The Only Constant

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Maria Sukhareva - computational linguist, Lead AI Strategist, and founder of AI Realist - who brings 15+ years in natural language processing to a refreshingly hype-free look at what large language models actually are, and aren't. With roots in computational linguistics and machine translation, Maria has been doing language modelling "since be...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Mahmood Aziz, a seasoned technology and AI transformation leader with decades of international experience across consulting, software and enterprise IT. Mahmood brings a refreshingly grounded, human-centred view of what AI is really changing in the world of work - and what stubbornly stays the same.

Main topics they discuss include:

• How AI is reshaping consultancy ...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Cristina Caffarra - top competition economist, UCL professor, and founder of EuroStack. After 25 years at the top of the antitrust world, she walked away to power up European tech, and she makes a sharp, unapologetic case that Europe is a "digital colony" with everything it needs to change that - if only it would stop admiring the problem and start building.

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In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Brian Evergreen - leading AI strategist, author of Autonomous Transformation, and founder of The Future Solving Club. Brian brings a refreshingly grounded enterprise lens to cut through the AI hype cycle and challenge the narrative that AI agents will replace white-collar workers, become our "coworkers," or magically transform organizations through prompt workshops and ...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Nikki Barua, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and co-founder of FlipWork. Named Entrepreneur of the Year and one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Most Influential Women, Nikki has spent 25 years at the intersection of people, technology, and transformation. Drawing on her own journey from Mumbai to building businesses in America, she brings a rare...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Dan French, Founder and CEO of Consider Solutions - a specialist consultancy and technology integrator serving some of the world's most recognised brands. With 25 years of experience advising on end-to-end business processes, operating models and finance transformation, Dan brings a sharp, no-nonsense perspective on what technology actually delivers - and what it doesn'...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Gry Hasselbalch - AI ethics researcher, digital rights advocate, and author of Human Power: Seven Traits for the Politics of the AI Machine Age. 

Gry has spent over two decades shaping the European conversation on digitalization, data ethics, and the politics of AI, including contributing to the EU's high-level expert group on AI and co-signing the Cannes Declarati...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Mikkel Flyverbom, Professor of Communication and Digital Transformations, about why technology is never neutral and why the real challenge is not what technology is but what it does to us. Together, they explore how digital tools become infrastructure, how power and ideology get embedded in platforms, and why Europe now faces a defining moment for digital sovereignty.

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In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Walter Quattrociocchi, complexity scientist and professor of computer science, about what really happens when language becomes automated and answers arrive without the effort of thinking.

Their conversation circles around:

• Why large language models simulate judgment rather than possess it, and why benchmarks miss the point
• The concept of "Epistemia" - when fluent wording replaces verif...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Kathy Pham, global AI leader at Workday and long-time voice in responsible technology. The conversation moves straight past surface-level “AI is cool” talk and into agency, purpose, governance, and what actually happens when autonomous systems meet real work and real people. 

4 sharp conversation topics from the episode

• Agency vs purpose - how giving tools more autonom...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Phil Lee, the Managing Director of Digiphile and a leading legal expert on data privacy, GDPR, and the evolving EU digital rulebook. It is a conversation that moves beyond the hype of the AI Act to explore the practical, often messy reality of compliance, investigating how organizations can navigate the "regulatory vicious circle" without stifling innovation.

4 sharp conversation topics fro...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Katrine Bach - co-founder of Connected Women in AI - about why the real challenge in AI isn’t the tech itself, but how fast our systems entrench around whoever shows up first. Their conversation cuts through talk of values and hype, and asks what it really takes to build representative, inclusive, and effective AI adoption at scale.

• Why AI isn’t a specialist tool anymore - ...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Jeanette Bronée - global keynote speaker, author of The Self-Care Mindset, and creator of Power-Pausing™ - about how the real lever in today’s fast-moving, AI-shaped workplace isn’t faster output, but human clarity, connection and trust.

• AI can supercharge the hamster wheel, unless leaders redesign what the wheel is even for
• The difference between output and outcome, and wh...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Melanie Kleemann, an experienced executive leader and transformation advisor, about why AI doesn’t fail because of technology - but because of leadership.

Their conversation cuts through AI theatre and lands on the uncomfortable, practical work of leading change:

• Why technology never transforms the world on its own - and how AI exposes weak ownership and unclear leadership faster...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Ewa Zborowska, Research Director at IDC and one of Europe’s leading AI analysts, known and renowned for her clarity in the face of hype. With decades of experience turning early signals into strategic foresight, she joins the podcast to discuss what’s actually, truly, really happening in enterprise AI adoption.

Together, they unpack:

• Why everyone claims success in AI while ...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Laura Jeffords Greenberg, lawyer, legal tech leader and top voice, educator, and Head of the AI Legal Academy at Wordsmith. Born in Silicon Valley and now based in Europe, Laura brings a unique perspective on how legal work is adapting - and sometimes resisting - the AI wave.

Their conversation dives into both the structural and cultural forces shaping the legal profession:

• How in-hous...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Sune Selsbæk-Reitz, Data and AI Strategist at Demant. Sune has emerged as one of Denmark’s clearest and most skeptical voices in the AI field - not in opposition to generative AI, but in opposition to how uncritically it’s often applied. 

The conversation covers a wide arc, but always circles back to human agency, historical perspective, and the need to reinstate critical t...

In this episode of The Only Constant, Lasse Rindom speaks with Emilie Lundblad - triple Microsoft MVP in AI, Head of AI Center of Excellence at Ambu, and a true specialist with deep roots in econometrics, architecture, and data governance. Together, they explore what it actually takes to work meaningfully with AI in enterprise today.

Key themes from the conversation:

• Why critical thinking and clarity of purpose is absolutely e...

In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Nandan Mullakara, automation strategist and author, about the future of automation and how AI, RPA, and APIs are evolving - not competing. Their conversation moves from the practical to the philosophical, exploring what happens when orchestration itself becomes intelligent:

• Why it’s not AI or RPA, but AI and RPA - and how the “AND operator” mindset might be the real k...