Premiering November 19VentureBeat is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship podcast, Beyond the Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action, premiering November 19 and brought to you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco.Enterprise AI has reached a new inflection point: workloads are going live, and the constraints are getting real. The challenge for enterprise technical leaders isn’t understanding AI’s potential — it’s navigating the messy, complex work of making it run reliably at scale. Beyond the Pilot goes inside that reality with candid conversations from executives who’ve moved past experiments and into production — scaling AI and agentic systems that deliver measurable business value.“Enterprise technical leaders keep telling us the same thing: the hype cycle is loud, but what they really need are credible stories about what works in production,” said Matt Marshall, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VentureBeat. “With Beyond the Pilot, we’re doubling down on VentureBeat’s mission to serve the practitioners — the people actually responsible for delivering AI outcomes. We’re excited to bring a new level of depth, honesty, and technical insight to this conversation.”Through in-depth, technically rigorous conversations, Beyond the Pilot unpacks the decisions, infrastructure, and organizational changes behind real-world AI deployments. The result: a practical look at what it takes to turn ambition into action.Season 1: Real stories from the frontlines of enterprise AIThe debut episode features Notion, where VP AI Ryan Nystrom discusses how the company built Notion 3.0 for agents — and what it means to create an AI-native product inside a plat …
