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Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

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62 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text New year energy is loud; smarter growth is quiet. We’re kicking off 2026 by trading fragile resolutions for a durable learning loop inspired by reinforcement learning. Instead of chasing perfect plans, we break down how real change happens: practice that compounds, rewards that align with values, feedback that arrives fast, and reflection that turns data into decisions. We unpack the core ideas behind learning by doing and translate them into tools you can use right away. You’...

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Send us a text New year energy is loud; smarter growth is quiet. We’re kicking off 2026 by trading fragile resolutions for a durable learning loop inspired by reinforcement learning. Instead of chasing perfect plans, we break down how real change happens: practice that compounds, rewards that align with values, feedback that arrives fast, and reflection that turns data into decisions. We unpack the core ideas behind learning by doing and translate them into tools you can use right away. You’...

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Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 60 - Reinforcement Learning: Reward The Process And The Future Changes

Send us a text New year energy is loud; smarter growth is quiet. We’re kicking off 2026 by trading fragile resolutions for a durable learning loop inspired by reinforcement learning. Instead of chasing perfect plans, we break down how real change happens: practice that compounds, rewards that align with values, feedback that arrives fast, and reflection that turns data into decisions. We unpack the core ideas behind learning by doing and translate them into tools you can use right away. You’...

1 week ago

8 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 59 - Year End Reflections With AI: And It Has Notes

Send us a text What if reflection wasn’t a year-end memory dump but a working system that sharpens judgment? We sat down to examine how AI quietly changed the way we think, plan, and lead—shifting focus from task speed to decision quality, from outcomes to assumptions, and from rigid plans to resilient learning loops. Instead of asking what happened, we asked who we grew, where we created real leverage, and how our narrative as leaders evolved. We unpack the prompts that force clarity withou...

2 weeks ago

8 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 58 - Claude & MCP: And The Rise Of Enterprise Agents

Send us a text Midnight outages that never become crises. Forms that fill themselves. Support queues that sort and draft responses before a human even looks. We explore how agentic AI moves from talk to action by pairing Claude with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) so models can safely reach into the tools your teams use every day and execute real work with guardrails. We start by framing the leap: a chatbot is great at conversation, an agent is great at outcomes. That difference hinges on c...

3 weeks ago

12 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 57 - When Machines Decide: How Agentic AI Orchestration Delivers Real Resolution

Send us a text What if your support chat didn’t just explain the fix but executed it end to end in under a minute? We explore the move from conversational help to true autonomy, where multiple specialized agents collaborate under an orchestrator to verify identity, update records, resolve conflicts, and confirm outcomes without human handoffs. It’s a practical, real-time shift that turns AI into a digital workforce built to deliver resolution, not just responses. We break down the core build...

4 weeks ago

12 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 56 - For Those Who Served: How AI Is Empowering Veterans

Send us a text A quiet story changes everything: a few missed appointments, a medication shift, and an AI alert that prompts a human call just in time. We open with Alex’s experience to show how technology, used with care, can help us reach veterans sooner, reduce red tape, and restore dignity in moments that matter most. We dig into practical ways AI supports veterans across the system. From summarizing dense benefits documents to flagging missing information in real time, modern tools turn...

1 month ago

11 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 55 - Gradient Descent: How A Simple (?) Step-By-Step Algorithm Teaches Machines To Think

Send us a text Imagine learning as a careful night hike: you can’t see the whole path, but you can feel the slope and step where it goes down. That’s the core intuition behind gradient descent, the quiet algorithm that turns errors into progress and powers everything from recommendations to self-driving perception. We walk through a vivid mental model for loss, gradients, weights, and biases, then break down backpropagation without dense math. Along the way, we explain why the learning rate ...

1 month ago

26 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 54 - Access is Destiny: Opening Doors To AI With Mark Cuban Foundation And AI Ready RVA

Send us a text Curiosity beats credentials. We head to Richmond, Virginia, to share how a free, hands-on AI bootcamp turns nervous high schoolers into confident creators and how a local nonprofit, AI Ready RVA, keeps the doors open long after the weekend ends. Guided by industry mentors and anchored in real-world problems, students explore core AI concepts, question ethics and bias, and build capstone projects they can cite on college essays and internship applications. Along the way, a quiet...

1 month ago

9 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 53: The Data Center Capital of the World — At What Cost?

Send us a text The internet doesn’t live in the sky—it lives in a quiet corner of Northern Virginia, inside miles of windowless buildings that hum day and night. We pull back the curtain on how Loudoun County became the world’s data center capital, tracing the line from AOL’s dial‑up era to the hyperscale cloud and the power-hungry rise of artificial intelligence. What starts as a story about fiber optics becomes a deeper look at money, megawatts, and the communities carrying the weight of ou...

1 month ago

8 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 52 - From Control to Collaboration: Rewriting Leadership for the Age of AI w/ Dr. John Dentico

Send us a text What if the habits that built last century’s companies are the very things holding yours back today? Dr. John Dentico joins us to challenge the factory-floor model of leadership and swap control for something bolder: a system built on doubt, collaboration, and meaning. We dig into why AI doesn’t just speed things up—it exposes brittle hierarchies and demands a new operating system where influence is shared, trust is the fuel, and execution is tied to clear strategy. John break...

2 months ago

1 hour

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 51 - Listening With Heart: How AI Turns Personal Narratives Into Actionable Insight w/ Andy Sitison

Send us a text What if your culture metrics could feel as real as a story told around a campfire? We sit down with technologist and humanist Andy Sitison, CTO of Share More Stories, to unpack how long-form narratives—analyzed with AI—can reveal what surveys miss: the emotions, values, and motivations that drive people to show up, speak up, and stay. Andy traces his path from early internet waves to machine learning, then to a sabbatical that reset his compass toward human connection. The resu...

2 months ago

39 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 50 - The Human Algorithm: Leading with Authenticity in an AI World w/ Judi Fox

Send us a text What if your loudest growth came from fewer, truer signals? That’s the through-line of our conversation with LinkedIn strategist Judy Fox, who rebuilt after a 2023 house fire and turned AI into a clarity engine rather than a content factory. She shares the first move that changed everything: using AI to write code, scrape 500+ client forms, and triage demand in hours. From there, collaboration unlocked more: co-prompting with Andrea Goulet revealed better questions, faster answ...

2 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 49 - Virginia’s Agentic AI Pilot: Clarity, Risks, and the Future of Lawmaking

Send us a text A state is letting an algorithm read the rulebook—and then asking people to decide what to change. We head to Virginia to unpack the “agentic AI” pilot that scans statutes, regulations, and guidance to flag contradictions, redundancies, and unclear language, promising cleaner code for public life. The vision is compelling: fewer dead ends for citizens and small businesses, faster updates as laws evolve, and a maintainable regulatory corpus that doesn’t require a crisis to fix. ...

2 months ago

11 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 48 - The Next Vital Sign: Kinis.ai’s Bold Vision for AI-Powered Health w/ Vincent Vu

Send us a text A simple question changed everything: what if balance were measured like blood pressure? We sit down with founder Vincent Vu—who went from a refugee camp to launching minimalist shoes to building a clinical platform—to unpack how AI and movement data can predict fall risk, empower clinicians, and make prevention practical for everyone. We dig into the origin story: an injury that led to Kennis Barefoot, a science-first approach to foot mechanics, and the customer signals that ...

3 months ago

50 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 47 - Quantum’s Edge: What Quantum AI Really Promises

Send us a text What if intelligence could see every path at once? We dive into the live wire where quantum computing meets AI—mapping the real breakthroughs, the hard limits, and the choices that will define how this technology reshapes science, industry, and daily life. From the rise of deep learning and the GPU-fueled leap in model scale to the weird physics of qubits, superposition, and entanglement, we lay out why this union matters now and what’s still missing before it transforms the ma...

3 months ago

12 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 46 - Supercomputers: Reshaping Our World One Quadrillion Calculations at a Time

Send us a text What happens when machines can think at the speed of light? Today we dive into the fascinating world of supercomputers – not just as technological marvels, but as the silent engines driving humanity's greatest breakthroughs. Have you ever checked a weather app that accurately predicted a storm's path? Used an AI tool to write or create art? Benefited from a life-saving medicine developed in record time? Behind these everyday miracles stands the extraordinary power of supercomp...

3 months ago

10 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 45 - Clarity Over Speed: The AI skills that actually matter

Send us a text Have you fallen into the AI execution trap? While everyone races to master prompt engineering and ChatGPT tricks, this episode reveals the uncomfortable truth: execution has never been the real bottleneck in innovation. The true differentiator—in every technological revolution—has always been clarity. We dive deep into how the democratization of AI creates a dangerous "execution obsession" where teams become incredibly efficient at solving the wrong problems. Through examples ...

3 months ago

11 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 44 - The AI Reinvention Cycle: Six Steps to Future-Proof Your Organization

Send us a text The business landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, and AI stands at the epicenter. But as Accenture CEO Julie Sweet pointedly states, "AI won't save you if all you do is adopt it." This fundamental truth launches us into an exploration of what truly matters in the AI revolution: complete business reinvention. I walk you through what I call the "AI Reinvention Cycle" – six powerful principles that separate future-ready leaders from those who will struggle to remain relevant....

3 months ago

7 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 43 - Websites Finally Talk Back: The Promise of No-Code AI Chatbots

Send us a text Ever wished your website could answer questions while you sleep? That's exactly what we're exploring today as we dive into the world of no-code AI chatbots that are revolutionizing customer service for businesses of all sizes. What caught my attention about Chatling AI was the stark contrast to my previous experience. After spending weeks coding a chatbot with Python, Langchain, and various other tools—only to face the daunting task of deployment and maintenance—I discovered a...

4 months ago

7 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 42 - AI Guardrails: How AI Tools Protect Against Themselves

Send us a text The invisible line between AI innovation and disaster often comes down to one critical factor: guardrails. Just as safety barriers on mountain roads don't slow you down but prevent catastrophic falls, AI guardrails establish crucial boundaries for powerful technology without limiting its potential. Through compelling real-world examples, we examine what happens when these protective measures fail. We explore practical solutions including data compliance mechanisms, context-awa...

4 months ago

7 minutes

Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation

Ep 41 - From Coffee to Wine: How AI Is Giving Teachers Their Lives Back w/ Cary Wright

Send us a text What if teachers could reclaim their evenings and weekends while actually improving student outcomes? That’s the promise of AI in education—not replacing teachers, but amplifying their impact by taking on the administrative burden that pulls them away from what matters most: connecting with students. Cary Wright, co-founder of TEACH (Transforming Education Through AI, Connections, and Humanity), brings 30 years of classroom and administrative experience to this eye-opening conv...

4 months ago

46 minutes