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   S1 · E47 · 16 Sep 2026 · 25 min

   No Get Out of Jail Free Card: Five Data Leaders on AI in Regulated Industries

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com In financial services, getting AI wrong doesn't just mean a bad headline. It means real customers losing real money at the moments that matter most. If you're trying to balance AI innovation with regulatory scrutiny, you already know the tension: move too fast and risk a compliance failure, move too slow and watch competitors who don't hesitate pull ahead. Edmund Towers leads Advanced Analytics & Data Science at the Financial Conduct…

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   S2 · E6 · 2 Sep 2026 · 32 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | Divya Kesavan on AI Transformation in Banking: Beyond RPA and Automation

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com For years, digital transformation and AI transformation have been used almost interchangeably. Divya Kesavan, Head of Data Science for Business and Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group, explains why that conflation breaks down in practice. In this episode, Divya walks Jeremy through the shift from rule-based RPA to reasoning-driven AI and why Lloyds' enterprise AI blueprint rests on three layers: reasoning, context and control. She…

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   S1 · E46 · 19 Aug 2026 · 31 min

   BlackRock CIO Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff on Data, AI and Financial Inclusion

   👉 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 Data & AI Mastery, host Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is joined by Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock, to explore why data quality and accessibility sit at the heart of every serious AI strategy. Simona explains what good data infrastructure looks like when overseeing hundreds of billions in mandates and why relevant data, not just volume, drives better investment insights. She shares her Ferrari…

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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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   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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   S2 · E3 · 3 Jun 2026 · 34 min

   DAIM: Inside The Algorithm | Network Forecasting & Data Science Leadership with Dr Judit Guimera Busquets

   👉 Discover how Cambridge Spark helps organisations build the data and AI capabilities needed to turn strategy into measurable impact: cambridgespark.com This week, Dr Judit Guimera Busquets, Head of Data Science at Datasparq, joins Dr Jeremy Bradley to trace the journey from her PhD on air traffic network forecasting through to leading data science teams delivering real-world AI projects. Judit explains why forecasting inside a complex network is fundamentally different from standard demand prediction: when a single airport pair is removed, the cascade effect ripples across an entire system.…

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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…