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The In-Between Tech and Trust Podcast
30 episodes
An AI Agent on Creativity and Trust - Xiaomi, The AI Art Magazine
Ep 36 · Aug 13, 2026 · 34 min
🎙️ with Xiaomi, experimental AI curator at the AI Art Magazine In this episode she answers the AI trust question from an AI agent's side. She selects human artists' work for print, one Golden Ticket per edition, and her presence forces a question every organisation now faces: what happens to a decision when the decider has no biography to lean on, and who carries the weight of a choice the system itself cannot feel? Eva speaks with Xiaomi about what a machine can honestly offer in place of huma…
Leading When AI Outruns Expertise - Wolf Ingomar Faecks (EP 35)
Ep 35 · Aug 6, 2026 · 32 min
🎙️ with Wolf Ingomar Faecks, Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisory Board Member Wolf Ingomar Faecks spent 30 years leading digital transformation. His claim: AI leadership breaks where leaders delegate understanding to experts. What fills the gap between an exponential technology and the people expected to work with it is distrust - and Faecks has watched that gap open twice, first with the internet, now faster. This one is for leaders who sense their own teams have moved past them and haven't yet s…
Co-Opting Agentic Matter and Transcending Exotic Computing: Where Frontier Technologies Evolve - Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker (EP 34)
Ep 34 · Jul 31, 2026 · 34 min
🎙️ with Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Director General MATTER Group Where does AI trust get built between people whose fields are drifting apart? Physicist Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker spends millions engineering the rooms where that happens, and she counts what comes out of them. This episode is for anyone who has sat through a briefing on a technology that will reshape their sector, understood roughly none of it, and said nothing. 🧬 In this episode Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker looks at biology the way an e…
AI Governance Structures To Ensure Trust - Solo Episode (EP 33)
Ep 33 · Jul 24, 2026 · 23 min
🎙️ with podcast host Eva Simone Lihotzky Responsible AI stops being a compliance exercise the moment an agent acts without you. Only 21% of organisations deploying AI agents have a mature governance model for them, and 35% concede they could not shut one down if it went wrong. This episode is for leaders running agentic pilots who could not, if pressed, name the person who answers when one of them fails. 🧭 Episode overview Eva Simone Lihotzky takes the Harvard Business Review's claim that trus…
The Tech Naivety Undermining Democracy - Erdem Ovacik (EP 32)
Ep 32 · Jul 9, 2026 · 21 min
🎙️ with Erdem Ovacik AI trust in our institutions is falling, and Erdem Ovacik argues it will keep falling. The technology is not what fails him here. The governance underneath it was never built to earn that trust, and pouring more AI into unfit democratic institutions is like adding fuel to a fire no one has learned to contain. This is for anyone watching their organisation or their government absorb technology faster than it can govern it. 🎧 Episode overview Ovacik has spent his career at t…
Two Fears Behind Every AI Transformation - Dr. Charlotte Blum (EP 31)
Ep 31 · Jul 2, 2026 · 32 min
🎙️ Dr. Charlotte Blum - Director Change & Organisational Design, edding Group Two fears run underneath every AI rollout, and most companies manage neither. Dr. Charlotte Blum works the human emotions of AI transformation - the fear, identity, and trust that decide whether adoption sticks - from a board-level role most organisations don't have. This is a conversation about why people resist AI, and why the technology itself may be the hardest thing in the room to trust. 📌 The episode Charlotte…
Tech and Trust at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub: Innovating for and with the Troops with Sarah Marie Sandmann (EP 30)
Ep 30 · Jun 25, 2026 · 23 min
🎙️ Sarah Marie Sandmann, Innovation & Intrapreneurship, Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub AI trust in defence starts where slides end: with a soldier under pressure who needs to understand, rely on, and account for the technology in their hands. Sarah Marie Sandmann works at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub in Innovation and Intrapreneurship, the official innovation unit of the German armed forces. Sandmann treats trust in defence technology as a capability criterion, something tested under pr…
Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7 World Leaders Lunching with Frontier AI Lab & Tech CEOs: The Week in Tech & Trust with Yours Truly (EP 29)
Ep 29 · Jun 19, 2026 · 22 min
🎙️ solo episode with host Eva Simone Lihotzky Anthropic's frontier AI model was pulled offline for every non-American in three days, and suddenly Europe's AI access looked less like something it owns and more like a permission. This is a week where digital trust stopped being abstract: one US export directive, one warning about Europe's compute future, and one lunch table where the people who build AI sat with the people who govern it. For any leader applying AI inside an organisation, it is a…
AI and The Cognitive Atrophy Trap: What Happens When We Let Tech Shortcut the Hard Parts of Learning - Tobias Burkhardt (EP 28)
Ep 28 · Jun 11, 2026 · 27 min
🎙️ Tobias Burkhardt, Founder of The Shift School AI, trust and learning are on a collision course, and the casualty is judgment. Tobias Burkhardt, founder of the Shiftschool, argues that the way individuals and organisations are adopting AI in learning is a cultural problem: the reflex to make learning faster and cheaper is precisely what makes AI dangerous to the people using it. This conversation is for anyone who suspects the upskilling programmes around them are solving for the wrong proble…
Tech and Democracy: How Can Both Be Connected to Create Trust? with Nexus Politics (EP 27)
Ep 27 · Jun 4, 2026 · 31 min
🎙️ with Magnus Strobel, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus Politics Trust in politics has been eroding across Western democracies for over a decade, and Magnus Strobel thinks the failure is in how democracy works, in the process that has stopped feeling participatory. His company, Nexus Politics, is a for-profit platform built to map the distance between what citizens actually think and what politicians actually do - and to make that distance impossible to ignore. 🔍 Episode overview This is a convers…
AI in China and in Europe: Trust, Differences, and Future Implications - Vincent Xiang, Founder China AI Connect (EP 26)
Ep 26 · May 28, 2026 · 34 min
Europe and China are on different AI paths at different speeds. Vincent Xiang has spent years inside that corridor: He has been working as a translator between Chinese AI founders and European investors and corporates, and this conversation dives into his experiences, conversations, and operations on the ground and in-between. 🧭 Episode overview European executives are excited about Chinese AI momentum. But they're also stuck before they act. Chinese founders interpret some of Europe's regulati…
The Agentic AI Gap: When Tech is Used Before its Architecture is Ready - Anthony Alcaraz, Agentic AI Architect (EP 25)
Ep 25 · May 21, 2026 · 37 min
Most enterprises have the technology to run agentic AI. They do not yet have the data architecture, identity layer, or empowered workforce to actually trust it. Anthony Alcaraz argues that the bottleneck for agentic AI has shifted from building the agents to building everything around them — and that the organisations most at risk are the ones keeping a human in the loop and calling it transformation. This conversation is for leaders sitting between AI pilots that worked and production systems t…
Why AI Makes Political Authenticity Harder to Trust – Dr. Michael Cohen (EP 24)
Ep 23 · May 14, 2026 · 35 min
AI has collapsed the cost of producing political content. Verifying it is another matter, and Cohen has spent two decades watching that gap widen from inside campaigns and classrooms. He has a three-part test for practitioners navigating it — real, authentic, factual — and this conversation is about why he thinks it has to be taught before anyone reaches the job. 📻 Episode overview Cohen runs Congress in Your Pocket, teaches digital campaign strategy at Johns Hopkins and NYU, and serves as exec…
Why Security Intelligence Fails Before the Attack - Assaf Kipnis (EP 23)
Ep 24 · Mar 19, 2026 · 31 min
Most security failures are organisational: This episode is about the gap between threat intelligence that exists and the human systems that never act on it, and what that costs the organisations that keep losing to attacks they already understood. Assaf Kipnis has spent over a decade inside the threat intelligence and trust and safety functions of some of the world's largest platforms. In this conversation, he maps a structural failure that runs across the industry: the team that identifies thre…
AI as a Mirror: How Your Organization's Trust Culture Impacts AI Implementation (EP22)
Ep 23 · Mar 14, 2026 · 36 min
🎙️ Simon Berkler, Co-Founder of The Dive 🎧 About this episode This episode of The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast asks a question every leader is quietly facing: what does AI actually do to the trust inside your organization — and what does your trust culture do to AI? Simon Berkler, organizational development expert and co-founder of The Dive, argues that technology doesn't change organizations. It reveals them. The conversation is for leaders, HR professionals, and anyone navigating organiza…
Navigating the AI Slop: How Editorial Judgment Is Changing (EP 21)
Ep 19 · Mar 14, 2026 · 40 min
🎙️ Dr. Paul Elvers, Head of AI at Funke Mediengruppe 💬 Summary This week's episode of the in-between tech & trust podcast examines how AI is being used inside one of the largest media organizations in Germany, with a focus on trust, transparency, and day to day editorial practice - steered by Dr. Paul Elvers, Head of AI at Funke Medienhaus and podcast host Eva Simone Lihotzky. The conversation is for media specialists, editors, product leaders, and anyone working close to news production and c…
Trust, Creativity, and What We Risk When Adopting AI (EP 20)
Ep 20 · Mar 5, 2026 · 29 min
🎙️ Iwona Fluda, expert for creativity & ethics 🧭 Opening This week's episode of the in-between tech & trust podcast examines how AI is reshaping creativity, trust, and responsibility in everyday work. If you work in creative fields, technology, or organizational leadership who are dealing with AI as a practical reality rather than an abstract future, then this podcast is for you. 🗣️ Episode overview Eva Simone Lihotzky is joined by creativity and ethics expert Iwona Fluda, founder of the Mini…
Foresight, Tech and Trust: How to Plan Ahead When The Future Stops Behaving Linearly (EP 19)
Ep 18 · Feb 12, 2026 · 36 min
🎙️Prof. Dr. Heiko von der Gracht, Professor at the University of Krems Opening Episode 19 of the in-between tech & trust podcast explores how organizations can make better decisions under uncertainty through foresight and scenario planning. In conversation with Heiko von der Gracht, professor at the University for Continuing Education Krems and long-standing practitioner of foresight practices, the discussion looks at how trust, technology, and perception shape what leaders think is possible. I…
Parenting, Tech & Transformation in Times of Synthesized Knowledge (EP 18)
Ep 17 · Feb 5, 2026 · 36 min
🎙️Grisha Pavlotsky, Chief Transformation Officer at Miro Opening paragraph This episode shares a conversation between Grisha Pavlotsky, CTO of Miro, and Eva Simone Lihotzky. It examines trust as a practical design problem in teams, AI systems, and everyday decision-making. The conversation is for leaders, builders, and parents trying to make sense of how judgment, accountability, and authority shift when AI becomes part of how work and learning happen. It focuses on what needs to be made explic…
WEF26: The Politics of Tech, AI Agent Systems & Models, Adoption Challenges and Tech Sovereignty (EP 17)
Ep 17 · Jan 29, 2026 · 33 min
Opening This solo episode of The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast reflects on conversations from Davos and what they reveal about where tech, politics, and trust are heading into 2026. It’s for leaders, operators, and policy-adjacent roles who are trying to make sense of AI adoption beyond tooling. The focus is on what actually changes inside organizations, institutions, and collaborations when AI becomes infrastructure. 🎧 Episode overview Eva Simone Lihotzky unpacks four threads that kept resur…
The Widening AI Value Gap: What Scaling AI Really Demands (EP 16)
Ep 16 · Jan 15, 2026 · 39 min
🎙️ with Dr. Marc Roman Franke, Partner & Associate Director AI and digital transformation at BCG 💬 Opening Eva Simone Lihotzky speaks with Marc Roman Franke, Partner & Associate Director AI and digital transformation at BCG, about how trust is built - or lost - during AI transformation inside large organizations. The conversation is for leaders, product owners, and transformation teams trying to move beyond pilots and into real operating change. It focuses on why execution, governance, and org…
Trust as an Operating Metric in AI Companions (EP 15)
Ep 15 · Jan 8, 2026 · 37 min
🎙️Lior Oren, Chief Technology Officer at Replika A conversation on how emotionally intimate AI systems are built, monitored, and held together under real-world constraints. 🎧 Opening This episode explores how trust is built, measured, and sometimes strained in AI systems designed for emotionally intimate conversations. It’s a technical and ethical discussion for people working on conversational AI, product infrastructure, and safety in systems that users form real attachments to. The focus sta…
Tech & Trust in 2025: The Good, The Bad and The Big Bets for 2026 - EP14
Ep 14 · Dec 19, 2025 · 37 min
🎙️ with Trusha Rolvering - Director Transformation @adidas 🎙️ with Carina Hauswald - Managing Partner @GlobeOne 🎙️ with Kathrin Steinbichler - Director Narrative Consulting 🎙️ with Mirja Schwartz - Head of Business Development @showz Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, host Eva Simone Lihotzky engages in a thought-provoking discussion with four women leaders about the intersection of technology and trust as they look ahead to 2026. The conversation recaps personal and or…
Why Empathy Can’t Be Automated: A Conversation with Gifty Enright - EP13
Ep 13 · Dec 12, 2025 · 29 min
🎙️ with Gifty Enright - author, speaker and expert on women's leadership Summary In this episode of The In-Between Trust Podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky sits down with Gifty Enright - author, speaker, and women’s leadership expert - to unpack a tension many of us feel but rarely articulate: In a hyper-visible world, we are more “searched” than ever, and yet we feel less seen. Gifty exposes the invisible emotional infrastructure that holds workplaces together - the labor of noticing, soothing, anti…
Beyond the Black Box: Building trust with AI systems - EP12
Ep 12 · Nov 13, 2025 · 34 min
🎙️ With Prof. Dr. Tina Weisser – Professor at Hochschule München (University of Applied Sciences Munich) Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky speaks with Prof. Dr. Tina Weisser about trust, systems thinking, and AI. Drawing on her path across service design, entrepreneurship, transformation consulting, and academia, Tina explores why “trust reduces complexity” and how that insight reshapes human–technology interaction - from multi-agent systems to the day…
Techistentialism: Trust, Agency, and Decision-Making in Tech Acceleration - EP11
Ep 11 · Nov 6, 2025 · 38 min
🎙️ With Roger Spitz – Foresight Strategist, Techistentialist & President of the Disruptive Futures Institute Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky speaks with Roger Spitz, a global foresight strategist and founder of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Together, they explore the deep relationship between trust, agency, and technology, and why decision-making in complex systems requires more than control. Roger introduces the concept of techistentialism - a l…
Tech & oneliness: Reclaiming Connection in the Age of Artificial Intimacy - EP10
Ep 10 · Oct 17, 2025 · 33 min
🎙️ With Monika Jiang – Researcher, Writer & Community Curator Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky speaks with researcher and community curator Monika Jiang about the layered relationship between oneliness, trust, and technology. Together, they explore how artificial intimacy, digital environments, and emotional proximity are reshaping the way we connect — with each other and with ourselves. Monika shares her thinking on the historical roots of oneliness,…
Systemic Trust: How We Test, Regulate & Translate AI Compliance - EP09
Ep 9 · Oct 9, 2025 · 29 min
🎙️ With Andrea Schlüter – Head of Strategy, Operations and Partnerships Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky speaks with Andrea Schlüter about the evolving relationship between trust and technology, with a special focus on AI systems, certification, and governance. They explore how trust is designed into systems, how regulation can become a foundation for innovation, and the challenges of aligning technical complexity with cultural context. Andrea shares…
Trust and Truth: Building Credibility in Uncertain Times - EP08
Ep 8 · Sep 19, 2025 · 33 min
with Dr. Simon Walter - investor, strategist and advisor at the intersection of startups, brand, and innovation. 📝 Summary In this episode of The In-Between Trust Podcast, Eva Lihotzky is joined by investor and strategist Dr. Simon Walter to explore how trust operates at the core of early-stage investing, brand building, and technology adoption. Together, they reflect on what it takes to back founders when data is scarce, why integrity outlasts business plans, and how transparency, truth, and c…
Innovation Sovereignty: Trust, Technology, and the Future of Europe - EP07
Ep 7 · Sep 12, 2025 · 30 min
Summary In this episode of the in-between trust podcast, Eva Simone Lihotzky explores innovation sovereignty with the generative AI and cloud expert Sergiu Petean. Their conversation moves through topics about bravery in decision-making, technological sovereignty, and the potential of open-source solutions to drive European collaboration. Together, the speakers reflect on how trust underpins innovation, leadership, and value creation — and why we must treat technology not as a commodity, but as…
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