The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Friday, Oct 23

​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 Wolf Ruzicka

• ​9:45 Ben Colman

• ​10:10 Alex Newman

• ​~10:30 Wrap

​🎙 Today's guests

​9:15 AM PT · Wolf Ruzicka
Chief Commercial Officer, Unlimit
Chief Commercial Officer at Unlimit, working on complex payment problems across payment rails and geographies, and author of the book AI Driven. One of The AI Collective's most engaged members.

​9:45 AM PT · Ben Colman
Co-Founder & CEO, Reality Defender
Reality Defender detects AI-generated content for enterprise and government in real time across audio, video and image. It's a WEF Technology Pioneer and RSA Most Innovative Startup winner; Ben is focused on the trust infrastructure enterprises need as AI agents act autonomously.
Topic: AI agents, the future of commerce, and deepfake detection & trust infrastructure

​10:10 AM PT · Alex Newman
Founder, Claude-Mem
Founder and creator of Claude-Mem, open-source persistent memory for Claude Code and other AI coding agents: it captures what an agent does, compresses it with AI and brings the relevant context back in future sessions. The GitHub repo has roughly 100K stars.

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