Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for 27 years, specialising in technology and innovation. Towards the end of his time at EY he became a Professor for Innovation & Leadership at Hult International Business School, where he leads sessions with senior executives of global companies. In 2016, Riaz took a one-year sabbatical to open the One Degree Academy, a free school in a disadvantaged area of London. There’s an excellent TEDx talk from 2020 about how that happened, and about how to prepare for the very uncertain future of work. This discussion, which was recorded at the close of 2023, covers the past, present, and future of education, work, politics, nostalgia, and innovation. Selected follow-ups: <a href='https://www.ey.com/en_uk/people/riaz-shah'>Riaz Shah at EY</a> <a href='https://www.ted.com/talks/riaz_shah_rise_above_the_machines'>The TEDx talk Rise Above the Machines by Riaz Shah</a> <a href='https://myonedegree.org/'>One Degree Mentoring Charity</a> <a href='https://onedegreeacademy.org/'>One Degree Academy</a> <a href='https://www.ey.com/en_gl/tech-mba'>EY Tech MBA by Hult International Business School</a> <a href='https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx'>Gallup survey: State of the Global Workplace, 2023</a> <a href='https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/how-people-create-and-destroy-value-with-gen-ai'>BCG report: How People Can Create—and Destroy—Value with Generative AI</a> Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration<a href='https://www.acxiom.com/podcasts/' target='_blank'>Real Talk About Marketing</a> An Acxiom podcast where we discuss marketing made better, bringing you real... Listen on: <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1463601023' target='_blank'>Apple Podcasts</a>   <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqiMbNFn3kAabnYC0K70a' target='_blank'>Spotify</a>

Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for 27 years, specialising in technology and innovation. Towards the end of his time at EY he became a Professor for Innovation & Leadership at Hult International Business School, where he leads sessions with senior executives of global companies. In 2016, Riaz took a one-year sabbatical to open the One Degree Academy, a free school in a disadvantaged area of London. There’s an excellent TEDx talk from 2020 about how that happened, and about how to prepare for the very uncertain future of work. This discussion, which was recorded at the close of 2023, covers the past, present, and future of education, work, politics, nostalgia, and innovation. Selected follow-ups: Riaz Shah at EY The TEDx talk Rise Above the Machines by Riaz Shah One Degree Mentoring Charity One Degree Academy EY Tech MBA by Hult International Business School Gallup survey: State of the Global Workplace, 2023 BCG report: How People Can Create—and Destroy—Value with Generative AI Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationReal Talk About Marketing An Acxiom podcast where we discuss marketing made better, bringing you real... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for 27 years, specialising in technology and innovation. Towards the end of his time at EY he became a Professor for Innovation &amp; Leadership at Hult International Business School, where he leads sessions with senior executives of global companies. In 2016, Riaz took a one-year sabbatical to open the One Degree Academy, a free school in a disadvantaged area of London. There’s an excellent TEDx talk from 2020 about how that happened, and about how to prepare for the very uncertain future of work. This discussion, which was recorded at the close of 2023, covers the past, present, and future of education, work, politics, nostalgia, and innovation. Selected follow-ups: <a href="https://www.ey.com/en_uk/people/riaz-shah" rel="noopener noreferrer">Riaz Shah at EY</a> <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/riaz_shah_rise_above_the_machines" rel="noopener noreferrer">The TEDx talk Rise Above the Machines&nbsp;by Riaz Shah</a> <a href="https://myonedegree.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">One Degree Mentoring Charity</a> <a href="https://onedegreeacademy.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">One Degree Academy</a> <a href="https://www.ey.com/en_gl/tech-mba" rel="noopener noreferrer">EY Tech MBA by Hult International Business School</a> <a href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gallup survey: State of the Global Workplace, 2023</a> <a href="https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/how-people-create-and-destroy-value-with-gen-ai" rel="noopener noreferrer">BCG report: How People Can Create—and Destroy—Value with Generative AI</a> Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration<a href="https://www.acxiom.com/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Real Talk About Marketing</a> An Acxiom podcast where we discuss marketing made better, bringing you real... Listen on: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1463601023" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Podcasts</a> &nbsp; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqiMbNFn3kAabnYC0K70a" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>

Education and work - past, present, and future, with Riaz Shah

Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio. In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future,<a href="https://deltawisdom.com/books/"> </a>including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance. He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdom.com/. As a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industry, he co-founded Symbian in 1998. By 2012, software written by his teams had been included as the operating system on 500 million smartphones. From 2010 to 2013, he was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative. Has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science, and a DSc from the University of Westminster.

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Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio. In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future, including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance. He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdom.com/. As a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industry, he co-founded Symbian in 1998. By 2012, software written by his teams had been included as the operating system on 500 million smartphones. From 2010 to 2013, he was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative. Has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science, and a DSc from the University of Westminster.

Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio. In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future,<a href="https://deltawisdom.com/books/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a>including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance. He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdom.com/. As a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industry, he co-founded Symbian in 1998. By 2012, software written by his teams had been included as the operating system on 500 million smartphones. From 2010 to 2013, he was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative. Has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science, and a DSc from the University of Westminster.

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