IT Social Hour | An Epoch-Spanning Conversation With TechChannel's AWS Specialist
Freelance tech journalist Nicole Willing has spent the better part of 2026 covering AWS for TechChannel, but that’s just scratching the surface of her colorful career. Nicole is a “digital nomad” who got her start just before the dotcom bubble burst at the turn of the century. Now, among other topics, she’s chronicling the ongoing AI revolution, and she’s well positioned to do so. Nicole's wide-ranging career has given her the opportunity to cover electricity markets, data center networking and the nonferrous metals that go into semiconductors. She puts it all together in this epoch-spanning conversation with Andy Wig on IT Social Hour.
28 Aug 2026
The AI Natives Are Coming. What Kind of Technologists Will They Be?
Dana Woods, technology integration specialist at Bemidji Public Schools in Minnesota, USA, sees first-hand how AI is shaping young minds, and he has some ideas for what that might mean for the AI natives who will one day comprise the IT workforce.
Some highlights:
4:41 How AI is being used in classrooms today
7:05 Using AI as a real learning tool vs. an answer machine
16:02 Why computational thinking will remain the core skill
22:53 Fundamentals vs. AI fluency for future workers
26:35 Age-appropriateness and anthropomorphizing AI
35:49 Should kids still learn to code?
22 Jul 2026
IT Social Hour | Why Your Enterprise Data Isn't Good Enough for AI, With Craig Mullins
In this conversation about the new realities facing database architects, data technology expert Craig Mullins draws on his new book, "The Cost of Good Enough Data: Why Modern Architectures Fail at Scale" (https://tinyurl.com/wvuctaax).
Topics we cover include:
What Craig means by "good enough data" (3:18)
It's no longer "garbage in, garbage out;" it's "garbage in, amplified garbage out" (8:07)
Why organizations are racing to scale AI in the first place (12:42)
Why so many organizations are unprepared to leverage their data for AI (16:41)
Why scaling AI is a matter of policy and procedure (23:42)
How database and enterprise architects can make sure their skills are still relevant in the AI age (32:58)
Why the core fundamentals of data management still matter (37:24)
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