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VISION by Protiviti

38 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Follow the VISION by Protiviti podcast, where we put megatrends under the microscope and look into the future to examine the strategic implications of those transformational shifts that will impact the C-suite and executive board rooms worldwide. In this ongoing series, we invite some of today’s most innovative and insightful thinkers—from both inside and outside Protiviti—to share their vision of the future and explore how today’s big ideas will impact business over the next decade and beyond.

Visit www.vision.protiviti.com to learn more about how Protiviti is helping organizations get future ready.

For questions or additional information, contact Joe Kornik: [email protected].

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Digital economy expert: Metadata and digital ID keys to unlocking E-government’s potential

April 22, 2024 12:00 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Ghislaine Entwisle, Protiviti Managing Director and leader in the Technology Consulting and Business Performance Improvement practice, interviews Dr. Ian Oppermann about E-government, AI, digital ID, the equity gap and more. Oppermann is co-founder of ServiceGen, a firm that helps global governments achieve digital transformation. He is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and is considered an expert on the digital economy. P...

Is quantum computing a game changer for governments?

April 15, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Konstantinos Karagiannis, Protiviti’s Director of Quantum Computing Services, to discuss quantum’s impact on the future of government, where the U.S. stacks up with the rest of the world and how encryption and protecting sensitive and classified information will be paramount. Karagiannis has been involved in the quantum computing industry since 2012 and is the host of Protiviti’s popular po...

Cybersecurity expert and federal regulator: The U.S. government is doing almost everything wrong

April 08, 2024 12:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti sits down with Tom Vartanian, an author, lawyer, futurist, board member and Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center, the Alexandria, Virginia-based nonprofit. Vartanian has more than 50 years of experience in the financial sector and served as a regulator in both the Reagan and Carter Administrations. He is the author of nine books, including his latest, 2023s The Unhackable I...

Former Obama Chief Economist Heidi Crebo-Rediker on future proofing your business amid geopolitical risks

April 01, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik sits down with Heidi Crebo-Rediker to discuss how business leaders can future proof their business amid geopolitical. Credo-Rediker has held senior leadership positions in both in government and business, providing advice on geoeconomics and international economic policy for two US presidents, serving on the Biden Treasury Department Transition team as lead on International Affairs and in the Obama Administration as the State Department’s first ...

The World Bank’s Ed Olowo-Okere: New social contract reimagines ‘government for good’

March 25, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, the World Bank’s Ed Olowo-Okere, Senior Advisor, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions and Director of The World Bank’s Future of Government report, sits down with Charles Dong, Global Public Sector industry lead for Protiviti and Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti. Olow-Okere discusses the World Bank’s new social contract and call to action for governments around the world to reinvent themselves as they face unprecedented health, econ...

Longtime regulator Tom Vartanian on crypto currencies and CBDCs: Proceed with caution

February 05, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Tom Vartanian, an author, lawyer, futurist, board member and former federal bank regulator. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center, the Alexandria, Virginia-based nonprofit that advocates for Dynamic Financial Services and Public Policies. Vartanian has more than 50 years of experience in the financial sector and served as a regulator in b...

Wealth Management in a Digital Future with Greg Dillon, Founding Partner of OneTeam Financial

January 29, 2024 22:35 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Greg Dillon, founding partner and principal of OneTeam Financial. Dillon, Head of Wealth Management and Retirement Income Planning and leader of the wealth management division, talks the financial future, wealth management and AI, the dollar, and the debt. You can visit Greg Dillon’s LinkedIn page here: www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-dillon-cfa-cfp-158a055a/. To see more content on the fu...

GTS Westpac’s Nish Dharmaratne on payments, liquidity and digital solutions in banking

December 15, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti Australia Director Ruby Chen and Senior Director Rupesh Mahto sit down to discuss liquidity and digital solutions in payments with Nish Dharmaratne, Managing Director, Global Head of Product, GTS Westpac Institutional Bank in Australia. In this discussion, Dharmaratne talks core payments, new payment solutions, cross-currency payments, corporate commercial cards, merchant acquiring, liquidity solutions, risk, regulation and more. You can visit Ni...

Dwolla CEO Dave Glaser on how technology will transform the user experience in payments

December 07, 2023 01:48 - 21 minutes - 30 MB

What will the customer experience in payments look like in five to seven years? In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti Managing Director Nathan Hilt interviews Dave Glaser, CEO of Dwolla, about the future of payments and how emerging technologies and the new infrastructure that emerges will, ultimately, transform the overall user experience in payments. You can visit Dave Glaser’s LinkedIn page here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daglaser/ To see more content on the future of money an...

Is your business ready for digital currencies? Dennis Chookaszian on what to do next

November 27, 2023 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Dennis Chookaszian, director, adjunct professor of strategic management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies. Chookaszian, who has served as a director on the boards of thirteen publicly traded companies and currently serves on the boards of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, discusses how, when and why companies should b...

Navigating an uncertain financial future with innovation expert Peter Davey of Alloy Labs

November 20, 2023 18:41 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Ryan Gullum, Protiviti associate director, Payments Technology Consulting, sits down with Peter Davey, a longtime payments, banking and financial services executive, strategist, innovator and former Head of Product Innovation and Labs at The Clearing House to discuss what’s on the horizon for financial services. Currently, Davey is Venture Partner at Alloy Labs where he’s focused on building out platforms that help community banks and credit unions succeed...

Exploring an evolving payments landscape with Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Susan Yang

October 30, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MB

In the VISION by Protiviti podcast, Susan Yang, General Manager, International Payments and Network Management at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, sits down with a pair of Protiviti payments experts to discuss how she and her team are leading the ISO20022 program and the digital IMT strategy execution for CBA. Protiviti’s Ruby Chen and Rupesh Mahto ask Yang about the future of the payments space, including the impact of emerging technologies, such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain as well as ...

Emerging tech and a ‘frictionless future’ of payments with Swift’s Head of Oceania, Suresh Rajalingam

October 23, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti Director Ruby Chen and Protiviti Senior Director Rupesh Mahto sit down with Swift’s Suresh Rajalingam, who heads up the Oceania region and a team covering 20 countries across the region. Rajalingam is a seasoned senior payments professional with over 22 years of business development experience in both the domestic and cross-border payments space. Here, Rajalingam discusses the rapid pace of technology, open banking, the payment ecosystem, the fut...

Talking innovation and regulation in a digital future with Matthew Le Merle, CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors

October 17, 2023 21:15 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti’s Lata Varghese, Managing Director, Digital Assets and Blockchain Solutions lead interviews Matthew Le Merle, Managing Partner and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors, which he launched in 2014 with the goal of providing broad coverage of the fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. In this discussion, Lata and Matthew talk about the roles of government and the private sector in innovation, regulation, technology and the infrastructure ...

Regulation, risk and reward now and in the future with Darren Furnarello, HSBC’s Chief Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific

October 09, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Darren Furnarello, Chief Compliance Officer at HSBC Asia Pacific, talks regulation, risk and reward with Protiviti Managing Director Adam Johnston. What does the future of the regulatory environment look like, and how do we navigate it? What keeps compliance officers up at night? “Some of the key things I see will be around digitalization, open banking, artificial intelligence and robotics, workforce transformation, cyber security, sustainable banking as w...

Will the end of cash mean the end of privacy, too? The Economist’s Swarup Gupta on our digital future

October 02, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Swarup Gupta, financial services industry lead for The Economist Intelligence Unit, talks digital currencies and the future of cash with Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti. In the interview, Gupta discusses the future of the U.S. dollar, what currency could eventually replace it and when cash will no longer be king. “Cash was the only completely anonymous way of storing value over time in exchange. Digital payments have ended that, which ha...

Former Schwab CEO Evelyn Dilsaver talks AI, crypto and future of financial services

September 25, 2023 13:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Evelyn Dilsaver, financial executive and former Charles Schwab President and CEO. In this episode, Dilsaver discusses the evolution of financial services, reflects on big disruptors in the investment space, and forecasts the future of financial services. Dilsaver looks ahead at what she says will be a less predictable future with the emergence of crypto and CBDCs, as well as AI’s impact on ...

Stanford economist Dr. Peter Henry offers a roadmap for a more equitable and profitable future

September 18, 2023 14:41 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Dr. Peter Henry, an economist, Protiviti Advisory Board member, and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, about the future of money, specifically what could lead us to a more equitable and prosperous future. In this interview, Dr. Henry talks about the 10th anniversary of his very important and influential book on global economi...

Out of Africa: Three financial executives talk the future of money, banking, and the economic promise of the African continent

September 11, 2023 16:49 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with a panel of three longtime financial executives with more than 75 years of combined experience in financial services and banking in Africa—Sepo Haihambo, Faith Khanyile and Charity Chanda Lumpa—to discuss the future of the sector, currency and the continent. Haihambo is Executive Officer Commercial of First National Bank Namibia. Previously, she was Head of Global Markets for Rand Merchant B...

Is that covered? A panel of Protiviti insurance experts discuss the future of asset protection in Web 3 and the metaverse

May 19, 2023 20:50 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, welcomes in a panel of Protiviti experts to discuss what insurance will look like in the metaverse future. To facilitate the discussion, Kornik calls on Alex Weishaupl, a managing director in Protiviti’s digital practice, to examine the landscape of insurance in the metaverse, including what’s covered and what’s insurable, claims, customer and employee experience, constraints to adoption, the future of ta...

A conversation with Dr. Catriona Wallace: The Responsible Metaverse Alliance founder talks ethics, safety and governance

March 31, 2023 13:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, is joined by Dr. Catriona Wallace, Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance and a specialist in the fields of AI, the metaverse and the responsible use of technology. Dr. Wallace, author of the 2022 book Checkmate Humanity: The how and why of responsible AI, has been recognized by The Australian Financial Review as the most influential woman in business and entrepreneurship. She is also an internatio...

A conversation with Coupa software VP and IT industry veteran Julie Tregurtha on building a business in the metaverse

March 19, 2023 23:31 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Julie Tregurtha, Area Vice President for Coupa for Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the metaverse and its implications for the future of business. Tregurtha, a resident of South Africa and leader in the IT industry for more than three decades, heads up a team responsible for the promotion of Coupa, a software company based in San Mateo, California. She says executives need to follow t...

A conversation with ‘Welcome to the Metaverse’ podcast host and tech expert Luke Franks on the metaverse future

March 19, 2023 23:28 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MB

Did you know that more than $1 billion is spent annually on fashion items in the metaverse? Mostly by children. Indeed, Luke Franks, host of the "Welcome to the Metaverse" podcast where he interviews some the brightest metaverse minds each week, has a collection of rare digital sneakers and an NFT horse racing stable. In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, speaks with Franks, an advisor, speaker and presenter who has fronted shows for ITV, BB...

A conversation with ‘Business Doing Good’ authors on how at-risk women can overcome hardship to survive and thrive

October 24, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti’s Amber Acosta, a Manager on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team, speaks with Dr. Shannon Deer, interim associate dean for undergraduate programs at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School, and Cheryl Miller, founder of Quantum Consulting and Training, which helps women who have experienced hardships find meaningful business careers. Deer, whose work focuses on corporate social responsibility and the intersection of business and social challenges, an...

A Q&A with the sustainability chief of the Drax Group: 'We'll be the first carbon-negative power station by 2030'

September 15, 2022 22:53 - 27 minutes - 49.6 MB

Alan Knight, Group Director of Sustainability at the Drax Group, a UK-based renewable energy company engaged in power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses, joins the VISION by Protiviti podcast. Under Alan’s leadership, Drax is committed to enabling a zero-carbon, lower cost energy future through engineering, technology and innovation, and has set an ambitious goal to be the world’s first carbon negative power station by 2030. H...

Investing in ESG: A discussion with Sharadiya Dasgupta, Founding Partner of Blue Dot Capital

August 08, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Sharadiya Dasgupta, founding partner of Blue Dot Capital, where she leads the firm’s strategy, client partnerships and industry engagement and advises CEOs, CIOs and family-office principals. Blue Dot is a sustainable-finance consultancy that partners with financial services firms to support the end-to-end development and execution of ESG and impact-investing programs. In this podcast, Dasg...

Creating a culture of sustainability: A conversation with Protiviti’s People, Advisory and Organizational Change leaders

July 25, 2022 17:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with Protiviti’s Fran Maxwell, Global Lead of the People Advisory and Organizational Change Segment, and Kim Lanier, Director within that segment, to discuss what steps business leaders should be taking to create a culture of sustainability at their organizations over the next decade. What does that entail, why is it so important, and why is now the time to act? You can visit Fran’s LinkedIn pa...

A breath of fresh air: A conversation with Piotr Jakubowski, founder of Nafas, an air quality app in Indonesia

July 11, 2022 20:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, welcomes Piotr Jakubowski, founder of Nafas, an air-quality company and app built for Jakarta, which has notoriously poor air quality. In fact, it’s some of the worst on the planet, creating significant health risks for the city’s nearly 11 million residents. Jakubowski discusses how the quality and safety of the air — both outdoors and indoors — impacts our health, wellness, and cognitive performance. In...

Value chain to blockchain: AWS Energy Solutions Lead on Scope 3, ‘data obesity’ and a decarbonized future – with Shy Muralidharan of Amazon

July 11, 2022 19:57 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Protiviti senior managers Aaron Ragusa and Jordan Svoboda speak with Shy Muralidharan, Worldwide Energy Solutions Lead with Amazon Web Services, to talk data, data strategy and technologies of the future to help companies on their decarbonization journey across their value chains. For nearly two decades, Shy has been a global leader in the areas of energy and sustainability and says that “tech is still underrepresented in the quest for sustainability and e...

Next-decade office design: A discussion with HGA architects on form, function and the future

April 25, 2022 15:29 - 29 minutes - 53.7 MB

Where will we work in 2030? What will it look like? How will it function? These are big questions facing business leaders worldwide, and to get some answers Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, sits down with HGA’s Melissa Pesci and Haley Nelson on this installment of the VISION by Protiviti podcast. HGA is a Minneapolis-based national interdisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture, interior design and engineering, and both Melissa and Haley specialize in workplace desi...

From talent to tech - with futurist and business strategist Graeme Codrington, co-founder of TomorrowToday

March 29, 2022 20:07 - 31 minutes - 57 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik sits down with Graeme Codrington, co-founder of TomorrowToday and an expert on the future of work, bestselling author, award-winning speaker, and board advisor. He works across multiple industries and sectors and has a particular interest in disruptive forces changing how people live, work, interact, and connect with each other. “I think by 2030, the traditional careers and traditional professions are not going to exist anymore. You’re going to ...

Career Design and the Future-focused Workforce - with Erica Sosna, CEO of Career Matters

March 22, 2022 01:16 - 27 minutes - 50.2 MB

In this VISION by Protiviti podcast, Joe Kornik sits down with Erica Sosna, founder of Career Matters, a boutique firm that empowers employees to own their career and employers to create an environment for workers to flourish over the next decade. “I think it’s a very exciting time to redesign for what is the ultimate environment for high performance for the work that we do now, the folks that we have and for the things that they want. And will there, as a result, be migration and change? Sur...

Talking Talent and Training in 2030 and Beyond - with Nigel Jeremy, author, speaker and HR expert

March 07, 2022 21:05 - 28 minutes - 52.2 MB

“This is an opportunity for executives to reshape and redesign their business," says Nigel Jeremy, author, speaker and HR expert. “My sense is that we will see a typical role by 2030 having two to three days in the office and two to three days at home, or in fact anywhere. I think we're on that journey and by 2030, it will be seen as very arcane to think you have to be in the office four or five days a week.” On this edition of the VISION by Protiviti podcast, we chat with Nigel Jeremy, for...

The Future of Workforces and Workplaces – with Protiviti’s Peter Richardson

March 07, 2022 20:56 - 33 minutes - 62.1 MB

“With all the pace of change the last two years, I sometimes feel like I’m on a different planet,” says Peter Richardson, Architect for the Future of Work, Protiviti. “When we’ve put ourselves to the test as we have had to do over the past two years, businesses have been pretty good and very able at coming up with better ways of doing things and doing them quickly.” On this edition of the VISION by Protiviti podcast, we chat with Peter Richardson, who leads Protiviti’s focus on the future o...

Cities in Space: Regulating the Race for Profits - with Anthea Foyer from the City of Toronto

October 14, 2021 16:51 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB

Are you ready for mining in space, space tourism, hotels and moon communities, and ultimately … smart cities in outer space? Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it’s not as far off as you might think—it might blast off maybe even before this decade’s end. On this edition of the VISION by Protiviti podcast, we’re joined by Anthea Foyer, Sector Development Officer with the City of Toronto, who has been following this race to space closely and has written several articles about “Space Citi...

Privacy, Security and the Connected City - with Protiviti’s Scott Laliberte and Krissy Safi

October 14, 2021 16:37 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MB

On this edition of the VISION by Protiviti podcast, we talk about worst-case scenarios and best-case scenarios when it comes to cybersecurity, privacy and the connected city. What exactly are we in for when the Internet of Things takes over our cities’ traffic, power grid and other infrastructure on a mass scale? Can the enormous possibilities outweigh the risks? Two Protiviti experts—Scott Laliberte, Global Leader of Protiviti’s Emerging Technology Group, and Krissy Safi, Managing Director a...

The Way We’ll Live Next - with Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow at NewCities

October 14, 2021 15:56 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

Greg Lindsay is a senior fellow at NewCities and Director of Strategy for CoMotion LA — an annual mobility festival in Los Angeles — as well as a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Greg is a futurist, urbanist, author, journalist and all-around expert in how cities of tomorrow will look, feel and function. During this Q&A, Greg talks about the remote work revolution, self-driving cars and instant cities being created by visionaries...

A Challenge to CEOs to Invest in Cities - with Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League

October 14, 2021 15:45 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB

On this edition of the VISION by Protiviti podcast, Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, offers his insights on cities of the future. The National Urban League is an organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equality, and social justice to elevate the standards of living for African Americans and other historically underserved groups. With 90 affiliates serving 300 communities in 37 states, plus the District of Columbia, the National Urban League advocates for po...