{"podcast":{"title":"Business Lab","slug":"business-lab-6463397","podcast_index_feed_id":6463397,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Oy7yJ4C0","website_url":"https://www.technologyreview.com/podcast/business-lab/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/dc822447-17b6-4a57-8364-df51d0770e66/4e544336-5613-489a-b304-7c0620c3ab71/3000x3000/square-blab-logo.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"MIT Technology Review Insights","episode_count":105,"summary":"The Business Lab is a sponsored podcast produced by Insights, the custom content division of MIT Technology Review. The Business Lab podcast features a 30-minute conversation with either an executive from the sponsor partner or a technologist with expertise in a relevant technology area. The discussion focuses on technology topics that matter to today’s enterprise decision-makers. Laurel Ruma, MIT Technology Review’s custom content director for the United States, is the host.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T02:24:44.999987+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-lab-6463397"},"episode":{"title":"Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization","slug":"making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization","published_at":"2026-09-01T13:50:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-lab-6463397/making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-lab-6463397","url":"https://www.technologyreview.com/podcast/business-lab/","audio_url":"https://afp-11661-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/4ae7d628-907f-41a3-bdf6-9a79a3b8158a/episodes/b7cb9c45-2ffc-4bdc-9968-4215fba164f4/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=4ae7d628-907f-41a3-bdf6-9a79a3b8158a&awEpisodeId=b7cb9c45-2ffc-4bdc-9968-4215fba164f4&feed=Oy7yJ4C0","summary":"For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes AI brought to the economics of software development, that calculation is changing. Bupa’s modernization of its My Bupa mobile application offers a case study in what becomes possible when a legacy migration is treated as a business transformation rather than a technology rewrite.","meta_description":"For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and ris…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1775,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-lab-6463397/episodes/making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-lab-6463397/making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}