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This roundtable debate centers around the data imperative: examining how data can be used ethically and the ways teams can become more digitally literate. 

With Miya Knights moderating, the speakers of this roundtable include:

• Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and CTO at SolonTek Corporation
• Meeraiah Guddamsetty, VP of Digital Technology Products at Assurant
• Lauren Walker, Managing Director at Accenture Interactive
• Diana Ascher, Director, Information Studies Lab UCLA and Head of Research at EDMC
• Douglas Laney, Innovation Fellow, Data & Analytics Strategy at West Monroe and Professor of Infonomics at the University of Illinois
• Russ Lewis, ‘The Agilizer’ at Storm Consulting

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This roundtable debate centers around transformation in the workplace and how to begin the process of implementing digital change.

With Lea Sellers moderating, the speakers of this roundtable include:

• Christelle Heikkila: Former IT Director at Arsenal F.C and a Member on the Board of Directors at TechSkills.org
• Una Verhoeven: VP Global Technology, Sitecore at Valtech
• Barbara Gottardi: CIO Europe at Vanguard
• Lauren Tennant: CEO and founder of Horizon Seven
• Velji Naran:  Lead Architect at Seerview Ltd and Enterprise Data Architect at ALDI SÜD
• Barry O’Gorman: CIO at Hermitage Clinic 

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Domo for Good connects nonprofits with Domo customers for best-in-class data support, says Domo's Chief Communications Officer, Julie Kehoe. 

Many businesses are beginning to trial methods to share their technology, people, skills and expertise with the wider world for the simple benefit of improving the wider world. In practice it is anything but simple, and yet Domo, a Utah-based data visualization and cloud software company, has become one of the first in its sector to create a purpose-driven arm: Domo for Good. 

Learn how Domo for Good was created after a chance encounter between a client and a nonprofit at its event, Domopalooza, and why data is a resource most lacking in businesses that need it the most, as well as the challenges of setting up a purpose brand within a profit-making enterprise.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley's life has been described as one "without limits". 

Born as Vera Buchthal in Germany, 1933, she was five years old when she escaped Nazi Germany to Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee. The trauma shaped her early life and drove her to curating her own future: from a lover of mathematics and computing she rose to becoming a successful - and well-known - businesswoman in 1960s Britain, founding an all-female information technology company under the moniker "Steve" Shirley.

It would become known for its pioneering employee packages - flexible working, zero-hour contracts, and working from home as standard. Over 11 years, Dame Shirley even gifted her employees 25% of the business, making several people millionaires in the process. It was just one of her philanthropic ventures, alongside numerous contributions to autism charities and initiatives, as well as founding the Oxford Internet Institute.

For these reasons, Dame Shirley's voice and experience are a vital touchstone when considering today's purposeful business movement.

In this interview with Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor of HotTopics.ht, understand how Dame Shirley capitalized on her gender in a male-dominated industry, championed a healthier, more respectful work-place culture for her employees and views today's batch of energized entrepreneurs. 

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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.

Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business

This episode’s guests are Charmian Love, Chair and Co-Founder of B LAB (UK), and Kate Sandle, its Director of Programmes and Engagement.

At the very center of the purposeful business trend sits B Corp. It is the standard, the validation for organizations, large or small, to prove to themselves, their customers and their community, that purpose lies at the heart of its practice, alongside, of course, its profit. 

But it’s a challenging, often long journey. Of the thousands of businesses all over the world that seek B Corp registration, only 40% attain the standard. This is where Charmian, Kate and B Lab come in: they meet, advise and guide potential B Corp company teams as they seek this classification, and over the last four years have seen the purpose driven business sector grow from strength to strength. I asked them what’s next for them, for B Corp companies, and for capitalism itself.

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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.

Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.

Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, sits outside the purposeful business sector, but his viewpoint is still valid. It is Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace’s International Political Director. It’s his role to align Greenpeace’s political positions across every Greenpeace entity all over the world, as well as understand how Greenpeace should react or adapt to any new macro trend.

Purpose-driven business are one such trend. And In its mission to drive change across myriad social and environmental causes it promises to reshape the relationship between government, business, charity and individual. Should charities feel threatened? Or will we witness the forging of a partnership that will redraw capitalism as we know it?

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This episode’s guest is Chris Wigley, who is a former British Diplomat and now Partner at McKinsey and Solution Partner at Quantum Black, which advises businesses all over the world on how to best implement AI and machine learning. He also regularly talks about the ethics of AI and it is in this capacity that I most interested in. 

The ethics of AI as a conversation hasn’t matured as fast as the technology it often cautions against. 

And as the purposeful business trend continues to march, how can entrepreneurs square using best-in-class tech within positive ethical contexts if they don’t know the full impact of those technologies? 

It’s Chris’ job to talk to business leaders about that very topic, so what are the ethical considerations of AI?

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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.

Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.

Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, is Dr Paul-Peter Tak, former Chief Immunology Officer at GSK, and now founding Venture Partner for Flagship Pioneering. To date the organisation has created and directed more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in so-called aggregate value - although Dr Tak maintains that value is not the only aim. The true aim is to foster first-in-category life sciences companies that transform human health.

Almost acting like a healthcare dating platform, Flagship Pioneering matches graduates and alumni from institutions like MIT and Harvard with the teams, funding and leadership, and asks them to choose one of the world’s most pressing healthcare issues they’re willing to solve.

What has Dr Tak achieved over his career to make him determine whether a healthcare issue is pressing or not, and how successful have his incubated teams been so far?

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