The Tech Leaders Podcast AI Summit Special: The Return of Matt Armstrong-Barnes, Group AI Practice Director at Servita
Jun 13, 2025
54:27
Join us this week on The Tech Leaders Podcast, where Gareth Davies sits down with Matt Armstrong-Barnes, Group AI Practice Director at Servita, and former AI CTO at Hewlett-Packard Enterprises. Matt talks about his new role at Servita, the lessons he learned at HPE, and how effective AI Asset Management can help you keep control of your data.
On this episode, Matt and Gareth discuss effective AI implementation and adoption, the existing AI skills gap, and the new roles and careers that will emerge, and what we don’t understand about how AI works.
Timestamps:
- Joining Servita (2:00)
- AI Implementation and Adoption (5:40)
- What “Data is the new Oil” actually means (12:00)
- What we don’t understand about how AI works (18:33)
- Lessons learned at HP (22:13)
- Sports and AI (25:28)
- AI Safety and even Blackmail? (28:19)
- Trust and transparency in practice (35:40)
- The AI skills gap and emerging careers (39:30)
- AI Summit highlights (48:32)
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