, he built and exited VIVID Creative, an Auckland-based production agency behind campaigns for Jetstar and other major brands, and in this conversation with Georgie Healy he traces that journey and where he thinks
Mira Murati, the Quiet Superpower in the AI Race
Mira Murati, the Quiet Superpower in the AI Race Jul 10, 2026 29:35 Welcome to the first ever episode of AI Icons, a new thing I'm launching on the show. Here's the idea: the people reshaping tech have stories more entertaining than anything Hollywood is putting out, so in under 30 minutes I'm going to tell you the whole story, the good, the bad, and the ugly, but only the facts. No spin. And at the end, I'll give you my two cents on what actually made them an ico
How AI Models Are Really Judged, with Peter Gostev (Arena / LMArena)
How AI Models Are Really Judged, with Peter Gostev (Arena / LMArena) Jul 3, 2026 58:03 Peter Gostev is head of AI capabilities at Arena (LMArena), the community-based platform where millions of real people vote in blind tests to rank AI models, born out of research at UC Berkeley. Before Arena, Peter was Head of AI at Moonpig and built a large following sharing hands-on explorations of what the latest models can actually do. He joins Georgie Healy from London for a genuinely nerdy,
Inside ElevenLabs: Voice AI, Cloning Ethics, and the End of the Call Centre?
Inside ElevenLabs: Voice AI, Cloning Ethics, and the End of the Call Centre? Jun 26, 2026 01:03:33 Damian Naughton is the General Manager of ANZ at ElevenLabs, the voice AI company now past US$500 million in ARR, just four years after its 2022 founding. Formerly a regional VP at Slack and an early team member at Sydney's Hyper Anna (acquired by Alteryx), Damian is leading ElevenLabs' new Sydney office and tripling the local team as enterprise demand for voice AI accelerates.In this episode, Dam
"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion
"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion Jun 19, 2026 48:53 Akshay Kothari is the COO and co-founder of Notion, the workspace platform now used by over a hundred million people. Before Notion, he co-founded Pulse, the newsreader app built as a Stanford class project that Steve Jobs name-checked on stage at WWDC 2010 before LinkedIn acquired it. He joined Notion in 2018 when the team was fewer than ten people, and in this conversation with Georgie Healy he
Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson
Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson Jun 5, 2026 59:35 This is a #paidpartnership with Commonwealth BankEpisode SummaryBlair is the Chief Engineer of Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, overseeing nine to ten teams building the AI platform that powers Australia’s largest bank and its millions of customers. Including me, a Dollar Mite since primary school.His origin story is not what you would expect. He was a self-described hacker who grew up clicking
You Can. But Should You? | AI and Ethics with Dr Simon Longstaff
You Can. But Should You? | AI and Ethics with Dr Simon Longstaff May 29, 2026 59:18 "Can does not imply should."That one line from Dr Simon Longstaff cuts to the heart of everything wrong with how the tech industry is currently building AI. The Executive Director of The Ethics Centre and one of Australia's most respected moral philosophers joins Georgie for a conversation that is equal parts grounding and mind-expanding, and one of the most important episodes the show has produce

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