Path and Focus

Jonathan Bowers, Kaileen McCulloch

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Path and Focus

Chronicling our journey building a wildfire technology company

10/30/2021

015. Season one wrap up!

Kaileen and Jonathan reflect on that past 10+ months of this Path and Focus journey in the last episode of season one! Join us as we explore some of the struggles and successes that have come out of this venture into wildfire technology.

21 min
10/12/2021

014. Guest interview with Bruce Morrow, Registered Professional Forester

Jonathan sits down for a candid conversation with Bruce Morrow, a professional forester with 40 years of experience in wildfire suppression and fuel management. They talk about everything from the 15 year pine beetle epidemic in BC, to how fire suppression can actually make for even worse fire seasons. Bruce also gives real time feedback on the Beacon app.

29 min
09/09/2021

013. Guest interview with Avvai Ketheeswaran, fellow Beacon developer!

Another very special guest is joining Jonathan on the podcast today, and this time it's Avvai, one of the wonderful developers who's helped bring Beacon to life! Avvai shares how much she's learned about wildfire, software development and product design, and what features she hopes to see implemented in Beacon in the future.

17 min
09/03/2021

012. The perils of wildfire risk on home insurance

Kaileen bought a tiny home! And is now experiencing herself what so many other home buyers in BC have this summer... being unable to purchase house insurance because of (perceived) risk of wildfire. We revisit how this was one of the initial motivations for starting our wildfire technology startup company, and then continue brainstorming ideas on how to get more Beacon users and more feedback from those users.

12 min
08/30/2021

011. Air quality conversions & Beacon premium features

Jonathan shares a project he worked on over the weekend that involved converting the Canadian Air Quality Health Index & the Air Quality Index that Purple Air sensors use in order to find a more accurate reading that adequately accounts for woodsmoke. Then, he and Kaileen explore different ways to start gauging interest in Beacon's premium features!

17 min
08/20/2021

010. Minor app bugs & biogeoclimatic zones

Kaileen and Jonathan explore some fire danger rating edge case bugs that were accidentally stumbled upon, and how using something called biogeoclimatic zones could change the game for getting more accurate work restrictions!

15 min
08/13/2021

009. Machine Learning with Chris Foster, our CTO!

We've got Chris Foster, Two Story Robot's own Chief Technology Officer and resident machine learning expert in the studio to set some things straight. Why can't we just slap a little machine learning on everything? What is the potential for it in the wildfire management space?? And the question we're all curious to know... is ML coming for our jobs??? (spoiler alert: it's not!)

21 min
08/06/2021

008. Initial feedback & product validation

Jonathan shares some early feedback we've received on Beacon, then he and Kaileen dive into the last few question marks they have yet to figure out before officially launching, and how they even validated this app months back.

17 min

TRAILER

Path and Focus: Teaser

We'll be exploring the fascinating, sometimes terrifying, and often misunderstood world of wildfires as we embark on our mission to develop technology to improve our relationship with wildfire. Hosted by Jonathan Bowers, software developer and entrepreneur, and Kaileen McCulloch, a former wildland firefighter turned software developer.

06/17/2021

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3 min

Chronicling our journey building a wildfire technology company

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Jonathan Bowers, Kaileen McCulloch
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