Joining Microsoft as an intern in 1988, Phil Spencer has been part of the company’s entire gaming journey. Now, as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, he tells Ed about the company’s commitment to making sure that the folks making their products reflect the diversity of the 3 billion strong gaming community - and the steps Microsoft is taking to democratize who can make these games. It’s an honest and insightful conversation with one of the biggest figures in the entertainment ecosystem.

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Today Ed is joined by a long-time colleague, Herman Narula, CEO and co-Founder at Improbable.io - one of Europe's most successful and best-known tech companies. For over a decade the company has built the foundational technology to support scaled experiences in the Metaverse, taking in over $750M in funding. Their clients span defense firms as well as Yuga Labs, home of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, and this range of experience animates Herman’s vision for the Metaverse. It’s possible that today’s Web 2.0 behemoths may not dominate the next phase, after all. 

Tune in for an enlightening chat.

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Ed has an in-depth chat with AI expert and CEO of Chinese deep tech VC Sinovation Ventures, Kai-Fu Lee. His extensive knowledge of AI is matched by an innate ability to explain its advantages and pitfalls in plain language. As Ed learns, there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about AI’s potential for optimizing class plans to accommodate a range of students, as well as creating entertainment that can be “good for you.”

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SUSE CEO Melissa Di Donato joins Ed for an invaluable conversation about the role Open Source software is playing across organizations and governments worldwide. Noting that 35% of all enterprise software contains open source-derived code, Melissa details how the 56 million developers contributing to open source projects globally are laser-focused on keeping systems flawlessly updated and impervious to bad actors. SUSE had the largest software IPO in Europe last year, and after listening to Melissa it’s no wonder why.

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Talk about a masterclass! Ed catches up with Priya Lakhani OBE, CEO at CENTURY Tech and Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder & CEO at Perlego, for a razor-sharp discussion about how data is transforming EdTech right now. Priya, who also serves as non-executive Director of Ed’s former haunt - the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) - and Gauthier, whose own company has been likened to a ‘Spotify for textbooks’, weigh in on the pandemic-accelerated impact digitization is having on teachers, students, textbooks and our entire approach to learning. A fascinating journey.

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Ed faces down another rival podcaster - Jimmy’s Jobs Of The Future host Jimmy McLoughlin OBE - along with Digital Futures CEO Scott Vincent to discuss how to fill all the new roles coming online as the economy modernizes. McLoughlin, a veteran of 10 Downing Street, and Vincent, who sold his consulting company to Accenture, opine on the challenges of re-skilling an existing workforce as well as finding a more diverse pool of candidates. A timely chat.

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Today Ed sits down with a pair of authors who’ve managed to do the impossible: make the mechanics of financial transactions fascinating. The pair’s recently published book, “The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything,” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094F69F8Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1), underscores how the explosion of new payment systems around the world is impacting consumers and the broader economy. Leibbrandt, a former McKinsey Partner and the CEO of Swift (as in ‘Swift Code’) for a decade and De Teran, a veteran journalist who served as Corporate Affairs lead at Swift, have a unique perspective on the topic; their chat spans the implications of “programmable money” and why credit card companies should be worried.

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Ed returns to the mic with his second-ever in-person interview - and it’s a great one. William Tunstall-Pedo, a tech pioneer and AI guru, sold his Cambridge, England-based tech company Evi to Amazon; together, they built Alexa - one of the most successful new tech products in history. William’s been coding commercial products since he was 13, so his insights about the challenges and promises of AI and deep learning, as well as the UK’s primacy in the area, are keen.

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Ed sits with a big thinker (and rival podcaster), Damian Bradfield, the Chief Creative Officer and co-Founder of WeTransfer and WePresent. While he is focused on tools that empower creativity, he’s taking the long view on what our digital future should look like - as covered in his 2019 book “The Trust Manifesto” (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307/307675/the-trust-manifesto/9780241369845.html). Tune in to hear the pair engage in a rare and substantive conversation about what we should demand of big data.

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Ed has a revealing conversation with Matthew Barzun, the former US Ambassador to the UK and, prior to that, Sweden. A former CNET executive and campaign strategist credited with creating the ‘citizen fundraisers’ that fueled Obama’s rise, Barzun’s communal viewpoint comes to the fore in the conversation. His recently published book, “The Power of Giving Away Power” (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602163/the-power-of-giving-away-power-by-matthew-barzun/#:~:text=The%20Power%20of%20Giving%20Away%20Power%20shows%20how%20the%20Constellation,making%20the%20leap%20to%20lead), emphasizes the importance of the ‘constellation’ vs. the ‘pyramid’ in the formation of our national identity, an apt metaphor.

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