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A Customer-Centric Approach is Key in a Post-Pandemic World
Business Lab - September 09, 2021 15:59 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsQuoting John Lennon, Bill Kanarick describes the tectonic industry shifts brought on by the pandemic: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” After months of hunkering down at home, consumers got used to online shopping, telehealth doctor’s appointment...
A New Age of Data Means Embracing the Edge
Business Lab - August 16, 2021 15:59 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsArtificial intelligence holds an enormous promise, but to be effective, it must learn from massive sets of data—and the more diverse the better. By learning patterns, AI tools can uncover insights and help decision-making not just in technology, but also pharmaceuticals, medicine, manufacturing, ...
Cybersecurity Can Protect Data. How About Elevators?
Business Lab - July 12, 2021 15:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAdvanced cybersecurity capabilities are essential to safeguard software, systems, and data in a new era of cloud, IoT, and other smart technologies. In the real estate industry, for example, companies are concerned about the potential for hijacked elevators, as well as compromised building manage...
Using Machine Learning to Build Maps That Give Smarter Driving Advice
Business Lab - June 23, 2021 15:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you drive in the United States, chances are you can’t remember the last time you bought a paper map, printed out a digital map, or even stopped to ask for directions. Thanks to GPS and the mobile mapping apps on our smartphones and their real-time routing advice, navigation is a solved problem...
Taxing Digital Advertising Could Help Break Up Big Tech
Business Lab - June 14, 2021 15:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsFor the past several years, economists and government leaders have regularly sounded alarms about the dangers of big tech monopolies. On her 2020 campaign website, for example, Senator Elizabeth Warren said “big tech companies have too much power, too much power over our economy, our society, our...
As Cybersecurity Evolves, So Should Your Board
Business Lab - June 02, 2021 15:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsExecutives need to clearly communicate risks but also bring context to data. Tech talk is out: speaking the same language will win the day. It’s drilled into the heads of board directors and the C-suite by scary data-breach headlines, lawyers, lawsuits, and risk managers: cybersecurity is high-ri...
Better Cybersecurity Means Finding the “Unknown Unknowns”
Business Lab - May 26, 2021 15:59 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsDuring the past few months, Microsoft Exchange servers have been like chum in a shark-feeding frenzy. Threat actors have attacked critical zero-day flaws in the email software: an unrelenting cyber campaign that the US government has described as “widespread domestic and international exploitatio...
Embracing the Rapid Pace of AI
Business Lab - May 19, 2021 15:59 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn a recent survey, “2021 Thriving in an AI World,” KPMG found that across every industry—manufacturing to technology to retail—the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing year over year. Part of the reason is digital transformation is moving faster, which helps companies start to ...
Machine Learning Project Takes Aim at Disinformation
Business Lab - May 02, 2021 15:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThere’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics. What is new is how quickly malicious actors can spread disinformation when the world is tightly connected across social networks and internet news sites. We can give up on the problem and rely on the platform...
Democratizing Data for a Fair Digital Economy
Business Lab - March 22, 2021 15:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe digital revolution is here, but not everyone is benefiting equitably from it. And as Silicon Valley’s ethos of “move fast and break things” spreads around the world, now is the time to pause and consider who is being left out and how we can better distribute the benefits of our new data econo...
Building a Better Data Economy
Business Lab - March 11, 2021 16:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsTim O’Reilly, the “Oracle of Silicon Valley,” wants to shift the conversation about data value to focus on the harm that tech giants are inflicting against us with our own data. It’s “time to wake up and do a better job,” says publisher Tim O’Reilly—from getting serious about climate change to bu...
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society
Business Lab - November 18, 2020 16:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsA solar-powered autonomous drone scans for forest fires. A surgeon first operates on a digital heart before she picks up a scalpel. A global community bands together to print personal protection equipment to fight a pandemic. “The future is now,” says Frederic Vacher, head of innovation at Dassau...
With Trust in AI, Manufacturers Can Build Better
Business Lab - October 28, 2020 14:39 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsSome people might not associate the word “trust” with artificial intelligence (AI). Stefan Jockusch is not one of them. Vice president of strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software, Jockusch says trusting an algorithm powering an AI application is a matter of statistics. This podcast episode...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Has Begun: Now’s The Time to Join
Business Lab - October 14, 2020 15:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings2020 has created more than a brave new world. It’s a world of opportunity rapidly pressuring organizations of all sizes to rapidly adopt technology to not just survive, but to thrive. And Andrew Dugan, chief technology officer at Lumen Technologies, sees proof in the company’s own customer base, ...
How AI Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
Business Lab - September 29, 2020 15:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAsk Stefan Jockusch about what a factory might look like in 10 or 20 years, and the answer might leave you at a crossroads between fascination and bewilderment. Jockusch is vice president for strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software, which develops applications that simulates the conceptio...
Smart Devices, a Cohesive System, a Brighter Future
Business Lab - July 29, 2020 15:59 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] AI advancements today are pointing to improvements everywhere you look. But it’s a confluence of technologies—cloud, 5G wireless, smart devices, and more—that will usher in the greatest results, predicts Dell Technologies’ John Roese. If you need a reason to feel good about the direct...
Covid-19 Spurs Collaboration in Telehealth
Business Lab - June 29, 2020 15:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] The coronavirus pandemic has led to enhanced collaboration, spurred innovation, and increased the use of digital technologies. Telehealth enables doctors to safely connect with patients virtually and to monitor them remotely, whether in different cities or just down the hall. And smar...
Leading With a Security-First Mentality
Business Lab - March 04, 2020 16:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] As technology rapidly develops, the number of security and privacy concerns will only continue to grow. In this episode, we look at how companies can build cybersecurity into their business strategies—instead of scrambling to respond when a breach happens. Even with danger lurking aro...
Securing the Internet of Things and Your Workplace
Business Lab - February 26, 2020 16:59 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode, we look at the need to secure the internet of things, physical workspaces, and the products companies make. From planes to children’s toys to oil rigs, more connected devices are vulnerable to attack than ever before. Ken Munro is an internet-of things security resear...
Cybersecurity in 2020: The rise of the CISO
Business Lab - January 29, 2020 16:55 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] As the new year (and new decade) begins, one thing is certain: cybersecurity will continue to have an increasing impact on business, for better or worse. In this episode, we hear from Stephanie Balaouras, a cybersecurity expert who has spoken to thousands of customers over her 15 year...
Marissa Mayer on the Rise of Women Technology Leaders
Business Lab - October 03, 2019 14:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] From 1999 to 2012, Marissa Mayer was one of the most public faces at Google, where she helped to build the company’s core search and advertising platforms. From 2012 to 2017 she steered Yahoo! through its final years as an independent business. In other words, she’s spent a long time ...
The Importance of Hackers: Analyst Keren Elazari
Business Lab - August 01, 2019 15:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] The development of cyber security is interwoven with the evolution of the hacker community. Keren Elazari, cyber security analyst and senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, educated the world in her 2014 TED talk on the importance of cult...
The Evolution of Cybersecurity: Veracode's Chris Wysopal
Business Lab - June 27, 2019 15:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: How the development of cybersecurity arose and how that history created a world rife with invasions. Chris Wysopal, CTO and cofounder of Veracode, sat in the first row for the advent of cyber defense. In fact, as the Vulnerability Researcher at the seminal hacker thi...
The Fundamentals Behind Hacking: MIT Technology Review’s Martin Giles
Business Lab - April 25, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] The rise in ransomware incidents; hacking attacks and data breaches have become a scary reality for organizations and individuals worldwide. Increasingly, the issue of cyber security and what organizations need to do to better protect their people and their systems now sit at the top ...
10 Breakthrough Technologies with Bill Gates
Business Lab - March 28, 2019 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates talks with Gideon Lichfield, MIT Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief, about the magazine’s new list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, which Gates curated. The magazine has been publishing its list of 10 Breakthrough Techno...
When Our Devices Can Read Our Emotions: Affectiva’s Gabi Zijderveld
Business Lab - February 28, 2019 16:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: Emotion-tracking AI is starting to help machines recognize our moods. Are we ready? Personal assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Home can parse our spoken words and (sometimes) respond appropriately, but they can’t gauge how we’re feeling—in part because t...
AI Is Real Now: IBM’s Sophie Vandebroek
Business Lab - February 28, 2019 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: Why there will never be another “AI winter,” and what IBM and MIT are doing together to ensure that. More times than almost any other field of innovation, artificial intelligence has weathered recurring cycles of overinflated hope, followed by disappointment, pessimi...
Deep Learning Hope and Hype: Technology Review’s Will Knight
Business Lab - January 31, 2019 15:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: Why researchers at the year’s biggest AI conference focused on how to keep human bias out of computer algorithms. Both the progress and the hype around cutting-edge machine learning techniques were on vivid display at the December 2018 NeurIPS Conference in Montreal, ...
How AI Is Changing Knowledge Work: MIT’s Thomas Malone
Business Lab - January 24, 2019 12:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: How the right AI algorithms can help organizations evolve into “superminds” that are smarter than their individual members. Thomas Malone is a professor of management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, founder and director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligen...
Technology for Workplaces That Work: Humanyze’s Ben Waber
Business Lab - January 24, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings[Sponsored] In this episode: What new kinds of sensor data can tell us about the merits of open offices and remote work. Do open offices foster more collaboration, or just more frustration? Should managers encourage employees to telecommute, or is a scattered workforce less cohesive? The conventi...
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