STAY Sustainable

In the STAY Sustainable podcast, our host, Alec Crawford, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Risk, Inc. ( aicrisk.com ), interviews guests about Sustainability, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and relates that to You. Podcast production and sound engineering by Troutman Street Audio. You can find them on LinkedIn and at troutmanstreetaudio.com Olivia Albrecht (ex-PIMCO) and J...

In the STAY Sustainable podcast, our host,  Alec Crawford, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Risk, Inc.  ( https://www.aicrisk.com ), interviews guests about Sustainability, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and relates that to You. Podcast production and sound engineering by Troutman Street Audio . You can find them on LinkedIn and at https://www.troutmanstreetaudio.com In th...

In this episode, our host, Alec Crawford, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Risk, Inc. interviews Aco Momcilovic, Future HR owner and the co-founder and President of the Global AI Ethics Institute. Aco shares his insights on various topics, including his career in human resources, his interest in artificial intelligence, and the AI Art Singularity project. He also discusses the threats an...

Our host, Alec Crawford interviews high profile guests at the intersection of sustainability, technology and AI for you in the STAY Sustainable podcast. In this episode, he interviews Doug Parker, founder and CEO of Ecolumix, a company providing verified ESG data on their platform, shares his career journey from being a history major to working in environmental law enforcement and eventually found...

In this episode, our host, Alec Crawford, interviews Karin Golde, an Amazon alumna, linguistics expert and AI professional. They discuss various topics related to AI and language models. She shares her background in linguistics and the contributions of linguists like Barbara Partee. Karin explains the concerns and risks associated with large language models (LLMs) and the challenges of training da...

Our host, Alec Crawford, interviews Ashok Manthena, CEO & Founder of ChatFin, and a Google and Gap alumni. Ashok founded Chatfin in April of 2023 to help CFOs and their teams automate their processes using AI, including natural language processing tools, similar to Chat GPT for finance! They cover everything from Ashok’s MBA, to his roles at Con Edison, Google and the Gap, all the way to his n...

Our host, Alec Crawford, interviews Christian Perry, the former CEO of ChatterQuant and current CEO of Undetectable AI. They discuss his journey from being an Eagle Scout to a successful entrepreneur. Christian's venture with ChatterQuant, which grew into a highly successful B2C platform and was recently acquired, highlights his entrepreneurial journey and the innovative use of AI technology. He s...

Alec Crawford interviews Brian Potts about law school, his career, being a founder, and the new AI tools you can use for writing as well as the specialized AI tools for lawyers available today. Brian is a legal innovator, Partner at Perkins Coie, founder x 4, including Founder of the Legal Mentor Network. AI is creating efficiencies today for lawyers! If you are in law school, Brian has plenty of...

Our host, Alec Crawford, interviews Gill Eapen, CEO of Decision Options and Board Member at the American Society for Artificial Intelligence. Gil Eapen cherished his time at Hewlett-Packard in the 90s, highlighting a unique, egalitarian culture and his inspiring interactions, including a chance meeting with the CEO. He contrasts this with later roles, noting the transient nature of management cons...

Alec Crawford welcomes Jane Carpenter, identity theft and data breach expert to the show. Jane talks about her career, including senior positions at Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Maine Attorney General's office, where she focused on identity theft before starting her own company. There, she helped train police departments and participated occasionally helping lawmakers...

Have you seen the same truck driving down your street delivering packages three times in the same day? There has to be a better way, and Mike Robinson from the Eighth Notch has an answer that uses artificial intelligence to dramatically reduce carbon emissions. Best of all, he tells us how we can help! Alec interviews Mike and they discuss his career across IBM, growing e-commerce at Macy's and th...

Alec interviews Mark Neal, Vintner, Founder and Owner of Neal Family Vineyards. We talk about decades of Napa Valley’s history, Mark’s mission to bring sustainability to winemaking in Napa Valley, and the future. Mark answers many of our questions, including: What’s the difference between biodynamic and organic farming? Should we be concerned about the Cabernet Sauvignon monoculture in Napa Valley...

Alec is joined by Sheldon Fernandez, CEO of DarwinAI. Alec interviews Sheldon about explainable AI, his start at University of Waterloo, and his path to CEO of Darwin. AI. Sheldon mentions some interesting books and classes during the show, the links are below for avid listeners. Deep Learning online course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning “The Promise of Artificial In...

Alec is joined on the STAY Sustainable podcast by Sally Curley, CEO of Curley Global IR, LLC. In a wide-ranging interview she talks about her career in investor relations, working in Biotech, her new role as part of an Angel Investing group, and her advice on ESG for corporate leaders. Not to mention some great local recommendations for Savannah!

Alec welcomes inventor and entrepreneur Hal Stillman to the STAY Sustainable podcast! He talks about some incredible innovation driving progress in sustainability, as well as his own career journey starting at General Electric Reentry and Environmental Systems in the 1970s and progressing through various startups. We also touch on his new carbon-positive home in New Mexico! An incredible breadth o...

Dr. Pooja Khosla, the Chief Innovation Officer from Entelligent, joins host Alec Crawford for a discussion on how innovation is the key to success in business, sustainability, and more. Entelligent is a climate risk analytics platform that measures and manages investment exposure to climate risk. The firm has built a technology that leverages macroeconomic, energy and forward-looking climate scena...

Dan Labovitz, Founder and CEO of the Green Impact (Stock) Exchange joins Alec Crawford on the STAY Sustainable podcast. Dan talks about growing up in Philly, NYU Law School, his career, and how the Green Impact Exchange (GIX) can help companies show they are committed to going green, not just greenwashing. Plus, another fun session of "underrated or overrated"! This episode was produced, edited, a...

Tyler Wood joins host Alec Crawford on the STAY sustainable podcast. They cover Tyler's career, Gravitas Inifinitum, the "recylotron", the circular economy, and more. This episode was produced, edited, and sound engineered by Troutman Street Audio. If you need professional audio engineering services, please reach out via email to: troutmanstreetaudio@gmail.com.

Alec Crawford is joined by Patrick Bangert, PhD, an expert in Artificial Intelligence. Patrick was named in CIO Look Magazine's top 10 influential leaders in Artificial Intelligence. Patrick discusses his career and how people can use artificial intelligence strategically in their business. "...What you should then start to think about is what you want to achieve, not what the AI people have, but...

Alec Crawford welcomes Bonnie Wongtrakool to the Stay podcast, a show about sustainability, technology, artificial intelligence, and the individual. Bonnie is a chartered financial analyst and the global head of ESG Investments and portfolio manager at Western Asset Management Co. and is joining Alec to discuss environmental, social and government (ESG) focused investing during Women's History Mon...

Alec Crawford welcomed Scott Tew to the Stay Podcast to discuss sustainability, technology, artificial intelligence, and their impact around the world. Scott has had a long career in the environmental field, beginning with working as an environmental scientist for a chemical company, to managing environmental issues globally, and finally joining Trane Technologies to help work in refrigerants. Sco...

Alec Crawford is joined by Patrick White, project manager at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, to discuss nuclear energy, sustainability, and technology. Patrick talks about his career journey and how he ended up at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, starting with his studies at Carnegie Mellon University and working in the commercial nuclear industry. He then pursued a Masters and PhD in nuclear sci...