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In this episode, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Dr. Siew Chan Cheong about how AI is transforming banking-from traditional financial institutions to modern investment models.
They discuss building practical enterprise AI strategies, scaling AI beyond pilots, and preparing for the future of work, where banking roles increasingly combine empathy, creativity, and AI fluency, alongside Maybank’s leadership in Islamic finance and value-based banking.
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In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Prashant Warier, founder of Qure.ai, on how medical AI is quietly saving lives - from early lung cancer detection to large-scale TB screening. They discuss how AI really works inside hospitals, the role of regulation and human judgment, and why effective healthcare AI is never fully automated.
In this episode, Dr Ayesha speaks with AI robotics leader Marko Bjelonic about autonomous delivery robots and the future of last-mile delivery. They unpack why logistics break down, how AI automation tackles real-world chaos, and why data - not hype - determines which robots actually survive on the streets.
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Tom, who went from the US Supreme Court and the White House to leading global AI policy at Google DeepMind. They explore how frontier AI is governed, what happens inside companies building the most powerful models, and what this means for the future of work.
In this episode Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Magnus Grimeland, founder of Antler, one of the world’s most global early-stage investors backing founders from day zero across 30+ countries. From growing up on a farm in rural Norway to serving in Norway’s Naval Special Forces, Magnus’s path to global investing was anything but conventional.
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Anastasia Georgievskaya, CEO & Co-Founder of Haut.AI, about how AI-powered skincare turns selfies into insights on skin health, aging, and wellness. They discuss AI skin analysis, SkinGPT’s product simulations, bias across skin tones, and key issues around privacy and trust in beauty tech.
In this episode, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Singapore-born OpenAI engineer Jerene Yang about AI infrastructure, multimodal models, hallucinations, AI jobs, and what the future of ChatGPT means for everyday people. A clear, no-nonsense look at how AI actually works—and what’s hype versus reality.
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Juan Franco, the global CEO of Get Net, to explore how technology is redefining cross-border payments - from Brazil to Singapore to Madrid. They dive into how AI in fintech, agentic commerce, and stablecoin payments are reshaping the way the world moves money …
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Nour Al Hassan, founder of Tarjama and Arabic AI, to unpack how she’s turning Arabic into a frontier for enterprise AI innovation. From hiring women working at home in Jordan to building the #1 Arabic large language model, Nour’s journey is a masterclass in grit, vision, and cultural pride …
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Mike Parsons, Data and AI Lead at Air New Zealand, the country’s national airline. Known for its culture of innovation and deep Māori values of guardianship, New Zealand is blending ethics, technology, and sustainability in ways few nations have attempted …
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Jeff Dean, Google’s Chief Scientist and the mind behind some of the company’s biggest AI breakthroughs. From the powerful Gemini model to Google Translate and speech recognition, his work has shaped how billions use technology every day.
In this episode, Dr Ayesha speaks with longevity expert and investor Sonia Arrison about the future of ageing. They explore healthspan vs. lifespan, AI-driven breakthroughs, women’s health, and the social questions of longer lives -from love and money to purpose and fairness.
In this episode, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Bolor-Erdene Battsengel, Mongolia’s youngest Vice Minister and a global advocate for AI inclusion and women in tech. From herding horses to digitising 1,500+ government services through e-Mongolia, they discuss courage, culture, and how AI can bridge divides rather than widen them.
In this episode, Dr Ayesha speaks with Nigel Toon, founder of Graphcore and author of How AI Thinks, about the hidden world of AI hardware. They explore AI chips and semiconductors, why the AGI debate misses the point, the UK’s growing role in AI, and what’s next for machine intelligence, AI safety, and education.
In this episode, Dr Ayesha Khanna speaks with Niceaunties, the Singapore-based artist turning auntie culture into surreal AI-powered art. From ’80s aunties and manga to an AI-driven Auntieverse shown in Paris, Basel, and Los Angeles, they talk creativity, aging, and why AI may be the most collaborative art partner yet.
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with David Hardoon, Global Head of AI Enablement at Standard Chartered, to discuss what AI really looks like inside a global bank, how it’s rolled out at scale, and why successful AI adoption depends on business goals, governance, and process redesign - not hype.
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Wardah Inam, Founder and CEO of Overjet, to explore how AI is transforming dental care and how FDA-cleared dental AI is helping clinicians detect disease earlier and make more accurate decisions - reducing guesswork and improving standards of care.
In this episode, Dr. Ayesha Khanna speaks with Ling Tan and Usman Haque about how large language models are reshaping creativity, design, and the built environment. They explore whether AI expands creativity or standardizes it and what responsible innovation looks like as architecture and AI increasingly intersect.
