HR and human capital thought leader Emma El Karout joins Uprisor to discuss the changing role of HR and how it intersects with crowdsourcing and on-demand talent. Emma spent over 20 years leading organizations with human resources capabilities and services. Now she helps companies access vetted HR experts on demand through her company One Circle. Emma talks candidly about how mindsets are changing and how HR consultants can help drive cultural transformation for businesses.

The CDC’s Carlos Siordia and Stephen Bertke join Clinton to discuss their philosophy, their work, and why they choose to take problems to the crowd when they have brilliant minds within the CDC’s four walls. Carlos is a socio-spatial epidemiologist who uses machine learning and crowdsourcing to explore data, and Stephen is a mathematical statistician.

How do you get an organization—especially a large, multinational firm—to embrace open talent? Gavin McLafferty, founder of innovation consultancy 1981 Ventures, shares his experience using crowdsourcing and open talent to solve problems in the oil and gas and renewables market. Gavin and Topcoder VP Clinton Bonner discuss the gift of flexibility, the cost of not taking chances, and tactics to turn crowdsourcing resistance into adoption and enthusiasm.

Why do Chief Innovation Officers have the shortest tenure of any C level person? What’s the real tension incumbent organizations have with adopting open talent? Open Assembly’s John Winsor shares what he’s learned pioneering crowdsourcing throughout his career, and how no matter what you do, you will be disrupted.

Steve Rader, deputy director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, aka CoECI, at NASA, joins Clinton to share what he’s learned over a decade of helping government agencies adopt open talent to execute on innovative work. They explore why crowd is an amazing way to find the best starting point on projects, the value of out field expertise in finding solutions, and what role failure and vulnerability play in innovation.

How do you teach college students about risk taking? Enjoy an Uprisor Innovation Discussion focussed on how to encourage productive risk-taking and the continuing evolution of remote work. Paul Roben, vice-chancellor of the Innovation Program at UCSD, at Clinton Bonner, VP at Topcoder, discuss how being able to handle uncertainty and risk are core skills for entrepreneurship, and navigating the world in times of crisis.

Michael Vollmer, GM of Interactive Experience at Wipro, shares how he leverages the crowd for rapid technology exploration, proof of concepts, and cutting edge design and development work.

There’s real competition for developer eyeballs and hearts, and real benefits to growing a community of devoted developers around a specific platform or tech stack. Clinton talks with Meredith Hasset, lead developer advocate at Wix.com, about her work making Corvid by Wix a developer focused product.

Clinton talks with Steve Pockross, CEO of Verblio, a content creation marketplace platform. They discuss how the crowdsourcing mentality has evolved, what it takes to build trust and consistency into marketplace platforms, how open feedback models create better outcomes, and the most famous musicians to have come out of a tiny liberal arts college in Connecticut.

Dave Messinger, CTO of Topcoder, joins VP Clinton Bonner to take a deep dive into Gartner’s recent article— “9 Future of Work Trends post COVID-19.” We agree with most of what Gartner puts forth, but one item on their list jumped out as antithetical to the others. Clinton and Dave discuss what rings true and what doesn’t sit right, and explore alternatives to what Gartner is positioning.