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I Started an AI Company in My 50s. Here’s What I Learned | Chuck Yates Keynote

September 04, 2026

Five lessons pulled from a junior high dance floor, a Wall Street Journal firing, and a weekend in Battle Creek learning to code. Chuck Yates, co-founder of Collide, takes the Ion stage and argues that energy's AI problem was never the tech. It is permission, labels, and an industry that named its flagship product West Texas Intermediate. Plus a serious ask about being better people on the way there.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy...

A 50-Year-Old Pipe Support Company Where 100 Employees Now Build Their Own AI Agents

August 28, 2026

A garage full of Ethereum rigs once set a house on fire, and that was only the warmup. Rakesh Agrawal and Lloyd Kirchner run Piping Technology & Products, a 50 year old Houston manufacturer where 100 employees now build their own AI agents and a welding cobot just got unveiled to 450 people on the shop floor. Cut cables in West Texas, new collar jobs, Pope Leo, and why the guy with the pickup truck had every reason to be nervous.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the convers...

Silicon Valley and Oil and Gas Are Playing the Same Game

August 17, 2026

Houston has always run on optimism, spending everything to drill a hole where nobody has drilled before and then finding out what came back. Leon Coe, founder of Amplify Intelligence and the Houston AI Club, thinks that same instinct is exactly what AI needs. He and Chuck get into why executives cannot delegate this one, why augmentation beats automation, and why your own level of ambition is a hard ceiling on what the models will ever hand back.https://www.meetup.com/houston-ai-club/events/3...