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Interview with Ian Calvert Futurist, Disruptor & Influencer - Helping Business With AI, Digital, FinTech, Social & Tech. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.

Ian Calvert is an Analyst, Futurist & Influencer helping SME. SMB & Corporate Co's with AI, Digital, FinTech, LinkedIn, Social & Tech. Ian is a Digital, Social and Technology Commentator who looks at both the "Future" and "Future of Work '' and to bring this to companies around the world whilst at the same time as combining it with making sure they are implementing CSR and SDG's.

Ian Calvert Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. How did you start looking at the future and when did you start defining yourself as a futurist?
3. Can you tell us about the work you have been doing as a networker, a social media influencer?
4. How do you see network and best practices on network both online and offline?
5. How do you see the future of work and the future of technology, especially in the areas of your work research and expertise?
6. What would be your career highlights?
7. How do you see the technology challenges we are facing, special areas such as 4IR, Society 5.0 - and all areas of digital transformation?
8. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact and what are your visions for the future?

Ian Calvert Biography

UK born Ian Calvert is an analyst, futurist and influencer working with SMEs and businesses to cope with Digital Transformation.

Starting off in 1988, Ian’s professional career has always involved working with SMEs and big corporations, as a project manager and executive, managing corporation’s struggles to adopt best practices and technology advancements. For example, Ian became in 2011 Board Member of Banbury & District Chamber of Commerce where he took various roles to promote services to local businesses as well as helping promote local businesses.

A milestone in his career came in 2012, when he joined Hootsuite Media Inc. as a Partner and Ambassador. Among his responsibilities were helping individuals and companies to take their Social and Digital to next level by being able to implement all the features and facilities that Hootsuite can offer to help manage a successful Social Business programme.

After that Ian Calvert specialized as a futurist and researcher, collaborating with major multinational companies. As such, Ian has developed over a number of years working collaborations with the likes of Barclaycard, Huawei, IBM, and Microsoft amongst many other established Technology Companies as well as Start-Up' too.

Ian Calvert has been focused on CSR and UN SDG's. One of the main areas of research very dear to Ian is the reflection on how to start to implement better "Future of Work" strategies.  He is a known disruptor who has been focused on the real question: “Do you have a "Future of Work" strategy? If not - why? According to Ian Calvert: “The "Future" is here now but are you ready for it and are you going to let your competitors seize the advantage by moving ahead of you?”

Ian Calvert has been recognised as one of the Top 50 UK marketing and advertising Klout influencers on Social Media. Ian is Consistently recognised on Rise among their top 50 Global Social Sales Supremos.

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Sunny Gurpreet Singh is a software and industrial engineering expert, wellbeing and mental health specialist, and serial entrepreneur. Mr. Gurpreet Singh is the current CEO of Edifecs and RoundGlass.

His mission with RoundGlass is simple, yet ambitious: to “inspire people to embrace a life of #WholisticWellbeing to create a happier, healthier, and more joyful world”. He works to achieve this by investing in and developing new technology, sharing knowledge, and focusing on action for the good of the individual, community, and the wider world. RoundGlass is a company that defines him and his passions.

Sunny Gurpreet Singh Interview Focus

1. You mentioned something very powerful that Life prepared you for that. Can you tell us about you: childhood, background, overview, education…? 2’04’’
2. You move from India to the USA, can you tell us about that? 4’15’’
3. Can you tell us about moving to USA to do your studies? 10’50’’
When you moved to the USA, you brought the India based spirituality culture, 4. how did you bridge that gap between USA culture and India? 15’35’’
5. How did you Build edifecs.com? 21’22’’
6. During the process of building edifecs.com you somehow went from failure to Unicorn; How did you manage failure and brought it back to its feet? What was your secret for that successful comeback? 28’35’’
7. How did you discover wellbeing and wellness? And how did you come up with the idea of creating -and using- healthtech data? 35’35’’
8. Round glass is a “Concept of how to live”. Can you elaborate on this? 39’34’’
9. Holistic wellness is an approach to being healthy that looks at a person's health in a holistic way. This considers their body, mind and spirit. Attention to all three is needed to stay balanced. You created the concept of "wholistic wellbeing". Can you elaborate in a summary way? 43’55’’
10. Corporate Wellness is something very dear to you. Can you tell us about how you see this concept? 48’55’’
11. You mentioned that you see round.glass in a 20 years vision and journey. Your Vision architecture of round glass tribe, is a journey of bringing wellness to the world. Can you tell us how can we do that in actionable steps? 55’50’’
12. You have been doing a powerful work on round.glass sustain and with round.glass foundation. Can you tell us about these initiatives? 1h 2’ 15’’
13. Final words - message of hope. 1h 8’ 35’’

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Bobby Lee is an author, entrepreneur, and bitcoin proponent. Bobby Lee is the founder of BTCC, China's first and longest-running cryptocurrency exchange. A pioneer in crypto and bitcoin, and after selling BTCC in 2018, Bobby Lee went on to found Ballet, a company that makes easy-to-use physical cryptocurrency wallets headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Bobby Lee Biography

Bobby Lee was born in the Ivory Coast, Africa, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University in 1998. During that time, we became a member of the Mayfield Fellows Program and earned an EMBA degree from CEIBS in China.

Mr. Lee started his career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer at Yahoo!, and led the development of the earliest online communities. After the Yahoo! Experience, Mr. Lee moved to China where he performed different roles in executive positions. For example, he was the CTO of SMG BesTV New Media, the largest IPTV operator in China with the most subscribers globally. He moved to Shanghai in 2007 and started off at EMC’s China Center of Excellence, as Director of Software Engineering, with responsibilities for Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage. He then went on to become the Vice President of Technology for Walmart's e-commerce business in China.

Lee became interested in bitcoin through his brother Charlie Lee, the creator of litecoin. In June 2011 Bobby Lee founded China’s very first crypto exchange, BTCC. Two years later, in November 2013, BTCC became the largest bitcoin exchange in the world, with a market share of about 31.7 percent, surpassing Tokyo-based Mt. Gox. The company was subsequently acquired in early 2018 by an investment firm in Hong Kong.

A year later, in 2019, Bobby Lee founded his second startup Ballet, along with other industry veterans. Ballet is a crypto company that aims to drive global adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Ballet provides simple and secure cryptocurrency storage solutions for the global mainstream market.

Bobby Lee is also the author of The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You (McGraw-Hill, May 18, 2021). In the book, he makes a compelling argument for how Bitcoin will transform the global economy, as well as debunks common myths and dispels fears that surround Bitcoin -- arguing that this system is superior to traditional monetary systems. 
 
Written for both Bitcoin enthusiasts and first-time users, ‘The Promise of Bitcoin’ offers best strategies for investing in Bitcoin, discusses the pros and cons, and covers the complicated yet more profitable method of Bitcoin mining. Additionally, Bobby gives predictions for the future, including price trajectory, use, and participation in the larger economy—as well as developments in regulation, technology, business, and society.

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Andrea Bonaceto is an artist and investor and founding partner at Eterna Capital. Andrea Bonaceto Andrea has been involved in NFTs as an artist through a collaboration with Sophia the Robot and through Eterna Capital.

As an artist, Italian born Andrea Bonaceto is well-known for creating colourful portraits of well-known people. He is also a fellow at the Royal Society of Art in the UK of @thersaorg Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) @niftygateway, @asyncart.

Andrea Bonaceto recently collaborated with Sophia the robot creating NFTs artwork. And as with most of Bonaceto’s work, Sophia’s art is a self-portrait that combines the former’s art history and previous works as well as the robot’s own physical paintings and drawings on multiple surfaces that have been processed by its creator David Hanson.

Bonaceto is also an investor through Eterna Capital, an investment management firm focused on blockchain technology. He launched Eterna Capital with 3 ex-BlackRock employees in 2018. Eterna Capital has established itself as a leading firm with a successful track record and institutional grade solutions.

Andrea Bonaceto Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. How do you manage the differences between your work as investor and the work as an artist?
3. How do you see your evolution as an artist?
4. How do you see the evolution of NFTs as someone that has been involved in blockchain and tech?
5. How do you see your work as an artist in NFTs?
6. How do you see the piece of art from the perspective of IP, ownership, NFT and technology wallet ownership?
7. The ways to keep a NFT digital art piece? The technology, the wallets?
8. How did you start your collaboration with Sophia?
9. How do you see human creativity and the robot - android collaborations?
10. As we get into AI and singularity how do you see the collaboration between artists and machines - robots?
11. How do you see the NFTs market and its impact in the art world?

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Jewel Okwechime is a global environmental leader, expert in change management strategies for Oil and Gas companies. Jewel Okwechime is a fellow & chartered engineer with over 20 years’ experience assisting businesses such as Schlumberger, Woodside Energy, BP, Shell and ExxonMobil. Jewel is the Non Executive Director & Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Investor relations for the VFD Group Plc. Jewel is also an Oil and Energy Consultant Business Development Manager for Deltic Energy Limited.

Jewel Okwechime Interview Questions

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education… UK, Nigeria
2. Education in UK University of Surrey the bridges between cultural background UK, Nigeria
3. Nigerian culture
4. How is it to do business in Nigeria -  The country is also named among the top best 10 improving economies globally for implementing regulatory reforms across six of the report's 10 indicators.
5. How is it to do business in Africa?
6. Career highlights:
7. Working with engineering and oil and gas and energy
8. Working with Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu
9. Your company / companies, organisations and focus: VFD Group
10. How do you see Africa in a time of 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
11. You have been working on cybersecurity and blockchain. Can you tell your views on these technologies?

Jewel Okwechime Biography

Jewel Okwechime is currently the Non Executive Director & Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Investor relations for the VFD Group Plc. A Chemical Engineer she has 20+ years experience working with the likes of BP, Shell and ExxonMobil, and growing into becoming a global environmental leader.

Jewel Okwechime is a proven environmental control strategist within the global oil and gas sphere, reviewing the best available technologies and providing cost-saving options on-site. In fact, Jewel set up J&R Environmental Services  in 2001, a successful environmental services consultancy and she works in process industry expertise and access to a large network and knowledge base. She – provides businesses and organisations, large and small, with practical, cost-effective solutions for achieving environmental and safety compliance.

Jewel Okwechime is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, the highest level of professionalism in chemical engineering. Jewel Okwechime also helps other engineers to become chartered.

A pioneering female engineer, Jewel OkwechimeI thrives on demanding jobs and overcoming challenges. Jewel Okwechime is always interested in specialist leadership roles within the environmental and oil and gas sustainability arena.

Jewel Okwechime holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology from the Halton College, Cheshire, England and a Masters of Engineering in Chemical and Bio-process Engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England.

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David Hanson, a leading roboticist, CEO and Founder of Hanson Robotics and creator of Sophia the Robot, among others, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.

David Hanson is a global authority in AI and robotics. Through his company, Hanson Robotics, David develops robots that are widely regarded as the world’s most human-like in appearance. To accomplish these goals, Hanson integrates figurative arts with cognitive science and robotics engineering, inventions novel skin materials, facial expression mechanisms, and collaborative developments in AI, within humanoid artworks like Sophia the robot, which can engage people in naturalistic face-to-face conversations and currently serve in AI research, education, therapy, and other uses.

David Hanson Interview Focus

1. Profile, and background;
2. As someone that has made a bridge between fiction, the Science Fiction, Art, Poetry, Music and advanced tech, AI, robotics - How do you see yourself?
3. You created multiple robots and after you created Sophia the Robot. This creation of robots is the most advanced stage of humanity's next evolution - how do you position the creation of Sophia the most advanced robot?;
Hanon open platform - open AI, 10. Sophia DAO - Decentralised Autonomous Organisation - decentralised AI?;
4. Robotics, Androids - Human evolution - AI - Singularity;
5. Regarding NFTs, Hanson Robotics and Sophia have collaborated with artist Andrea Bonaceto to create digital artwork. How do you see creativity, robotics, art and blockchain NFTs?
6. Will Sophia explore further her creator footprint? And What is Next regarding Sophia and Robotics?
7. What can you tell us about Hanson Robotics, its Business model, entrepreneurship, DeFi, NFTs, collective intelligence, crowdfunding?
8. How do you see Sophia and utilitarian robotics and their impact on humanity?
9. Future of Humanity - humanoids

David Hanson Biography

Hanson worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer, both a sculptor and a technical consultant in robotics, and later founded Hanson Robotics. As a researcher, Hanson published dozens of papers in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals — including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI, AI magazine and more. He wrote two books including “Humanizing Robots” and received several patents. Hanson was featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Scientific American, WIRED, BBC and CNN. He also received awards from NASA, NSF, Tech Titans’ Innovator of the Year, RISD, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and the co-received the 2005 AAAI first place prize for open interaction of an AI system.

Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a BFA in film Animation video from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Joel Dietz, a Founding Member of Ethereum, Cryptoeconomics & Cyber Futurist Author and Entrepreneur is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.

Joel Dietz Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Your educational background bridges the gap between ideas, philosophies and science and tech. Can you tell us about that?
3. How did you become a cyber futurist author and entrepreneur?
4. Can you tell us about your work as a Founder Member of Ethereum?
5. Can you tell us about Swarm is a crowdfunding protocol built on bitcoin technology, enabling the backer of the project to experience the upside of the project?
6. As an intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space how do you see the crypto space and token economy?
7. As a cyber futurist and also a historian how do you see the future in the moment when we are no special as technology disrupts all of our society?
8. How do you see the foundational technologies of Blockchain and AI and its implications on society and governments?
9. You are working on topics of Smart cities, blockchain and tokenomics. 10. Can you tell us about that and how to look at that in the context of digital, DeFi, governance?
11. You previously developed the first blockchain voting systems to connect real world organizations with blockchain voting systems. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
12. With the advances of tech, blockchain, AI and crypto we have been having major disruption and opportunities. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to improve day to day lives of people, get educational solutions and redesign our society with technology and social impact?
13. You are an accomplished artist and community organizer. With blockchain and NFTs how are you using it and what are your visions for the present and future of creative industries and communities?
14. Can you tell me about the forthcoming book "Principles of Holonic System Design."?

Joel Dietz Biography

Joel Dietz is a cyber futurist author and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of several future tech trends including blockchain, tokenization, AR/VR and AI art. Joel Dietz was a founding member of Ethereum, founded the popular Metamask wallet. Joel achievements include being the most cited author on Google Scholar on "cryptoeconomics," put together the largest deal in the asset tokenization space, worked with the P2P Foundation and alternative economics experts on the first land-backed stablecoin. Joel Dietz has worked on an advisory basis for organisations like the Institute for the Future, BTG Pactual, Microsoft, American Express, Walmart, and Intel. Joel is the author of the forthcoming book "Principles of Holonic System Design."

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Dr. Liam Fahey is the Cofounder and Partner in Leadership Forum, and the creator and leader of its Intelligence Leadership Forum.

He has been a faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Boston University, and he now serves as Professor of Management Practice at Babson College.

His consulting, teaching, research and writing focus is on enabling organizations to win in the marketplace through enhanced marketplace intelligence and insight.  He advises leaders, conducts workshops, consults to analysis specialists and engages with work teams in all facets of generating and leveraging marketplace intelligence and insight.
He is author or editor of eight books and over fifty articles or book chapters.

Service The first recipient of the Meritorious Award for Distinguished Service from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Dr. Liam Fahey has been named in the top 150 management “gurus” based on internet search, index citations and media references in the 2003 Davenport and Prusak book What’s the Big Idea. Voted "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" by the Kellogg School students.

Dr Liam Fahey Interview Focus

1. Background and Career
2. Can you tell us about when you were Named in the top 150 management “gurus” based on internet search, index citations and media references in the 2003 Davenport and Prusak book “What’s the Big Idea”?
3. Can you tell us more about the Intelligence Leadership Forum?
4. The Leadership Forum is dedicated to enabling organizations to win. Please tell us more about how to attain and sustain a leadership position in your clients’ chosen markets.
5. How does LF address leadership development, inclusion and diversity, executive assessment, coaching, integrated talent management, career management, and organization capability.
6. As an author, can you elaborate on the book  “Learning from the Future”?
7. Business leaders are under great pressure to navigate the current global crisis and ensure their organisation survives and stays relevant. How do you define marketplace?
8. In this era of uncertainty, it has never been more important to use data to develop informed business strategies to deliver objectives more efficiently and effectively;
9. On average, about two thirds (68%) of data available to organisations goes unused, wasting time, money and opportunities;
Many organisations’ cultures emphasise analysis project completion, rather than insight contribution, while leaders don’t know what to do to encourage the crafting of insight;
What Does it Mean to be an Intelligence Leader?
10. Understanding the Digital Landscape: Some Implications for Intelligence Work. Special in the time of Covid-19 and all its challenges, we see many business and economic models being disrupted, what role is technology and digital transformation making to leadership?
11. How do you look at the chaos around tech, management, cultures?
12. Can you tell us more about 5 top tips to turn data into valuable insight and competitive advantage, what Uber & Apple can teach us about the importance of business insights?
13. How can leaders establish an insight culture?

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Eloisa Marchesoni is a thought leader, influencer and better known as the youngest consultant in the Blockchain and A.I. sector, as well as influential author of articles for the major national and international newspapers.

Eloisa has been considered Europe's number 1 Token Model Architect, by Irish Tech News and, and highlighted in major Top 100 Leaders and Influencers in Italy in FinTech, Blockchain. Eloise was ranked in StartupItalia awards.

Eloisa Marchesoni has established herself as a successful role model for many aspiring entrepreneurs of the digital industry. In the last two quarters of 2019, Eloisa Marchesoni was nominated as #1 blockchain influencer by many reputable media outlets. She has been speaking in blockchain conferences, seminars since 2017.

Eloisa Marchesoni Interview Focus:

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education… How did you start in the industry?
2. You have been working and reflecting on crypto and blockchain for a long time. Can you tell your views on how you see these 2 disruptive technologies and the multiple waves that each area has been facing?
3. Can you tell us about the Token Model Architecture you have been built? that analyses the structure of the token model, integrated with the ecosystem that it creates, during all phases of the token lifecycle (discovery phase, design phase and delivery phase)?
4. How do you see the explosion of crypto and the special explosion we are seeing now?
5. When we speak about Blockchain we can talk about Game theory and behavioral economics will be used as design tools, together with classical methods. DeFi and NFT models use this massive can you tell us your thoughts on this special on your side as a business leader, influencer, and crypto blockchain trader?
6. Growth hacking has been exponentially growing as a concept for startups and businesses. As an influencer do you see growth hacking being empowered by Blockchain and DeFi reward systems?
7. The DeFi crypto market cap is $93.29B, a 11.54% increase over the last few days. How do you see DEFi as we speak and some solutions or projects you have been involved in?
8. How do you see the present explosion of NFTs?
9. You have been Working with Wall Street. Can you tell us about that?
10. Concepts of Society 5.0 and 4IR integrate most of the 360 areas of digital transformation. Can you tell us your views on this on a general overview of frontier tech?

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Vernon Sankey is an author, coach, leader, independent director and chairman and the current Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE. Vernon Sankey has over 30 years of Board Of Directors experience in US, UK and EU, in FMCG (former CEO Reckitt, Chairman Firmenich) IT, Insurance (Board Director, chair remuneration com, Zurich Insurance), publishing (Board Director, chair audit Pearson plc) family and privately owned businesses (Cofra SA) and other smaller private and public businesses and start-ups.

Vernon Sankey Interview Questions

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education... beginning history?
2. From your Career highlights how do you deal with failure?
3. How do you deal with multiple cultures in the corporations you have been managing?
4. How do you see the research and philosophical teachings of your books and the sense of real time and technology obsessions we have now?
5. “Sankey and Lockwood (in the last book The Way: Finding Peace in Turbulent Times) … unpack our deep-rooted everyday dilemmas … and point to concrete patterns of thought and action that we can take … Highly recommended!” —Peter Dahlgren, Professor Emeritus, Sweden. How to cope with patterns of thought and action within the dilemmas of everyday life?
6. With Covid-19, our present challenges: what ways do you envision to redesign our society with wisdom, psychology, philosophy, technology and social impact?

Vernon Sankey Biography

British born, Vernon Sankey graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University and received his Masters of Arts from the University of Oxford in 1971. He started his professional career in  Reckitt and Colman plc in 1971, and became Chief Executive Officer in Denmark, France, the USA and in Great Britain in 1992. A role he performed until 1999.

After his experience at Reckitt and Colman plc, he has also held several non-executive positions as Chairman or Board member. He held positions as Chairman of Thomson Travel Group plc in 2000, Gala Group plc (2000 - 2003), deputy Chairman of Beltpacker plc (2000 - 2005), Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc (1993 - 2006), Chairman of Photo-Me International plc (2000 - 2007) , non-executive Director of Zurich Insurance AG (1998 - 2012) and Chairman of its Remuneration Committee) He was a founder board member of the UK's Food Standards Agency (2000 - 2005) and a Non- Executive Director of Cofra Holding AG (2001 - 2007)

In 2000 Sankey set up an executive coaching company called REDCO Ltd of which he was Chairman. He has extensive experience in advising and coaching companies and executives on personal and corporate change and lectures on Leadership and Transformation Management.

In 2001, Sankey became the Governor of Harrow School and a Trustee (Royal Charter) of the John Lyon Charity, a role he performed until 2016.

Vernon Sankey is currently the Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE, a role he has performed since 2005 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Besides his role as business executive, Vernon has lectured extensively on leadership, personal change and development and corporate and individual transformation in the UK and the US, at international conferences around the world and in schools and universities.

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