Fast Forward with Tech 2025

Part 4 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future.

In this episode, longtime friend of the community and advisor, Ed Maguire (Research Principal, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.) shares lessons we should take away from the experiences of people who struggled the worst last year.

Ed Maguire brings more than 17 years of Wall Street experience in equity research and investment banking to his role as Insights Partner at Momenta Partners, with deep domain expertise in enterprise software. He has proven success identifying strategic opportunities and articulating actionable insights based on rigorous analysis of technology, operations, competition and markets.

Most recently he was Senior Analyst and Managing Director at CLSA Americas, LLC, covering the software industry, technology and innovation. Prior roles include CEO of strategic consultancy firm MAGNet Strategies, Director at Merrill Lynch's technology investment banking group, Senior Director at Merrill Lynch's equity research department, and Research Associate at CIBC World Markets.

Prior to Wall Street, he was Senior Sales Manager for Twinbrook Music Distribution and worked extensively performing and recording as a professional musician. Mr. Maguire holds a B.A. in music from Columbia University and an MBA in finance and management information systems from Rutgers Business School. He has appeared extensively in major media including CNBC, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BNN, NPR and other outlets.

Part 3 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought!

In this episode, Samara Karasyk (Chief Policy Officer & EVP, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce) shares her revelations on how the pandemic has impacted women in the workforce and the struggle to juggle everything.

At the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, she oversees their policy agenda, legislative and intergovernmental affairs, marketing, and public relations. Before her work at the Chamber, Samara worked for the government of New York City for many years. She began her public service career at the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation working on workforce development and job readiness training, later moving to the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission to focus on transportation policy and constituent affairs. She then handled intergovernmental affairs at the NYC Department of Transportation. Between 2011 and 2017, Samara was Assistant Commissioner of External Affairs at the NYC Department of Finance, managing all public affairs for the organization.

Samara has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Hispanic Studies from Brown University and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and loves living here and working with the people and businesses of this dynamic borough.

Learn more about NY Small Business Resource Network: https://www.nycsmallbusinessresourcenetwork.org/

Part 2 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought!

In this episode, David Ryan Polgar (Tech Ethicist, Founder of All Tech is Human) explains how this past year has shown him things about building communities (which he specializes in) that we will continue to grapple with as we work remotely more post-pandemic.

David is a pioneering tech ethicist who paved the way for the hotly-debated issues around Facebook, privacy, ethical design, digital well-being, and what it means to be human in the digital age. He is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an initiative to better align tech with the human interests of users and society, and is the co-host of Funny as Tech–a live show and podcast that tackles the thorniest issues in tech. David serves on the advisory boards for Common Sense's Digital Citizenship Advisory Council, the non-profit #ICANHELP, and Hack Mental Health. In 2015, he co-founded the global Digital Citizenship Summit. David is currently researching the impact that "scaling intimacy" has on human relationships, and whether we are becoming botified (and less authentic) in our communications.

Read The Guide to Responsible Tech (published by All Tech is Human). Listen to Charlie's interview on David's podcast: "What is the future of work? LIVE show with Charlie Oliver, Galina Ozgur & Lisa Cervenka"

LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2uLO0rZ Twitter: @TechEthicist

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Part 1 of 4 interviews from our end-of-year event, The Pain and Triumphs of 2020: The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Year, where we asked guest speakers (several of our favorite people who have been part of the Tech 2025 community for years!) what their most profound lesson of 2020 was and how it changed their outlook on the future. They gave us much food for thought!

In this episode, the incomparable Faith Legendre shares her big 2020 lesson. Faith has been a member of the Tech 2025 community since day one! Faith specializes in corporate and social good, benefitting both at Cisco and The Aspen Institute. And she is a self-professed "hoarder of #humansideoftech use cases of tech." In addition to being an accomplished Strategist with 15+ years of experience working with 200+ organizations worldwide on innovative and pioneering business solutions, she is also passionate about helping people.

Listen to a previous episode of the podcast where Charlie interviews Faith on corporate innovation: https://bit.ly/ffepisode7

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faithlegendre/ Twitter: @FaithLegendre

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VIEW EPISODE VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/NZGfXWaGB9E

With most people working from home throughout the pandemic, we're hearing from a lot of folks that the one thing they miss about working in an office is being able to casually and quickly bounce ideas off coworkers (when you used to be able to stop a coworker at the coffee machine for quick feedback!).

Well, that's why we're launching this video interview series for the podcast. We have a ton of ideas and questions about what's happening in emerging tech (and we get a lot of questions from our community), so Charlie (show host), is reaching out to thought-leaders in our network to ask them for advice about an idea or hot topic.

For this first Quick Question, Charlie taps manufacturing entrepreneur Rich Mokuolu (coFounder of Partsimony, ) for advice on whether people should take an intriguing new 3D entrepreneur course that she found on Kickstarter to diversify their technology upskilling and, perhaps, to create new opportunities to provide 3D printing consulting services as a freelancer. There are a ton of 3D printing courses online, but Charlie seems to think this one, in particular, is unique and wants to know if it's a good move or too good to be true. Rich is just the person to help her figure this out!

View the 3D printing course they discuss HERE.

-- Discover 15 Great 3D Printing Business Ideas (read more) -- 3D Printing Entrepreneurship And Innovation: Behind The Scenes With XJet's Hanan Gothait (read more) -- 3D Printing Investment Going Vertical As Big Exit Looms (read more) -- How to Make 3D Printing Better (read more) -- 10 3D Printing Startups To Watch Out For In 2020 (read more)

Website: https://www.partsimony.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmokuolu/

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We're kicking off the Fall, pumpkin spice season with a spicy conversation between Charlie and this week's guest, Greg Larkin (best-Selling Author, This Might Get Me Fired, faculty at Singularity University, guest lecturer, Columbia Business School, and self-professed "innovation punk").

Warning: this conversation might piss you off and get you fired! Charlie and Greg explore the boundaries of what it means to innovate within the confines of a restrictive system (like enterprise companies) and as an outlier, renegade entrepreneur disrupting old systems (pleasure, pain and everything in between). They discuss how the pandemic will shape the next era of disruptors and why it won't be led by the atypical founders Silicon Valley still worships (young, college-drop out kids) and why companies will bleed the next generation of disruptive entrepreneurs from within their ranks over the next 5-10 years, during the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.

They touch on how their pre-Guilliani, New York City roots and Gen-X "chip on the shoulder" attitudes proved to be crucial ingredients in learning how to embrace non-conformity at an early age and how Greg used this advantage to make bold predictions (the 2008 housing market crash), build disruptive products, and help other would-be entrepreneurs to unleash their inner-badass.

'Nuff said. Enjoy the show!

CONNECT WITH GREG

Website: https://www.thisisgreglarkin.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregilarkin/ Twitter: @innovationpunk Get his book This Might Get Me Fired: https://www.thisisgreglarkin.com/book Watch Greg on our "Tech News Roundtable at BraveIT": https://bit.ly/t25newsrt

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Welcome to another episode in our Friday Flashback series where we revisit awesome episodes from the past (and our first podcast) with special guest speakers who gave us such compelling food for thought, that it still resonates to this day (especially during these pandemic times!).

In this flashback episode from 2018, Charlie interviews Faith Legendre (Sr. Circular Economy Solutions Strategist and Intrapreneur, Cisco Systems). Faith (whose personality embodies the definition of her name perfectly) has been an awesome member of the Tech 2025 community since we launched our very first event January 11, 2017 (Battle of the Chatbots & Conversational Interfaces in 2017).

Faith specializes in corporate and social good, benefitting both at Cisco and The Aspen Institute. And she is a self-professed "hoarder of #humansideoftech use cases of tech." In addition to being an accomplished Strategist with 15+ years of experience working with 200+ organizations worldwide on innovative and pioneering business solutions, she is also passionate about helping people.

Charlie and Faith have a deep-dive conversation about the importance and impact of building communities around emerging technologies that everyone can participate in and how companies can avoid becoming "zombie organizations" in these exponentially innovative times. Faith's unique insights and advice on how to embrace change and the future is just what we need right now (that and humility).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faithlegendre/ Twitter: @FaithLegendre H&M and the circular economy (mentioned in podcast): http://bit.ly/2DQtLgqBook recommendation from Faith: Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney

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This week, Charlie enjoys the opportunity to interview one of Tech 2025's awesome advisors, Meg Charles (Global Corporate Attorney and former managing partner with 20 years of experience working in corporate law policy for telecoms, Start-Up Board Director/Advisor, Angel Investor and Founder of Frame Advisory LLC which offers legal and strategic advisory to startups and small businesses with "non-traditional founders").

Meg is a first generation child of immigrants coming from a family and culture where creative endeavors and careers were devalued as not being serious or conducive to getting good job. She chose law, but she has always embraced her creative side and credits it as being a core ingredient in her success. She has lived in several parts of the world including London, Sweden, the Philippines, and New Delhi which gives her a global, unique perspective on innovation. Among other things, they discuss:

• how and why Meg segued from being a partner in a law firm to starting her own business and how people in corporate can find their voice and follow it wherever it leads them;
• what companies should do to facilitate courage during this era of displacement of jobs and workers;
• the crucial role creativity and critical thinking plays in helping us to develop the necessary new business frameworks and foundations that will carry us into the future successfully;
• why we need to recognize creativity as a human right that should be developed in context;
• how diversity destroys inevitability; and
• why the future belongs to those who embrace their creativity and are passionate about collaboration and partnership.

Website: www.frameadvisory.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megcharleshorn/ Email: [email protected]

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Want to know what the next era of innovation will be like? On this week's episode, Charlie explores what post-pandemic innovation might be like for enterprise companies and startups with guests Taran Hughes (Startup Sales & Performance Coach, Founder TCS Sales Accelerators, co-Founder of PitchSLAP and author of The Conscious Sale: Using the Power of State, Intention and Belief – A Guide to Sales Success) and Zineb Layachi (CMO in Residence at Adington Technologies, Founder of Rev Marketing Accelerators for Startups and coFounder of PitchSLAP).

Together, as co-founders and co-hosts of PitchSLAP, Taran and Zineb (who are based in Spain) help founders of young companies to perfect their virtual pitch, refine their value proposition, and narrow in on their market with laser precision. In a nutshell, it's a weekly live pitching show where you founders whos already have traction or are very close to MVP stage, get immediate actionable feedback to polish their investor pitch virtually. Since launching their platform at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PitchSLAP has quickly exploded into a community of 250+ founders from over 26 countries.

Charlie, Taran and Zineb discuss how innovation is evolving and more including:

-- who gets to define the new value system that will be the undercurrent of the post-pandemic innovation era and why it most likely will not be Silicon Valley; -- how the next era of innovation might play out for enterprise companies and startups alike; -- how companies should reimagine their innovation strategies; -- how COVID-19 is changing the culture of big companies in unintended ways (including product development); -- why VCs and corporate boards need to change their mindset and filters in order for innovation to be truly inclusive and equitable; -- the startup's community responsibility to help the millions of people recently unemployed as a result of the pandemic to become innovative; -- why young companies need to focus less on market valuation and more on the actual value they're delivering; -- how becoming "conscious buyers" will help us to develop and purchase more ethical tech; and -- And why privacy is the pandemic's biggest loser!

Also, check out Episode 4 of the podcast where Charlie interviewed Taran solo (The Promise and Peril of Communicating Your Value Proposition Virtually with Taran Hughes).

-- Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft close at all-time highs as Big Tech rallies back from coronavirus (LINK) -- Top global VCs demystify unconscious bias in venture capital and corporate innovation (LINK) -- Direct-to-consumer startup studio Innovation Department raises $3.7M (LINK) -- 14 Technology Winners and Losers, post-COVID-19 (LINK) -- Farewell to Gummy Bear Jars: Tech Offices Get a Virus Safety Makeover (what's the new tech office culture) (LINK) -- The stark new reality for American CEOs (LINK) -- Pioneers of the new world: 80 European founders and companies shaping the post-pandemic world (LINK)

Taran Hughes

Website: www.pitchslap.live LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/taranhughes Book: The Conscious Sale Twitter: iamtaranhughes Email: [email protected]

Zineb Layachi

Website: www.pitchslap.live LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zineblayachi/ Twitter: @VoxHazel

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Back in 1964, futurist and science fiction arthur, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that, by the year 2000, human beings would "no longer commute, they will communicate" and that ninety-five percent of all office work would be done without ever having to leave the home. Well, he was right.

Thanks to the global pandemic, most of us are doing all of our work from home and it appears to be the cultural shift reverberating around the world, ushering in the next era of communication and disruptive business models and technologies far sooner than governments and companies anticipated.

We are changing the way we buy, sell and communicate with each other, especially in business, in profound ways we won't fully understand for some time to come. But undeniably, the change is happening. And even as we are adapting surprising well, we are also struggling with even the most basic things -- like communicating with each other on video meeting platforms.

This week, Charlie has a thought-provoking conversation with Taran Hughes, Startup Sales & Performance Coach, Founder TCS Sales Accelerators, co-Founder of PitchSLAP and author of The Conscious Sale: Using the Power of State, Intention and Belief – A Guide to Sales Success. Taran has two decades of experience in sales, working primarily in enterprise telecommunication companies, where he perfected the art of sealing the deal. He would eventually turn his attention and career to working with experienced startup founders by helping them to define market and true value proposition.

In April of this year (just one month into the pandemic) Taran launched PitchSLAP with his co-Founder, Zineb Layachi, as a global virtual platform for startup founders who already have traction or are very close to MVP stage to get immediate, actionable feedback to polish their sales or investor pitch.

Charlie and Taran discuss how businesses and people are adapting to this shift in communication happening and the innovation needed in order for us to truly embrace and maximize our new remote reality.

NOTE: Charlie also has a slight meltdown over her rude Alexa but such is life now that we're all working remotely from home!

— Why Does Zoom Exhaust You? Science Has an Answer (WSJ) (link) — The future of work—the good, the challenging & the unknown (Microsoft Research) (link) — How to Negotiate — Virtually (HBR) (link) — Zoom aims to be the next big platform for start-ups to build billion-dollar businesses (NBC) (link) — Zoom, but in VR: Why Spatial's free meeting app feels like a leap forward (CNET) (link) — Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost (The Register) (link) — Arthur C. Clark video clip on the future of work and communication (YouTube) (link)

Website: www.pitchslap.live LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/taranhughes Book: The Conscious Sale Twitter: iamtaranhughesEmail: [email protected]

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