The Future of Urban Ecosystems: Technology, Sustainability and The New Cognitive Generation
Join us for an inspiring glimpse into the making of NEOM - arguably the world's leading sustainable, cognitive city and a living lab platform to evaluate the application of advanced technologies to elevate the human experience.
AI's Critical Role in Intergenerational Human Flourishing
The intergenerational transmission of values, norms, and aspirations has always shaped expectations for transcendent belonging. What does it mean to live a good life, to be successful?
How Secure is Your AI/ML? And How Can You Be Certain?
We're often unaware of security vulnerabilities until there's a breach. In today's rush to leverage AI, organizations often overestimate security and underestimate risk, while teams expose unique AI threats to otherwise reasonably safe businesses.
AI & Governance: Redefining Infrastructure for a Tech-Enabled Society
Civilization came together when people agreed on a shared "code" about building communities and cities. Today, some believe there is a need for a new layer of accountable, transparent, and contestable code - to support our digitally-enabled society.
AI and Decentralized Systems of Trust
With the deluge of speculation about Generative AI, organizations everywhere are establishing regulations and certifications to solve for fidelity, trust, and assurance. We're also seeing substantial debate regarding the viability of such efforts at this stage in the adoption of AI-empowered capabilities.
Why Trust Outweighs AI in Reimagining the Future
Join our co-hosts and guest Jan Bunge, Director at Squint/Opera, who has built global partnerships and leveraged advanced technologies to support large city planning projects. This episode delves into the benefits of leveraging virtual experience twins to help establish alignment and trust within diverse stakeholder networks
Understanding AI: Navigating Bias Concerns in Healthcare
We have to remember AI does not think like humans and it's risky to attribute too much understanding and knowledge to AI solutions - especially when used in healthcare scenarios.
The Role of AI Across Professions
Technology and AI are changing the calculus on which categories of work are assigned to human versus digital agents. Co-hosts James Villarrubia and Dyan Finkhousen connect with Richard Susskind, President of the Society for Computers and Law to discuss his perspective on the history of AI and how it's informing potential futures for all professions.
AI's Renaissance Moment: Defining What it Means to Be Human
Media outlets love to amplify AI hype with fear, yet humanity also has much to gain from thoughtful, intentional application of AI. What will it take for industry, society, and governments to shift to human-centric AI?
Quantum Sensing: A New Era of Wicked Opportunities in Sensing
Quantum sensing is impacting the way we observe and analyze the world today. It measures activity in the physical world using atomic properties, resulting in the collection of extremely precise information, ultimately helping us understand the inner workings of complex systems at atomic scale.
Will Artifiical Intelligence Outhink Us?
Generative AI is everywhere, and societies worldwide are grappling with what it is, what it's becoming, and what that means for humanity.
Amplifying Cognition with AI
Applications for the advancement of AI, and its role in decision-making, are moving quickly.
Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain gets a lot of attention these days, with financial technology and banking utilizing it as more data is shared worldwide and security is paramount. But what is blockchain and its popular network bitcoin? How does it work?
Hydrogen Futures
Transforming a sector dominated for decades by deeply entrenched organizations requires not just a better way of doing things, but an ecosystem that’s willing to make the shift with you.
The Living Systems of Work
Connectivity has unlocked paradigmatic shifts in work, workforce and workplace design. But are we focused on the right problems? Are the Future of Work narratives missing the critical, nuanced opportunities for these shifts?
Brilliant Educational Futures
As technologies become more interconnected and innovation more fast-paced, the obsolescence rate within the skills layer of our economy is also increasing. Gaps are emerging, creating a challenge for education systems and organizations alike, in how to upskill and train more quickly. The future of work is transforming the world - how do organizations prepare for that from a learning and readiness perspective?
Platforms to Power a Circular Economy
As we look to the horizon of a sustainable future, a circular economy and its impact on our environment becomes ever more important. With the growth and reach of platforms throughout our economy and society, to what degree can circular systems be enabled by our platform economy?
Wherever We Go, We Need to Eat
In the AgriTech and Food sectors, “the most significant unlocks haven’t been achieved with the tech innovation... they’ve been with the business model innovation”.
Cities: Death, Rebirth and Reinvention
As today’s ecosystemic structure changes rapidly, what is the economic value of cities and how can it become different in the future? The idea of cities being powerful engines of innovation is a relatively new one, with a more distributed ecosystem of cities being attractive and potentially good for the economy to distribute the additional benefits of growth.
Who Is Your Workforce: Past, Present and Future
Organizations both large and small alike, are finding it increasingly difficult to understand who exactly their workforce is, and how it is defined. The workforce has now developed into a complex ecosystem, with strategic orchestration required to align needs with outcomes.