Fast Forward: the Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsFast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast, produced by Tech 2025 and hosted by Charlie Oliver (CEO of Tech 2025), will explore the new and next era of innovation that will empower each and every one of us to rebuild our world in the aftermath of the 2020 global pandemic.
We'll define the new culture of creativity and fearlessness that has been unleashed during the pandemic and how companies, governments and ordinary people are doing what was considered unimaginable just three months ago. We’ll discuss the stories, research, ideas, challenges and solutions driving post-pandemic innovation, and how to seize this rare opportunity to create the world we want.
Every week you can look forward to news, commentary and compelling interviews with people on the front-lines of demolishing antiquated systems and building new, more inclusive and truly creative solutions that challenges who we think we are and what we hope to be.
Fast Forward is the show where we figure out the future, together.
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My Pick of 30 Films to Watch at Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival (online)
September 23, 2021 20:59 - 19 minutes - 31.8 MBCharlie shares her hot picks of 30 films (out of over 150) to watch at this year’s Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival taking place September 20-25 (virtually and online). If you missed the festival, fret not. The movies (which are all independent and, primarily, short films) will likely still be available online, if not on the festival site then elsewhere. There’s some great picks here with something for everyone. As a way of exploring the narratives around accelerating emerging technologies,...
Erik Martin: Building Meaningful Communities in an Increasingly Fragmented World
August 18, 2021 17:13 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn this episode, Charlie has a happy reunion with Erik Martin (Chief Community Officer at Teal, a membership platform to help enable meaningful careers) . Charlie last interviewed Erik 10 years ago for a viral media Meetup in NY. Clearly, a lot has changed since then! Erik is a true innovator in community building in tech. He has spent the past decade building and cultivating some of the most successful communities in business. In addition to leading teams at Nike, Depop, Airtime, & WeWor...
Greg Kihlström: King of Agile
July 02, 2021 01:33 - 59 minutes - 95.4 MBOn this episode, Charlie crowns Greg Kihlström “King of Agile” and with good reason! Greg (founder of The Agile World where he consults, writes and hosts a podcast) has spent the past several years helping companies to incorporate agility into their digital transformation strategies and also advising on customer and employee experience. He has written several books on how companies can become more agile including: The Agile Workforce (2021), Center of Experience (2020), The Agile Consumer ...
Jennifer Snyder: Government Innovation Ain’t What It Used to Be and Why You Should Be Following GovTech Now!
June 30, 2021 20:59 - 59 minutes - 95.6 MBThis week, Charlie makes a strong case for why anyone who is interested in technology innovation should be following GovTech closely and consistently. According to new research, thanks to the pandemic governments (federal, state and local) are out-innovating the private sector in many areas. Could this be the dawn of a new era in government innovation? You betcha! Joining the Charlie to explore how government agencies are adapting to innovating at the speed of light (and why private compan...
Oriana Meldicott: Cynicism, Legislation and Inspiring the Next Generation in AI Ethics
June 10, 2021 13:46 - 1 hour - 101 MBIt’s a bit of a reunion on this episode as AI Ethicist and cohost of Let’s Chat Ethics podcast, Oriana Meldicott, who taught a workshop at Tech 2025 two years ago, reconnects with Charlie to discuss all things AI ethics. After much laughter and reminiscing, Charlie and Oriana delve into the thorny, controversial issues surrounding AI ethics today and in the future (especially with the next generations). ABOUT ORIANA Oriana Medlicott is a writer, researcher and consultant in AI Ethics. ...
Paul Spiers: Successful Digital Transformation for Companies Begins and Ends with Principled Leadership
June 07, 2021 18:45 - 1 hour - 121 MBJoining the podcast this week is Paul Spiers (Founder, The New P&L Brand Purpose Institute and host of The New P&L business podcast series). Charlie and Paul delve deep into the waters of what it means to be a substantive and effective business leader today, that can lead organizations into the future post-pandemic. You definitely don't want to miss this one. Paul has some fascinating insights and advice! CONNECT WITH PAUL: Website: https://www.principlesandleadership.com/ LinkedIn: h...
NextGen Innovator: Anya Berlova on Anti-Bullying, Pro-Individuality and Using Art+Tech to Change the World
February 10, 2021 21:05 - 32 minutes - 52.6 MBIn this special second episode in our series on next-gen innovators, Charlie chats with Anya Berlova. Anya Berlova is a student at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder and an entrepreneur who launched her social cause startup in her freshman year of college. Her startup focuses on combatting bullying in a creative and technology-driven way. To support the development of the technology and to further raise awareness for the mission, she launched a fashion label...
Next-Gen Innovator: Amara Leggett, 19-Year-Old Computer Scientist, on Gen-Z Ambitions and Being Unapologetically Exceptional
February 10, 2021 02:17 - 1 hour - 127 MBIn this special episode (one of two dedicated to next-generation innovators), Charlie welcomes young legend, Amara Leggett (19-year-old computer scientist, CEO of Dual Enrollment Company, and author of The Strategic Mind of a Young Legend). Amara’s path to success at the young age of 19 is truly exceptional. She graduated college in December of 2017 with her Associate of Science degree and high school diploma at 16 years old. Driven by ambition and experience making the impossible possible...
"Bus Driver Dan" Talks Transit Innovation, Blue Collar Creativity and the Power of Human Storytelling
February 09, 2021 18:02 - 1 hour - 118 MBDan Christensen (aka "Bus Driver Dan") loves his job driving a bus for TriMet bus company in Portland, Oregon, and is fiercely and unapologetically proud of his Blue Collar roots. He also embraces emerging technology and is constantly exploring new and innovative ways to use technology to tell "the stories of the now." In this episode, Charlie and Dan meet face-to-face for the first time (albeit virtually via video). As the story goes, Charlie and Dan met in social media 11 years ago after...
Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020: Ed Maguire
January 20, 2021 04:30 - 15 minutes - 25.4 MBPart 4 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. In this episode, longtime friend of the community and advisor, Ed Maguire (Research Principal, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.) shares lessons we should t...
Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020: Samara Karasyk
January 19, 2021 04:34 - 11 minutes - 17.9 MBPart 3 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought! In this episode, Samara Karasyk (Chief Policy Officer & EVP, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce) shares her revelations on how t...
Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020: David Ryan Polgar
January 19, 2021 03:54 - 10 minutes - 16.1 MBPart 2 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought! In this episode, David Ryan Polgar (Tech Ethicist, Founder of All Tech is Human) explains how this past year has shown hi...
Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020: Faith Legendre
January 19, 2021 01:27 - 8 minutes - 14 MBPart 1 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought! In this episode, the incomparable Faith Legendre shares her big 2020 lesson. Faith has been a member of the Tech 2025 com...
Quick Question with Rich Mokuolo: Should you take a “3D Printing for Entrepreneurs” online course?
September 30, 2020 20:40 - 51 minutes - 82.6 MBVIEW EPISODE VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/NZGfXWaGB9E With most people working from home throughout the pandemic, we're hearing from a lot of folks that the one thing they miss about working in an office is being able to casually and quickly bounce ideas off coworkers (when you used to be able to stop a coworker at the coffee machine for quick feedback!). Well, that's why we're launching this video interview series for the podcast. We have a ton of ideas and questions about what's ha...
Greg Larkin - If You're Not Pissing People Off, You're Not Innovating
September 29, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBWe’re kicking off the Fall, pumpkin spice season with a spicy conversation between Charlie and this week’s guest, Greg Larkin (best-Selling Author, This Might Get Me Fired, faculty at Singularity University, guest lecturer, Columbia Business School, and self-professed “innovation punk”). Warning: this conversation might piss you off and get you fired! Charlie and Greg explore the boundaries of what it means to innovate within the confines of a restrictive system (like enterprise companies)...
Friday Flashback: Faith Legendre on Humble Innovation, Building Communities and Embracing the Future
August 08, 2020 00:57 - 1 hour - 113 MBWelcome to another episode in our Friday Flashback series where we revisit awesome episodes from the past (and our first podcast) with special guest speakers who gave us such compelling food for thought, that it still resonates to this day (especially during these pandemic times!). In this flashback episode from 2018, Charlie interviews Faith Legendre (Sr. Circular Economy Solutions Strategist and Intrapreneur, Cisco Systems). Faith (whose personality embodies the definition of her name pe...
Meg Charles: Instead of Thinking Outside the Box, Ask Yourself Who Created the Box to Begin With
August 05, 2020 18:35 - 1 hour - 121 MBSHOW NOTES This week, Charlie enjoys the opportunity to interview one of Tech 2025's awesome advisors, Meg Charles (Global Corporate Attorney and former managing partner with 20 years of experience working in corporate law policy for telecoms, Start-Up Board Director/Advisor, Angel Investor and Founder of Frame Advisory LLC which offers legal and strategic advisory to startups and small businesses with "non-traditional founders"). Meg is a first generation child of immigrants coming fro...
Taran Hughes and Zineb Layachi: The Next Era of Innovation Will Explode Your Senses!
July 30, 2020 23:30 - 1 hour - 114 MBWant to know what the next era of innovation will be like? On this week's episode, Charlie explores what post-pandemic innovation might be like for enterprise companies and startups with guests Taran Hughes (Startup Sales & Performance Coach, Founder TCS Sales Accelerators, co-Founder of PitchSLAP and author of The Conscious Sale: Using the Power of State, Intention and Belief – A Guide to Sales Success) and Zineb Layachi (CMO in Residence at Adington Technologies, Founder of Rev Marketing ...
The Promise and Peril of Communicating Your Value Proposition Virtually with Taran Hughes (coFounder of PitchSLAP)
July 22, 2020 01:03 - 1 hour - 114 MBBack in 1964, futurist and science fiction arthur, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that, by the year 2000, human beings would "no longer commute, they will communicate" and that ninety-five percent of all office work would be done without ever having to leave the home. Well, he was right. Thanks to the global pandemic, most of us are doing all of our work from home and it appears to be the cultural shift reverberating around the world, ushering in the next era of communication and disruptive bu...
Flashback Friday: Tony and Hazel on Surviving Surveillance, Building Communities and Dystopian Technology
July 21, 2020 12:55 - 59 minutes - 95 MBIt was a Friday in late August 2019. The temperature in NYC was scorching hot and the city was empty as everyone escaped the heat for vacation elsewhere (anywhere!). The conversation in the podcast studio that day with our guest speakers was enlightening, fun and laid back. We decided to revisit that brief but special moment in time. In this first Flashback Friday episode where, every Friday for the rest of the Summer, we share an episode from our media vault time capsule, Charlie intervi...
Why AI Has Failed to Live Up to Its Hype in this Pandemic (Webinar)
July 10, 2020 20:29 - 1 hour - 105 MBSHOW NOTES . Welcome to the second episode of Fast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast! In this episode, we're sharing the playback of a recent webinar we co-hosted with the awesome team at Lair East (an accelerator specializing in blockchain and AI technologies), Reality Check: Why AI Has Failed to Live Up to Its Hype in this Pandemic and What Companies Should Learn from This, exploring why AI hasn't been as useful as other technologies in this pandemic and the important l...
Worshiping at the Altar of Innovation
June 18, 2020 00:38 - 31 minutes - 49.8 MBSHOW NOTES Welcome to the first episode of Fast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast! To kick the show off, Charlie Oliver shares a bit about the topics we'll be discussing on the show in the coming months. She then takes us on a brief jaunt back to the future to explore how the word "innovation" has been defined in the past (including why being called an innovator centuries ago would've gotten you thrown in jail with a decapitated ear!) and how our modern, American definition ...
Introducing Fast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast by Tech 2025
June 06, 2020 22:04 - 3 minutes - 5.01 MBWelcome to Fast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast produced by Tech 2025 and hosted by Charlie Oliver, a weekly series that will explore the new and next era of innovation that will empower each and every one of us to rebuild our world in the aftermath of the 2020 global pandemic. We’ll discuss the stories, research, ideas and solutions driving post-pandemic innovation, and how to seize this rare opportunity to create the world we want. Every week you can look forward to ne...
Leadership is Technology Agnostic - a Conversation with Major General Brett Williams
November 29, 2019 01:14 - 1 hour - 111 MBSHOW NOTES View show notes also on our site: bit.ly/fastforward24 Charlie welcomes Major General Brett T. Williams (Ret), Chief Operating Officer at IronNet Cybersecurity, retired Air Force Major General and leadership coach, for a thought-provoking discussion on the evolution and future of technology leadership in companies during a time of unprecedented technological innovation and social changes that makes leading todays organizations more challenging than ever before. General Willia...
Tech News Roundup with Andrew Maynard: Your Face Is a Weapon, Google Employees Love Bernie/Warren, New Bill on Tech Addiction and Turning Children Into Cyborgs
August 05, 2019 15:51 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MB“I want to empower every day people to be empowered to have conversations about the technology that affecting their life and the ability to both ask good questions and get good answers so we get to the point where, collectively, we begin to build technologies we want. ” — Dr. Andrew Maynard . Charlie is thrilled to welcome Dr. Andrew Maynard (former physicist, professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, leading expert in the responsible ...
Solving Problems of the Future with David Borish, Serial Entrepreneur & Innovation Thought-Leader
July 05, 2019 01:29 - 32 minutes - 43.9 MB"Sometimes, the advantage is not being on the inside. " - David Borish Charlie welcomes David Borish (serial entrepreneur, innovation thought-leader, and co-Founder of neo 360) to the show, whose extensive experience launching and selling companies makes him an expert on how to find problems to solve, and how to develop solutions, that can be turned into sustainable businesses. In particular, Charlie and David discuss how he finds opportunities and solutions that are truly ground-brea...
Dirty Ethics with David Ryan Polgar: Holding Ourselves Accountable for the Tech We Consume
May 07, 2019 13:24 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB"It’s not just about ethical thinking. It’s about changing the rules of the road." -- David Ryan Polgar Charlie is excited to finally have David Ryan Polgar (Tech Ethicist and Digital Citizen Expert) on the show. For several years now, long before it became the hot topic in mainstream media and a matter of urgency in our society, David has espoused the need for us to be more thoughtful in how we implement emerging technologies and has warned of the negative side effects of not doing this...
The Future of Small Business Development in Brooklyn with Samara Karasyk
May 06, 2019 16:11 - 1 hour - 124 MBSHOW NOTES "I think there's a big disconnect between what we do (the Brooklyn of Commerce and other Chambers of Commerce throughout the state) and what people view tech companies are doing, and that we don't have a lot in common. But I think that there's a lot more that we should be doing together, and I'm hoping that it will happen." -- Samara Karasyk It's National Small Business Week (May 5-11) where we celebrate the contributions and sacrifices that small business owners make to this...
Working the Middle: Disruptive Technologies in Service Industries with Thomas Hollman
March 31, 2019 20:59 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBCharlie starts the show in an unusual way after inspired by her interview with guest Thomas Hollman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Services Leadership and Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. During the interview, Charlie and Thomas discuss how emerging technologies are disrupting service industries and what executives should do to embrace this extraordinary era of industrial transformation. Thomas also shares the uni...
Max Sklar: Machine Learning Superstar
March 18, 2019 22:40 - 1 hour - 107 MBSHOW NOTES Charlie starts off the show with an embarrassing confession but ends the episode on a high note as she basks in the glow of interviewing the incomparable Max Sklar (who we have deemed “Machine Learning Superstar”!). Max, who attended his first Tech 2025 event a little over a year ago on Blockchain legislation in New York City, is a Machine Learning Engineer at Luminary Media (a podcasting media platform). Before that, he was Machine Learning Engineer at FourSquare for ten yea...
Back in the Saddle: Updates on New Membership Model and Spring Events
March 18, 2019 19:18 - 27 minutes - 25 MBSHOW NOTES Spring is in the air! The weather is starting to mellow out. And Tech 2025 has just launched a new membership subscription model and a ton of the events to usher in the new season! Charlie pops in to discuss the new membership model that so many of you have been asking for. She also discusses the new Spring events we have in store for New York. And somewhere in there, she tells a story about winning Bingo in Germany when she was 11 years old (it's all beginning to make sense)....
Taming Our Automation Dragons with John Pavley, SVP Software Engineering at Viacom
September 19, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBSHOW NOTES Season 3, Episode 17: Taming Automation Dragons with John Pavley It can happen to any one of us. A software developer working at a big company is suddenly fired by his company's automated system and no one knows why or how to stop the system from terminating the employee. The story went viral this Summer, with everyone weighing in on the perils of automation and befuddled human beings who may become victims of rogue technology. "The Machine Fired Me: No human could do a thing...
Rebeca Cornejo: Tech Events, the Future, and Why You Should Never Call Her a Millennial
September 16, 2018 17:57 - 29 minutes - 20 MBIf you've ever been to a Tech 2025 event, you've undoubtedly seen Rebeca managing the event, greeting attendees, managing staff, and taking care of guest speakers, among other things. Rebeca Cornejo is our incomparable Media Coordinator - she's also a college student majoring in communication, a millennial who thinks deeply about emerging technology and an artist (photography). Charlie kicks off Season 3 with an interview with Rebeca that will give you a peak behind the curtain to see wha...
We're Back! Intro to Season 3
August 26, 2018 18:21 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MBWe're back! It's the end of Summer and we're heading into Labor Day weekend and Fall 2018 with a new season of Tech 2025. Charlie shares how this season will be different than others (hint: YOU) and why she's excited about Fall 2018. REACH OUT TO US AT: Website: tech2025.com/podcast-show Twitter: @JoinTech2025 Facebook: facebook.com/jointech2025 Email: [email protected] Charlie Oliver: Twitter – @itscomplicated
S2 EP 5: Dr. Francine Mends on Why Radiologists are Feeling AI-Anxiety
April 06, 2018 10:34 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBSHOW NOTES If you knew that AI would destroy mankind in 150 years, would you still support it? This is the question, asked by Dr. Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute during his presentation, that resonated the most with Francine Mends (a neuro-radiologist, freelance writer, and soon to be digital nomad who now trains AI in radiology) when she attended our think tank, What is AI and How Can We Keep It from Harming Humanity?. Francine proceeded to participate in the t...
Seth Clevenger on How Truck Drivers Are Adjusting to Disruptive Technologies
March 07, 2018 21:49 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBSHOW NOTES Change isn't just coming to the trucking industry -- change is here! Nearly everything we touch, eat and buy was brought to us on a truck. Approximately 3.5 million truck drivers transport 14 billion tons of freight (more than 70% of goods we consume) all across the United States every year. Yet truck drivers, and the trucking industry as a whole, is tremendously underappreciated and often ignored. Can we afford to continue ignoring an industry that is undergoing massive techn...
Back to the Future with Ed Maguire (and Crypto Whale Sightings!)
March 06, 2018 01:56 - 39 minutes - 37.3 MBSHOW NOTES He's baaaaack! Ed Maguire takes some time out of his hectic schedule to chat it up with Charlie on everything from innovation, to the future of work, to crypto whale sightings and Blockchain bros with Lamborghinis (it's just like old times again!). Ed (Insights Partner at Momenta Partners and Founding Partner at Bluemont Partners) shares his insights and wisdom gleaned from many years of experience in tech on the best way forward for anyone who is ambivalent about the future. ...
Humble Innovation with Faith Legendre, Cisco Systems (Season 2, Ep. 2)
January 19, 2018 14:04 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB"It's not about what people think they need. It's about creating solutions for the future that they didn't know they needed." -- Faith Legendre As we begin season two shining a light on Tech 2025 members who are defining emerging technologies and inspiring us to push beyond our perceived limitations, we could hardly find a shining star brighter and more inspiring than Faith Legendre (Business Outcome Strategist, Cisco Systems). Faith is passionate about helping people. She specializes in ...
Waiting for the Killer Chatbot with Alec Lazarescu (Season 2, Ep. 1)
January 19, 2018 12:04 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBSHOW NOTES Alec Lazarescu (founder of Chatbots and AI) On our 1-year anniversary of the launch of Tech 2025 (January 11, 2017), we’re going back… waaay back. Charlie takes us back to the very first Tech 2025 event (Battle of the Chatbots & Conversational Interfaces in 2017) featuring guest speakers, Clara De Soto, (coFounder, Reply.ai, writer of chatbotsweekly.com newsletter) and Alec Lazarescu (chatbot builder, writer at Chatbots Magazine, and founder of Bots and AI meetup in New York ...
SEASON 2 Intro: Happy Anniversary to Us!
January 19, 2018 10:40 - 9 minutes - 9.45 MBSHOW NOTES Aaaaand we're BACK! Now that 2017 is in our rearview mirror, and 2018 is staring us dead in our eyes, Charlie briefly pops in to explain why she's optimistic about 2018, what you can expect in Season 2 of the podcast, and to say Happy Anniversary to the Tech 2025 community on this one-year mark since we launched. Happy New Year! FOLLOW AND REACH OUT TO US AT: Website: tech2025.com/podcast-show Twitter: @JoinTech2025 Facebook: facebook.com/jointech2025 Email: podcas...
EP 8: Evil AI, Killer Robots, Dragon Kings and Cupcakes with Dr. Seth Baum
October 21, 2017 15:52 - 1 hour - 125 MBSHOW NOTES Read complete show notes at http://bit.ly/tech2025ep8 Aaaaand we’re BACK! After a brief haitus due to the endless travels of cohosts Charlie Oliver and Ed Maguire, the team reassembles for this special, spooky, AI Halloween episode with special guest, Dr. Seth Baum (Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute). SEGMENTS: 0:00 – 7:30 – Ed and Charlie discuss recent events and the Fall craziness; Charlie asks Ed for advice on a particular annoying thing...
Down the Blockchain Rabbit Hole!
September 24, 2017 16:54 - 1 hour - 111 MBSHOW NOTES Oy! This episode was an epic lesson in how to climb out of a blockchain rabbit hole for Ed, Charlie and Anne T. Griffin (Tech 2025's new Emerging Tech Correspondent). Bubbles, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, Ethereum, smart contracts -- so much to learn, so little time! In this episode, the crew tackles the daunting and massively complicated topic of Blockchain -- what is it really? How can we separate what we need to know from hype? Where can we find the best, most reliable info on b...
EP 6: What To Do When Amazon Comes for You
August 20, 2017 22:29 - 1 hour - 118 MBSHOW NOTES Welcome to our big fat Amazon episode! There’s a lot of movement and buzz around the boss-moves that Amazon is making (buying Whole Foods, hiring 50,000 employees, expanding into Australia, etc.). In this episode, Ed and Charlie take a big bite out of Amazon and tackle how Amazon’s strategy will impact everyone (from consumers, to entrepreneurs, to the c-suite and the enterprise). Ed, who just last year did a thorough deep-dive report on Amazon and its impact called “AWS’s q...
EP 5: 23 Guidelines for Avoiding an AI Apocalypse
August 14, 2017 20:39 - 52 minutes - 73.1 MBLast month, we did a workshop on the Asilomar 23 AI Principals -- a list of 23 guidelines created by some of the most respected leaders and researchers in AI, at the Beneficial AI 2017 Conference, that outlined how AI researchers, scientists, lawmakers and tech companies should develop AI to ensure safe, ethical and beneficial use of AI. In short, guidelines to keep us from creating AI/robots that will destroy humanity. Dr. Seth Baum, Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Ins...
EP 4: Emerging Tech Resources for the Dog Days of Summer
July 31, 2017 02:09 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBSHOW NOTES: Now that August (the Dog Days of Summer) is here and we’re all winding down and heading of to Summer vacations, Ed and Charlie pulled together a great list of resources for learning more about emerging technologies that will keep you thinking and engaged even while you’re laying on the beach. It’s a great time to read books, explore thought-provoking and informative websites, and to pick-up a hobby like building your own chatbot and hiking with data scientists. Here’s some sugg...
EP 3: Keeping Up with the Technologies
July 30, 2017 20:55 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBSHOW NOTES Read below or online at: http://bit.ly/2tPF8PM Frontier tech B-words are flying all everywhere (buzz words that sprout up to define new technologies or our behavior as a result of it). Charlie and Ed tackle “exponentiality” (ok, so it’s not a real word but Charlie is determined to make it happen). There’s been a lot of buzz about “exponential technologies,” “exponential growth,” and the “exponential future” but what the heck do they mean and just how much should we incorpor...
EP 2: Robots Gone Wild!
July 30, 2017 20:25 - 53 minutes - 37.7 MBSHOW NOTES: Read below or online at: http://bit.ly/2tPtqV6 Tech 2025 did a special workshop at Design Manufacturing Expo 2017 (a conference produced by UBM that focused 3D printing, industrial robots, and medical technologies) on hacking industrial robots: “Hacking Industrial Robots in the IoT Factories of the Future: Are Companies Prepared for the Risks?” with guest speakers Marcello Poglian, Politiecnico Di Milano (Milan, Italy) and our very own Ed Maguire. We discuss the awesome (a...
EP 1: What's the differences between AI, Machine Learning, NLP & DL?
July 30, 2017 19:52 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBWe discuss some surprising findings from a recent Tech 2025 workshop that addressed the question that everyone has and is talking about these days (even people who work in tech): Explain It Like I’m 5: What’s the Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, NLP and Deep Learning? (http://bit.ly/t25workshop) We interview the incomparable and brilliant Kathryn Hume (VP Product & Strategy at Integrate.ai, the Toronto-based AI company founded by by Steve Irvine, former head of Marketing at Faceb...