AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
Episodes
Emmanuel Turlay, Founder and CEO of Sematic and machine learning pioneer, discusses what's required to turn every software engineer into an ML engineer
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emmanuel Turlay spent more than a decade in engineering roles at tech-first companies like Instacart and Cruise before realizing machine learning engi...
Kevin Mulcahy, co-author of the Future Workplace Experience, discusses how technology is improving the employee experience
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Mulcahy, co-author of the Future Workplace Experience, has been thinking and writing about the future of work since 2016. Six years ago the futu...
Michael Osterrieder, CEO and founder of vAIsual, discusses how generative AI is disrupting the stock media industry
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is the co-founder and CEO of vAIsual, the company pioneering the use of generative AI to create synthetic stock media. All of those ph...
Otto Soderlund, CEO and co-founder of Speechly, discusses what's hard about adding conversational AI to apps
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Otto Soderlund co-founded Speechly in 2016 with Hannes Heikinheimo in their hometown of Helsinki. He believes voice should be a first-class citizen fo...
Jonathan Frankle, Harvard Professor and MosaicML Chief Scientist, discusses the past, present, and future of deep learning
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Frankle, incoming Harvard Professor and Chief Scientist at MosaicML, is focused on reducing the cost of training neural nets. He received his...
Eric Olson, CEO and co-founder of Consensus, discusses how to use LLMs to help researchers get better answers faster from evidence-based journals
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Olson, CEO and co-founder of Consensus, is a collegiate athlete turned data scientist turned entrepreneur who needed faster access to reliable da...
Mona Akmal, outspoken CEO of Falkon, discusses how to use data to help sales reps "make the best deal the typical deal"
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Akmal, CEO of sales intelligence platform Falkon, is the outspoken co-founder behind an emerging leader in a hot space. Mona migrated to the Unit...
Hina Dixit, venture capitalist at Samsung NEXT and former Apple engineering leader, discusses how to get your AI or web3 startup funded
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hina Dixit, venture capitalist leading AI investing at Samsung NEXT, grew up in a small town in India from humble beginnings. She couldn’t afford a ...
Rana Gujral, CEO of Behavioral Signals, discusses the future of NLP and sentiment analysis to improve customer service
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rana Gujral, CEO of Behavioral Signals since 2018, joined the company after a distinguished tech career growing companies like Logitech, TiZE, and Cri...
Ahmed Elsamadisi, Narrator CEO, is a roboticist by training and one of the first engineers at WeWork. Now he's changing how the world tells stories with data.
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Elsamadisi built the data infrastructure at WeWork before realizing every company could benefit from his team’s innovation. Traditional star s...
Seth Earley, author of The AI-Powered Enterprise, discusses the future of knowledge management
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Earley is a Chemist by training and an expert on AI. Specifically, how AI is used to improve knowledge management. In fact, he wrote the book on ...
Peter Scott, popular author, TedX speaker, and futurist, discusses how to ensure AI is used for good… despite the potential for it doing harm
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Scott, author, TedX speaker, and futurist, worked at NASA’s JPL laboratory after receiving his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Cambrid...
Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios tech reporter and co-author of the Pro Rata newsletter, discusses what Adam Neumann’s new company Flow means for the future of work
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios tech reporter, is a Silicon Valley native who writes about tech news and culture. Among other things, she co-authors the popul...
Deon Nicholas, CEO of Forethought, discusses how human-centered AI improves the customer experience
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deon Nicholas, Forethought Co-Founder CEO, grew up in inner city Toronto stocking shelves in a pharmacy before learning to code at an early age. He st...
Jim Lawton, worldwide authority on industrial robots, discusses how humans and machines are partnering to improve safety and efficiency in manufacturing
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Lawton, VP and GM of Robotics Automation at Zebra Technologies, met the founder of Roomba, Rodney Brooks, at MIT nearly three decades ago. It insp...
Kamal Ahluwalia, Eightfold President, discusses how he grew a unicorn and how AI helps find the right career for everyone in the world
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kamal Ahluwalia and the Eightfold team set out to find the right career for everyone in the world. Six years later after having raised more than $200M...
Turn the tables! Former guest, author, and QSTAC CEO Ben Brennan interviews Dan Turchin about AI and the future of work
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Brennan, former guest, accomplished author, and QSTAC CEO, guest hosts today's "turn the tables" episode... and interviews Dan Turc...
Gadi Shamia, CEO at Replicant, discusses the future of bots for contact center automation to improve customer service
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gadi Shamia, Replicant CEO and co-founder, has been delivering innovation to help customers have better service experiences for more than a decade. He...
Krish Ramineni, Fireflies CEO, discusses the future of AI voice assistants to make meetings more productive
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Krish Ramineni, Fireflies CEO and Microsoft alum, learned the value of NLP working with Skype and Office as a Product Manager. He set out to solve a p...
Joel Eagle, Senior Director at McDonald's, shares how AI helps serve 70 million meals every day
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Eagle, McDonald's Senior Director of Technology and Architecture, started his career in healthcare and logistics before being promoted to te...
Ben Brennan, QSTAC CEO and author of Badass IT Support, discusses how to quantify the employee experience
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Brennan, QSTAC CEO, author, and former IT exec at Yahoo and Verizon Media, is a world traveler, a musician, and a trained psychologist with passio...
Francois Candelon, AI expert and Managing Director at BCG, shares tips for succeeding with AI based on 30 years of research
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Francois Candelon, Managing Director at the BCG Henderson Institute, has spent 30 years researching how companies adopt modern technology. His resea...
Stephen Messer, AI entrepreneur, CEO, mentor, and web pioneer, discusses the future of automation in B2B sales
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Messer, founder of Collective[i], was an attorney and teacher before discovering his passion for entrepreneurship. He started LinkShare (acqui...
Special episode: Is Google's LaMDA chatbot sentient? Tiernan Ray from ZDNet breaks it all down and discusses how to tell a chatbot from a human... and the ethics of bots fooling people.
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, we unpack the controversy surrounding the sentient chatbot that "worries about its future". Google engineer Blake L...
Kevin Dewalt, CEO of Prolego and author of "Become an AI Company in 90 Days", shares what every company must know to succeed with AI
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Dewalt, CEO of Prolego, built his first neural net at Stanford in 1995 after graduating from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He popularized the te...
Giselle Mota, TEDx speaker and top 100 "Future of Work" thought leader, discusses how AI helps us become better humans
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Giselle Mota, Future of Work principal at ADP, overcame dyslexia and discovered passions for math and AI. Her parents immigrated from the Dominican Re...
Harish Batlapenumarthy, co-founder of Emtropy Labs, discusses the future of supervised machine learning to improve customer service
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harish Batlapenumarthy always believed culture is more important than anything else at work. He and the team at Emtropy Labs set out to identify how g...
Dr. Eric Daimler, Obama's AI authority, professor, and serial entrepreneur, discusses how technology influences public policy
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Daimler advised the Obama administration on how to have conversations about AI. His work led to the creation of the AI office within the Science ...
Mahesh Ram, CEO of Solvvy (acquired by Zoom), discusses the future of conversational AI for customer service
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mahesh Ram, founder and CEO of Solvvy, set out to "give everyone back time". His company was recently acquired by Zoom to improve customer e...
Chandra Khatri, Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, discusses the future of NLP for better customer experiences with bots
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chandra Khatri, Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, was a key team member in the early days of AI at eBay, Amazon, and Uber. He has been on...
Paul Lee, co-founder of Synesis One, discusses the future of NLP and AI data harvesting using games and blockchains to earn NFTs
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Lee, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Synesis One, combined his love of games with a passion for NLP and AI. He realized language ontologies...
Phil Johnson, founder and CEO of Master of Business Leadership, discusses how leaders can overcome adversity by improving their EQ
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Johnson, founder and CEO of Master of Business Leadership (MBL) and veteran tech exec, overcame adversity as a kid when he was diagnosed with dys...
Dipanwita ("D") Das, Founder and CEO of Sorcero, discusses how AI improves lives by helping life sciences experts accelerate medical research
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dipanwita ("D") Das, Founder and CEO of Sorcero, is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and AI innovator. She is the CEO & Co-fou...
Christopher Nguyen, serial entrepreneur, AI professor, and CEO of Aitomatic, discusses human-first vs. data-first approaches to machine learning
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Nguyen, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Aitomatic, realized big data isn't the only answer when training AI models. In fact, when doin...
Matt K. Parker, author and engineering leader, discusses how radical enterprises are defining the future of work
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt K. Parker, author and engineering leader formerly at Pivotal Labs, profiled 13 collaborative work cultures in his book A Radical Enterprise. Th...
Jaime Ramirez, CEO and Founder of Preventor, discusses the future of AI for identity verification to prevent fraud online
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jaime Ramirez, CEO and Founder of Preventor, and stalwart of the Miami tech scene, shares how banks and brands are using new authentication technology...
Edmundo Gonzalez, Co-founder and CEO of Marpai Health, discusses the future of AI to improve healthcare
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edmundo Gonzalez, Co-founder and CEO of Marpai Health, realized our health plans have a significant impact on the quality of our health. Using AI to p...
Doug Kerwin, AI children's book author, discusses the importance of educating kids about working with AI
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Kerwin is an engineering leader and entrepreneur who recently published "Riley and Bot: Jobs for Robots and Jobs for Me". By day, he&ap...
Phil McKinney, former CTO of HP and CEO of CableLabs, shares the formula for turning ordinary teams into innovation machines
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil McKinney, former HP CTO and one of the "50 most innovative" thinkers on the planet according to Fast Company, has helped develop produc...
Rene Steenvoorden, Chief Digital Officer at Randstad, discusses how AI humanizes the recruiting process
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Steenvoorden, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at HR behemoth Randstad, started in IT 30 years ago when technology was a distraction and IT gear was r...
Gordon Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Rain Neuromorphics, shares how to re-create a carbon-based brain on a silicon chip
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Wilson, CEO and founder of Rain Neuromorphics, turned a childhood fascination with science fiction into an entrepreneurial passion to recreate ...
Jason Corsello, VC @ Acadian Ventures and WorkTech expert, discusses the future of tech for better employee experiences
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Corsello, Founder & General Partner at Acadian Ventures, didn't set out to be a venture capitalist. He was a tech industry analyst and ...
Dr. Mamoun Samaha, serial CTO, security expert, and professor, discusses the future of AI in cybersecurity
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mamoun Samaha, CTO at the International Technological University and Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, is an operator and ...
Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting and author, discusses the future of technology in healthcare
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, has spent 20 years educating healthcare CIOs about digital transformation and writing about healthcare inno...
Dave Kellogg, serial CEO, investor, and SaaS metrics expert, shares his (provocative) tech predictions for 2022
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kellogg, serial CEO, investor, and advisor, is a prolific blogger over at Kellblog.com. His annual predictions are a must-read for anyone in tech...
Graham Brown, technologist, award-winning podcast host, and storyteller, shares what entrepreneurs need to know to create better pitch decks
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Brown, storyteller extraordinaire, has traveled the world learning about work, culture, and technology. He's a cognitive psychologist wi...
Rob May, venture partner at PJC and serial AI entrepreneur, shares what's holding back AI adoption in the enterprise
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rob May, serial AI entrepreneur and investor, started as a hardware engineer but realized he could have more of an impact as an entrepreneur and inv...
Elliot Shmukler, CEO of Anomalo, discusses why data quality monitoring is the future of personalization
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Shmukler, CEO and founder of Anomalo, needed a better way to monitor data quality at scale. He previously led growth teams at Wealthfront, Inst...
Luke Arrigoni, Data Scientist and CEO of Arricor, shares how to turn enterprise data into decisions with AI
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Arrigoni started Arricor in 2012 to help large companies make sense of their data. Since then, he and the team have taught organizations like Gol...
Peter Fishman, co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, discusses data pipelines and why they're defining the future of data analytics
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Fishman ("Fish"), co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, had a vision for making it easy for any business to unlock the value of their dat...
Shawn Merani, Founder and Managing Director of Parade Ventures, discusses how to start a venture fund and find great entrepreneurs
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Merani, entrepreneur and venture investor, has started two venture funds and been an operator at early stage companies including Liquidnet and R...
Mel Engle, CEO of Predictive Oncology, shares how AI is curing cancer
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Engle, executive and cancer survivor, has spent more than 30 years in and around the intersection of healthcare and technology. He's now th...
Matt Cowell, CEO at QuantHub, shares why the future workforce needs to be data literate
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Cowell started QuantHub in 2018 to help upskill and reskill employees to prepare for careers in data and AI. The QuantHub data skills platform ex...
Dan Grunfeld, Director at Lightspeed and author of "By the Grace of the Game", discusses leadership, entrepreneurship, and basketball
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Grunfeld, former professional basketball player and operator at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discusses the parallels between sports and entreprene...
Matt Compton, CEO and Co-founder of Filo.co, shares why Zoom isn't what teams need to host virtual meetings
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Compton's a restless tinkerer from Indianapolis who started Filo.co to solve a problem he had. He needed something better than Zoom to be ab...
Phil Heltewig, CEO of conversational AI platform Cognigy, on the future of customer service automation
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Heltewig, co-founder and CEO of Cognigy, the low-code conversational AI platform for managing customer service bots, discusses how new AI technol...
Dr. Panos Siozos, Founder and CEO of LearnWorlds, raised $32M to build a novel edtech company that's helping creators monetize custom courses
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Panos Siozos, LearnWorlds CEO, went from academic to high-tech CEO and raised $32M from Insight Partners to help creators monetize e-learning cour...
Scott Zoldi, FICO Chief Analytics Officer, discusses how AI and your data are used to make decisions about fraud and credit risk
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Zoldi, FICO Chief Analytics Officer and PhD in Theoretical Physics, shares how to use AI responsibly. FICO uses consumer data and machine learni...
Bindu Reddy, CEO of Abacus AI, discusses the latest in AI research and what's required to make developing AI apps as easy as building web pages
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bindu Reddy, CEO and co-founder of Abacus AI, was a product exec at Google and Amazon and an accomplished entrepreneur before setting out to make AI m...
Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of honeycomb, discusses observability, how to build great software, and what she learned not to do from Facebook
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder at honeycomb, grew up in rural Idaho and dropped out of college. This is her unlikely journey from pianist to succe...
Kai Nunez, Vice President of Research & Insights at Salesforce, shares the secret to making tech teams own responsibility for AI ethics
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kai Nunez, VP Research & Insights at Salesforce, didn't always know she wanted to pursue a career in AI because it didn't exist as a fie...
Rene Morkos, CEO and Founder of ALICE Technologies, shares how algorithms are changing the construction industry
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
René Morkos, CEO and Founder of ALICE Technologies, grew up wanting to build things. That passion led him to degrees in Construction Management and a...
Gary Bolles, best-selling author of The Next Rules of Work, shares how to manage through disruption and find your passion
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Bolles, entrepreneur, venture advisor, and best-selling author, is a deep thinker who established roots in Silicon Valley in the 80s to pursue hi...
Derek Steer, CEO and founder of Mode, discusses the future of work for data analysts and the biggest tragedy in BI today
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Steer cut his teeth as a data analyst at Facebook and Yammer more than a decade ago. He co-founded Mode in 2013 to make it easier to ask questio...
Jeff Meyerson, entrepreneur and author of "Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software", shares important advice for Zuck
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Meyerson, entrepreneur, musician, technologist, and author of the acclaimed "Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software", discusses the st...
Krishna Gade, CEO and Founder of Fiddler, discusses the importance of AI explainability
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Krishna Gade was an engineering leader at Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook before realizing AI is eating software... and responsible AI is essential. ...
Neelima Parasker, CEO of SnapIT Solutions, shares the recipe for making high-quality STEM education accessible to all
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neelima Parasker started coding at a young age. Inspired by her entrepreneur mother, she studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering before ...
Rachel Chalmers, Partner at Alchemist Accelerator, discusses what's required to eliminate bias in startup funding
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Chalmers aspired to be an English professor before being inspired by a technology journal to relocate from Ireland to San Francisco. She has si...
Dr. Zehra Cataltepe, CEO of Tazi.ai, discusses the meaning of responsible AI and how she's saving the planet...one model at a time
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cataltepe is an accomplished scientist and entrepreneur... with a social conscience. She has published more than 100 academic papers and is a thre...
Ken Gonzalez, ITSM pundit, shares the one trend that will define IT strategy for the next decade
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Gonzalez has spent the better part of 35 years as an IT practitioner, CIO advisor, and industry analyst. He has fielded more than 2,500 inquiry ca...
Dan O'Connell, CSO/CRO at Dialpad and founder of TalkIQ, discusses NLP in cloud telephony and his entrepreneurial journey from Google to founder to a quick exit
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan O'Connell, former founder and CEO of TalkIQ which was acquired by Dialpad, discusses the future of cloud communications. Dan's vision fo...
Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research, discusses CIO priorities and how to actually deliver on the promise of digital transformation
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dion Hinchcliffe has been reporting on and prognosticating about the future of work for more than 20 years. He speaks with 100s of global CIOs annuall...
John Whaley, Founder and CEO of UnifyID, discusses the future of biometric authentication and how to prepare for a world beyond passwords
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Whaley has been programming since age five. He has been a lecturer at Stanford in Computer Science, a founding CTO, and a founding CEO. John rais...
Filip Dousek, founder of Stories (acquired by Workday), discusses machine learning for people insights and the challenges of being an entrepreneur in Europe
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Filip Dousek is a successful entrepreneur having sold his last company to Workday. He's also the author of Flock Without Birds, a two-part novel ...
Jason Wojahn, CEO of ServiceNow partner Thirdera, shares what it means to make innovation a core component of company culture
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Wojahn has been building companies and helping enterprises use technology for nearly 30 years. He learned a few things before launching Thirdera...
Tiernan Ray, journalist in publications like The New York Times and Fortune, discusses the state of AI ethics and how to thrive in a world of automated decisions
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tiernan Ray is an accomplished journalist who has written extensively for publications like ZDNet, the New York Times, Barron’s, CNN Money, Fortune,...
Bryan Talebi, founder and CEO of Ahura AI, shares how AI is being used to up-skill and re-skill workers being displaced by automation
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Talebi learned the value of education after fleeing Iran and living in a Turkish refugee camp. He worked for NASA at age 16 and, after helping l...
Milin Desai, CEO of unicorn APM vendor Sentry, discusses the future of software, what's wrong with DevOps, and what 100 other monitoring vendors don't know
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Milin Desai was an executive at VMware before taking the CEO role at Sentry last year. Since then, he led a $60M funding round that valued the company...
Slater Victoroff, founder and CTO of intelligent process automation company Indico, discusses deep learning, AGI, and his entrepreneurial journey
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slater Victoroff is a machine learning expert and science fiction writer who is never shy when sharing opinions about AI and the future of technology....
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, technologist, entrepreneur, and author, discusses AI ethics, future societies, blockchains, and digital labor
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A first on the show this week... we meet a guest whose digital twin has its own YouTube channel. Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a futurist, best-selling aut...
Zi Wang, CEO and founder of Timeless, discusses the future of time management, responsible use of data for AI, and how he's out to change the world
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zi Wang, Timeless founder and CEO, learned a lot at Google in eight and a half years. Enough that he was inspired to turn his Google-esque bold vision...
Banjot Chanana, product leader from VMware, Docker, Google, and AWS, discusses the rise of containers and what's ahead in DevOps
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us won't learn as much in a career about DevOps as Banjot Chanana forgets in an afternoon. Having built teams and products that have give...
Ciro Greco and Jacopo Tagliabue, founders of Tooso, discuss their entrepreneurial journey, acquisition by Coveo, and the future of machine intelligence
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's tough being entrepreneurs in Belgium and Italy. Our appetite for risk and access to capital in the U.S. is an unfair advantage. Ciro and Jac...
Kordel France, CEO of Seekar Technologies, discusses the importance of AI explainability and how Seekar's AI helps radiologists detect COVID
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kordel France taught himself to code to automate his Calculus homework. He was inspired by seeing robot tractors on the family farm. Not the conventio...
Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon, authors of Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy, discuss AI, freelancers, and what it takes to be 10x better at everything
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two firsts this week on the podcast: first time we’ve had a two-guest interview and first time we’ve had guests who aren’t native to the tech in...
Linda Rottenberg, Endeavor Co-founder and CEO, discusses entrepreneurship in emerging markets
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest has been called “America’s Best Leader” by U.S. News and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” by ABC, Fox, and NPR. Linda Rot...
Denis Jacquet, founder of the Day One Movement, international entrepreneur, and author discusses how automation is transforming the labor market
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate... and governments around the world are mismanaging the opportunity t...
Joe Rehmann, CEO and Founder of Victory Farms in Kenya, shares how technology-enabled fish farming is eradicating hunger
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Rehmann went from investment banking to fish farming. His passion for solving the protein problem in Eastern Africa led to one of the most success...
Philippe Cases, CEO of Topio Networks, serial entrepreneur, and investor discusses edge computing, IoT and AI plus the future of Silicon Valley
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Philippe Cases has been an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he founded Topio Networks to automate th...
Tim Crawford, serial CIO and CIO advisor, discusses three phases of AI adoption in the enterprise
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Crawford, accomplished CIO, CIO advisor, and influencer, distinguishes transformational CIOs from the rest. For more than 20 years, he has been co...
Rory O'Driscoll, Partner at Scale Venture Partners, discusses success modes for AI companies and three essential strategies for startups
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rory O'Driscoll has been investing in startups since founding Scale Venture Partners 27 years ago. He and his team have invested in transcendent...
Wendy Pfeiffer, Nutanix CIO, discusses the future of enterprise technology, girls in STEM careers, and leading remote teams
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Wendy Pfeiffer, Nutanix CIO and former CIO at GoPro, shares her journey to becoming a public company exec and how she has grown as a techno...
Rak Garg, investor at OpenView, discusses how enterprise software startups can disrupt incumbents like Splunk and Atlassian
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rak Garg recently shifted from Product Management at companies like Atlassian and Redfin to investing at OpenView Venture Partners, the iconic firm be...
Glenn Solomon, GGV Capital Managing Partner, discusses the people behind amazing companies like Airbnb, HashiCorp, and Opendoor
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Solomon has discovered and invested in many iconic companies like Slack, Zendesk, and Square. In this episode, he shares his investing philosoph...
Elaine Zelby, investor at SignalFire, discusses unsexy markets and the SaaS startup bundle
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Zelby is an investor at SignalFire, a blogger, podcaster, and former Product Marketer at Capriza and Slack. She shares her perspective on the p...
Evangelos Simoudis, best-selling author and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, discusses the present and future of autonomous vehicles
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The future of cities, work, and transit all rely on technological advances in the field of autonomous vehicles. On this week's episode, Evangelos...
Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, discusses finding and investing in the future of AI
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, one of the most iconic venture firms in Silicon Valley. Ashu was first an entrepreneur before be...
Haixun Wang, VP and AI Distinguished Scientist at Instacart, shares insights from 20 years of innovating at IBM, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Great episode to kick off 2021. Dr. Haixun Wang has been at the forefront of introducing AI-based innovation to the world's leading technology co...
Darius Goldman, CEO and Founder of Meratas, discusses the future of education and how income share agreements work
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Darius Goldman, CEO and Founder of Meratas, discusses the future of education and how income share agreements (ISAs) are making college and trade scho...
Michael Shepherd, Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies, discusses the future of AI, ethics, and what happens when machines are smarter than us
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s podcast, Michael Shepherd, Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies focused on AI, describes the present and future of intelligent...