thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Keith Keating has a career spanning over 20 years in learning and development (L&D). He is well known in the industry as a workforce futurist, design thinking practitioner, and L&D thought leader. Keith is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s chief learning officer program.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-keating-1976963a/

Digital shaper, speaker, and thought leader. Award-winning technology marketer. Startup and entrepreneurship lecturer. Founder of the world’s first App stores.

John Carter is a recognized expert in helping global organizations improve the speed and innovation of product development. As Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised many top firms such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, HP, IBM, Roche, and Westinghouse.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS) a leading semiconductor firm.  John has had roles of CTO (Klipsch Group) and Chief Engineer (Bose).  John was the co-inventor of the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and shares the original patent with Dr. Bose.

Show Notes:

Nerjada (Ada) Maksutajhas recently completed her MBA at Berkeley Haas and is the 2020 Fellow for the Center for Responsible Business. Prior to business school, Ada worked as a strategy consultant with Accenture advising on digital transformation, corporate innovation, and social entrepreneurship projects with clients including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and Pearson Education. Post-graduation she will be joining IDEO's Design for Learning studio, focused on lifelong learning and future of work challenges. She previously studied Economics and Human Rights at the University of Chicago.

Helpful tools for remote collaboration:

· https://miro.com/

o Enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams

· https://www.shape.space/

o Shape is IDEO’s latest digital innovation tool for building, testing, and refining your ideas

· https://mural.co

o Digital workspaces for visual collaboration, inspiration, and innovation

· https://stormboard.com

o Shared Sticky Notes and Whiteboards

How to define design thinking?

Below you can see how IDEO loosely defines design thinking - There’s no one definition of design thinking. At IDEO, it’s a set of both mindsets and design-based activities that foster the collaboration required to solve problems in human-centered ways. It’s not a fail-safe approach; nor is it the only approach.

https://designthinking.ideo.com/

We talk with Ionut Vlad, the inventor of a crazy, kooky no-human-needed promotion device - works great and generates tons of data.

About Ionut Vlad - founder and CEO of Tokinomo

About Tokinomo:

Please see the link for the Plug N Play Summer Summit: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/summer-summit-2020/

Allen is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Plug and Play. He develops strategic partnerships and joint ventures with corporations to find business development, licensing, acquisition, and investment opportunities among Plug and Play's startup network. He oversees a team managing partnerships with corporations in Silicon Valley in Mobility, Internet of Things, Real Estate, Energy, and Smart Cities. The team is responsible for defining innovation strategies, POC implementation processes, and exploring new business opportunities.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Plug and Play is a global innovation platform with accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since its inception in 2006, our programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 25 locations globally, giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 10,000 startups and 400 official corporate partners, we have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. Companies in our community have raised over $9 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits, including Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, Rappi, and, most recently, Honey.

Veljko Krunic is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in data science, big data, and helping his clients get actionable business results from AI.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an additional MS in engineering management from the same institution. His MS degree in engineering management focused on applied statistics, strategic planning, and the use of advanced statistical methods to improve organizational efficiency. He is also a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Veljko consulted with or taught courses for five of the Fortune 10 companies (as listed in Sept 2019), many of the Fortune 500 companies, and several smaller companies, in the areas of enterprise computing, data science, AI, and big data. Before consulting independently, he worked in the PSO organizations of Hortonworks, the SpringSource division of VMware, and the JBoss division of Red Hat. In those positions, he was the principal technical consultant on highly visible projects for the top clients of those PSO organizations.

Veljko's LinkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/in/veljkokrunic/.

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Some deals from Manning Publications (Veljko's Publisher)

Enjoy!

This modern world is lots of reasons why you might be feeling the pressure. 

The one thing that I find really interesting about all of these things that are stressing us out is that none of these things are real. Nothing is real. 

Time itself doesn't exist.

The only time we are not a slave to our own invention of time is when you can almost sense it when you go on vacation and you completely forget what day it is what time it is whether it's a weekday to the weekend you just disconnect from the world completely from the human world completely.

Some people will that's a terrible thing, that they can't handle the lack of control. Other people go that's pretty interesting. That's the world of reality.

Aneri Pradhan is a social innovator who is passionate about using technology to solve large ecosystem problems. She is a 2X Founder; she is the Founder of ENVenture (acquired by New Energy Nexus), an award-winning incubator that finances and trains rural cooperatives in Uganda to start clean energy businesses. She also serves on the Board of Directors of New Energy Nexus, a leading clean energy non-profit that has facilitated approximately $1B into the renewable sector. She was also Co-Founder of ENVision mobile, a fintech platform for emerging markets. She has over a decade of experience working in 15 countries in Africa and Asia on technology adoption in energy and fintech. Formerly, she worked on Facebook's Sustainability and Connectivity Lab, prototyping new social impact technologies. She also served as an Energy Access Officer at the United Nations Foundation, spearheading grassroots mobilization on the Sustainable Development Goals. She was named Renewable Energy World's Top 40 under 40 in the solar, winner of the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Prize, Nasdaq Milestone Maker, an American Express Emerging Innovator, Cordes Fellow, and a member of Forbes Nonprofit Council. She has a Masters in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Urvi is a Master Connector, Emotionally Wealthy, and a Nomadic personality. She is a 20 year, reformed, Fortune 10 corporate executive. (AT&T, IBM, Coca- Cola, Walmart). The consistent thread in her career is her ability to have an innovative mindset, that creates solutions through collaboration and focuses on the human element, that pushes the business forward. Her mindset is driven by her lifestyle as a nomad and seeing multiple ways of thinking on a global scale. Her vast | diverse network and the trusting relationships she has built over the past 20 years, continue to collaborate with her and others to build the future of tomorrow.  

As an executive coach, she works with executives, guiding them through personal radical self-awareness to increase their emotional wealth and propel their professional careers even further. On the other side of the coin, as an executive recruiter & Co-Founder at Peppercorn.ai, she is integrating technology and the human element to help companies recruit the right leaders to cultivate strong leaders. 

In a time where "innovation" is more than a buzzword, but a way of being, Urvi embodies, the changing paradigms, to drive businesses forward - to be ready for TOMORROW. She has built her advisory services upon the passion of changing the paradigm of how we live, work, and play by connecting people, places, and projects across the world. She is the bridge between ideas and ... action. She focuses on reality versus the "path" we are expected to follow. Even though she "works" all the time her biggest priority and emotional wealth come from her partner and his two kids, a very large life family (across the world) and her blood family.