An Hour of Innovation
This podcast explores the art and science of innovation through conversations with product, tech, and AI leaders, scientists, and innovators.
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An Hour of Innovation
An Hour of Innovation is hosted by Vit Lyoshin, a technology professional with a product development, and program leadership background.
Each episode explores the art and science of innovation through conversations with product leaders, scientists, and innovators.
We dive into groundbreaking ideas, uncovering the WHY and HOW behind them. The goal is to amplify the voices of those driving change, offering insights, inspiration, and practical takeaways to spark listeners’ creativity and passion for progress.
Recent Episodes
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Sept. 8, 2026
How to Use AI Without Losing Your Ability to Think | Jolie Dobre
In this episode of the An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Jolie Dobre, author of Sustaining Human Intelligence: Keeping People Smart, Connected and Innovative in an AI-Driven Workforce, about how AI can speed up work while quietly weakening the human skills organizations depend on. Jolie explains cognitive offloading, skill decay, and why generative AI differs from narrow tools like GPS and calculators: it can take over summarizing, reasoning, ideation, research, and judgment
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Aug. 25, 2026
What AI Won’t Tell You When It’s Wrong | Jonathan Schaeffer
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Jonathan Schaeffer, founder and CEO of Synsira and creator of Kind, about why today’s AI tools can be useful but still unsafe to trust blindly. Jonathan explains why large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude should not be treated as intelligent authorities, why the word “hallucination” makes fabricated answers sound too harmless, and why a polished AI response can still contain errors users may never catch.
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Aug. 18, 2026
The 250 Million Users Product Teams Ignore | Rebecca Rosenberg
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Rebecca Rosenberg, founder of ReBokeh, about why low-vision accessibility is not niche and what it teaches product teams about adoption and business value. Rebecca explains how her low vision from albinism led her to build a visual-first app that uses a smartphone camera, augmented reality, contrast, brightness, color filters, and AI descriptions to help people customize what they see in real time. Rebecca argues that p
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Aug. 4, 2026
Why Most AI Projects Don’t Show ROI | Sid Bharath
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Sid Bharath, founder of Refound, about why many AI projects fail to produce measurable ROI and what companies should do before giving work to agents. Sid argues that the problem is often not the model alone, but the way companies approach automation: large AI makeovers, unclear outcomes, incomplete data, missing edge cases, and workflows that were never documented well enough to automate. Sid explains what becoming AI-n
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July 28, 2026
The Real Product-Market Fit Problem Is Emotional | Ravi Sawhney
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Ravi Sawhney, founder and CEO of RKS Design and creator of the Psycho-Aesthetics methodology, about why products fail even when the technology works. Ravi explains that product adoption is not only about function, usability, or technical performance; it is also about trust, stigma, identity, emotional resonance, and how a product makes people feel about themselves. Ravi shares a powerful story from his work on the MiniM
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