Why You Can’t Ignore AI Moving to the Edge | Joel Polanco, Senior Hardware Product Manager (Intel)
August 28th, 2025
32 mins 54 secs
Season 1
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About this Episode
On today’s episode of LaunchPod AI, we’re talking with Joel Polanco, Senior Hardware Product Manager at Intel’s Edge Computing Group. He’s led dozens of enterprise AI edge deployments and knows exactly what it takes to run AI models locally at scale.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why AI at the edge will cause a whole new wave of disruption across multiple industries
- Why moving AI to the edge slashes costs and levels up customer experience
- And real-world examples of edge AI deployments Joel has seen - from IT assistants to agents that restock store shelves from a single photo
Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpolanco/
Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html
Joel's PM articles on the LogRocket blog: https://blog.logrocket.com/author/joelpolanco/
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:32 Retail Applications of Edge AI
04:57 Cost and Implementation Considerations
06:18 Real-World Use Cases and Challenges
12:00 Future of AI and Edge Computing
30:42 Practical Advice for Product Executives
33:46 Conclusion
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