{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"Reggie Townsend: Making Responsible AI Irresistible","slug":"reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible","published_at":"2026-07-16T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/iss3xnr8ehzad376/SFG_Reggie_Townsend_Making_Responsible_AI_Irresistible_02VII26_M_SAS_Jimmy61pxy.mp3","summary":"Responsible AI will not scale because leaders believe in it. It will scale when doing the right thing becomes easier than working around it. In this episode of Scouting for Growth, Sabine VanderLinden welcomes back Reggie Townsend, Vice President of AI Ethics, Governance and Social Impact at SAS, for a timely conversation on how to make responsible AI irresistible inside the enterprise. This is not a theoretical discussion about principles. It is about what happens when AI governance meets real deadlines, board accountability, product design, agentic AI, regulatory pressure and enterprise adoption. The timing matters. The EU AI Act has moved from future regulation to implementation reality. It entered into force on 1 August 2024, with prohibited AI practices and AI literacy obligations applying from February 2025, general-purpose AI rules from August 2025, and phased timelines for high-risk AI systems now shaped by the 2026 AI omnibus political agreement. Waiting for perfect certainty is no longer a strategy. Reggie challenges a common misconception: AI governance is not a brake on innovation. Done well, it is the architecture that allows innovation to move faster, with confidence. The episode explores five major shifts shaping responsible AI in regulated industries: From principles to practice: AI ethics must be designed into workflows, not attached after decisions have already been made. From model governance to use-case governance: Auditing models alone is not enough. Real AI risk often emerges from context, deployment, decision impact and human behaviour. From compliance cost to growth driver: Trust can accelerate adoption, reduce hesitation and unlock value from AI systems that teams actually feel confident using. From human-in-the-loop to human judgement at scale…","meta_description":"Responsible AI will not scale because leaders believe in it. It will scale when doing the right thing becomes easier than working around it. In this episo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5776,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831/episodes/reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}