The Power of Digital Policy

Kristina Podnar

The Power of Digital Policy is a podcast that teaches you and your organization how to balance the risks and opportunities that come with operating websites, social media, mobile applications, voice assistants, AI and other channels. Through a monthly focus on individual topics, such as accessibility, cookies, copyrights, social media faux pas, data breaches, and data privacy, you will learn how to develop guardrails to maximize digital opportunity and minimize risk. Whether you work for a startup, Fortune 500 company, nonprofit or the government, this podcast will help you get digital right.

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  1. Industry is setting the AI guardrails: Are you ready?

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    Industry is setting the AI guardrails: Are you ready?

    In this episode, Kristina Podnar sits down with Camille Stewart Gloucester to unpack what’s durable in today’s AI policy landscape — and what’s just noise. Tune is for why AI governance isn’t about regulation alone, but about infrastructure: decision rights, data access, organizational design, and continuous learning. Camille shares what she’s seeing across industry and government, where organizations are overconfident, and why retrofitting governance gets exponentially harder once AI systems are embedded. If you’re trying to balance speed, risk, and performance without defaulting to paralysis, this conversation is for you.

    29분
  2. Agentic AI: Turning compliance into a revenue engine in 2026

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    Agentic AI: Turning compliance into a revenue engine in 2026

    Kristina Podnar reconnects with Brian Bauer to explore what’s changed in just a few months as agentic AI moves from experimentation to execution in banking and other regulated industries. They unpack the “year of reckoning” for AI ROI, why compliance can accelerate innovation instead of blocking it, and how organizations can use AI to reduce costs, increase revenue, and compete at the speed of business—without sacrificing prudence.

    32분
  3. Your AI strategy starts with content, not code

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    Your AI strategy starts with content, not code

    AI is no longer just generating content—it’s retrieving, reasoning, and increasingly making decisions. And yet, many organizations are approaching it as if better prompts or better models will solve everything. In reality, AI is only as effective as the content it relies on. The more autonomous these systems become, the more they depend on content that is structured, connected, and governed with intent. In this conversation, Kristina Podnar sits down with Carrie Hane to unpack what that actually means in practice. They explore the difference between formatting and true semantic structure, why duplication and inconsistency quietly undermine AI performance, and how weak or nonexistent content models introduce risk at scale. They also get into a question that doesn’t get asked often enough: who actually owns the content model in an organization—and what happens when no one does? This episode is a reminder that AI doesn’t eliminate the need for structure—it exposes where it never existed. If organizations want AI to perform reliably, content can no longer be treated as a byproduct of publishing. It has to be treated as infrastructure.

    26분
  4. Synthetic data, real governance: What enterprises need to get right

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    Synthetic data, real governance: What enterprises need to get right

    Kristina Podnar talks with data and analytics leader Ioana Mazare about why synthetic data is gaining traction, where organizations risk getting it wrong, and why strong governance is still essential. They explore privacy, bias, fit-for-purpose use cases, third-party synthetic data providers, and the leadership, strategy, and accountability needed to make data trustworthy in the age of AI.

    26분
  5. Privacy is the bottleneck: Why your AI strategy is stalling (and how to fix it)

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    Privacy is the bottleneck: Why your AI strategy is stalling (and how to fix it)

    AI isn’t slowing down because of weak models or poor prompts—it’s being held back by something far less flashy: data privacy. In this episode, Kristina sits down with Adam Kamor of Tonic.ai to unpack why organizations are struggling to safely use their own data, how unstructured data creates massive operational friction, and what it actually takes to move from manual redaction to scalable, privacy-first AI systems. The conversation challenges the idea that privacy is just a compliance checkbox—and reframes it as the key to unlocking AI velocity.

    25분
  6. AI doesn't fix information problems. It exposes them.

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    AI doesn't fix information problems. It exposes them.

    AI is forcing organizations to confront a reality they have often ignored for years: information quality matters. In this episode, Kristina Podnar sits down with taxonomist and knowledge management expert Ian Davis to explore why concepts like taxonomy, ontology, semantic modeling, and knowledge graphs have become critical foundations for successful AI deployment. Together, they discuss how AI exposes weaknesses in fragmented information environments, why metadata and information architecture are emerging as strategic business assets, and what leaders must do to create the governance, stewardship, and organizational discipline needed to scale AI effectively. The conversation also examines the growing importance of human oversight, the role of semantic structures as AI guardrails, and why the long-overlooked professionals responsible for organizing enterprise knowledge may be among the most important contributors to successful AI adoption.

    33분
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The Power of Digital Policy is a podcast that teaches you and your organization how to balance the risks and opportunities that come with operating websites, social media, mobile applications, voice assistants, AI and other channels. Through a monthly focus on individual topics, such as accessibility, cookies, copyrights, social media faux pas, data breaches, and data privacy, you will learn how to develop guardrails to maximize digital opportunity and minimize risk. Whether you work for a startup, Fortune 500 company, nonprofit or the government, this podcast will help you get digital right.

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