Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Our mission is to cultivate AI literacy in the Greater Richmond Region through awareness, community engagement, education, and advocacy. In this podcast, we spotlight companies and individuals in the region who are pioneering the development and use of AI.
Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Latest Episodes
Ep 89 - Making the Invisible Visible: Enterprise AI Accountability w/ Ben Hawkins
AI doesn’t fail in enterprises because the model isn’t impressive. It fails because nobody can answer the uncomfortable questions: who owns the data, who carries the liability, and what “trust” even means when software can hallucinate with conf...
Ep 88 - Debugging Human Communication w/ Andrea Goulet
The biggest risk in an AI-powered organization isn’t a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of shared meaning. As tools get faster and output gets cheaper, teams can still stall, ship the wrong thing, or quietly lose trust because the human commun...
Ep 87 - The AI Native Organization
Software is slipping from “hard to produce” to “easy to generate,” and that single change forces a rethink of how we build companies, teams, and careers. When AI compresses planning, implementation, and iteration, the bottleneck moves away from...
Ep 86 - Staying Competitive: Build A Resilient Engineering Career With AI
If you’re an engineer staring at AI code generation and wondering where you fit, the uncomfortable truth is also the freeing one: trying to “outproduce” AI on repetitive implementation is not a durable plan. We talk through a calmer, more usefu...
Ep 85 - Leverage Outruns Wisdom: Systems Leadership In The AI Era
AI is quietly rewriting the org chart, and it’s not because everyone suddenly works faster. The real shift is structural: teams are becoming blended systems of humans, AI agents, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, and continuous automa...