One of the most important conversations in tech right now centers around the roles and rules that will govern artificial intelligence. As capabilities improve dramatically for software and the machines that it powers, it is important to remember the humans that these technology breakthroughs are meant to help. The newest episode of the Bistrocast delves into the numerous questions raised by recent AI advancements. In this episode, we sit down with Mira Murati, the strategy lead at San Francisco-based OpenAI. OpenAI is an AI research company focused on safety in artificial general intelligence, and Murati has explored many facets of AI’s potential to empower people, shape user interfaces, and improve robotics.

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Orange Silicon Valley CEO Mireille Helou stepped into her new role from halfway around the globe in 2019, departing from her previous CEO position at Orange Réunion Mayotte. Her career at Orange has taken here across continents, as well as the Orange Group, which she has served in Réunion, as well as Kenya, where she was the chief business market officer. Now, she is looking ahead to a new era for Orange Silicon Valley, where she intends to build on her past successes and bring the next wave of Silicon Valley innovation to Orange and its customers.

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Anyone who has ever forgotten a password at an inconvenient moment knows that memorized strings of characters are an imperfect security tool. But what are the alternatives? Biometrics offers a range of potential substitutes, including voice, behavior, and face recognition. All of these can be tied to identities, but they can also introduce new challenges for privacy and security. ID R&D is a startup that works with these solutions individually and collectively. The company recently joined the Fab Connect program at Orange Silicon Valley, so we welcomed its president, Alexey Khitrov, to the podcast to discuss the state of identity management.

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Guillaume Payan and Julie Leclercq work with a special set of programs at Orange Silicon Valley that introduce startups, corporate partners, and investors. The outcomes of those introductions vary, depending on the companies involved, but Guillaume, Julie, and their team have worked through the Orange Fab program to optimize every introduction with successful results in mind. This week, they both sat down with the Bistrocast to discuss how they achieve those outcomes and what they have learned about corporate and startup interests over the course of their time in the Bay Area.

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Orange Silicon Valley’s Bistrocast is back with our first episode of 2019. This week, we welcomed Justin Young, who leads OSV’s program in supply chain and logistics. Supply chains are an invisible giant behind the scenes for many businesses and consumers. In this conversation, Justin addressed the technologies and needs that are changing as incumbent players adapt and new startups find ways to disrupt how shipments are tracked and delivered. It’s a topic that touches many other areas of interest at OSV, including retail, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and more.

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