AI Orchestration for Smart Cities and the Enterprise [Robin Braun and Luke Norris] – 755

Today, we’re joined by Robin Braun, VP of AI business development for hybrid cloud at HPE, and Luke Norris, co-founder and CEO of Kamiwaza, to discuss how AI systems can be used to automate complex workflows and unlock value from legacy enterprise data. Robin and Luke detail high-impact use cases from HPE and Kamiwaza’s collaboration on an “Agentic Smart City” project for Vail, Colorado, including remediation and automation of website accessibility for 508 compliance, digitization and understanding of deed restrictions, and combining contextual information with camera feeds for fire detection and risk assessment. Additionally, we discuss the role of private cloud infrastructure in overcoming challenges like cost, data privacy, and compliance. Robin and Luke also share their lessons learned, including the importance of fresh data, and the value of a "mud puddle by mud puddle" approach in achieving practical AI wins.

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📖 CHAPTERS
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00:00 – Introduction
01:47 – Enterprise AI adoption
04:28 – Key challenges
05:47 – Use cases
10:14 – Town of Vail HPE Agentic Smart City
16:15 – Unleash AI partners and use cases
28:07 – Role of Kamiwaza in 508 compliance and deed restriction use cases
32:08 – Ontology scheme and agentic RAG
34:04 – LLM-based entity recognition and extraction
39:43 – Kamiwaza’s computer use agent
40:45 – HPE’s Unleash AI ecosystem
43:27 – Infrastructure and cost considerations
45:21 – HPE Private Cloud AI
46:38 – Kamiwaza’s distributed inferencing
48:10 – Lessons and advice

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES
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Town of Vail to deploy HPE AI solution to make city smarter, safer, and more sustainable – https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2025/10/town-of-vail-to-deploy-hpe-ai-solution-to-make-city-smarter-safer-and-more-sustainable.html
Making accessibility achievable: HPE, NVIDIA, Kamiwaza and SHI International simplify compliance for governments with AI – https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2025/10/making-accessibility-achievable-hpe-nvidia-kamiwaza-and-shi-international-simplify-compliance-for-governments-with-ai.html
HPE Private Cloud AI – https://www.hpe.com/us/en/private-cloud-ai.html
Kamiwaza AI – https://www.kamiwaza.ai/
RAG: Beyond the Chatbot – https://twimlai.com/resources/rag-beyond-the-chatbot/

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