The Boardroom Memo

The Boardroom Memo is a podcast by NETCONOMY about the future of commerce, customer relationships, and digital business.

In each episode, leaders, innovators, and industry experts discuss the shifts that are changing the market right now: from AI and agentic commerce to loyalty, personalization, retail transformation, and evolving customer expectations.

The focus is not on empty hype, but on what is actually changing, why it matters, and what companies need to do next. Boardroom Memo offers sharp conversations, practical perspectives, and real strategic insight for decision-makers who want to understand where digital business is heading.

Powered by NETCONOMY, the podcast brings together forward-looking thinking and hands-on experience from the frontlines of transformation.

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Agentic AI Use Cases with Real ROI

‧ 58m 45s

Welcome back to The Boardroom Memo, the NETCONOMY podcast where we cut through the noise on enterprise technology and focus on what actually moves the needle. In this episode, we step out of the proof-of-concept hype of previous years and firmly into the Agentic Era of 2026. What does it take to turn agentic AI technology into actual corporate value? Our host Leon Haider (Marketing Manager) is joined by NETCONOMY experts Boban Djordjevic (AI and Data Department Lead) and Maximilian Zollneritsch (Head of Technical Enablement). Together, they share their first-hand experiences from the field, dissecting why enterprise execution is less...

Agentic Commerce: Buying Without Buyers

‧ 50m 29s

What happens when your best customer isn't a human, but an algorithm?

In this episode, Manuela Fritzl (Head of Consulting) and Daniel Reicher (Customer Director) explore the monumental shift from human-centric web design to machine-to-machine commerce. As Gartner predicts $15 trillion in B2B spend will be agent-mediated by 2028, the stakes for businesses have never been higher.

We move beyond the hype to discuss:
The "Back Door" Metaphor: Why ignoring agentic commerce is like locking your warehouse and turning off the lights.

- GEO vs. SEO: Why you need Generative Engine Optimization to stay visible in an AI-first world.
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Entering the Agentic Age – Leading Across the Great Divide

‧ 50m 59s

By 2030, there will be two types of companies: those who successfully adopt AI and those who no longer exist.
In this debut episode of The Boardroom Memo, NETCONOMY CEO Martin Barzauner and COO Martin Bachler move beyond the "GenAI" hype to discuss the reality of the Agentic Age.

They unpack why the gap between AI leaders and laggards is widening, a phenomenon known as the "Great Divide", and what decision-makers must do today to stay on the right side of it.
Drawing on the "Iron Man" philosophy, they argue that AI is not a "Robot Army" designed to replace...