The Premise

Shipping is becoming more important for online retailers - but how do you ship to people with no address? And how do you track that shipping globally? Chris Sheldrick, founder and CEO of What3Words and Nick Allain of satellite company Spire join us to talk shipping, satellites, and fighting pirates.

Jerry Chen of VC firm Greylock Partners and Chris Curran, chief technologist at PricewaterhouseCoopers join the show to talk about artificial intelligence. Despite fears that AI will steal jobs, the picture they paint is one where AI is able to create opportunities for people to pursue more meaningful, creative careers.

Jerry Chen of VC firm Greylock Partners and Chris Curran, chief technologist at PricewaterhouseCoopers join the show to talk about artificial intelligence. Despite fears that AI will steal jobs, the picture they paint is one where AI is able to create opportunities for people to pursue more meaningful, creative careers.

Tech startups in Silicon Valley get the lion's share of attention - and investment - in the United States. But it's not the only area where tech companies are finding success and investors. Forbes staffers Alex Konrad and Alex Knapp talk to two venture capital funds making investments in startups in New York City and Kansas City.

Two conversations about how design

informs technology and vice versa. David Edge leads the

visualization team at UK engineering firm Arup and talks about how

the firm is using augmented and virtual reality tech to help design

and pitch giant projects like London's Olympic Park and the

upcoming Garden Bridge over the Thames. Gadi Amit is one of Silicon

Valley's most important product designers (clients include Fitbit,

Netgear, Palm, Google) and cares deeply about making sure human

needs and democracy make it into tomorrow's tech

gadgets.

Lyft is locked in a battle for market share with Uber and nailing the driver and passenger experience is crucial to winning their fickle loyalties. Morelli, a veteran technologist, talks with Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin about what's going on inside Lyft's design, test and product development culture.

How do you create a digital experience that leads to great real-world experiences? Equal parts art and technology, says Airbnb's VP of Engineering Mike Curtis. He shares some of the design secrets behind one of the most successful on-demand startups of all time.

Tony Scott, former CIO at Disney and Microsoft, is halfway into his tenure overseeing the world's biggest IT budget: $81 billion. That's $260 of tech spending for every man, woman and child in America. His job is a tough one, wrestling with cyberhacks, creaky IT infrastructure, warring agencies and garrulous Congressmen. He's a class act with lessons for any technology executive about doing important things at scale. Recorded live in conversation with Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard at our CIO Summit on March 7, 2016 at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Can big software companies innovate? Can tech companies do more to defend the rights of women and LGBT communities? Are we working ourselves sick? The answers to all these questions and more await you in this episode of The Premise, Forbes' tech podcast hosted by editor Bruce Upbin. In this episode we talk with Marc Benioff, the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce, recorded live on March 7, 2016, at the Forbes CIO Summit at Half Moon Bay Calif.

People now spend more time on mobile messaging apps than on social networks. Sensing the shift, businesses and brands globally are starting to connect with customers on chat apps such as WeChat, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Kik. Rather than deploy humans, they're turning to bots, virtual assistants that respond to open-ended text messages. New bots are springing up to handle all kinds of use cases: shopping, ride-hailing, customer service queries. This episode of The Premise explores technology's new bot economy and bot culture, including interviews with Dennis Mortensen, cofounder and CEO of x.ai, a meeting-scheduler bot, and Peter Fjallstrom, a Swedish programmer who created a household bot for his family using Slack. Hosted by Bruce Upbin and Parmy Olson.