EP 62: 95% of AI Pilots Fail. Here's Why | Mohamed Battisha, CTO at WEX

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What actually separates a data platform built for AI agents from the data warehouse most enterprises already have? Recorded live at Ai4 conference in Vegas, AsembleAI co-host Sam sits down with Mohammed Battisha - who leads the data engineering team at WEX and previously built Saudi Arabia's national AI platform as CTO of SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority), with earlier leadership roles at LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Microsoft - to find out answer to the question. Topics covered:The shift from "collect, transform, report" data platforms to context-aware, agent-ready platformsWhy the semantic layer is the core of any AI-native architectureGoverned execution: giving AI agents boundaries and full auditabilityLessons from building a sovereign nation's AI platform at SDAIAWhy MIT's research shows 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail — and what disconnects business and technologyWEX's crawl-walk-run framework for AI adoptionClaim AI: how WEX automated a multi-day claims process down to minutesHow WEX measures AI maturity and data maturity across seven dimensionsAdvice for data and AI engineers: why business awareness matters more than technical depth aloneConnect with Mohammed : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamedbattisha/WEX: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wexinc/