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The Gloves Come Off

Personal AI agents are moving into calendars, inboxes, phones, and feeds. The harder question is who carries responsibility when those systems shape what people see, beli

What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly Blitz

What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly BlitzJulie asks the question that cuts through most AI productivity pitches: what are we

AI, Work & What Comes Next | Bryan Barnhill | Humans in the Loop

AI can take work off your plate, but how do you decide what to trust it with, and what happens to people whose work changes? Jason Padgett and Bryan Barnhill talk through

When You See Us, You Can Be Us | Linda Calvin | AGI School’s Out Saturdays

What skills will help students find their footing when AI changes the work waiting for them? Linda Calvin joins Jason Padgett to talk about critical thinking, real relati

AI for Small Business: Automate, Audit, Adapt | Bryan Barnhill | Weekly Blitz

AI should take work off your plate. So why does choosing models, checking results and keeping up sometimes feel like another job? Jason Padgett is joined by guest co-hos

Can’t Honor the Gentleman’s Rule? Don’t Enter the Duel

AI policy keeps getting written like a rulebook for a system that behaves more like a living network. In this episode, Jason Padgett and Hunter Hickman ask the harder que

The Future Has No Fixed Path | Toni Holcombe on AI, Learning and the Courage to Pivot

What should a high school sophomore prepare for when the tools, jobs and rules keep changing? Toni Holcombe's answer is simple: there is no spoon. The future has not alre

Episode Title Indiana Women in Tech Week 6, AI Needs Women’s Voices Featuring Angie Carel

She did not come from a traditional tech background. Now Angie Carel is helping Fort Wayne learn, question and build with AI. For the sixth and final interview of the 20

Indiana Women in Tech Week 5, The Future Needs Lifelong Learners Featuring Jenna Copper

Jenna Cooper's first memorable computer lab was a gutted school bus filled with computers. Students walked across the parking lot, climbed aboard and learned Mavis Beacon

Bring Your Full Self to Tech | Heather Darring

DESCRIPTION What if the part of you that does not fit the old picture of a technology leader is exactly what the room needs? For Episode 4 of 2026 Indiana Women in Tech

Indiana Women in Tech Week 3 - Data Still Needs People | Toni Holcombe on AI and Data

DESCRIPTION What happens when you put an AI model on top of a pile of files nobody has cleaned up? Toni Holcombe has a name for one version of that mess: a data swamp. A

Who Gets to Control AI? Julie Koehrer on Risk, Work, and Public Trust | The Weekly Blitz

AI risk stories are getting louder, regulation proposals are getting more serious, and most people still have a workday to finish. In this Indiana Women IN Tech Week spec

Who Directs the Agents? Vibe Coding, AI Orchestration, and Human Judgment with Brent Rager

AI can now write code, call tools, coordinate other agents, and keep working long after a single chat ends. Brent Rager and Jason Padgett trace what that shift means for

Women in Tech, Mentorship and Practical AI with Shaneeka Abram

Women in Tech, Mentorship and Practical AI with Shaneeka Abram Getting into tech takes more than learning the tools. Shaneeka Abram joins me for Indiana Women in Tech We

From Tech Consumers to Creators: AI, Agency, and Student Work with Alexander Kutulas

Students are entering a job market where AI can produce code, applications, and polished personal brands faster than ever. So what actually helps a young person stand out

Marketing in an AI World: The Skills Students Still Need to Build

EPISODE DESCRIPTION When AI can write copy, analyze campaigns, generate research, and produce video, what should students still learn deeply enough to do themselves? Da

Sex, Drugs, and Social Media Bans

SEX, DRUGS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement over alleged harm to young users raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when an algorithm

Agentic AI Is Turning Knowledge Workers Into Managers, Ready or Not

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Agentic AI is changing the job description of ordinary knowledge workers before most companies have prepared them for it. Employees who once complete

AI in Education: Will Students Build the Future or Just Consume It?

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Young people can use AI to build businesses, solve hard problems, and create things previous generations could not imagine. They can also spend the n

Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Jason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attemp