Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

How can schools work with industry leaders to ensure relevant education and training programs? What specialized skills will be needed to plan and construct a world-class transit system? Which technologies will be critical in developing clean, efficient freight transportation systems that can compete at the regional, state and national levels? Focus will be on innovative technologies, including intelligent transportation systems, high-speed rail, wireless technologies, big data systems, smart freight networks, environmentally sustainable technologies, and others.

How can schools work with industry leaders to ensure relevant education and training programs? What specialized skills will be needed to plan and construct a world-class transit system? Which technologies will be critical in developing clean, efficient freight transportation systems that can compete at the regional, state and national levels? Focus will be on innovative technologies, including intelligent transportation systems, high-speed rail, wireless technologies, big data systems, smart freight networks, environmentally sustainable technologies, and others.

How can schools work with industry leaders to ensure relevant education and training programs? What specialized skills will be needed to plan and construct a world-class transit system? Which technologies will be critical in developing clean, efficient freight transportation systems that can compete at the regional, state and national levels? Focus will be on innovative technologies, including intelligent transportation systems, high-speed rail, wireless technologies, big data systems, smart freight networks, environmentally sustainable technologies, and others.

Governor Kasich came in second in the New Hampshire primary earlier this year and won his home state of Ohio in a winner-take-all primary. He has also earned the prestigious endorsement of The New York Times and has positioned himself on the campaign trail as a moderate alternative to both businessman Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz. His campaign platform is centered on an optimistic, positive vision for America that reclaims power, money and influence from Washington. Governor Kasich served for nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, during which he was instrumental in the passage of both the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and welfare reform. He was the youngest person ever elected to the Ohio State Senate, where he served from 1979 until 1983. Prior to seeking public office, Governor Kasich worked as an investment banker, serving as managing director of the Lehman Brothers office in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a degree in political science from Ohio State University.

First AOL and other companies laid the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. Then we saw companies such as Google and Facebook build on top of the Internet to create search and social networking capabilities, while apps like Snapchat and Instagram leveraged the smartphone revolution. According to Case, we are now entering a new paradigm called the “Third Wave,” one where entrepreneurs will have the power to vastly transform “real world” sectors such as health, education, transportation, energy and food, and to change the way we live and work. So who are these third wave leaders? Case shares his vision and offers personal advice for entrepreneurs in this changing digital age.

Join Michael Carlin, COO of San Francisco PUC Water and Power, Patrick Koepele and Peter Drekmeier, executive director and policy director respectively of the Tuolumne River Trust, for an end-of-April 2016 report on what has happened with El Nino, the weather and the snow pack, as well as the continuing effects of the Yosemite Rim Fire to ease drought problems and bring water and growth cycles much needed in California at large and the Bay Area and the Central Valley specifically. Our speakers have extensive experience in the history and currency of California land, rivers, coastal areas and mountains as well as our urban areas, rivers and agriculture. What do we know from science, projected demands and expectations and forecasts for California water now and in the future?

Doug Dalton and Brian Sheehy have revolutionized the Bay Area’s nightlife scene through their company Future Bars, the team behind several of San Francisco’s top watering holes, including Bourbon & Branch, Tradition, Local Edition and the recently-launched Pagan Idol. Join INFORUM for a discussion with Doug and Brian about their roots in the East Coast tech and hospitality industries, the massive success of Future Bars and how it is influencing the Bay Area’s cocktail culture, and the role that Doug, Brian and Future Bars are playing in connecting tech industry workers to the Bay Area community-at-large. Attendees will enjoy a welcome cocktail made by FutureBars as they enter, and a post-reception with cocktails from FutureBars recipes and snacks to pair!

Laboratory testing today is overly focused on statistics—health professionals tend to compare their patients’ results to statistical norms, which are skewed to a generally unhealthy population. This presentation highlights eight functional tests that are predictive of outcome, focus on goal values rather than normal values and clinically more useful in therapy. These functional, predictive tests assess individual needs that, when met, can minimize risk and enhance outcomes—critical for sustained health. When results are not at their "best outcome, least risk" goal value, it provides us opportunities to improve upon what we eat and drink, think and do, and to nudge the biomarkers back to their goal values.

After their journey through disparate and widely scattered ruins, they changed forever the world's view of the widespread, advanced Maya society. Carlsen, formerly a San Francisco Chronicle reporter and Pulitzer finalist, traveled the explorers’ 2500-mile route himself to prepare for writing the book.

In 25 years as a “60 Minutes” correspondent, and prior to that as CBS News White House correspondent, she has interviewed the likes of Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, Yasir Arafat, and virtually every top U.S. official. Here’s a rare chance to hear Lesley Stahl unedited—on politics, media, the challenges facing women, and her own personal rise to success. She’ll also discuss what she says is her most transformative life experience: becoming a grandmother. Ms. Stahl says the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on grandparents and families in general are eye-opening. In her professional life, Lesley Stahl covered Watergate, the assassination attempt on President Reagan, and the 1991 Gulf War. Her “60 Minutes” pieces have encompassed terrorist capabilities to hack the U.S. infrastructure, a profile of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, an inside look at Guantamo Bay Prison, and China’s huge real estate bubble. These stories and your questions … in our 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl.