Panos Stravopodis, CTO and Co-founder at Elyos AI, is building cutting-edge AI agents to revolutionize how the energy sector and field services handle complex operational workflows. Elyos AI empowers teams installing solar panels, managing decarbonization projects, and coordinating demanding field operations - giving time back to business owners and accelerating the clean energy transition.Episode Highlights:- Panos shares his early software engineering journey, from building reservation systems for hotels to scaling tech in Amsterdam and London.- He walks through pivotal moments in Elyos AI’s founding story, including rapid acceptance into Y Combinator and the cross-continental team move to San Francisco.- Hear how the team discovered that slow and fragmented communication—often left to emails and phone calls—was the real barrier to delivering clean energy projects on time.The discussion covers the complexity and challenges of the energy sector, trust-building for high-stakes deployments, and why vertical focus trumps over-generalization in today’s AI landscape.-----------------------------------------------Connect with Panos Stravopodis:linkedin.com/in/pstravhttps://elyos.ai/Connect with Demetrios:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Deepgram:https://deepgram.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgramhttps://x.com/deepgramaihttps://www.facebook.com/deepgram/Join the Deepgram Discord Server!https://discord.com/invite/xWRaCDBtW4

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