Issue No. 44Week ending Sunday, November 1, 2026749 episodes · 3,295 write-ups
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Mark Lay

Mark Lay appears in 1 full episode we cover on Practical AI. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit Part 2

In this live episode recorded at the Midwest AI Summit, three technology leaders share practical insights on operationalizing AI. Don Barger discusses creating an ethical AI charter at the International Mission Board, Mark Lay of Noblis breaks down governance, delegation, and technical debt frameworks for enterprise AI, and Darren Taillie of Aerocore Technologies explains how text-to-SQL agents and vision models streamlined global jet engine maintenance operations.

  • Don Barger deployed FaithBot to 2.5 million users across 50 languages at the International Mission Board. Read →
  • Aerocore Technologies runs engine wash shifts from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM across airport tarmacs, where solo technicians enter work data directly into mobile phones under poor conditions. Read →
  • Darren Taillie eliminated a 40-hour weekly queue of manual data requests at Aerocore Technologies by connecting an LLM to database MCP servers inside Microsoft Teams. Read →
  • Software agents can complete operational tasks, but ultimate accountability always requires a named person on the organizational chart. Read →
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