AITX Community Podcast

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! This episode features Scott Wilcox, an Austin OG who spent nearly 20 years leading technology and innovation at SXSW. Scott helped shape SXSW into a global platform that drives a Super Bowl’s worth of economic activity into Austin each year. He led the organization’s digital transformation, built their platform from scratch, and guided their technology s...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! This episode features Tyler Wells, whose engineering journey spans some truly iconic companies and projects. Tyler’s career reads like a timeline of real-time communications evolution. He joined Skype not once but twice, playing critical roles in unifying codebases and, most notably, building out the original Facebook video calling feature powered by Sky...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! This episode features Jared Greene, Head of Software at Base Power Company, one of the fastest-growing energy technology startups in Texas. Base Power builds modular, distributed energy systems that can augment utility grid electricity and installs them directly into their members homes. They're fresh off their Series C funding announcement and one o...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! This episode features Kevin Frazier, a lawyer & policy expert, Senior Editor at Lawfare, and the inaugural AI Innovation & Law Fellow at The University of Texas School of Law. We cover Kevin’s education and career working in the world of law and policy at both state governments and Big Tech, how AI is impacting the legal profession, and a deep di...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! This episode features Rick Boone, an accomplished engineering executive, angel investor, and current venture partner at Antler. We trace Rick’s journey through technology, from growing up immersed in giant mainframes in New York City to engineering leadership roles at some of the biggest names in tech, like Facebook, Uber, and Carta. Rick shares candid s...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! Our fourth episode is with Doa Jafri, an entrepreneur, serial engineering executive, and current leader of a research team exploring Emerging Technology & AI at Twilio. This conversation with Doa covers her journey from discovering coding as a creative outlet in middle school to becoming a serial startup technical leader and advocate for AI adoption....

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! Our third episode is with Ashia Lewis-Livaudais, a computational physicist, research engineer, and the founder/CEO of Symby AI.Our conversation spans Ashia's personal story growing up in New Orleans and getting her PhD, her professional experience as a self-described “Research Engineer”, and how she got started building AI models to help advance science,...

Welcome back to the AITX Community Podcast! Our second episode is with Jade Wang, an engineer, startup founder, hacker house pioneer, and prolific angel investor. This conversation spans Jade's personal journey immigrating to the US and learning to program at a young age, her experiences running legendary Bay Area hacker houses, how she got started building developer community at Meteor, her e...

Welcome to the AITX Community Podcast! Our first episode is with Jason Gauci , an OG AI engineer, researcher, open source technology expert, and host of the Programming Throwdown Podcast. In this wide-ranging conversation with Jason, we discuss Jason's background and entrance into the Machine Learning industry, the importance of Open Source technology to AI and software engineering in general,...