My guest on the podcast is John Heintz, CEO at Aptage.

Aptage is a start-up from Austin, Texas, that's building forecasting tools for agile teams by using past performance and team experience to understand and predict the likelihood of success.

Project success is critical for project-driven organizations, be it in IT, Engineering, Construction or, for example, Not for Profit. Aptage inspired me because of their approach. They chose to use artificial intelligence to augment the unique strengths of project managers, thereby creating the potential to take project success rates to completely new levels, giving project-intensive organizations a new competitive advantage.

During this interview, you will learn three things:

1. How the unique strengths of people in project-centric organizations can be augmented with technology to help increase project success
2. How AI can help Project-driven organizations identify uncertainties and predict the risk that could imply
3. What Aptage learned from delivering technology powered by AI

My guest on the podcast is Vinnie Mirchandani

He’s the author of Silicon Collar, founder of Deal Architect, a former technology industry analyst (with Gartner) and outsourcing executive (with PwC), and last but not least entrepreneur.

He is a thought leader on trends in software, outsourcing and offshoring.

I talked with Vinnie about how we should perceive technology impact on people in the foreseeable future.

During this interview, you will learn three things:

1. Why it’s better to start new initiatives with an augmentation mentality, not a replacement mentality
2. Why traditional thinking around labor is not going to work
3. Why we should be rethinking every business process with automation as a frontend

My guest on the podcast is Maurizio Vecchione, Executive Vice President for Global Good and Research at Intellectual Ventures.

In his day-to-day job, Maurizio is working for Intellectual Ventures, where he’s overseeing Global Good LLC, an evergreen fund created by Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures.

The fund is focused on inventions and innovation for the millions of people in the developing world that suffer and die each year from causes that humanity has the scientific and technical ability to solve.

During this interview, you will learn three things:

• Why Maurizio believes the idea that all next‑gen things happen in places like Silicon Valley is fundamentally flawed
• How catalytic invention can be the approach to accelerate change, action, and impact – not just for the developing world, but across the board
• Three practical criteria to embrace in the process of innovation