Navigating Forward

Lakecia Gunter is VP and GM, IOT Global and Strategic Engagement at Microsoft. She's a visionary senior engineering executive who has also worked at Intel, the Department of Defense, and Motorola. She was recently appointed to the board of directors of Idex Corp.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

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Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Benson is a hands-on technology leader with a strong history leading teams and building systems.  He's had experience in large companies, in consulting, and with multiple startups. He's spent significant portions of his career in Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Aerospace. With his role at Launch Consulting, he is the responsible for technology solutions for large clients in Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Travel & Leisure.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Bob Rogers, PhD, is Expert in Residence for AI at University of California San Francisco SmarterHealth, where he applies his experience solving problems with advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help build world-class medical AI technologies. He is also co-founder of Orchestrated Intelligence, an AI company in Supply Chain. He is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science and has co-written the upcoming book “De-mystifying AI for the Enterprise.” Prior to UCSF, Bob was Chief Data Scientist in the Data Center Group at Intel, and was also co-founder and Chief Scientist at Apixio, a healthcare AI company.  

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Maxeme Tuchman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Caribu, an interactive video-calling platform that helps grandparents and parents, read and draw with children when they’re not in the same location. She has been the winner or finalist in 30 international and national pitch competitions and is the 59th woman to raise more than $1M in venture funding. Maxeme was most recently appointed by President Obama to serve as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where she served as a senior policy advisor and worked on issues of financial inclusion.

Her commitment to educational equity began as a Teach For America corps member, teaching 480 high school students in inner-city Miami, and has led to working on educational innovation projects with organizations such as the Harlem Children’s Zone, DC Public Schools, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a graduate of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, and the Miami Fellows Leadership Program. Maxeme received her B.A. from New College of Florida, holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Dr. Hany Farid is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has a long tenure of being a forward-facing, thought leader in the areas of video manipulation.  He plays an important role of advising global governments and technology companies on how to stay in front of the trends such as deep fakes, other, other, and other. In a world of misleading (or fake news) news, Dr. Farid is on the front lines of helping us know what is real and what is fake.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation