The DEX Show: A Show for IT Change Makers

In this episode of The DEX Show, we’re joined by Kay Firth-Butterfield, the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer and former Head of AI at the World Economic Forum. From human rights law and human trafficking to Davos and large language models, Kay traces her remarkable journey into AI governance. We explore shadow AI, workplace “hallucinations,” AI companions, and the hidden risks leaders are underestimating. Kay shares why organizations need cross-functional AI governance, stronger guardrails, and far better training — and why the future of work may depend as much on the humanities as technology.

Learn more about Spark here

Tom assembles the “Spark Avengers” for a deep dive into the most talked-about innovation in IT: Nexthink Spark, the personal AI agent for every employee. Joined by Moe Haidar, Denis Schertenleib and Matt Rose, the team unpacks how Spark evolved from early LLM experiments into an enterprise-ready, autonomous IT agent already delivering 70%+ first contact resolution. From printers and frozen cameras to complex root-cause analysis, Spark is transforming support from reactive to proactive. They explore the technology, the personality, the partnerships and the roadmap ahead—and what it all signals about the future of IT operations and digital employee experience.

Oh - and we preview the new DEX Show music, too! 

Learn more about Spark here

In this episode, Benedict Lelijveld joins us to unpack what it feels like to start a career in an era shaped by COVID disruption, hybrid work, and accelerating AI. We dig into his writing on Mustafa Suleyman and the idea of “pessimism aversion”: holding genuine hope for breakthroughs (from personal AI to advances in biology) while staying clear-eyed about risks like misuse, weak regulation, and who really benefits. Benedict also reflects on what early-career professionals lose when work becomes too remote—and why protecting your voice, curiosity, and craft matters more than ever as automation spreads.

Read Benedict’s articles on the DEX Hub:
The Silent Divide: Why AI Adoption Is Failing Your Frontline Workers
Mustafa Suleyman: Why Tech Leaders Need to Stop Ignoring AI's Risks
How to Enhance Employee Experience Through Personalization

Read Cracking The DEX Equation: The First Annual Workplace Productivity Report here

Learn more about Spark here: https://nexthink.com/platform/spark

In the first of a new rotating expert series, Scott Pope (Nexthink's Director of Value Advisory) joins to explore DEXOps, productivity, and why DEX has firmly entered the boardroom conversation. We talk about how the market has evolved, what AI is really changing, how to communicate value to senior leaders, and the story behind the DEX Productivity Report.

Also: Arsenal. Briefly. 

And yes, Tom still needs to update the show music. Hang in there.

Read Cracking The DEX Equation: The First Annual Workplace Productivity Report here

Learn more about Spark here: https://nexthink.com/platform/spark

In the first episode of a NEW ERA for the DEX Show, Tom (that's right, just Tom 😭) welcomes back AI and digital transformation leader Anthony Firmin to unpack the reality of enterprise AI adoption. Drawing on hard-won, real-world experience, Anthony explores why so many organisations are stuck in the “messy middle” of AI, where usage rises but value doesn’t. The conversation digs into trust, experience debt, shallow versus deep AI, and why “same work, more windows” is an early warning sign leaders ignore at their peril. It’s a grounded, human-centred look at what it really takes to make AI improve work, not just change it.

Follow Anthony on LinkedIn here.

Read Anthony's article on AI and ROI here

Learn more about Spark here: https://nexthink.com/platform/spark 

Learn more about AI Drive here: https://nexthink.com/platform/ai-drive