How to Nurture Smart Communities w/ David Ihrie

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 10 p.m.

David Ihrie is the Chief Technology Officer at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. He focuses on driving economic welfare for the state of Virginia by evaluating technologies and their ability to play a role in the future.\n\nDavid has more than 35 years of experience innovating in the fields of satellite and terrestrial communication, computing, and information science. He has been a principal in seven different startup companies across a number of industries.\n\nNow, as CTO, David consistently evaluates how to make Virginia a hotbed of \u201cSmart Communities.\u201d\n\nDavid and Ken discuss how technology firms can work with governments, the frameworks he uses to evaluate trends, and how most innovation is incremental vs disruptive.\n\nFind every episode\u2019s show notes at\nCatalyst-go.com