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Ecological integrity represents an essential element for a sustainable planet by 2033 and beyond. Consider the importance of coral in safeguarding the food ecosystem within global communities, both affluent and impoverished. Approximately 40% of the world's population lives near or on the coastlines, relying significantly on the ecological balance of these areas.Coral plays a vital role in preserving the ocean's ecosystem, responsible for absorbing up to 90% of all carbon emissions. Nevertheless, 15% of the tracked coral fields have already been lost worldwide. Suggestions to relocate bleached or dying coral to aquariums, sparked by record-high sea temperatures in Florida in 2023, are neither scalable nor a feasible long-term solution to safeguard coral.The critical approach involves identifying resilient coral types that thrive under extreme climate conditions, such as typhoons and warmer waters. It's an imminent challenge necessitating a substantial database on coral responses to these climate variables. The key is empowering citizen scientists globally, whether in Fiji, Mauritius, Florida, or elsewhere, to collect crucial data on how coral adapts to diverse climatic conditions.Emily Darling, overseeing strategy, partnerships, and impact for WCS's global coral reef portfolio across 16 countries, co-founded MERMAID (Marine Ecological Research Management AID; datamermaid.org). Through MERMAID, citizen scientists collect local coral visuals, which are then sent to the cloud for processing into a Postgres DB utilizing AI tools. This process, previously costing hundreds of millions and taking months, can now be completed within hours.This signifies a prime instance of how basic technology, such as affordable underwater cameras, easy data sharing, and AI applications, can markedly contribute to the planet's sustainability. The open systems and the power of AI-driven networks formed by well-intentioned amateurs are influencing significant positive change.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thirty years ago, the concept of sports psychology was rarely discussed. Today, our guest is among the pioneers of this applied science, widely utilized by victorious Olympians and sports teams globally. Although there are only seven full-time sports psychologists across the thirty-two teams, this field remains a developing profession in an industry where peak performance is crucial for success. While discussing sports in the context of 2033 might seem unconventional, insights from interviews conducted for Forbes' "Futures in Focus" series with notable figures from Liverpool Football Club, the NFL, the San Jose Sharks, and the Atlanta Falcons indicate that future experiences might be evolving in high-performance teams today.Consider the application of analytics and AI algorithms in sports like tennis, cricket, and soccer, as well as the utilization of engineering in F1 and Formula E. These skills and scientific advancements applied in sports could potentially be adopted in various areas of life by 2033. Our guest is a pioneer in the field of sports psychology and one of only seven full-time sports psychologists in the NFL, previously associated with the renowned US alpine ski team from the 1990s.To conclude the podcast, a controlled breathing exercise is shared—an activity the guest practices with teams and coaches. This exercise aims to help differentiate between tension and relaxation, clear the mind, and create an association with warmth and relaxation, using a self-created cue or image as an anchor to these feelings of relaxation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Astellas Pharma Inc.Chief Commercial Officer, Claus Zieler, envisions this future. The shift from chronic treatment to highly personalized, one-off treatments is not far ahead of us. By 2033, this approach will be commonplace rather than an unusual outlier.In the medical industry, we can already witness the initial signs of this emerging future where AI is starting to transform the landscape of pharmaceutical discoveries currently in progress.Traditionally, the medical industry has followed extended timelines for discovery, testing, and market validation. Breakthrough treatment protocols usually emerge sequentially rather than concurrently. However, the integration of AI with these breakthroughs promises to accelerate the pace and broaden the impact, ultimately reshaping the healthcare system as a whole.Developing a new drug typically costs $2 billion and involves a 10-year development cycle with thousands of patients. AI simulations have the potential to significantly reduce costs and time while fostering innovation. Government support for this concept is crucial, as cutting the inherent costs of medical innovation in half would have a profound effect on how we finance and structure the medical systems of the future.The aspiration for an improved quality of life is a key indicator of our potential by 2033 and beyond. Rather than merely surviving diseases like cancer, we will consider them natural and highly treatable events that we can manage. Each of us will likely confront serious illnesses at some point in our lives, and the idea that we can effectively manage and thrive through them will shape our approach to personal health and the healthcare systems surrounding us by 2033.We will all play a role in shaping this new healthcare landscape that unites AI and data. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GE Healthcare invests over $1 billion annually in R&D to serve one in eight global inhabitants, entrusting its technologies and intelligent systems. It stands as a major player in the U.S. healthcare industry, contributing to one in every six GDP dollars. Healthcare, ripe for AI's transformative impact, generates copious data in a single hospital, exceeding the Library of Congress. Yet, much of this data goes unused, unarchived, and rarely forms multi-modal models. Can AI enhance the immediate value of healthcare investments worldwide? These challenges span the globe.CEO Peter Arduini envisions the next decade as the onset of a profound global healthcare revolution powered by AI, benefiting every patient's journey. Picture every global patient accessing their multi-modal data, regardless of location, early in their healthcare journey. GE Healthcare's Edison AI-intelligent platform showcases how AI can modernize established products, exemplified by ultrasound applications and early lung cancer detection. Currently, only 10% of lung cancer cases are identified during screening. Imagine the cost reduction if 70% of cases could be detected early with AI-equipped portable devices.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

By 2030, approximately 45% of a car's cost will be attributed to the expense of integrated chips. As we envision a future firmly rooted in software-defined systems, a substantial portion of these expenses will be invested in silicon technology.Modern automobiles are equipped with thousands of microprocessors, emphasizing the critical role silicon plays in the industry. The chip shortages experienced during and after the COVID-19 pandemic compelled OEMs like Ford to sell vehicles lacking some secondary chip technology. As we progress towards a software-driven future in the automotive sector, spanning from heavy machinery manufacturers like Caterpillar and John Deere to consumer vehicle brands such as Ford, Stellantis, Toyota, VW, BMW, and more, it is imperative to strike the right balance between software-focused advancements and chip-enabled capabilities.The increasing focus on software-centricity necessitates a parallel enhancement of silicon capabilities, which will enable cars to sense, learn, react, and seamlessly communicate with one another, as well as with infrastructure elements like roads (V2X). Consequently, the automotive experience for consumers and fleet operators in 2032 will undergo a radical transformation.We are on the brink of the era of intelligent automobiles, where driving and our interactions with the surrounding environment will be unrecognizable compared to today's experiences. Chips and silicon represent indispensable components of this future. Our guest today, Ray Cornyn of NXP, leads the architectural development efforts at one of the world's premier silicon companies dedicated to the automotive industry.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In a world about to be dominated by technologies like AI and ML, and Chat GPT and run by machines computing, sensing, and learning on the edge, do we need more people with university degrees, or do we need a whole new approach to educating ourselves through our lives? It's an existential moment for how we collectively consider our own educational investments and debt as well as the decisions we might be making for our children or grandchildren. The idea that a university education sets you up for life has been questioned for the first time in recent years. A typical US university education will cost between $120,000 for a four-year degree to over $250,000. It's increasingly becoming common in the US for this to take six years and come closer to $300,000. Average college debt might take twenty years to pay back, and the interest rates (even with current inflationary levels) make this one of the most expensive decisions we will make in our lives, and it is often made in our teens. Is there a better way to do this? Peter Thiel's, Thiel Fellowship kicked off a set of alternative ideas for educating for the future based on living real learning experiences and building something early, ahead of a possible university experience. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Eric Laakmann, the CEO of Seachange, discusses the initial steps in the following manner: Globally, there are 34 million vessels, all of which will eventually necessitate replacement with sustainable alternatives. The current pace of oil consumption, whether on land, in the air, or particularly at sea, is deemed unsustainable, given the delicate equilibrium with natural ecosystems.Specifically, domestic commercial vessels, comprising ferries and tourism vessels, account for a substantial $500 billion in capital expenditure, which must be replaced. Furthermore, there exists a substantial $47 billion recreational boat market. Boats, as a category, pose a distinctive challenge when considering electrification, given their inherent inefficiency, primarily attributed to the substantial energy expenditure in water displacement. Nonetheless, their indispensability necessitates innovative solutions.Within this context, there exists a requisite starting point, as colossal supertankers cannot emulate the airborne capabilities of airplanes or rely on battery propulsion. However, ferries and pleasure craft offer promise in this regard. The pivotal issue revolves around orchestrating a holistic evolution, encompassing three concurrent dimensions: mitigating the resistance confronted by boats in the water, innovating potential power systems, and optimizing the overall cost of ownership.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our desire to build and power more and more around portable electricity puts, and will put, even more pressure on technology, supply chains, and raw materials. How we generate? How we distribute? How we consume? These are going to be questions we need to ask ourselves.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

By 2030, the statistics from 2016 indicated that 10.5 million individuals in the United States would be self-employed. Nevertheless, by the conclusion of 2019, 30% of the US labor force were freelancers, and this 2030 prediction had been realized a decade earlier than anticipated. Should the labor landscape of 2032 and onwards diverge, it is apparent that certain transformations will have been instigated by our collective responses, not solely to COVID-19, but to the broader societal shifts in values.This week's podcast features the author of "NO BOSS! The Real Truth about Working Independently: 12 Lessons from 30 Years of Bossing Myself Around," Steven Cristol. The crux of the discourse revolves around the depth of introspection necessary to ascertain one's compatibility with the realm of self-entrepreneurship in the evolving context of 2033 and beyond. In essence, it encompasses a comprehensive self-value driver analysis, founded upon his cumulative reflections as a notably successful master of his own endeavors over the past three decades.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We have had 500 consecutive months of temperatures above the average temperature for the 20th century. If you search for terms like climate crisis and food supply or climate crisis and the automotive industry on Google Trends the index for how many times this has increased in the last year goes from a one hundred percent increase to a one thousand percent increase. If you live in the United States or Europe you are experiencing historic highs or floods or forest fires. July was the hottest in recorded history and the head of the UN just declared that we are entering an era of global boiling.However, the guest this week, Dr. Jeff Arnold of MITRE Group as a climate expert believes that there is a playbook here for CEOs and corporate leaders to make a fundamental difference. 75% of global emissions are associated with energy production and consumption. If you are in business, then you have the direct capability and responsibility to reduce that impact and get us away from the 1.5C barrier we are trying to avoid as a planet. The podcast covers simple steps for a CEO to drive their organization's sustainability prerogative.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rowing is one of the great forgotten sports. It was the first and most popular inter-collegiate sport before college football and one of the first in the revised Olympic movement at the turn of the 19th century. It is still seen as the preeminent elitist college sport still, and that needs to change as we widen the opportunities for access to these sports where resources (water and boats) are tough to find a digital experience that can replicate the experience of rowing on the Cam or the Thames or the South China sea from a garage, a front room or bedroom. Twenty minutes of exercise a day is seen as being able to reduce the overall costs of healthcare in the US by 20%. In a multi trillion-dollar industry, we should be looking for as many variations as possible to keep reducing this cost for society. Rowing exercises 80% of the body's muscles and is six times more efficient than cycling.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Gravelle is the CEO and founder of Attabotics, a Canadian (Calgary) company attempting to fundamentally change how supply chains work at the ground level, moving products as fast as atoms. This podcast teaches how a combination of crises, alongside underlying shifts in the transformation of something (the supply chain), can turn hyper-important and open up vastly new thinking and opportunities very fast. Imagine being able to order a particular size, brand, and type of sneaker with a specific color of the tongue for a black suede Adidas Gazelle size 9.5.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We might only ever know 10% that is out there so get ready for it being the ever-present and un-seen norm of 2033. Ten years ago, zero-day exploits were incredibly rare and expensive for cyber threat agents. They were as complex as NASA programs. Maybe four or five countries could exploit them (US, China, Russia, the UK, North Korea, and Israel). By 2015 up to one hundred and twenty countries could deliver daily exploits, not quite the power of zero-day threats. Still, far more of them that nearly anybody can deliver, any organization, a company or any group, or nearly any country.These threats' width, depth, and invisible nature will be transparently connected to our everyday lives (not rare events) but 2032 and beyond. Juan Andrés Guerrero Saada He is the Senior Director of Research at SentinelOn, he is the Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His joint work on Moonlight Maze is now featured in the International Spy Museum's permanent exhibit in Washington, DC.The podcast discusses what this looks like now (we are collectively less aware than we should be) and what it could mean in ten years as it is an accepted part of our daily lives. Imagine a world with billions of devices on the edge Internet of Things) interacting, learning, and working together all around us, and each needs to be protected from cyber espionage. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Just reflect on the last few years of change around us all and how that speed of disruption and change is accelerating in the future. These shifts have been challenging to read regarding direction and potential magnitudes. For example, could Peloton have predicted their business in the first few weeks of Covid or how to react as the work-from-home movement fell away towards the end of the last waves of Covid? Can Zoom take advantage of the billions, tens of billions of hours and experiences we had through Zoom, or will the rogue wave that drove their success to dissipate and they will not take advantage of it? Our guest today, Jonathan Brill is a world-leading radical change thinker whose book Rogue Waves is a design thinking framework for navigating the next ten years where these rogue waves may be more frequent, more powerful, and even create greater opportunities than long-term, traditional strategic thinking might suggest. How CEO's respond to these rogue waves (structurally and in the moment), maybe the best measure of their success over the next ten years than anything else. This is about the future of ideas and how they collide in new and odd ways to change our world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Twenty minutes of walking daily could save over 25% of all health costs. Imagine walking to the store for food shopping and having a robot carry home your food. You get the health benefits, plus no need to. This idea of machines working seamlessly as humans do is a flip of the traditional approach to machines replacing certain humans. Twenty minutes of walking every day will cut health costs by 25%. That is the equivalent of $500bn a year in GDP. Today's guest talks about a different way of thinking about autonomous vehicles as partners with citizens walking their urban communities by 2033.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

100M Americans have pre-diabetes conditions, one of the leading causes of death. By 2032 over half a billion people on Earth will have it globally. If it is 25% of US health dollars and healthcare is fifteen percent of the US economy, then imagine the size of the economic impact of not solving this globally by 2032 and beyond. It would be in the trillions, the size of many large European economies combined. Finding ways to solve or reduce the speed of this disease should be a significant priority for us. This is a discussion with Robert Booth, Glytec's chief strategy and research officer, about how to reduce that by 2032 radically.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The world is moving to EVs from ICU's. How fast we move to electric is a complex balance of consumer pressure, supply chains for all the software and semiconductors needed for these new vehicles, and how quickly we shifted our mindset from over one hundred and forty years of doing it one way. The more significant challenge is that much of the carbon emission does not come from running a vehicle but from the manufacturing process to get it on the road. Upcycling is the idea of taking trusted workhorses or great classics (Rolls Royce, Aston Martin's) and upcycling them to be EV vehicles that can serve another life in an EV future. As beautiful and or as practical (waste trucks, fire engines, mining equipment, etc.).David Lorenz founded Lunaz in the UK to address the potential mass-redundancy of the 2 billion internal combustion engine vehicles currently on the planet. Imagine being able to logically upcycle existing vehicles in industrial, exotic sports cars to reduce carbon emissions. Vehicles can also have upgraded software, sensors, and capabilities in this process. It will not always be us to make new vehicles to help save the planet but also widen what else we might want to upcycle for the next generation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

2023 marks the first time greenhouse omissions will decline while energy consumption, production, and populations are increasing. New, environmentally sensitive production systems (solar, wind, etc.) are biting into the fossil fuel history. These are just the tip of the iceberg for environmental and sustainable investing opportunities that could help turn back the tide of damage to the planet. Even more importantly, looking after the planet and learning how to govern for a positive future for all mankind should sit at the center of how we build new from our existing corporations to the future corporations.Today's podcast is with an expert who will guide us through what that conversation we should all be having as leaders in major enterprises as we learn to re-balance. Keesa C. Schreane is the author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) (Wiley, September 2022) and Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Wiley, 2021). She works for Refinitiv, an American-British global financial market data and infrastructure provider. The company was founded in 2018. It is a London Stock Exchange Group subsidiary after a US$27 billion-dollar sale from previous owners Blackstone Group LP.The core of the ESG debate is not just centered on the idea of sustainability but around a complex interaction of variables changing how we work as a society. If we handle them correctly, those triggers could drive a deeper and more pronounced commitment to the principles of ESG.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Manifesting one's experiences through the mind of others is the premise of AR and the metaverse. However, the killer app has still alluded to us, until now. The challenge in a three-dimensional world where most of a journey in a city might occur inside the buildings more often than not is how to use the power of AR to share and navigate yourself when there is no such thing as indoor satellite positioning. Imagine being in a grocery store, and your cell phone can instantly point to the exact place on shelves where specific products are for sale. Or being able to share your experience in a clothing store with somebody at home who you want to look at the clothing with you but experience it right next to you through the cell phone, bringing them into that shared experience. The AukiLabs co-founder, Nils Pihl believes that the level of sensory and experiential sharing is the killer meta-verse application that could change how we think and behave as human beings by 2033 and beyond. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We are living in extraordinary times when it comes to human capital. At one end, increasingly intelligent AI systems and machines are reducing the number of mundane tasks we need for humans in everything from the food industry to legal processes and even complex software design and deployment. Yet unemployment appears to be at a near-all-time low. Our need to keep, develop and even recruit people is more stressful than ever before. The question is. Are we at the start of a new human capital era, or is this a hiccup in traditional supply and demand dynamics that will help even themselves out over time? Our guest, Lenwood Ross, believes that this will be a dramatic moment for change in how we think about human capital and a moment where industries like headhunters and the recruiting industry could be under very significant threat as we head to a world where personal, ongoing relationships will engender the right type of recruiting when and where the company needs people. We move from a world of labor markets to a world driven by sustained relationships, even with people we have not recruited yet. Do you still want to pay 35% of somebody's first-year salary to a recruiting firm when a more authentic and ongoing dialogue with potential candidates costs zero?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The energy sector is a monolithic giant set up to supply consistent energy to all of us. That model has worked well for over one hundred and thirty years, but the question we have to ask is, can that monolithic energy system react and change fast enough for the world around us? Our quest, Bill Nussey, the author of Freeing Energy, believes that we need a fundamentally different engine to break what he calls the grid monopoly, which will look very old-world by 2033. He argues this is a moral imperative as we should build an engine system that delivers what our future grandchildren can live with. The Inflation reduction act, with its $369 Billion, is the largest energy bill in the history of the world. This is when we need to think about freeing energy in the same ways we have ideas like farm-to-table in food, regional, seasonal and mixed.

We talk a lot about how the world will become software-centric. How we book experiences on Airbnb or order a taxi on Uber, and how AI will make decisions at level and consistency humans cannot yet achieve. The idea is that the supply chain issues we are all experiencing now are radically reduced because software is essentially an infinite resource, available when, where, and how we want it deployed. You cannot say the same for a tractor or a robot. More importantly, if something breaks on a machine or it needs a hardware change, the software cannot do this. It might not even be a major piece or machine. It could be a cog in a kitchen mixer.By 2033 our guest Nadav Goshen argues that the ability to 3D print near anything will make hardware as agile as software promises. In effect, killing the idea of supply chain challenges because the word “chain” is instantly removed. Just imagine receiving a text that a part for your car has been printed at your local garage based on sensor feedback from your last trip. Preventative maintenance can cut the overall cost of car ownership down by twenty-five percent. Imagine your favorite food mixer your mother gave you can now have a simple replacement piece printed. All these elements already happen in the aerospace and defense industry, so the steps to mass customization at home, in the factory, or even in space are a few steps away.

We live in a radically transforming world on every front. Demographics are shifting more than ever before; mass personalization of products and services, global markets, and shifting expectations of what a company should do for society are changing how we need to act as leaders. Key questions exist about how company boards have reacted to these changes, and it could be existential as boards need to navigate an inherently more complex and ambiguous world. In a world where there are new stakeholders, new employee imperatives, and a different sense of company value to the world, the company board should be the agent of change and not the brake that holds changes back.

By 2030 PWC estimates that 70% of the growth in global GDP will come from AI, the Edge, and the tens of billions of machines, computing, sensing, and learning in real-time. How we, as humans, billions of people, interface with those machines is a whole new world. How these machines, billions of them, talk and work with each other and us is a whole new perspective on the collision paths of technology and the human experience. It is unlikely that we can avoid these challenges because we each will need to work, play and live with and around these new, almost life forms, machines. The design principles for this new world of 2033 and beyond are going to require us to reconnect the way we have evolved rapidly with our intellects through technology, the web, and in the future with a software-centric world with the ways we have evolved (far more slowly) with our empathy. Suppose we cannot re-address these evolutionary disbalances. In that case, we under-deliver on the promise of these technologies to deliver hope, better health, and a more plentiful environment through machines, software, and human interaction. New principles will drive how this happens, and as we all become or want to be software-centric companies, these principles will increasingly need to be practiced daily by all of us and not just a select few companies. Learn how to apply these rules and principles in the new world with examples from transportation to robotic surgery with our guest Crystal Rutland a recognized UX expert and TED speaker, on these future-forward strategies for the new augmented age world we will all be part of living in. Many of us will be part of the building.

Farms use 70% of water for natural consumption, and half of it is lost. The ability to micro-control water consumption in very small and unique environments may be one of the most important developments in society. Multiply the ability to do this by the tens of millions of fields across the globe in easy and difficult places to reach, and technologies like small-footprint embedded devices might be part of changing our resources on the planet. Imagine this challenge and apply it to the thousands of industries and use cases around us where resource efficiency becomes an increasingly important priority. Our guest, Ron Martino of NXP, talks about the power of these 75bn connected devices to change the world of 2035 and beyond at a very practical level. This new edge economy could be at least $4 to $5 trillion by 2030, where 64 zettabytes of daily data are processed locally at the edge. In this case, at the micro point of the field where the water is being controlled. This is all additive to the traditional core economy.

Is the idea that big retail is dead by 2030 a commonly held belief or will retail have evolved so significantly that it will get over get over the hump of e-commerce, near infinite choices for consumers, and the desire to get everything within fifteen to thirty minutes from when it was ordered. This is the new world of commerce by 2030 for every one of us, according to our guest Michael Lagoni, the CEO of Slackline. How companies react to this in the next few years will define if they are around in 2030 to take advantage of this world.Lagoni's view is that the data scientist will make over 80% of all product marketing decisions by 2030 as if they were hedge fund managers on Wall Street; the building never realized niche market opportunities in near real-time. This is a radically different world of choice as consumers transact nearly everything on the phone and one where brands and product managers have to focus on cultivating a direct relationship far more than they do now.

There are six hundred thousand restaurants in the USA and tens of millions of restaurants around the globe. In the US, Fifteen million people work in these environments, often on minimum wages and supporting families. There we 98,000 non-fatal accidents or associated illnesses from restaurants in the US in 2019. The restaurant industry is under immense pressure to evolve fast. This week's guest believes that intelligent robots can reduce injuries, free up valuable labor for more front-of-store activities and revolutionize the economics of a loved, vital, but under threat industry that brings color and variation to our lives.

Neil Cloughley is the CEO of Faradair aerospace his ideas about opening up airspace to the idea of the greyhound in the sky that is quiet, operationally far lower cost, and environmentally eco-friendly promises. This is a whole new way to move people and things around that will use many existing technologies without having to reinvent a lot. Imagine opening up the skies for $30 flights to and from the 5,700 regional airports in the US versus having to drive for five hours to get somewhere. This type of certified solution will open up whole new global markets as part of our new daily lives – a true Greyhound bus for the skies. The company, Faradair, is based in Droxford in the UK in the air hangar that housed the very first Spitfire squadron and where Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, had learned to fly and work from 1929.

If you sit on a board, then it is likely the following statements are common feelings about them. You receive a foot-thick set of pre-read documents and reports a week or so before the board meeting. The agenda is very tight, measured in minutes like a day in an NFL training facility. The feeling that you are going to spend a day or longer with some of the brightest people you have ever met, but you only really get to have deep discussions at lunch, maybe for the evening meal or possibly for an hour between agenda items. In a world of constant change, organizations that thrive on this idea are five times more successful financially than organizations that do not accept this reality. That capacity to thrive and respond starts at the very highest levels, the company board. To succeed in a world ten years from now dominated by blockchain, remote work is the norm, and everything starts with the digital experience and ideas like the machine economy driven by machines; these board meetings will become increasingly important front driving window activities and not rear window reflections.

The idea of autonomous vehicles delivering products straight to our door may not sound novel, but there are not a lot of examples of that level of the last yard or meter delivery in practice right now. Ten years from now, the practice of doing this will be commonplace. There are approximately one hundred and forty million households in the US and over 10,000 major cities worldwide. To do this with autonomous vehicles to a universe of large destinations is inherently complex, but we have to start doing this somewhere now where the environment is somewhat representative of a wider world of moving bodies, other modes of transport, and some levels of unpredictability.

In ten years, time, web3.0 and blockchain will drive each of us to have a digital ID as our prime ID. This means our various identifications on social platforms will be fluid. The social media platforms will have no control as you move your ID and private blockchain wallet from place to place. This could be the end of the platform age.The conversations today are less about the social media platforms dominating our personal expressions but the shift away from the platform economy that has dominated Web.2.0 to the open source self-identification economy that will dominate the next ten years. This stretches across financial and healthcare sectors and how governments sustain sovereign control over the value of nearly anything as each of us becomes our own market (physical and virtual) that is protected by our own digital wallet and the power of blockchain technologies. This will drive a whole new sense of worth, identification, and privacy and completely re-structure what assets we own, trade, and borrow against. Watch out Crypto world. If cryptocurrency is one of the first deployments for blockchain, it could be less significant in ten years' time. Blockchain will allow us to take our own agency back.Tim Tully is the CEO of Zelcore, the world's first gateway for Web3. Offering the easiest way to navigate all major exchanges and blockchain protocols, Zelcore empowers people to find quickly, manage, trade, and truly own their digital assets and information. Tim has over three decades of experience working in senior leadership roles at some of the world's largest financial institutions, including T. Rowe Price, BNY Mellon Wealth Management, and State Street.

What have Drew Brees and Kim Kardashian got in common? Both have had social posts about them either playing Pickleball or maybe coming back as a professional Pickleball players (in the case of Drew Brees). These are two very powerful names in the world of sports and celebrity entertainment. Sports are a vital part of our social fabric and it would be foolish to assume that the sports we play and or watch now will be identical in ten years' time. On one hand, it would be a sad idea that we cannot evolve new tastes or variants. On the other hand, understanding the triggers that drive these new sports and experiences tells us a lot about the potential world we will live in, ten years from now.Change is often misread as purely a moment of fashion. When a close colleague told me he was recently driving his boys past a set of tennis courts his boys called them, pickleball courts. That is the subtle shift in language that often tells or shows us more about the future than just a passing comment. Pickleball is part of a wider Zeitgeist for inclusiveness in sports.If you have neither heard nor seen Pickleball in action just go to this URL and watch the US doubles champions playing. Invented in Washington State in the mid-1960s the sport is both highly skilled, very watchable, and open to all ages, from 10 to maybe 90 and beyond. Our guests today, Riley and Lindsey Newman walk us through the genesis of the sport and why it is becoming so popular (devoid of Kim Kardashian and or Drew Brees).

Imagine the idea of the soldier software coder? It might sound odd now, but the combination of world events, technology, and future needs on the battlefield makes this an inevitability. The ability to learn, and adjust in the moment of combat with the capacity to bring all forces to bear, where and when they are needed could be the future of defense. This is the software-centric world, on the edge and in real-time, possibly through the cloud. The ability to bring all forces to bear together on the earth, in the sea, and through the sky in a joint command sits at the heart of this idea that the US DOD hopes to make a reality by 2030. This in many ways might be the best representation of the power of software to change the world around us in the most complex and volatile of situations.

Globalization has for all its great virtues exposed certain vulnerabilities to us. Jobs get lost, supply chains can be pinched and more importantly the capacity to respond to these pressures become increasingly difficult in the timelines we now expect. JobsOhio's recent success in attracting Intel to build the largest microprocessor plant in the world, right in the heartland of America is maybe the first and most programmatic process for bringing jobs back to the United States and also protecting industries increasingly reliant on sourcing key technology components in the markets they sell to.In 2018 Ohio was last in all states for the availability of investment capital.The idea of re-shoring is tougher to put into practice than we think, but it is part of a new map for globalization for the year 2032 and beyond that, we will need to navigate.Transforming America's diverse industrial base to handle future supply chain shocks as well as a stronger presence for innovation and future-ready jobs is the dream of any state development body in the USA. JobsOhio has constructed a very integrated process that could be copied elsewhere and this podcast with J.P. Nauseef the CEO JobsOhio maps out that integrated process.

Go to Google and type in the term, social investing. 400 million references will come up but the RISE fund is the largest ($6bn) in the world. Founded by Bono (that one) and TPG the fund is an early explorer in finding the balance between investing for profit, investing to change markets, and investing where social impact really needs the help of businesses in order to get traction. This might be one of the key pathways forward for capitalism to make, or enable direct action but supporting entrepreneurs' ideas that can change the world and thrive financially.The podcast with the managing partner for the Rise fund, Maya Chorengel walks through real-life companies looking to triangulate between social impact, entrepreneurial ideas, and economic opportunity. As social challenges become increasingly more complex and the ability of government to handle them all becomes less viable, social investing may be the key to bringing, assets, ideas, and capital together to solve these on the ground.

In a post-Covid world, where physical and virtual become increasingly synthesized the way we express ourselves, the way we work, and how we are going to organize our personal and work lives are going to evolve. This is the best manifestation of the idea of the Metaverse. The podcast talks to the leader, CEO of the largest carrier in the US (CEO Verizon business) with a workforce in the hundreds of thousands about how their 5G and edge services will change to match this world, but also how they have evolved the way they think about the working world for their employees. Tami Erwin talks about the human component of the world we are experiencing and how home and work are intertwined responsibilities for her and the company going forward. Every business will leave Covid having to re-imagine a full range of practices for its people, customers, and markets. This is the trigger 5G had needed and the ripple effect on 6G will become increasingly clear as we adjust to the new world of the evolving Metaverse.

Ukraine has been the sleeping development partner for software companies based in the US for decades. The invasion by Russia presents an existential threat to the continuing food chain of talent, ideas, and productivity from a market that today's guest a Ukrainian investment banker is from. Vitaly Golomb is an investment banker at Drake Star, and he believes that this is the moment where we re-examine the role of Ukraine as the potential new version of Israel's technology hotbed, but in Europe. A vast array of technology companies from Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, and LG, have significant IP and technical resources in Ukraine to build new products and technologies because Ukraine is one of the most science-based educated companies in the world.

Eric W. Sanderson is a landscape ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Mannahatta Project, and the author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. In 2013 his book Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs was published and set the stall for how we should be thinking about building a new world around us.Sanderson's argument is that the world we live in now is very much an artifact of decisions our grandparents and great, grandparents made about how we build cities, transport ourselves, and how we used the land around us. We still live with those decisions and our children, and their children will live with the decisions we make now, ten-twenty, and one hundred years into the future. We cannot keep kicking the can down the road for 2032 and beyond. We cannot change the laws of physics, but we can change human laws.He argues for three shifts:· We adjust taxes around the costs (for example what the land has given us) so that we are more respectful of the environmental consequences of using the land. A sort of land value tax.· A shift back to multi transportation models as our forefathers had in order to reduce crazy commuting times· A different way to think about the inter-relationships of our natural resources (oil, land, geohistory) and how we make investment decisions moving forward.

Recent research by Cambia Information shows only 7% of Americans are fully in on the idea of EVs. Now imagine an EV with no driver, that looks completely different than any other form factor than ever before and is backed by Amazon breaks the mold for transportation ideas for the next ten years and beyond. As we move to accept new vehicle form factors Imagine how this changes how we interact with the cities and towns we live in, not just getting from the office to a client meeting or even how we might commute from home, but also how we experience going to a restaurant, a late-night jazz club or even shopping. A completely autonomous experience for human passengers, basically re-inventing human transportation. Jesse Levinson is the Co-Founder and CTO for Zoox, The Amazon autonomous vehicle company based in Foster City, California.

Charlene Li is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She is the Founder of Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm that was acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Charlene is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and was named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company. The podcast covers a variety of contriversial topics for 2032 on the shape of things to come.

Our guest for this podcast, Lawrence Shindell, is a world-renowned expert in the verification and trustworthiness of methods designed to verify the authenticity of art. His ideas on the potential power of NFT's, nanotechnology, machine learning and AI to solve the challenges of authenticity in artwork by 2030 are a rare glimpse into the world 99.99% of us will never be involved in. Yet the progressive application of technologies may open up a sense of comfort to us who go to art museums and have a doubt that maybe not all the collections are fully authentic. Crazy things still happen in a modern, technology-centered world. For example, a gallery bought and then sold on a Jackson Pollack with misspellings in the signature for $2M less than ten years ago. An inflation-adjusted $127M now.

The network effect is the essence of the power of the internet. It adds exponential power and opportunities the more and more people get to use it. Ideas like internet-scale mean we can exponentially expand usage and interconnectedness without major investments. Digital opportunities mean we can seamlessly move from one environment to another and across any device type, almost no matter where we are. The economic opportunities created by these seamless experiences are all around us. Access to this seamless internet is seen as a human right no matter who you are (economically, disability-wise). Now imagine a transportation system (planes, trains, cars) that could deliver such a seamless, interconnected experience for everyone. Our guest, Matt Jones the director of technology at Ford talks about how software factory thinking across all forms of transportation could deliver the same scale and experiences to those less able and less financially advantaged than now. The world of transportation and the auto industries in 2032 and beyond could be fundamentally transformed.

This conversation occurred before Covid-19 in the US. Its ideas and messages feel even more appropriate than before with Anne's focus on inclusion and diversity at its core. One thing that especially makes Anne stand out is the description of herself in her LinkedIn profile: Transformation executive, servant leader, diversity & inclusion champion, culture expert, and blogger.AT&T's construct of rotating executives is not unheard of elsewhere, but it is still very common in most global leading brands. While AT&T is significantly ahead of its peer competitors there is still some way to go to have women and women of color properly represented in the halls of executive leadership. Anne's own journey to be the CEO of a unit that would in itself be a Fortune 50 company should serve as a shining example of what is possible with some key variables.Think of these four facts and how they are going to affect our futures and our, future leaders.In 2019 29% of management roles were held by women even although 50% of the workforce is female.Only 1 in 5 people on boards are female. For multicultural women, this statistic plummets to just 1 in 25. Yet by 2060 (a little out of the range of this podcast but one many of us will be around for) 50% of the US population will be women of diverse color. Anne's journey and advice should serve as a beacon to all of us.

We live in a converging world of physical and virtual opportunities. Sometimes these converge with interesting positive upsides like Amazon, or Uber Eats, or Airbnb. AI is at the center of these digital companies as they scale massively to deliver near-instant value through data, from physical data to the virtual world and from the virtual world to the physical world. Those able to combine physical and virtual have been able to dominate traditional thinking and established norms in transformative ways, This is the new world order, the new way business will happen. Data-driven, near-instant, AI instructed, and near-instantly agile and effective. Now apply that thinking to the world of intelligence and national defense. Converging virtual and physical threats and opportunities and the realization that a digital-led, data model is where we are going. The US Airforce's first chief software officer talks to us about that future and our choices in the 2030s.

Much of the challenge with the next great technology is the ability to connect the innovation or the technology directly to the idea of changing the world. A faster cell phone, a more powerful processor, a smaller footprint all feel good, but they don't shift the power in the world to do better for all. Our guest today, Cristina Rodriguez is Vice President in Intel Corporation's Network and Edge Group and general manager of the Wireless Access Network Division see this as the moment that the traditional model should be stepped over for how ideas like the edge, latency-free and 5G all connect together and will vastly stretch technologies in this new world to directly open up opportunities for underserved communities across the globe, first and foremost. It's a unique view about how technology companies can change the velocity for their effect on the whole world by 2031.

This week's guest is an important indicator of a future world where doing the right things will directly correlate with getting the financial results. As the ex-Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, Robert Chesnut. Robert has lived the journey of doing the right things actually driving better results. What was once a paradox of trying to achieve profits (for shareholders) versus doing the right things for employees, customers and the environment is no longer the case now and he argues will need to be the norm for operating practices and leadership by 2031. It's a lesson in the choices we no longer need to make to be successful.

Leadership often takes outsiders to redefine highly established industries. Five chocolate vendors own the vast majority of the global chocolate market's delivery and production. Our guest Nate Saal, the founder of CocoTerra believes that this should not be the case by 2031 when creating highly personalized versions of chocolate should be as easy as baking at home or making wine. He is a technologist from the software industry bringing a whole new way of thinking to an industry dominated by traditional thinking and methods for production. Innovation invariably has to come from way outside the industry to change the very traditions that have dominated its shape and form over time. Five companies make the vast majority of the world's chocolate product and their techniques prevent easy home construction. His promise is an indicator of how we as consumers are changing the lens for how companies will need to innovate and deliver in order for them to keep ahead of the curve as old production monopolies are questioned and challenged

Amy Webb is a rare breed of industry-respected thinker (Thinkers 50 Radar award winner in 2018), author (The Big Nine and The Signals Are Talking), and somebody prepared to look at signals in the world now and draw out what possible challenges, opportunities, and discussions we need to have that are new in order for humankind to thrive by 2030The control and ownership of AI patents, development of IP, and people are very much centered on the Big Nine (it includes Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google, Facebook). In effect, the capital base for an AI or data-centered global economy sits in the hands of just nine organizations. This could be very scary as it throws up new ideas, debates, and even lexicography that is not very present in the way we think today.For example, should person A be presented with a different price for the same product as person B depending on their profile or online data? This could range from the price of toilet paper to even maybe healthcare.

In January 2020 the US theater industry was a very solid 9% up on revenue and screen viewings compared to 2019. Various blockbusters, romantic comedies, and the normal array of independent moves were part of a very traditional mix of post-Christmas release programs, increasingly seeing near parallel releases around the world. Nothing was in the pipeline that would have changed this perception or even projection that the industry was literally about to fall off a cliff and drop 80%+ in the next few months because of Covid-19.

We live in a world of exponential change. It affects all of us. However, it has its greatest effect on leadership as we increasingly have to make conscious decisions about the world we want to create in a world of exponential change. To put it in a simple metaphor. We all live in a world of Moore's law. That underlying challenge sits at the heart of the discussion today with Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach the authors of the forthcoming book, Provoke. Do you choose to lead a wind-down or choose to provoke change?

As we have all experienced the first year and half of Covid-19, it is clear that working from home has un-even rules. Some of us have the space at home, some of us can do work remotely. It's assumed most of us have access to a powerful enough internet to work with colleagues and customers. Yet, in reality, and especially in the United States, many do not have that privilege. Yet their work and working habits could be seen on the same level as their peers with the right type of internet access. With the onset of Covid-19, we have transformed from a world where 3% of us worked from home to one where maybe 30% or more work from home; (as of publication, the number is 26%) this rural access divide will become an increasing disadvantage for a sizeable under-served swath of society. Twenty-five percent of the US live in a rural environment. As we all work in a digital world, why would we want to stunt opportunities for one in four of us?