How a 700-Person Bank Is Using AI to Build Apps, Agents, and Digital Employees
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Show: The Artificial Intelligence Show
Host / guest: Mike Kaput
Focus: Agents for Non-Technical People
Date: September 10, 2026
Duration: 38:31 · No episode time limit
Topics: AI transformation, AI champions, build versus buy, agent governance
Summary: Mike Kaput interviews Peapack Private CTO John Kowal about moving from employee chat access to governed internal applications and named “digital employees,” supported by a data warehouse, an AI engineering team and 29 business-line AI champions.
Why it matters: The interview connects technology to operating-model choices: prerequisites, embedded champions, business-owned use cases, deterministic steps and explicit human relationships.
Connection to the brief: It extends today’s app-building, data-agent and long-running-job stories with one organization’s implementation path and reported outcomes.
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Evidence: Practitioner analysis. The publisher page identifies the episode, host and September 10 date; its transcript ends at 38:31, used as the runtime.
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