Boaz Ashkenazy
Boaz Ashkenazy is Co-Founder at Clause, Advisor at Loti, Executive AI Advisor and Agentic AI Practice Lead at Redapt, Inc., Board of Trustees member at Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and Founder and Host at Shift AI. He founded Linkroom, Shift AI, and Simply Augmented, with Linkroom no longer active and Shift AI and Simply Augmented still running. His expertise includes convening executive conversations on AI, agentic systems, and the future of work, and leading engineering practices for operationalizing AI in large enterprises.
Why Physical AI Is Farming's Next Frontier with Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell
In this episode of Shift AI, Paul Mikesell, CEO of Carbon Robotics, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI, lasers, and autonomy are replacing chemical weed control on farms. Carbon Robotics built a foundation model out of 150 million plant images, and Paul explains what happens when you show it a weed it has never encountered before. There's no retraining involved, and the result is something closer to a machine that understands what a plant is rather than one that's just memorized a dataset. What that actually looks like in the field, and why it took…
Microsoft's reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders
On this week's show, we're out on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft's latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200. Then we sit down with four guests to talk about how AI is reshaping how they build: Jana Schuster of StackIQ, whose AI-native platform helps companies find redundancy in their software spending — like Rocket Money, but for business — with a small team. Blake Resnick and David Benowitz of Brinc Drones, whose mechanical engineers are now…
The Hidden Truth of Venture and AI with GP of Pack Ventures Ken Horenstein
In this episode of The Shift AI Podcast, host Boaz Ashkenazy, founder and CEO of Augmented AI, sits down with Ken Horenstein, the founding partner of Pack Ventures, a venture firm that supports startups emerging from the University of Washington's vibrant tech ecosystem. Ken shares his journey from growing up in Vancouver, Washington, to becoming a key player in Seattle's venture capital scene, with previous roles at Microsoft's M12 and Venture Out. Ken and Boaz delve into the art of identifying what’s truly necessary for startup success. Drawing from his experience working with highly technical research scientists, Ken offers a…
Organizations
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Redapt, Inc. Executive AI Advisor, Agentic AI Practice Lead 2026–present, Senior Director, AI Infrastructure 2026 · current
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Clause Co-Founder 2025–present · current
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Loti Advisor 2024–present · current
Education
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University of Washington MARCH, Architecture · 1999–2001
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University of California, Santa Cruz Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American Government and Politics (United States) · 1991–1994
