Creative Tech Podcast
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -A series of conversations with some of the world's brightest minds and most creative innovators exploring the intersection of human creativity and AI technology. The UK's National Centre for Innovation enabled by AI (CebAI) is based at City, University of London and funded by UK Research & Innovation. CebAI is developing prototypes that will help people to develop their creative problem solving skills.
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Anthony Impey MBE
October 16, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBAnthony Impey MBE is CEO of SME support network Be the Business, and he wants to change the world. Today he slips off his super-hero cloak and joins Professor Neil Maiden to delve into the UK’s productivity problems and discuss what can be done to solve them. Be The Business has supported an increase in SME productivity to the tune of £462 million in the UK, and in this wide ranging conversation we discuss the current challenges facing business owners; why we are now in the “Age of the...
Alice Frost
October 09, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBAlice Frost, Director of Knowledge Exchange at Research England, discusses the UK’s knowledge economy and the dark art of getting innovative ideas out of higher education to create real-world impact. How well is the UK doing in this field? Alice explains her obsession with evidence, avoiding “wifty wafty” stakeholder engagement, and how the UK’s academic research and development achievements translate into £billions of pounds for the UK economy. If you are interested in the current deba...
Andy Wilkins
October 02, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBHow can businesses of every size learn to embrace curiosity and creativity? Andy Wilkins, business consultant; Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School; and co-founder of consultancy Perspectiv, discusses creativity in business with Professor Neil Maiden. The conversation covers a wide range of issues and considers how ten years ago, industrial focus was on process improvements, which has now given way to the leadership of complexity, establishing cultures, and the delusion of s...
Professor Anna Whitelock
September 25, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBAnna Whitelock is Executive Dean of the School of Communication & Creativity, at City University of London. She also just happens to be an expert in the history of the UK Monarchy and had a few things to say about the recent coronation of King Charles III. The School of Communication and Creativity was opened in the Autumn of 2022 and Anna explains what it’s all about and how their ambition is to break the mould of performing arts schools and be more accessible to a wider range of students...
Sports Talk - Stuart Armstrong and Alex Wolf
September 18, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis week’s CreAtIve Tech podcast is a sports roundtable. Professor Neil Maiden is joined by Stuart Armstrong, Strategic Lead for Workforce Transformation at Sport England, and Alex Wolf, Sports Consultant and founder of Strength and Conditioning Academy. Stuart and Alex consider the culture of curiosity and creativity that sports coaching must support for successful outcomes; the importance of psychological safety in training; and the effects of power dynamics on coaches and athletes. J...
Hamish McAlpine and Professor Neil Maiden
September 11, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBHamish McAlpine is a Director at international innovation consultancy company, Oxentia. In September 2023, CebAI and Oxentia won funding to develop a co-creative AI tool to accelerate high-growth companies. To kick off series 3 of the Creative Tech podcast, Professor Neil Maiden and Hamish McAlpine discuss the aims of the project, AI tech strategies for business consultancies, working with global innovators, the future of AI, and the most important questions of the day – Barbie or Oppenhei...
Irini Papadimitriou
October 31, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 143 MBWho controls technology? How is it developed? Who benefits from AI? How do we change things for the best? Cultural curator Irini Papadimitriou, Creative Director at innovation lab and cultural agency, Future Everything, on challenging norms, queering datasets, and inherent bias in artificial intelligence. From the LAPD and deadly robots to the National Trust, Irini champions inclusivity in technology using art and collaborating with a wide array of innovative artists from around the world....
Sports Talk
October 24, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 166 MBIn this free and frank exchange of views we look inside life at the very top of elite coaching with Nigel Redman, former Team GB Olympic swimming coach, now England Rugby’s 'Kingmaker' and Head of Team Performance. And Chris McLeod who looks after the UK's top tennis talent in his role as lead strength and conditioning coach at the Lawn Tennis Association. Together with host, Professor Neil Maiden, the panel discuss the importance of getting out of your comfort zone and listening to people ...
Ghislaine Boddington
October 17, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 171 MBIs your body part of the interface? Do you track your health and fitness on your smart phone? Are you quantifying yourself to the point of modification? Do you realise how much money corporations can make from the personal data you upload to the web? Ghislaine Boddington is an award-winning Creative Director, Presenter and Researcher. She is a Cofounder of body>data>space (fka shinkansen), an interactive design collective based in East London who have advocated for the living body to be ...
Bunmi Durowoju
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 220 MBHow do self-defence classes make you a better negotiator? What do F1 crews and KPMG consultants have in common? Parenting, innovation and being a leader at Microsoft, all covered in this conversation with high-roller Bunmi Durowoju, Senior Strategic Business Development Manager at Microsoft. Professor Neil Maiden and Bunmi discuss what stops leaders from being creative, how to nurture creative self-belief, and why ensuring diverse voices creates the most innovative solutions. Bunmi is bril...
Sir Professor Anthony Finkelstein, OBE
September 29, 2022 12:44 - 32 minutes - 165 MBWhat's it like working with Dominic Cummings? How can we innovate effectively in large organisations? How does a Japanese TV presenter fit in to all of this? In this wide-ranging chat, Neil Maiden catches up with Sir Professor Finkelstein, MBE, an old friend and former Chief Scientific Advisor for the British government. This conversation spans his distinguished career from software systems research, through innovation in government to his new role leading City, University of London. Prof F...
The Best of Series 1
September 28, 2022 13:06 - 15 minutes - 78.9 MBWho takes their inspiration from John Cleese? Who would bin education? And you would never guess who wants to ban robots.... We kick-off series two with some of the highlights from last season. Every week, we invite some of the world's smartest thinkers in creativity and technology to have a chat with Professor Neil Maiden, the director of the Centre for Creativity enabled by AI. At the end of every conversation we ask our guest the same three questions - What do they need be creative? Wha...
Dr Sara Jones
November 19, 2021 11:03 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBDr Jones is a pioneer in the field of interdisciplinary creativity. A lecturer in Creative Interactive System Design at Bayes Business School, and the Director of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, Sara has been instrumental in developing international collaborations and post grad business courses that focus on injecting creativity and innovation into business and MBA-level students. In this podcast she discusses her work collaborating with businesses and academics across t...
Ernest Edmonds
November 02, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 40 MBErnest Edmonds distinguished career spans nearly 60 years. He is an exhibited artist in his own right and an international expert on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specialising in creative technologies. Professor Neil Maiden interviews this computer art pioneer, discussing how art, computer science and cognitive psychology have converged since the 1980s and have changed the HCI journey, from the "ease of use" 80s and 90s to today's desire to "enhance creativity". They discuss the prob...
Margaret Heffernan
October 27, 2021 10:31 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBMargaret Heffernan is a hugely successful CEO, award-winning author and has given no less than four Ted Talks. With direct and incisive insights, she effortlessly explodes myths and mysteries around how businesses succeed and what type of behaviour is required to build teams that are innovative. In this podcast Margaret talks to Professor Neil Maiden about what she considers to be the biggest communication failure of her lifetime, the one thing that she loathes with a passion above all else...
Richard Chataway
October 19, 2021 12:40 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBProfessor Neil Maiden is talking to author and behavioural psychologist Richard Chataway. Richard heads up an international business consultancy called BVA Nudge Unit whose job is to help businesses and governments to become more successful. He uses his understanding of human behavioural psychology to come up with processes that compel positive change and successful business adaption. Richard discusses his philosophy on how to be an effective communicator. Stay tuned to the end to learn ho...
Scott Isaksen
October 11, 2021 18:52 - 37 minutes - 50.8 MBScott Isaksen, author of the set-text “Creative Approaches to Problem Solving: A framework for innovation and change”; founder and CEO of international business consultancy CPSB Group, and a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour in conversation with Professor Neil Maiden. Scott discusses the need for deeper diversity of thought in business and how the Covid 19 pandemic has had a positive effect on business innovation. He also explains where the literal origins of the phrase "...
Ben Shneiderman
September 30, 2021 13:42 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBBen Shneiderman is the father of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He created much that we take for granted in our digital world - clickable highlighted web-links, and touchscreen keyboards on mobile devices for starters. Here he talks to Professor Neil Maiden of the UK's National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) about the subject of creativity and technology and why our apps need to evolve to enable users to have greater control of the creative activities they are using digital ...