Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

In this week's podcast, we're talking about a problem that is increasingly difficult to ignore: wildfires and extreme weather. My guest is Indran "Indy" Ratnathicam, Chief Growth Officer from Technosylva, a company whose tagline says it all: “We fight fire and extreme weather with science.” Indy and I chat about about Technosylva's dedicated wildfire supercomputing system, how AI fits into the architecture, what kinds of high-resolution data are required to model fire behavior, and why hyper-local modeling is so important when a wildfire is involved.

My podcast guest this week is Jason Ghidella, Sr. Principal Technologist at MathWorks. Jason and I discuss what breaks when you try to use agentic AI in complex engineering systems, where today’s agentic AI tools tend to fall short for engineering teams, and why AI must integrate with simulation, verification, and deterministic tools to produce repeatable, traceable evidence.

My podcast guest this week is Dr. Maha Achour, CEO and Founder of Kodamai. Maha and I chat about the shifting landscape of AI and how we can move beyond cloud and centralized data centers to a more distributed, agentic future. We discuss why governance must 'travel' with AI agents, what it means for trust to be architectural rather than procedural, and how Kodamai’s 'math-first' approach is helping engineers build verified, auditable AI systems that can thrive in the real world.

In this week's podcast, we're diving into the future of autonomous aerial infrastructure Doug Muhlbauer from Birdstop. Doug and I chat about the challenges of building 'drone-in-a-box' systems, check out what real-world industry adoption looks like, and explore the critical roles that reliability and regulation play in this space and what the future looks like for this innovative drone company.  Also, this week, keeping with our drone theme, I check out how drones are now being used to determine the ages of dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park!

My podcast guest this week is Jason Oberg from Arteris. Jason and I discuss this profound transition toward hardware security, explore how Cycuity's integration into Arteris is changing the game for system-level security and discuss how teams can address the emerging risks in our era of distributed systems, chiplets, and constant data movement.