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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Oct. 27, 2026
How Wearable Data Can Become Useful in Healthcare | Marco Benitez
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Marco Benitez, co-founder and CEO of ROOK and a biomedical engineer, about why a wearable can track months of health data while a doctor may still see only a snapshot at the next visit. Marco explains the gap between collecting readings and using them in care. Sleep, activity, blood pressure, and other information can sit in separate device apps, lab portals, medical systems, and electronic health records. ROOK builds i
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Oct. 20, 2026
AI Holograms, Digital Humans, and the Next Computer Interface | Raffi Kryszek
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Raffi Kryszek, a Chief Product and AI Officer at Proto Hologram, about what conversational AI holograms actually do and when a digital person can be more useful than a chatbot, app, or ordinary screen. Raffi explains that the word “hologram” can describe several different experiences. Proto began with live remote presence: making a person appear in a shared physical space. The same display can also show prerecorded cont
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Oct. 13, 2026
AI Made Building Faster. Why Is Shipping Better Products Still So Hard | Jeff Keyes
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at Allstacks and a product and go-to-market leader, about why AI can help product teams build the wrong thing faster when companies measure output instead of customer value. Vit and Jeff discuss the pressure many software organizations now feel to prove ROI from AI tools. Jeff explains why the easiest metrics, more lines of code, more pull requests, more tickets, more user stories, and more shipped
132
Oct. 6, 2026
When AI Can Build Features, Who Decides What’s Worth Building? | Tammuz Dubnov
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Tammuz Dubnov, co-founder and CTO of AutonomyAI, about what happens when AI coding agents move from impressive demos into real production products with legacy code, dependencies, architecture, testing, review queues, and product judgment. Vit and Tammuz discuss why building a small app with AI is very different from changing an existing codebase. Tammuz explains how AI-generated pull requests can look finished to a prod
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Sept. 29, 2026
How to Know You’re Ready for Product Leadership | Yue Zhao
In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, Vit Lyoshin speaks with Yue Zhao, product leadership coach and creator of The Uncommon Executive, about why strong product managers can struggle when they move into leadership and what has to change before, during, and after that transition. Vit and Yue discuss how a PM can tell whether they are ready for product leadership. Yue argues that readiness is not only about ambition. A stronger signal is whether people already come to that PM for ju
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