Inside a Real AI Smart City Project | Town of Vail + HPE

Описание: During The CTO Advisor Road Trip to NVIDIA GTC, enterprise technology advisor Keith Townsend stopped in Vail, Colorado to explore an unexpected place for AI innovation.

Recorded inside the CTO Advisor Flying Cloud Airstream studio, this conversation brings together:

Russell Forrest, Town Manager for the Town of Vail

Robin Braun, VP of AI Development at HPE

What started as a casual conversation between technologists and public sector leaders evolved into a real-world AI initiative designed to solve practical problems faced by municipal governments.

Instead of focusing on AI hype or workforce replacement, the Town of Vail approached the project with a different goal:

Use AI to reduce time spent dealing with messy data so employees can spend more time serving residents and visitors.

In this conversation, the group explores:

• Why a small mountain town decided to pursue AI
• How public sector missions shape AI adoption differently than corporate environments
• Using AI to unlock decades of archived records and siloed data
• Turning existing infrastructure—like cameras and buses—into multi-purpose data systems
• The importance of partnerships between municipalities and technology providers
• Why many successful AI projects start with people and process, not technology

The discussion highlights how collaborative experimentation between the Town of Vail, HPE, and their partners is helping redefine what a modern smart city initiative can look like.

Learn more:

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HPE AI Unleashed program
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