S5-E11: My Pick of 30 Films to Watch at Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival
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Charlie shares her hot picks of 30 films (out of over 150) to watch at this year’s Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival taking place September 20-25 (virtually and online).
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S9-E10: Erik Martin: Building Meaningful Communities in an Increasingly Fragmented World
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Charlie has a happy reunion with Erik Martin (Chief Community Officer at Teal, a membership platform to help enable meaningful careers). Charlie last interviewed Erik 10 years ago for a viral media Meetup in NY.
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S5-E9: Greg Kihlström: King of Agile
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On this episode, Charlie crowns Greg Kihlström “King of Agile” and with good reason! Greg (founder of The Agile World where he consults, writes and hosts a podcast) has spent the past several years helping companies to incorporate agility into their digital transformation strategies.
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S5-E8: Jennifer Snyder: Government Innovation Ain’t What It Used to Be and Why You Should Be Following GovTech Now!
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This week, Charlie makes a strong case for why anyone who is interested in technology innovation should be following GovTech closely and consistently.
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S5-E7: Tech News Roundup with Andrew Maynard: Your Face Is a Weapon, Google Employees Love Bernie/Warren, New Bill on Tech Addiction and Turning Children Into Cyborgs
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Charlie is thrilled to welcome Dr. Andrew Maynard (former physicist, professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, leading expert in the responsible development of emerging and converging technologies, and Tech 2025 advisor) for our very first tech news roundup episode where we recap the news on the implementation and impact of emerging technologies (the good, the bad, and the ugly!).
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S5-E6: Oriana Meldicott: Cynicism, Legislation and Inspiring the Next Generation in AI Ethics
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It’s a bit of a reunion on this episode as AI Ethicist and cohost of Let’s Chat Ethics podcast, Oriana Meldicott, who taught a workshop at Tech 2025 two years ago, reconnects with Charlie to discuss all things AI ethics.
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S5-E5: Paul Spiers: Successful Digital Transformation for Companies Begins and Ends with Principled Leadership
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Joining the podcast this week is Paul Spiers (Founder, The New P&L Brand Purpose Institute and host of The New P&L business podcast series).
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S5-E4: NextGen Innovator: Anya Berlova on Anti-Bullying, Pro-Individuality and Using Art+Tech to Change the World
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In this special second episode in our series on next-gen innovators, Charlie chats with Anya Berlova.
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S5-E3: Next-Gen Innovator: Amara Leggett, 19-Year-Old Computer Scientist, on Gen-Z Ambitions and Being Unapologetically Exceptional
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In this special episode (one of two dedicated to next-generation innovators), Charlie welcomes young legend, Amara Leggett (19-year-old computer scientist, CEO of Dual Enrollment Company, and author of The Strategic Mind of a Young Legend).
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S5-E2: "Bus Driver Dan" Talks Transit Innovation, Blue Collar Creativity and the Power of Human Storytelling
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Dan Christensen (aka "Bus Driver Dan") loves his job driving a bus for TriMet bus company in Portland, Oregon, and is fiercely and unapologetically proud of his Blue Collar roots. He also embraces emerging technology and is constantly exploring new and innovative ways to use technology to tell "the stories of the now."
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SHOW NOTES
Charlie starts off the show with an embarrassing confession but ends the episode on a high note as she basks in the glow of interviewing the incomparable Max Sklar (who we have deemed “Machine Learning Superstar”!).
Max, who attended his first Tech 2025 event a little over a year ago on Blockchain legislation in New York City, is a Machine Learning Engineer at Luminary Media (a podcasting media platform). Before that, he was Machine Learning Engineer at FourSquare for ten years. Max also hosts the popular Local Maximum Radio -- a podcast about examining technology, engineering, and social trends through the lense of expanding perspectives and moving beyond the Local Maximum both for ourselves AND for our algorithms.
You can listen to Charlie being interviewed by Max on his podcast: Charlie Oliver on Tech 2025, Open and Thought Provoking Conversations about our Near Future
Some of the topics Charlie and Max cover in this episode include:
- How you can miss one revolution, and then go on to define another one. Max missed the early mobile revolution and then went on to have a lot to do with the rest of mobile;
- The most important thing you need to know about machine learning to grasp the potential of the technology and to understand where it’s going in the future.
- Whether or not tech companies are doing a good job of presenting technologies with a reasonable balance between hope and hype;
- Max’s take on why Mark Zuckerberg was wrong to say that Facebook will solve hate speech on Facebook using machine learning within 10 years (according to Max, “It’s not going to happen!”);
- Max’s “Under the Radar” prediction for 2019 (the technologies no one is paying attention to that will likely be the breakout innovations that make a big impact).
LINKS
- Max’s Local Maximum Radio podcast: https://www.localmaxradio.com/
- Follow Max on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-sklar-b638464/
- Follow Max on Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxsklar
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