Tech Productivity to AI to Cybersecurity to Sports Cars - Best of Tech 1st half 2025 - AZ TRT S06 EP12 (274) 7-6-2025

Tech Productivity to AI to Cybersecurity to Sports Cars -

Best of Tech 1st half 2025

 

- AZ TRT S06 EP12 (274) 7-6-2025    

 

What We Learned This Week

• ChatGPT is an AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, that can engage in human-like conversations
• Obvious Future is building Machine Learning (AI) programs to be used onsite for a business
• Oilstain Lab creates high end retro futuristic designer sports car - in EV models
• ACTRA - Cyber threats affect everyone from Gov’t to business to private and growing

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Clips form podcasts focused on tech in the 1^st Half of 2025

Notes:

 Segment 1:

Tech Productivity - AZ TRT S06 EP06 (267) 3-23-2025           

 What We Learned This Week

• ChatGPT is an AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, that can engage in human-like conversations
• ChatGPT can read docs, edit docs, answer Qs, and transcribe
• Elevenreader – app that turns any document into audio
• Google Drive – office suite of tools for spreadsheets, docs, powerpoints, & more
• Todoist – task management program
• Pocket – web research tool that saves & organizes links

 

 

Guest: Denver Nowicz, President - Wealth For Life
http://wealthforlife.net/

Denver is an advisor with nearly 20 years experience working with clients in investments and insurance, designing retirement plans with a combo of both. He takes us through different strategies for clients to get the best allocations for their money over the long term. It is the Combo Strategy of both Offense and Defense, the synergy of the mix, not ‘All or Nothing’.

 

Full Show: HERE

 

 

Segment 2:

Cybersecurity Response Plan w/ Frank Grimmelmann of ACTRA

- AZ TRT S06 EP03 (264) 2-9-2025              

 

What We Learned This Week

• ACTRA Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance
• Cyber threats affect everyone from Gov’t to business to private and growing
• Companies need to be responsive with speed to be effective + share information of attacks
• ACTRA has members from both government and private sector
• ACTRA helped create a state cybersecurity response model that other states can use

 

 

Guest: Frank Grimmelmann

https://www.actraaz.org/actra/leadership

President & CEO/Intelligence Liaison Officer

 

Mr. Grimmelmann also serves as Co-Chair (together with Arizona's Chief Information Security Officer) for the Arizona Cybersecurity Team (‘ACT’), created through the Governor’s Executive Order signed in March 2018. He also serves as a Founding Member of the National Leadership Group for the Information Sharing & Analysis Organization Standards Organization (‘ISAO SO’) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), created under the President’s Executive Order 13691 in February 2015. As ACTRA’s leader, Mr. Grimmelmann was invited as the first private sector representative in the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) and served as its first private sector Executive Board representative from 2014-2019. He presently acts as ACTRA’s designated private sector liaison to ACTRA’s Key Agency and other non-Member Stakeholders.  

 

Full Show: HERE

 

Segment 3:

Futuristic EV Designer Sports Car w/ Nikita Bridan of Oilstainlab

- AZ TRT S06 EP02 (263) 1-26-2025           

 

What We Learned This Week

• Oilstain Lab creates high end retro futuristic designer sports car - in EV models
• EV Car Designers for Gearheads who hate EVs
• All the capabilities of a sports car, on a liteweight carbon fiber frame, + sound & an electric motor
• Inspired by the race cars of Italy & classic 1960s sports cars

 

 

Guest: Nikita Bridan, Co-Founder, CEO

Nikita Bridan is co-founder & chief executive officer of Oilstainlab. A car design strategist with 15 years of OEM and startup experience, Nikita has worked with world-renowned brands including Lyft, Cruise, GM, Toyota, Genesis, ONE, and more on electrification, platforms, and strategy. In 2019, Nikita co-founded Oilstainlab with his twin brother, Iliya, as an automotive design consultancy service and playground, and developed it into a boundary-pushing, custom vehicle manufacturer. Nikita lives his life as fast as the cars he builds, once being pulled over at 140mph in Arizona and getting off with a warning. Nikita earned bachelor’s degrees in Transportation Design from the Istitudo Europeo di Design in Italy and the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he now serves as an instructor to the next generation of designers.

 

Leading a New Generation of Automotive with Oilstainlab Co-Founder Nikita Bridan

The future of automotive design is in the hands of twin brothers, Nikita and Iliya Bridan. 

The founders of Oilstainlab have turned heads worldwide with their automotive creations, most notably the Half-11, its half Porsche-half Formula 1 race car that pays homage to the golden age of motor racing. 

Full Show: HERE

 

 

Segment 4

 

Machine Learning (AI) Onsite w/ Eddi Weinwurm of Obvious Future

- AZ TRT S06 EP01 (262) 1-5-2025              

 

What We Learned This Week

• Obvious Future is building Machine Learning (AI) programs to be used onsite for a business
• Corporate Data is too sensitive to be in the cloud / internet
• Business cannot use cloud AI programs like ChatGPT, Google Cloud, etc because of IP and privacy concerns
• Large Language Models are not necessary, have more data than needed, can have smaller AI programs tailored for business

 

Guest:  Eddi Weinwurm

AI is top of mind for most enterprises…but most don’t know the risks especially in the cloud.

 

https://obviousfuture.com/#

  

Eddi Weinwurm is a co-founder and CEO of Obvious Future an AI company with a new approach to keeping AI local and secure.

 

Eddi Weinwurm has many years of experience in both the development of media management software and AI.  As a visionary he formed the company to address critical enterprises in the growing AI market.

 

 

ObviousFuture Resident AI: Faster, Safer, and Transforming Enterprise AI

 

Eddi Weinwurm co-founder and CEO of ObviousFuture is on a mission to make AI safer and faster for enterprises.

 

ObviousFuture, a trailblazer in secure and private AI solutions, will be unveiling a disruptive AI solution for the enterprise on December 18—Resident AI. 

 

This solution empowers enterprises to harness the full potential of AI while safeguarding their data locally, marking a critical evolution in the AI landscape.

 

ObviousFuture's Resident AI operates entirely on-premise, solving a $500 billion market problem by addressing vulnerabilities like data privacy risks, compliance challenges, and vendor lock-ins. The company is focused on key sectors such as government, defense, surveillance, medical, and media.

 

Early adopters, have achieved ROI within just two months of deployment of the Resident AI platform.

 

Full Show: HERE

 

 

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