Richard Peers leads Microsoft’s WW Industry team for Retail/Private and Wealth Banking. He has spent the last 22 years at Microsoft in sales, services and marketing leadership, with the last eight years deeply engaged with clients, Fintech’s and partners in Financial Services. Working on projects and engaging with leadership teams he brings an up to the minute insight on the vision and the practicalities of “Digital Banking Transformation”.

In episode 3, Sally shares her insights on how to bridge the gap between talk and action in making an impact in education through adopting frontier technology. In her experience, people from different positions must come together and collaborate on ideas. Frontier technology is only one piece of the puzzle. Collectively, infrastructure problems such as limitations in accessing the internet and mobile technology must be addressed in tandem.

In this episode, Curtis shared what it means to pursue the portfolio life by contributing across sectors. Follow his journey of inclusion and equity, through a portfolio life in and out of the public and private sectors. With his extensive travels, Curtis always gets asked how a country can be the new “BRIC” where emerging economies once seen as drivers of global growth. He would say worry less about the BRIC and focus on finding the right balance when it comes to the battle of the “little BRIC” – bureaucracy, regulation, interventionism, corruption.

In this episode, we chat with Charles on how blockchain is beyond cryptocurrencies and how it helps accelerate sustainable development. We touch on real applications contributing to climate actions, luxury sector's philanthropic giving and how Tech For Good is indeed possible.