Innovation Heroes

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A Decade of Waste: Why ITAM Hasn’t Won (Yet)

A decade of better tools. Better services. Better data. And yet the same statistic keeps showing up: 25-30% of enterprise technology spend is wasted. Why can't anyone move the needle? Shane Cronin, Head of ITAM & FinOps Services at SHI International, breaks down why traditional a ... Show more

. 30min 17sec

When AI Can’t Afford to Be Wrong: Inside Bot Auto’s Autonomous Trucking Mission

Everyone’s talking about AI that writes code and answers questions. But what happens when AI has to operate in the physical world, where mistakes don’t just generate weird sentences, they have real consequences? On this episode of Innovation Heroes, host Ed McNamara sits down wit ... Show more

. 27min 22sec

The Quantum Security Threat: Get Ready Today for Tomorrow's Tech

The encryption protecting your most sensitive data has as an expiration date. Nation-states are harvesting encrypted traffic right now, stockpiling it until quantum computers become powerful enough to crack it in seconds. In this episode, Ed McNamara sits down with Brad Bowers, S ... Show more

. 27min 6sec

AI's Infrastructure Emergency: Will Nuclear Power and Liquid Cooling be Enough?

AI ambition is colliding with physical reality. As data centers push from 20-kilowatt racks to 120-kilowatt systems—with megawatt-per-rack infrastructure on the horizon—the limits of power and cooling have become impossible to ignore. In this episode of Innovation Heroes, Ed McNa ... Show more

. 30min 30sec

How to Build a Smart City (In Just 4 Months)

State and local governments are under pressure to deliver modern services, but budgets, staffing shortages, and long procurement cycles make innovation feel impossible. In this episode of Innovation Heroes, host Ed McNamara talks with three leaders proving that AI-powered Smart C ... Show more

. 37min 54sec