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   S2 · E5 · 5 Aug 2026 · 32 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | Alberto Romero on Engineering AI at scale at Aviva

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com What does it actually take to ship machine learning inside one of the UK's largest insurers? Jeremy Bradley sits down with Alberto Romero, director of AI engineering at Aviva, to trace his path from InsurTech founder to enterprise AI leader. Alberto explains why prototypes are so often mistaken for finished products and what production readiness really demands once edge cases, drift and adversarial behaviour enter the picture. The…

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   S1 · E45 · 22 Jul 2026 · 32 min

   Fast Enough to Matter, Careful Enough to Trust: How Leaders Are Governing AI

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com There's a real difference between an organisation experimenting with AI and one that has genuinely thought through what it means for its strategy, its accountability, and the people it serves. That gap is where a lot of the frustration lives. In this episode, we bring together some of the sharpest thinking from across the show on AI strategy and governance: the decisions that happen before AI gets deployed and the frameworks that make sure…

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   S2 · E4 · 8 Jul 2026 · 43 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | Why Neurosymbolic AI Solves What Scaling Alone Cannot with Dr Vaishak Belle

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com Large language models are surprisingly good at producing fluent, plausible text. So why do they still confidently get simple things wrong? In this episode, Dr Jeremy Bradley is joined by Dr Vaishak Belle, Reader at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, Alan Turing Institute Faculty Fellow and Director of Research and Innovation at the Bayes Centre. Vaishak has spent 16 years working at the intersection of logic, probability…

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   S1 · E44 · 24 Jun 2026 · 23 min

   The AI Skills Gap: What It Really Takes to Bring a Workforce on the Journey

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com The technology is the easy part. Getting people ready for it, that's the hard part. In this special compilation episode, Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma steps back from the individual conversations and zooms out to one of the most persistent themes across the show in 2026: AI skills and literacy. Because no matter the industry, the company size, or the stage of the AI journey, the same challenge keeps surfacing. How do you get an entire workforce…

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   S1 · E43 · 10 Jun 2026 · 32 min

   From FOMO to Strategy: How Haleon's CDAO Richard Moule Is Educating Leaders on AI

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com In this episode, Richard Moule, Chief Data and AI Officer at Haleon, joins Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma to discuss one of the most pressing challenges facing large organisations today: how do you build genuine AI literacy across an entire workforce, starting at the very top? Richard shares how Haleon partnered with Cambridge Spark to deliver an in-depth AI education programme to its executive team, why the CEO set a clear ambition to lead the…

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   S1 · E42 · 27 May 2026 · 38 min

   Governing AI in Financial Services: Inside the FCA with Jessica Rusu, Chief Data, Information & Intelligence Officer

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com In this special episode of Data & AI Mastery Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma goes inside the Financial Conduct Authority to sit down with Jessica Rusu, Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer at one of the most influential regulatory bodies in the world. The FCA oversees the conduct of more than 50,000 firms across UK financial services. Jessica sits at the centre of a question that every financial institution is grappling with right now: how…

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   S2 · E2 · 20 May 2026 · 40 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | AI in Industrial Manufacturing: Inventory Optimisation and Real-Time Process Control

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com In this episode of Inside the Algorithm, Dr Jeremy Bradley sits down with Dr Gueorgui Mihaylov, Principal Data Scientist at Haleon and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, to explore what happens when rigorous mathematics meets the messy reality of a global consumer health supply chain. Gueorgui walks through two of the most technically ambitious AI projects running inside Haleon today. First, the AI Inventory Planner, an…

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   S1 · E41 · 13 May 2026 · 37 min

   How the AA Balances AI Innovation and Human Care at Scale with Nick Edwards and Harj Johal

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com The AA has been keeping British drivers moving for 120 years. But behind that familiar brand, a quiet and ambitious transformation is under way. In this episode, Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is joined by Nick Edwards, Group Chief Technology Officer, and Harj Johal, Managing Director of Customer Operations, to explore what the AA's guiding principle of digital convenience with human care actually means when applied to real operational decisions.…

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   S2 · E1 · 6 May 2026 · 29 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | Hybrid Simulation, Model Reuse and AI in NHS Planning

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com Planning healthcare at scale is one of the most consequential challenges facing the NHS. In this inaugural episode of our new show, Inside The Algorithm, Cambridge Spark’s Chief AI Officer, Dr Jeremy Bradley, is joined by Dr Lucy Morgan, Head of Simulation at the NHS Strategy Unit, to explore how simulation modelling and AI are being used to tackle that challenge head-on. Lucy led the development of a hybrid simulation model for renal…

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    S1 · E40 · 29 Apr 2026 · 28 min

    From Cybersecurity to AI Director: Sarah Self on Leading Transformation at Aviva

    👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com On this week's episode of Data & AI Mastery, Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is joined by Sarah Self, AI Director at Aviva. Sarah brings a rare dual perspective to the conversation of data and AI, having spent nearly a decade in cybersecurity before moving into AI leadership. In this episode, she shares how those two disciplines share the same foundations: people, process and technology, and why that framework is central to delivering responsible,…