Pressure to “do something with AI” is loud, but the stakes are higher when patient data, regulators, and legacy systems meet non‑deterministic models. We sat down with the hosts of the Enterprise Architecture Experience podcast — Hassan Abba from AstraZeneca and Jon Hill from Alvotech — to compare how a global R&D giant and a thousand‑person biopharma scale-up are making AI useful without trading away trust. The conversation gets practical fast: where AI speeds discovery, where it should never touch regulated data, and how to draw clean lines that everyone can work with.

Welcome to Season Three of the Enterprise Alchemists podcasts!

We start the season with a special guest: Gene Linetsky, CTO of Embroker.

Gene talks to Guy and Dominic about his need to integrate bettter with existing systems and processes to avoid wasting the time of over-qualified human users. AgentCreator from SnapLogic solved the technical problem, thanks to what Gene describes as "semantic ETL", but that leads to more philosophical questions.

Over the course of the episode, Gene describes how agentic flows are ultimately a management question: humans will still be a lot better positioned to organize the work, whether that is carried out by humans or by AI agents. The goal is to facilitate the work solving business problems with code, not just solving coding problems.

Can outdated systems silently threaten the very core of your business? This episode, Guy and Dominic welcome the expert insights of Simona Todoroska from IWConnect to discuss the pressing issues surrounding legacy system integration and migration. Simona sheds light on how the historical reluctance to engage with legacy systems has created significant challenges for modern enterprises. We dive into the critical need for businesses to reevaluate their existing technologies to ensure they are future-ready, scalable, and secure. The conversation also delves into the risks of neglecting modernization, emphasizing how catastrophic failures in outdated systems could lead to dire consequences.

The discussion dives into the complexities of migrating from legacy systems to modern integration platforms, highlighting the challenges enterprises face when clinging to outdated technologies. Through real-world examples and a discussion on the importance of automation and AI in the migration process, we present practical strategies for successful transformation.

• Exploring the tension around updating legacy systems
• Understanding the risks of relying on outdated technology
• Discussing the role of automation in migrations
• Demonstrating the significance of the analysis phase
• Introducing AI agents Pete and Alex for improving documentation
• Highlighting the NL2SQL functionality for user empowerment
• Emphasising the importance of upfront analysis for success

Pete: https://iwconnect.com/virtual-assistant-pete/

Alex: https://iwconnect.com/alex-virtual-storytelling-agent/

NL to SQL: https://iwconnect.com/natural-language-to-sql-generator/