Cultural Intelligence Series - What it takes to move enterprise AI from partnership to production

OCT 13, 2026

Description

Most enterprise AI projects start as a technology problem. They end as a data and culture problem. Ankit Mathur, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, joins the Cultural Intelligence Podcast with a perspective few people have: not from inside one enterprise, but from across an entire ecosystem of them. What he sees is illuminating, and occasionally surprising. What do the organizations getting AI right share? Two things: they're innovating faster than ever, and they're treating their data strategy with the same seriousness as their AI strategy. Wondering about the ones struggling? Many are still chasing the biggest frontier models on the market, even when that's rarely what the problem actually needs. Ankit breaks down what separates a deployment that works from one that fails and we’re all ears. Here’s one sentence we particularly liked: “Don’t forget to own the business yourself. Don’t hand it over to AI.”