Episodes

May 18, 2021

Practicing Multimodal AI

Slater Victoroff, CTO and founder of Indico, the enterprise AI startup, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about how Slater was picking trash off of the Wellesley dump for school engineer...

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May 11, 2021

Seed VC Trends: Founder Obsession

Tyler Norwood, Partner at Antler, the global early stage venture capital firm, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about how Tyler got into venture. We discuss betting on founders, teams a...

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May 4, 2021

Orchestrating the Freelance Economy

Matt Coatney, CTO at HBR Consulting, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talked about the book Matt Coatney co-authored, The Human Cloud: How Today's Changemakers Use Artificial Intelligence an...

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April 27, 2021

Two Author-Podcasters Discuss Tech

Peter High, President of Metis Strategy, Host of Technovation podcast, and 3x author, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, we talk about how Peter High came to host of The Technovation podcast (2008-) and ge...

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April 20, 2021

Workforce, Humanity, and Future Tech

Alexandra Levit, 8x author, speaker, and career expert, interviewed by Trond Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, we talk about the future of careers and strategic HR. We discuss a recent book by Levit: Humanity Works: merging tech and pe...

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April 13, 2021

Upskilling Youth for the 21st Century Bioeconomy

Natalie Kuldell, Executive Director & founder, BioBuilder Educational Foundation, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about synthetic biology for all, bringing engineering into life science and...

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April 6, 2021

The Future of Vertical Farming

Eddy Badrina, CEO of Eden Green, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about whether indoor grown food is equally healthy? How has the space of vertical farming emerged? We discuss the deman...

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March 30, 2021

Gig Mobility

Ryan Green, CEO & co-founder, Gridwise, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about whether gig mobility services (MaaS) become the standard for how to move in cities? What does the future o...

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March 23, 2021

The Future of Virtual Care

Dr. Joe Kvedar, Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, author, editor, advisor and telehealth evangelist, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about the history Telehealth and it's tr...

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March 16, 2021

Performance Food

Luci Gabel, Nutritionist, Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University, and author of Eat to Lead, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author.  In this conversation, we talk about Luci's own path to healthy eating. We go thr...

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March 9, 2021

The Origins and Future of Open Science

George Strawn, computing policy nestor, interviewed by, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author.  In this conversation, we talk about the Origins and Future of Open Science. We investigate the decisions that turned ARPAnet ...

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Feb. 25, 2021

The path towards Science 2.0

Jean-Claude Burgelman, Professor of Open Science Policy at the Free University of Brussels, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about The Impact of Digital on Science. JC Burgelman’s career spans the EU, foresight, Me...

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Feb. 15, 2021

The Future of Digital Health AI

Catherine Havasi, CEO and co-founder, Dalang Health, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about Patient experience. Telehealth. Personalizing digital health. The AI space (ConceptNet, crowdsourcing for AI, word emb...

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Feb. 10, 2021

Future tech as a disruptive force

In episode 86 of the podcast, the topic is: Future Tech: Disruptive technology forces. Futurist Trond Arne Undheim talks about Chapter 2 of his forthcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, which is about how science...

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Feb. 9, 2021

The Zero User Interface Experience

Tuğberk Duman, Head of Innovation at Futurice, the Finnish consultancy, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about  Why thinking about a world beyond the screen? Invisible user interface where natural gestures (bod...

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Feb. 2, 2021

The Future of Grid Energy Innovation

Jon Wellinghoff, CEO of GridPolicy and former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  Now a quick word from our partners: Cleantech.org is a leading virtual research institute and incubato...

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Jan. 26, 2021

AI Talent Diversity

Taniya Mishra, Founder of SureStart, the diverse AI training platform, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about why STEM or STEAM is not enough. They discuss pre-college and post-college--the leaky inflection poi...

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Jan. 21, 2021

The Future of Personal Development

Nick Jankel, transformational futurist, the CEO and co-founder of Switch On, and author of the new book Now Lead The Change, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about The Personal Development Market. VUCA (volatil...

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Jan. 19, 2021

The Future of Longevity

Dmitry Kaminskiy, Partner, Deep Knowledge Ventures, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about What is longevity and why does it matter if we live longer? Health span v. Lifespan. The Intersection of AgeTech, Wealt...

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Jan. 14, 2021

Futuristic AI

Ben Goertzel, CEO and founder of SingularityNET and Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about Futuristic applications of interoperable AI. Sophia- the robot. ...

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Jan. 12, 2021

The future of learning experience design

Jon Tota, CEO and founder of Syntax + Motion and host of the Learning Life Podcast, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about The future of learning experience design. Shifting focus from the teacher to thinking abo...

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Jan. 11, 2021

2x Community Science -- Cancer Map and COVID-19 Testing in Schools

Jesse Boehm, the scientific director of the Broad Institute’s Cancer Dependency Map Initiative and an institute scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about mobili...

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Jan. 7, 2021

The Future of Quantum Security

Jaya Baloo, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Avast Software, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about why is it so hard to eradicate cybersecurity challenges? Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment ...

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Jan. 5, 2021

Industrial-grade Mixed Reality

Urho Konttori,  co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Varjo, the mixed reality equipment maker, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about The Future of Industrial-grade Mixed Reality (MR).  The advent of ente...

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