AI Is Now the Business Standard. Are You Falling Behind? - DIETMARs OPINION

About this episode

🤖 AI has moved beyond technical teams and innovation labs. At Berlin’s BIG BANG KI Festival, Dietmar Fischer found packed stages, long queues, and business professionals searching for practical ways to implement artificial intelligence. In this solo episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar shares what he observed at the festival and what it tells us about AI adoption in the wider business world. The dominant questions were practical. How can a company integrate AI into its CRM? How can it build useful AI agents? How can it turn individual tools into repeatable workflows? The audience was not limited to developers or AI specialists. It looked like the audience at any large business conference. That shift matters. AI is no longer an unusual competitive advantage. It is becoming part of the expected business standard. The festival also exposed the continuing gap between AI marketing and AI implementation. Many exhibitors used impressive language without clearly explaining what their products did. Interest in AI is high, but clear business value is still difficult to identify. Dietmar also visits the robot arena, where humanoid machines dance and fight. The demonstration lea