Smart Cities & Sustainability Podcasts: AI that Builds Greener Urban Futures
Explore how AI-driven innovations are building smarter, greener urban environments. This collection dives into transformative solutions that optimize energy efficiency, manage urban infrastructure, and promote sustainable development. It’s designed for municipal leaders and private enterprises seeking to integrate AI into smart city initiatives for resilient and environmentally responsible growth:
What happens when AI tracks every resource in your city? Most cities struggle with aging infrastructure, but McCord Development is building one from scratch, with AI at its core. In this episode of Your AI Injection, Deep Dhillon talks with Ashwin Chandran about AI sensors that track water, optimize energy, and rethink urban planning. The two explore the challenges of AI-driven infrastructure and whether smart cities could be the future of urban life. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
What will AI bring us in 2025 and beyond? In this special compilation episode, we explore whether AI will be an ally or adversary in the coming years. See what our experts have to say about their vision for AI over the next 5 to 10 years—how it can solve critical challenges, enhance human potential, and reshape industries, while also grappling with its risks and limitations. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
Can space junk fuel humanity’s future? In this episode of Your AI Injection, Deep Dhillon chats with Gary Calnan and Walter Schroeder of Cislunar Industries about their bold plan to recycle orbital debris into materials for space stations, lunar bases, and beyond. Discover how AI and futuristic technologies are transforming trash into treasure—and shaping the next industrial revolution in space. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
From bees to moths, pollinators are vital to food production and ecosystem health, yet they’re disappearing at an alarming rate. In this episode, host Deep Dhillon talks with Dr. Chris Cosma, an ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute, about the urgent crisis of insect decline. But there’s hope—learn how AI, conservation efforts, and even your backyard can make a difference. But will we act fast enough to save the species we rely on for survival? [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
In an episode of Your AI Injection, Deep Dhillon and HData's Yuval Lubowich explore AI's impact on energy sector regulation, highlighting its role in streamlining data management and enhancing analysis for better transparency and decision-making. The two discuss overcoming regulatory complexities and envision AI's potential to transform industry standards and operational efficiency. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
In this exciting episode, we dive deep into the world of carbon stock mapping and how remote sensing and LiDAR are used to calculate the biomass of a tree. We also get an insight into carbon credit accounting and how this is emerging as a way to offset GHG emissions. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]
This episode we get to talk with Kelsey Josund, a machine learning engineer from Pachama, an exciting green startup on a mission to solve climate change. Pachama uses machine learning to monitor and measure carbon output from forests around the world to be sold as credits. On the episode we talk with Kelsey about how this process works and what the future of carbon monitoring looks like. [LISTEN] - [SUBSCRIBE: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts]