AI and Fintech, Wilmington's business advantage, Managing growth.

Plus Panelists on Hurricane Helene, commercial real estate and the upcoming election.

J. Brannen Edge III

Managing Partner, President & Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Healthcare Properties, LLC

Carl Blackstone

President and CEO, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce

An Executive Profile with South Carolina's Superintendent of Education in her first term. We talk about priorities, teacher pay and retention, the importance of early literacy, a new controversial cell phone policy, book bans, building on the school-business pipeline, learning loss, and hurricane relief efforts.

From the evolution to the limitations and the future regulations we unpack AI with two of the men guiding the industry in the Carolinas.

Panelists

Igor Jablokov, Founder and CEO, Pryon

Dr. Collin Lynch, Artificial Intelligence Academy, NC State

Associate Professor, Computer Science, NCSU

Hosted by Laura Ullrich, in for Chris Williams

South Carolina based Titan Farms is the industry-leading grower, packer, and shipper of fresh peaches and vegetables.

Panelists

Peter Gwaltney, President & Chief Executive Officer, North Carolina Bankers Association

James McQuilla, President, Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce

From the No Labels party to transportation and infrastructure for the region, the Former Governor has plenty of opinions, including on the current chaos in politics.

Panelists:

Joe Waters, Co-Founder and CEO, Capita

Brian Etheridge, President, Leadership North Carolina

A one-on-one with Tom Barkin, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Barkin responds to the Fed's vote to hold borrowing costs and discusses new data that could indicate a change at the FOMC's September meeting. Other topics include: inflation, housing, commercial real estate, consumer spending, and jobs.

After a shocking loss in the Primary, Catherine Truitt reflects on her time in office and shares her perspective on the two candidates for her job. She also shares how education being used as a wedge issue is impacting students and explains why the unique governing model limits the job.

In this Executive Profile with the state's top economic developer, we talk about economic growth in a volatile economy, leveraging the state's talent pool, workforce challenges such as affordable housing and childcare and the department's position on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Guests:

Wit Tuttell, Executive Director, Visit NC

Duane Parrish, Director, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism

Panelists:

Terik Tidwell, NC IDEA Foundations' Black Entrepreneurship Council

Managing Partner, 642 Partners

Dr. Nicholas J. Hill, Dean, School of Business, Claflin University