The Brothers Behind Vermont Logistics Startup VSHIP
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is using digital tech to deliver a better way to ship your automobile using the rail system of the United States. Started by two brothers, Amr and Amhed Aly the company completed the , the accelerator from Black River Innovation Campus in 2024 and recently won in the latest cohort of LaunchVT in the spring of 2025. The two brothers hail from Egypt and have spent considerable time in New England. Amhed is a graduate of Amherst College and the two explained for us why Vermont is for them the ideal place to start their business. We explored the problem they are solving...
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Our Debate and Report on the State of Artificial Intelligence
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The Innova802 crew sat down to take stock together on where we stand on Artificial Intelligence: Its effect on politics, creativity, industry, labor, culture and the possibility of global destabilization. Have no fear, rather than simply complaining as to the side effects of an inappropriately deployed plan by the tech sector for AI, we delve into each of our insights on how a beneficial future could be wrought through the use of AI. This could be a highly informative episode for our listeners coming on the heels of the United State’s WHite House report, Resources...
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Consorvia Says It’s Time to Romance Innovation
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Consorvia’s founder, Christina Fedor wants to redefine society’s relationship to the creative sector. With their latest client platform the company is fundamentally bringing the individual and the system together to serve people in their effort to self actualize. Our conversation reached into the benefits of letting people young and old flex their deepest and most creative muscles. Some of the issues with how we interact with tech and the solutions to overcoming these limitations. is an R&D ecosystem primed to answer the really big questions that seem to be converging on us at...
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Innovative Funding Leaders Compound Good Launch in VT
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Innova802 Crew Member Will Jeffries represented the team for the Burlington, VT premiere of a new and innovative funding organization, Compound good. Compound Good is a nonprofit fund that allows donors to make impact investments with philanthropy, unlocking capital for social entrepreneurs. Founders include Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET), Sage Software and Lawson’s Finest Liquids while supported ventures include , and a company familiar to the Innova802 podcast, and founder Meagan Downey. Following a viewing of their latest launch video, they sat down with...
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt II
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When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we’re talking about. In a little more than an hour, and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron’s development of digital solutions for aiding mission-driven organizations, really community building in Web3 that is meaningful to the human world, focusing on Ron’s work with AI for social impact ( and ), philanthropy...
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt I
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When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we’re talking about. In a little more than an hour, and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron’s development of digital solutions for aiding mission-driven organizations, really community building in Web3 that is meaningful to the human world, focusing on Ron’s work with AI for social impact ( and ), philanthropy...
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Be w/ AIGO.AI founder Peter Voss
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It was a high point for co-hosts Ryan Munn and Scott M. Graves when they were joined last week by founder Peter Voss. Peter’s a long-time innovator, founder, advocate and thinker concerning Artificial Intelligence(he coined the term artificial general intelligence) whose insights shared with us are making us think further, dig deeper into our own advocacy for the best use of AI in order to realize a benefit to a maximum spectrum of the worlds’ population. This is your opportunity to invest with one of the world’s most thoughtful innovation leaders in...
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt II
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Byron Batres of to recount the early days of building his company, the importance for understanding your clients true needs and how these early experiences are informing his latest venture. Byron’s insights are well worth the listen and the service they offer can help those who find themselves without the resources needed to take their loved ones assets out of probate. Part II of II
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt I
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Byron Batres of to recount the early days of building his company, the importance for understanding your clients true needs and how these early experiences are informing his latest venture. Byron’s insights are well worth the listen and the service they offer can help those who find themselves without the resources needed to take their loved ones assets out of probate.
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Where Craft Meets Cutting Edge: Treeline Terrains
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Host Ryan Munn joined founders Nathaniel Klein and Jacob Freedman of , 2025 SBA SMall Business Award winners and members of the Jacob and Nathaniel shared their origin story with Ryan and share with us multiple key factors for building and funding a successful startup, combining craft with innovative process and technology. Also mentioned in our podcast, &
info_outlineWe joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure. But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more.
Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to grow a company that consistently leads through example.
Plus in The Jazz Room we celebrate the Drummers! Host Joan Watson-Jones dedication to drummers. Though she did not have the pleasure of interviewing the great Roy Haynes who passed away last week, we have many of his friends to celebrate in this episode.