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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Aug. 4, 2026
Why Most AI Projects Don’t Show ROI | Sid Bharath
Sid Bharath is the founder of Refound, where he helps non-technical companies rethink their operations for the AI age. His work focuses on finding business bottlenecks, mapping real workflows, and building AI agents that employees can manage alongside their existing roles. His perspective is especially useful for founders, operators, product leaders, engineers, and business teams trying to move from AI experiments to practical workflow automation. Topics Discussed Why large AI transformat
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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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July 14, 2026
AI’s Biggest Bottleneck Isn’t GPUs — It’s Power | Sergii Gerasymovych
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Sergii Gerasymovych, founder, CEO, and an AI data center infrastructure operator at EZ Blockchain, about why the next major AI bottleneck may not be models or GPUs, but the physical infrastructure required to power them. Sergii explains how EZ Blockchain is pivoting from Bitcoin mining infrastructure into AI data centers, and why the same lessons from crypto mining now apply to the AI compute race: everyone wants hardware
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July 7, 2026
The Quantum Threat to Encryption Is Already Here | Dr. Shohini Ghose
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Dr. Shohini Ghose, quantum physicist, author, and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, about what quantum computing actually is and why the most urgent risk may not wait for a perfect large-scale quantum computer. Shohini explains why quantum computing is not simply a faster version of today’s computers. It starts from qubits instead of classical bits, which means concepts like superposition, entanglement, and probabil
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June 30, 2026
The Space Economy Has a Labor Problem | Ethan Barajas
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Ethan Barajas, co-founder and CEO of Icarus Robotics, about why the space economy may be limited less by rockets and more by labor in orbit. Ethan explains why astronauts spend valuable time on cargo movement, maintenance, experiment setup, and routine station operations, and why that work becomes a major bottleneck as commercial space stations, orbital manufacturing, and future space infrastructure grow. Vit and Ethan
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