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Podcast „Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum“
Spotlight-Episode #3 | Kenza Ait Si Abbou & Fabian Westerheide: AI in family businesses – how to make it effective
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Spotlight episode 3
Kenza Ait Si Abbou & Fabian Westerheide: AI in family businesses – how to make it effective
Kenza Ait Si Abbou & Fabian Westerheide, AI experts
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Episode description
Artificial intelligence is changing processes, decisions, and collaboration – and thus value creation itself. What matters is not so much the next tool, but clarity about where AI really creates value in your own company and how that fits in with the long-term responsibility of family businesses.
In the third Spotlight episode of “Alles Neu…? Aus dem Maschinenraum”, host and Maschinenraum managing director Tobias Rappers talks to Kenza Ait Si Abbou and Fabian Westerheide about how family businesses can take AI from the initial vision to robust operational practice. The episode addresses the key questions that are crucial in practice: Where do we start to leverage real potential? Which applications contribute measurably to value creation? When does the investment pay off? And what does it take to turn isolated experiments into a scalable approach, with governance that creates order and the courage to make decisions beyond one's comfort zone?
With practical examples, voices from family entrepreneurs from previous episodes of “Alles Neu... Aus dem Maschinenraum” and clear classifications, the episode shows how family businesses can systematically shape the use of artificial intelligence.
In Spotlight, we delve deeper into the topics that move family businesses – directly from the practice of Maschinenraum. As an ecosystem of around 80 medium-sized companies, it pools experiences and questions that are relevant in everyday business: from the shortage of skilled workers to digital transformation to cultural change. These very observations from practice form the starting point for in-depth conversations with host Tobias Rappers and experts who put them into context and make solutions tangible. This creates episodes that are close to the challenges companies face and show that the future emerges where we look more closely and take action together. That is exactly where Spotlight belongs.
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Kenza Ait Si Abbou & Fabian Westerheide
Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini is a multi-award-winning expert and consultant in artificial intelligence. She comes from Morocco and studied electrical engineering in Spain and industrial engineering in Berlin. After holding various positions in Germany, Spain, and China, and most recently as Chief Technology Officer at Fiege, she is now the founder and managing director of AI consulting firm Scailers.
Fabian J. G. Westerheide is considered one of the leading minds in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Germany and is valued for his visionary approach, which is based on his childhood passion for science fiction. His ambitious goal is to make Europe a strong and sovereign player in the global AI ecosystem. As an investor, entrepreneur, and networker in the field of AI, he has accompanied and shaped countless companies and institutions on their journey into the future of AI.
About the Spotlight Episodes
In Spotlight, we delve deeper into the topics that move family businesses – directly from the practice of Maschinenraum. As an ecosystem of around 80 medium-sized companies, it pools experiences and questions that are relevant in everyday business: from the shortage of skilled workers to digital transformation to cultural change. These very observations from practice form the starting point for in-depth conversations with host Tobias Rappers and experts who put them into context and make solutions tangible. This creates episodes that are close to the challenges companies face and show that the future emerges where we look more closely and take action together. That is exactly where Spotlight belongs.
In our regular episodes, Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum, and Katja Michel, Editor of the business magazine Capital, talk to thought leaders and makers from the heart of the German economy and focus on the personalities and their motivation.
*The podcast is in German.
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