Future Forecast with Isabelle Ringnes

What if your computer could understand how you felt? We spend so much time with technology, so should our smart homes, phones and computers be in tune with our feelings? Or if smart fridges could assess our stress level to perhaps prevent binge eating by auto-locking the fridge. This is what Rana El Kaliouby has made her mission to find out. She has led the world’s largest emotion data database to find out how to analyze complex emotions and cognitive states from face and voice.

A crowd favorite from Oslo Business Forum joins Future Forecast. London Business School professor, Costas Markides explains what ‘disruption’ really means, and why business leaders need to prioritize finding out what disruptions they may face.

The solution will lie within the problem and will break the disruption; he calls this “disrupting the disruptors.”

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create an emotional connection with your customers, how to develop your passion and more.

In this episode of Future Forecast, Isabelle Ringnes is joined by Nathan Furr, a professor of innovation and strategy at INSEAD, to talk about how companies can navigate through technological change and be innovative in a way that will work.

Furr is an award-winning author on innovation and sits on the investment board of the Kickstart Seed Fund. He has a PhD from Stanford University and he is the founder of the International Business Model Competition.

Chief Technology Officer at Huawei Technology, Paul Scanlan, who is heading the technology division of the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Scanlan joins Future Forecast to talk about 5G, the controversy surrounding Huawei and the questions every business leader should ask themselves.

We sat down with Mette Lykke, one of Scandinavia's most impressive entrepreneurs. She is the founder and CEO of the food waste saving company, Too Good To Go. Present in 12 countries, raised a total of €16 million and is on her way to save 20 million meals per year.

Tune in to hear her keys to success as an entrepreneur, the challenges she faced and how she overcomes them, and the leadership skills she finds necessary to build an outstanding team.

Tanya Accone works with the United Nations Children’s Fund, also known as UNICEF, as a Senior Advisor on Innovation. She established and led UNICEF’s global human capital futures and analytics portfolio in her role as Chief of Strategic Planning and Operation.

This episode discusses urbanization, climate change, widening inequality, and the backlashes of rapid technological evolution.

David shares some insightful trends and emphasizes that leaders should look to incorporate marketing influencers, whether celebrity or social media, to maximize attention, create trust and relatability.

Award-winning Industry 4.0 Futurist, Shivvy Jervis, shares her riveting insights into emotive AI, Haptics, VR and bio identity- basically all the technical reasons you should be excited about our future.

Author, keynote speaker and renowned evangelist, Guy Kawasaki talks about his time at Apple, the dangers of being a student of Steve Jobs, when to listen to the customer, what true innovation means, and sushi.

Dr. Chris Kutarna accurately predicted Brexit and the election of Donald Trump points out that “history rhymes,” where historical patterns of human behavior can be applied to present-day movements. He uses maps as a metaphor to explain his thinking, and says that we need to renew our societal maps to shape our future by “looking at the world with a lens that is updated.”