PODCAST · technology
Innova802
by Scott M. Graves
Join Vermont tech leaders Ryan Munn and Scott Graves as they discover the best this Brave Little State has to offer in technology-driven entrepreneurship. We profile leaders, debate the merits of policy and offer connection to the rural innovation landscape. A project of SMGraves Assoc., Interchain Live
Episodes
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Why Skill Resy Wants a Customer for Life
Skill Resy Founder Crystal Petrowski has a clear picture of the current issues in the human resource sector. She has additional evidence of how early iterations of AI are being misused or underutilized by the hiring sector. She is changing the way that companies use AI to hire while changing the...
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My Response to the Magical Teenage Idol
Transcript taken from SMGtheHouser.substack.com This week, a break from our work solving all the problems of small scale developers in rural America. Besides, our work relies on the success of tech entrepreneurs just as much as it does with municipalities, small business owners, manufacturers and...
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What's to Come in 2026
Cohosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves delve into what's on the horizon in Vermont tech in 2026. Talk of BETA Technologies recent IPO and its consequences on employment opportunities was high among the list of other companies mentioned that we're watching in the upcoming year. The list includes...
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The Brothers Behind Vermont Logistics Startup VSHIP
VShip 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 Actuator Program, the accelerator from Black River Innovation Campus in 2024 and recently won in the latest...
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Our Debate and Report on the State of Artificial Intelligence
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...
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Consorvia Says It's Time to Romance Innovation
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...
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Innovative Funding Leaders Compound Good Launch in VT
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....
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt II
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…
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt I
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…
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Be w/ AIGO.AI founder Peter Voss
It was a high point for co-hosts Ryan Munn and Scott M. Graves when they were joined last week by AIGO.AI 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...
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt II
Byron Batres of Scrivnr.com 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...
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt I
Byron Batres of Scrivnr.com 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...
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Where Craft Meets Cutting Edge: Treeline Terrains
Host Ryan Munn joined founders Nathaniel Klein and Jacob Freedman of Treeline Terrains, 2025 SBA SMall Business Award winners and members of the 2023 cohort for Forest Business Accelerator. Jacob and Nathaniel shared their origin story with Ryan and share with us multiple key factors for building...
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The Capital 'E' missing in Tech plus: Web 3.0 is now!
NYC-Based Drew Trombley has deep roots in Vermont tech via the borderlands. Drew grew up in Ticonderoga, NY. Depending on your perspective that might as well be Vermont. Drew's professional roots stem from the financing sector. This contributed to moments you'll want to really take in regarding…
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Checking in with the Vermont Futures Project
Vermont isn't just shrinking in population, its aging. The state has 30,000 fewer working age citizens between 25-40 then it did 25 years ago. This, while modest population gains during the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed. For those of us at the Innova802 Crew, we see the effects every day. Many...
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Vermont's Latest Tech Hub Comes to Life
Listeners looking to learn how to build and survive launching your rural tech hub will relate to our latest guest, Abby Salomon's story. The central Vermont town of Randolph, host to her organization known as Cultivator is also a resilient community in a truly resilient state. We talked about the...
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The Four G's of Open Innovation
Open Innovation has become essential to good science being completed by our institutions. Our guest this week, Steve Rader speaks with experience on how open innovation, rather crowdsourcing has and will shape good science work moving forward. Steven recently retired from NASA and is an expert in...
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Tech to Support, Not Replace People
Sharing the mic with Interchain.Live and fellow Innova802 crew member Ryan Munn brought Richard Lowe to our virtual studios for a discussion regarding Rich's experience as a ghostwriter and author in his own right. The discussion quickly deepened to include his perspective on building the bionic...
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Rugged Micropower Launches into the Vermont Tech Community
Paul Shepherd is no stranger to the Vermont high tech community. He recently launched Rugged MicroPower to take what he's learned working for leading Vermont tech companies and applying them to build a leader in providing power management solutions to the space industry. Our conversation touched...
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News from the Vermont Technology Alliance
Adam Locklin is the new executive director of the Vermont Technology Alliance(VTTA). His tenure began in January of 2025 after 20+ years with founding Executive Director Jeff Couture at the helm. Adam filled the Innova802 crew in on what he's learned so far traveling throughout Vermont on a...
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Tackling Children's Mental Health Challenges: Biobe
We spoke with Burlington, VT's Bryn Loftness, Co-Founder and CEO of Biobe. Their startup, currently focused on non-dilutive funding, intends to help one million children by 2030. They provide early detection technology and an emotional regulation toolkit to the children's mental health ecosystem....
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Funding Startups in Vermont w/ Moody's Advisors Jerry Carter
The latest form the Innova802 Crew brought Jerry Carter, partner in Burlington, VT's Moody Advisors into the virtual studio this month to talk about the current trends we're experiencing inside and outside of venture-capital for Vermont's rural startups. We spoke about the changing market for...
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Fundraising Innovation from Meagan Downey, founder of Shiki Wrap
Meagan Downey is founder of Vermont-based ShikiWrap.com, a successful and maturing startup providing reusable gift wrap and bags, combining a consumer product with a mission-driven strategy. This experience coupled with Meagan's earlier work in mission-driven fundraising gave her the experience…
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Humnet wants you to find connection through the internet? Pt II
We offer you the second part of our interview with founder Darren Mark and COO Mike Walton of Humnet.live You've heard the Innova802 crew speak to the idea that we give too much credence to the tech around our daily lives, surrendering a lot of our agency over how we control the use of tech for...
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Humnet wants you to find connection through the internet? Pt I
You've heard the Innova802 crew speak to the idea that we give too much credence to the tech around our daily lives, surrendering a lot of our agency over how we control the use of tech for good, rather than engaging with it in truly useful and healthy ways. Often, it may be better if we turned…
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Innova802: Blockchain Breakdown
Hosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves are joined by Justin Loranger of web3iam in what we're sure you'll find to be an excellent primer on why blockchain is the key to transforming crypto into accepted currency, offering security and stability. Why should you anticipate the value of your name and that...
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Innova802 - 2025: Where Do We Go From Here?
2025: Where Do We Go From Here? The Innova802 Crew discuss their thoughts on 2024, the year that was and pontificate on 2025, a year already flooding the airwaves with contentious tech policy maneuvers, authoritarianism, crypto making headlines….tech is at the top of virtually every news cycle…
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Innova802 Shorts: Open Source Comes Alive at UVM.
UVM student leader Henrik Van Tassel shares what projects are developing in the University's Open Source Community including the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, the CS Crew student club and VERSO. You may remember the latter organization's Director Kendall Fortney making an appearance in…
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Innova802 Short: Data Privacy Rights for Vermont
It's a new legislative cycle in the state of Vermont. Co-host Scott Graves participated along with other leaders including Attorney General Charity Clark on Monday January 27 in support of State Rep. Monique Priestley's efforts to pass data privacy legislation for Vermont. Innova802 shorts are a...
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The Satoshi Ratio, A Look at Blockchain Pt II
We're diving into Blockchain and Crypto as the new year comes into being. Innova802 co-host Ryan Munn is no stranger to how blockchain could transform the way we think of and transact money. But our society has placed some significant barriers to accepting blockchain. Why is this so? Are we...
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Innova802: Snap, Crackle, Pop! Plus a Tribute to the legend Quincy Jones
Glavel is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL. CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US. How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence…
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Pt I: Ace McCarleton of New Frameworks
We 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...
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Innova802: Pt II New Frameworks
We 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...
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Innova802: The Satoshi Ratio, A Look at Blockchain
We're diving into Blockchain and Crypto as the new year comes into being. Innova802 co-host Ryan Munn is no stranger to how blockchain could transform the way we think of and transact money. But our society has placed some significant barriers to accepting blockchain. Why is this so? Are we...
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Join Vermont tech leaders Ryan Munn and Scott Graves as they discover the best this Brave Little State has to offer in technology-driven entrepreneurship. We profile leaders, debate the merits of policy and offer connection to the rural innovation landscape. A project of SMGraves Assoc., Interchain Live
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