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Tunde Gbotosho is VP of AI Strategy & Client Solutions at Motive Power, where he works on AI for energy and utilities. He builds agentic systems, speaks on AI and culture, and is the author of Talking to Black People. Born in Nigeria and raised in New York, he lives in the DC area.

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Tunde Gbotosho was born in Nigeria and raised in New York, and he knows what it's like to be the only one in the room. He is the author of Talking to Black People (Connecting Bridges Publishing, 2024), an honest, humorous, judgment-free guide to asking better questions, which brought him to FOX 5 Good Day DC. His workshops have reached Pfizer, the University of Virginia, West Monroe and Aleysian. By day he is VP of AI Strategy & Client Solutions at Motive Power, where he helps energy and utility organizations move AI from pilot to production. He was West Monroe's first AI Project Manager, sat on its AI Centers of Excellence and helped create its AI certifications. He builds agentic systems, and has spoken at the U.S. AI & Energy Summit, the Maryland Clean Energy Summit and Afrotech. He lives in the DC area.

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Tunde Gbotosho has been the only one in the room more times than he can count. Born in Nigeria and raised in New York, he has watched smart, well-meaning people stumble over a simple question, so he wrote the book he wished somebody had handed them. Talking to Black People: An Exploration of Black Culture & Everything You Wish You Knew (Connecting Bridges Publishing, 2024) is an honest, humorous, judgment-free guide to asking better questions and actually listening to the answers. It brought him to FOX 5 Good Day DC, and he has taken the conversation into workshops for Pfizer, the University of Virginia, West Monroe and Aleysian.

His day work is a different kind of translation. As VP of AI Strategy & Client Solutions at Motive Power, he helps energy and utility organizations move AI from pilot to production. Most AI programs stall in the gap between a promising demo and something people actually use, and his work lives in that gap. At West Monroe he was the firm's first AI Project Manager, sat on its firmwide, practice and discipline AI Centers of Excellence, started the AI PM sync and helped create the firm's AI certifications. He builds agentic systems himself. He has been a panelist at the U.S. AI & Energy Summit, alongside the DOE Office of Electricity and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and at the Maryland Clean Energy Summit, and he has spoken at Afrotech.

Off the clock he experiments in the kitchen, tends an ever-growing plant collection, and enjoys anime, fashion, fitness, good food, good music and good people. He lives in the DC area and gives all glory to God.

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Our next guest was born in Nigeria, raised in New York, and knows what it is to be the only one in the room. He wrote Talking to Black People, was a guest on FOX 5 Good Day DC, and by day he helps organizations move AI from pilot to production. Please welcome Tunde Gbotosho.

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