The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Monday, Nov 9
The AI Collective Podcast is a live weekday show hosted by AJ Green and Catherine McMillan: the AI news that matters, what's happening inside The AI Collective, and lightning interviews with the people building the field.
📺 How to watch
Live at 9 AM PT on LinkedIn, YouTube, X and Instagram.
🗓 Run of show (PT)
9:00 Show opens: this week in AI + inside The AI Collective
9:15 Hannah Earley
9:45 Max Markovtsev
10:10 Mahesh Vinayagam
10:30 Paige Bailey
~10:55 Wrap
🎙 Today's guests
9:15 AM PT · Hannah Earley
Founder & CTO, Vaire Computing
Founder and CTO of Vaire Computing, building reversible chips that recycle energy usually lost as heat. PhD in Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge and an MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 honoree (2026); Vaire has raised more than $12 million.
Topic: Chips that recycle energy
10:10 AM PT · Mahesh Vinayagam
Founder & CEO, qBotica
Founder and CEO of qBotica, a Phoenix-based agentic AI and Intelligent Automation-as-a-Service company he started in 2017. In April 2026 qBotica acquired Automatiga and launched qubi, an agentic AI platform that orchestrates AI agents, bots, systems and human approvals. A multi-year Inc. 5000 honoree and Forbes Technology Council member, he also mentors builders through SEED SPOT and The AI Collective.
Topic: From automation to agentic AI
10:30 AM PT · Paige Bailey
Developer Relations Engineering Lead, Google DeepMind
Developer Relations Engineering Lead at Google DeepMind, where she has helped define the developer experience for Google's generative models, including Gemini, PaLM 2 and Gemma. More than 15 years bridging machine learning research and real-world adoption, including earlier product leadership on generative models at Google Brain and ML developer tools at GitHub and Microsoft.
Topic: Developer experience for generative AI
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