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Cookies are out, context is in. People Inc.'s Jonathan Roberts joins The Big Impression to talk about how America's biggest publisher is using AI to reinvent contextual advertising with real-time intent.From Game of Thrones maps to the open web, Roberts believes content is king in the AI economy. Episode TranscriptPlease note, this transcript  may contain minor inconsistencies compared to the episode audio.Damian Fowler (00:00):I'm Damian Fowler, and welcome to this edition of The Big Impression. Today we're looking at how publishers are using AI to reinvent contextual advertising and why it's becoming an important and powerful alternative to identity-based targeting. My guest is Jonathan Roberts, chief Innovation Officer at People Inc. America's largest publisher, formerly known as Meredith. He's leading the charge with decipher an AI platform that helps advertisers reach audiences based on real time intent across all of People Inc. Site and the Open Web. We're going to break down how it works, what it means for advertisers in a privacy first world and why Jonathan's side hustle. Creating maps for Game of Thrones has something for teachers about building smarter ad tech. So let's get into it. One note, this episode was recorded before the company changed its name. After the Meredith merger, you had some challenges getting the business going again. What made you realize that sort of rethinking targeting with decipher could be the way to go?Jonathan Roberts (01:17):We had a really strong belief and always have had a strong belief in the power of great content and also great content that helps people do things. Notably and Meredith are both in the olden times, you would call them service journalism. They help people do things, they inspire people. It's not news, it's not sports. If you go to Better Homes and Gardens to understand how to refresh your living room for spring, you're going to go into purchase a lot of stuff for your living room. If you're planting seeds for a great garden, you're also going to buy garden furniture. If you're going to health.com, you're there because you're managing a condition. If you're going to all recipes, you're shopping for dinner. These are all places where the publisher and the content is a critical path on the purchase to doing something like an economically valuable something. And so putting these two businesses together to build the largest publisher in the US and one of the largest in the world was a real privilege. All combinations are hard. When we acquired Meredith, it is a big, big business. We became the largest print publisher overnight.(02:23):What we see now, because we've been growing strongly for many, many quarters, and that growth is continuing, we're public. You can see our numbers, the performance is there, the premium is there, and you can always sell anything once. The trick is will people renew when they come back? And now we're in a world where our advertising revenue, which is the majority of our digital revenue, is stable and growing, deeply reliable and just really large. And we underpin that with decipher. Decipher simply is a belief that what you're reading right now tells a lot more about who you are and what you are going to do than a cookie signal, which is two days late and not relevant. What you did yesterday is less relevant to what you need to do than what you're doing right now. And so using content as a real time predictive signal is very, very performant. It's a hundred percent addressable, right? Everyone's reading content when we target to, they're on our content and we guaranteed it would outperform cookies, and we run a huge amount of ad revenue and we've never had to pay it in a guarantee.Damian Fowler (03:34):It's interesting that you're talking about contextual, but you're talking about contextual in real time, which seems to be the difference. I mean, because some people hear contextually, they go, oh, well, that's what you used to do, place an ad next to a piece of content in the garden supplement or the lifestyle supplement, but this is different.Jonathan Roberts (03:53):Yes. Yeah. I mean, ensemble say it's 2001 called and once it's at Targeting strategy back, but all things are new again, and I think they're newly fresh and newly relevant, newly accurate because it can do things now that we were never able to do before. So one of the huge strengths of Meredith as a platform is because we own People magazine, we dominate entertainment, we have better homes and gardens and spruce, we really cover home. We have all recipes. We literally have all the recipes plus cereal, seeds plus food and wine. So we cover food. We also do tech, travel, finance and health, and you could run those as a hazard brands, and they're all great in their own, but there's no network effect. What we discovered was because I know we have a pet site and we also have real simple, and we know that if you are getting a puppy or you have an aging dog, which we know from the pet site, we know you massively over index for interest in cleaning products and cleaning ideas on real simple, right?Damian Fowler (04:55):Yeah.Jonathan Roberts (04:55):This doesn't seem like a shocking conclusion to have, but the fact that we have both tells us both, which also means that if you take a health site where we're helping people with their chronic conditions, we can see all the signals of exactly what help you need with your diet. Huge overlaps. So we have all the recipe content and we know exactly how that cross correlates with chronic conditions. We also know how those health conditions correlate into skincare because we have Brody, which deals with makeup and beauty, but also all the skincare conditions and finance, right? Health is a financial situation as much as it is a health situation, particularly in the us. And so by tying these together, because most of these situations are whole lifestyle questions, we can understand that if you're thinking about planning a cruise in the Mediterranean, you're a good target for Vanguard to market mutual funds to. Whereas if we didn't have both investipedia and travel leisure, we couldn't do that. And so there's nothing on that cruise page, on the page in the words that allows you to do keyword targeting for mutual funds.(05:55):But we're using the fact that we know that cruise is a predictor of a mutual fund purchase so that we can actually market to anyone in market per cruise. We know they've got disposable income, they're likely low risk, long-term buy andhold investors with value investing needs. And we know that because we have these assets now, we have about 1500 different topics that we track across all of DDM across 1.5 million articles, tens of millions of visits a day, billions a year. If you just look at the possible correlations between any of those taxonomies that's over a million, or if we go a level deeper, over a hundred million connected data points, you can score. We've scored all of them with billions of visits, and so we have that full map of all consumers.Damian Fowler (06:42):I wanted to ask you, of course, and you always get this question I'm sure, but you have a pretty unusual background for ad tech theoretical physics as you mentioned, and researcher at CERN and Mapmaker as well for Game of Thrones, but this isn't standard publisher experience, but how did all that scientific background play into the way you approached building this innovation?Jonathan Roberts (07:03):Yeah, I think when I first joined the company, which was a long time ago now, and one of the original bits of this company was about.com, one of the internet oh 0.1 OG sites, and there was daily data on human interest going back to January 1st, 2000 across over a thousand different topics. And in that case, tens of millions of articles. And the team said, is this useful? Is there anything here that's interesting? I was like, oh my god, you don't know what you've got because if you treat as a physicist coming in, I looked at this and was like, this is a, it's like a telescope recording all of human interest. Each piece of content is like a single pixel of your telescope. And so if somebody comes and visit, you're like, oh, I'm recording the interest of this person in this topic, and you've got this incredibly fine grained understanding of the world because you've got all these people coming to us telling us what they want every day.(08:05):If I'm a classic news publisher, I look at my data and I find out what headlines I broke, I look at my data and I learn more about my own editorial strategy than I do about the world. We do not as much tell the world what to think about. The world tells us what they care about. And so that if you treat that as just a pure experimental framework where this incredible lens into an understanding of the world, lots of things are very stable. Many questions that people ask, they always ask, but you understand why do they ask them today? What's causing the to what are the correlations between what they are understanding around our finance business through the financial crash, our health business, I ran directly through COVID. So you see this kind of real time change of the world reacting to big shocks and it allows you to predict what comes next, right? Data's lovely, but unless you can do something with it, it's useless.Damian Fowler (08:59):It's interesting to hear you talk about that consistency, the sort of predictability in some ways of, I guess intense signals or should we just say human behavior, but now we've got AI further, deeper into the mix.Jonathan Roberts (09:13):So we were the first US publisher to do a deal with open ai, and that comes in three parts. They paid for training on our content. They also agreed within the contract to source and cite our content when it was used. And the third part, the particularly interesting part, is co-development of new things. So we've been involved with them as they've been building out their search product. They've been involved with us as we've been evolving decipher, one of the pieces of decipher is saying, can I understand which content is related to which other content? And in old fashioned pre AI days when it was just machine learning and natural language processing, you would just look at words and word occurrence and important words, and you'd correlate them that way. With ai, you go from the word to the concept to the reasoning behind it to a latent understanding of these kind of deeper, deeper connections.(10:09):And so when we changed over literally like, is this content related to that content? Is this article similar in what it's treating to that article? If they didn't use the same words but they were talking about the same topic, the previous system would've missed it. This system gets deeper. It's like, oh, this is the same concept. This is the same user need. These are the same intentions. And so when we overhauled this kind of multimillion point to point connection calculation, we drastically changed about 30% of those connections and significantly improved them, gives a much reacher, much deeper understanding of our content. What we've also done is said, and this is a year thing that we launched it at the beginning of the year, we have decipher, which runs on site. We launched Decipher Plus Inventively named right? I like it. We debated Max or Max Plus, but we went with Plus.(10:59):And what this says is we understand the user intent on our sites. We know when somebody's reading content, we have a very strong predictor model of what that person's going to need to do next. And we said, well, we're not the only people with intent driven content and intent driven audiences. So we know that if you're reading about newborn health topics, you are three and a half times more likely than average to be in market for a stroller. We're not the only people that write about newborn health. So we can find the individual pages on the rest of the web that do talk about newborn health, and we can unlock that very strong prediction that this purchase intent there. And so then we can have a premium service that buy those ads and delivers that value to our clients. Now we do that mapping and we've indexed hundreds of premium domains with opening eyes vector, embedding architecture to build that logic.Damian Fowler (11:56):That's fascinating. So in lots of ways, you're helping other publishers beyond your owned and operated properties.Jonathan Roberts (12:02):We believed that there was a premium in publishing that hadn't been tapped. We proved that to be true. Our numbers support it. We bet 2.7 billion on that bet, and it worked. So we really put our money where our mouth is. We know there's a premium outside of our walls that isn't being unlocked, and we have an information advantage so we can bring more premium to the publishers who have that quality content.Damian Fowler (12:24):I've got lots of questions about that, but one of them is, alright. I guess the first one is why have publishers been so slow out of the starting blocks to get this right when on the media buying side you have all of this ad tech that's going on, DSPs, et cetera.Jonathan Roberts (12:42):I think partly it's because publishers have always been a participant in the ad tech market off to one side. I put this back to the original sin of Ad Tech, which is coming in and saying, don't worry about it, publishers, we know your audience better than you ever will. That wasn't true then, and it's not true today, but Ad Tech pivoted the market to that position and that meant the publishers were dependent upon ad Tech's understanding of their audience. Now, if you've got a cookie-based understanding of an audience, how does a publisher make that cookie-based audience more valuable? Well, they don't because you're valuing the cookie, not the real time signal. And there is no such thing as cookie targeting. It's all retargeting. All the cookie signal is yesterday Signal. It's only what they did before they came to your site, dead star like or something, right? The publisher definitionally isn't influencing the value of that cookie. So an ad tech is valuing the cookie. The only thing the publisher can do to make more money is add scale, which is either generate clickbait because that's the cheapest way to get audience scale or run more ads on the page.(13:57):Cookies as a currency for advertising and targeting is the reason we currently have the internet We deserve, not the internet we want because the incentive is to cheap scale. If instead you can prove that the content is driving the value, the content is driving the decision and the content is driving the outcome, then you invest in more premium content. If you're a publisher, the second world is the one you want. But we had a 20 year distraction from understanding the value of content. And we're only now coming back to, I think one thing I'm very really happy to see is since we launched a cipher two years ago, there are now multiple publishers coming out with similarly inspired targeting architecture or ideas about how to reach quality, which is just a sign that the market has moved, right? Or the market moving and retargeting still works. Cookies are good currency, they do drive performance. If they didn't, it would never worked in the first place. But the ability to understand and classify premium content at web scale, which is what decipher Plus is a map for all intent across the entire open web is the thing that's required for quality content to be competitive with cookies as targeting mechanism and to beat it atDamian Fowler (15:15):Scale. You mentioned how this helps you reach all these third party sites beyond your properties. How do you ensure that there's still quality in the, there's quality content that match the kind of signals that makes decipher work?Jonathan Roberts (15:32):Tell me, not all content on the internet is beautiful, clean and wonderful. Not allDamian Fowler (15:36):Premium is it?Jonathan Roberts (15:36):I know there's a lot of made for arbitrage out there. Look, we, we've been a publisher for a long time. We've acquired a lot of publishers over the years, and every time we have bought a publisher, we have had to clean up the content because cheap content for scale is a siren call of publishing. Like, oh, I can get these eyeballs cheaper. Oh, wonderful. I know I just do that. And everyone gives it on some level to that, right? So we have consistently cleaned up content libraries every time we've acquired publishers. Look at the very beginning about had maybe 10 to 15 million euros. By the time we launched these artists and these individual vertical sites were down to 250,000 pages of content. It was a bigger business and it was a better business. The other side is the actual ad layout has to be good,Damian Fowler (16:29):ButJonathan Roberts (16:29):Every time we've picked up a publisher, we've removed ads from the site. Increase, yeah, experience quality,Damian Fowler (16:33):Right?Jonathan Roberts (16:36):Because we've audited multiple publishers for the cleanup, we have an incredibly detailed understanding of what quality content is. We have lots of, this is our special skill as a publisher. We can go into a publisher, identify the content and see what's good.Damian Fowler (16:54):Is that part of your pitch as it were, to people who advertisers?Jonathan Roberts (16:58):We work lots of advertisers. We're a huge part of the advertising market because we cover all the verticals. We have endemics in every space. If you're trying to do targeting based on identity, we have tens of millions of people a day. It'll work. You will find them with us, we reach the entire country every month. We are a platform scale publisher. So at no point do we saying don't do that, obviously do that, right? But what we're saying is there's a whole bunch of people who you can't identify, either they don't have cookies or IDs or because the useful data doesn't exist yet. It's not attached to those IDs. So incremental, supplementary and additional to reach the people in the moment with a hundred percent addressability, full national reach, complete privacy compliance, just the content, total brand safety. And we will put these two things side by side and we will guarantee that the decipher targeting will outperform the cookie targeting, which isn't say don't do cookie targeting, obviously do it. It works, it's successful. This is incremental and also will outperform. And then it just depends on the client, right? Some people want brand lift and brand consideration. They want big flashy things. We run People Magazine, we host the Grammy after party. We can do all the things you need from a large partner more than just media, but also we can get you right down to, for some partners with big deals, we guarantee incremental roas,Damian Fowler (18:26):ActualJonathan Roberts (18:26):In-store sales, incremental lift.Damian Fowler (18:29):So let's talk about roas. What's driving advertisers to lean in so heavily?Jonathan Roberts (18:34):Well, I think everybody's seen this over the last couple of years. In a high interest or environment, the CMOs getting asked, what's the return on my ad spend? So whereas previously you might've just been able to do a big flashy execution or activation. Now everybody wants some level of that media spend to be attributable to lift to dollars, to return to performance, because every single person who comes through our sites is going to do something after they come. We're never the last stop in that journey, and we don't sell you those garden seeds. We do not sell you the diabetes medication directly. We are going to have to hand you off to a partner who is going to be the place you take the economic action. So we are in the path to purchase for every single purchase on Earth.(19:19):And what we've proven with decipher is not only that we can be in that pathway and put the message in the path of that person who is going to make a decision, has not made one yet. But when we put the messaging in front of it of that person at the time, it changes their decisions, which is why it's not just roas, which could just be handing out coupons in the line to the pizza store. It's incremental to us, if you did not do this, you would have made less money. When you do this, you'll make more money. And having got to a point where we've now got multiple large campaigns, both for online action and brick and mortar stores that prove that when we advertise the person at this moment, they change their decision and they make their brand more money. Turns out that's not the hardest conversation to have with marketers. Truly, truly, if you catch people at the right moment, you will change their mind.Damian Fowler (20:10):They'll happily go back to their CFO and say, look at this. This is workingJonathan Roberts (20:15):No controversially at can. During the festival of advertising that we have as a publisher, we may be the most confident to say, you know what? Advertising works.Damian Fowler (20:27):You recently brought in a dedicated president to leadJonathan Roberts (20:30):Decipher,Damian Fowler (20:30):Right? So how does that help you take what started out as this in-house innovation that you've been working on and turn it into something even bigger?Jonathan Roberts (20:39):Yeah, I think my background is physics. I was a theoretical physicist for a decade. Theoretical physicists have some good and bad traits. A good trait is a belief that everything can be solved. Because my previous job was wake up in the morning and figure out how the universe began and like, well, today I'll figure it out. And nobody else has, right? There's a level of, let's call it intellectual confidence or arrogance in that approach. How hard can it be? The answer is very, but it also means you're a little bit of a diante, right? You're coming like, oh, it's ad tech. How hard can it be? And the just vary, right? So there's a benefit. I mean, I've done a lot of work in ad tech over the last couple of years. Jim Lawson, our president of Decipher, ran a publicly listed DSP, right? He was a public company, CEO, he knows this stuff inside a and back to front, Lindsay Van Kirk on the Cipher team launched the ADN Nexus, DSP, Patrick McCarthy, who runs all of our open web and a lot of our trade desk partnerships and the execution of all of the ways we connect into the entire ecosystem.(21:38):Ran product for AppNexus. Sam Selgin on the data science team wrote that Nexus bitter. I've got a good idea where we're going with this and where we should go with this and the direction we should be pointed in. But we have seasoned multi-decade experience pros doing the work because if you don't, you can have a good idea and bad execution, then you didn't do anything. Unless you can execute to the highest level, it won't actually work. And so we've had to bring in, I'm very glad we have brought in and love having them on the team. These people who can really take the beginnings of what we have and really take this to the scale that needs to be. Decipher. Plus is a framework for understanding user intent at Webscale and getting performance for our clients and unlocking a premium at Webscale. That is a huge project to go after and pull off. We have so many case studies proving that it will work, but we have a long way to go between where we are and where this thing naturally gets to. And that takes a lot of people with a lot of professional skills to go to.Damian Fowler (22:43):What's one thing right now that you're obsessed with figuring outJonathan Roberts (22:46):To take a complete left turn, but it is the topic up and down the Cosette this summer. There isn't currently any viable model for information economy in an AI future. There's lots of ideas of what it would be, but there isn't a subtle marketplace for this. We've got a very big two-sided marketplace for information. It's called Google and search. That's obviously changing. We haven't got to a point to understand what that future is. But if AI is powered by chips, power and content, if you're a chip investor, you're in a good place. If you're investing energy, you're in a good place of the three picks and shovels investments, content is probably the most undervalued at the moment. Lots of people are starting to realize that and building under the hood what that could look like. How that evolves in the next year is going to really determine what kind of information gets created because markets align to their incentives. If you build the marketplace well, you're going to end up with great content, great journalism, great creativity. If you build it wrong, you're going to have a bunch of cheap slop getting flooded the marketplace. And we are not going to fund great journalism. So that's at a moment in time where that future is getting determined and we have a very strong set of opinions on the publishing side, what that should look like. And I am very keen to make sure it gets done. You soundDamian Fowler (24:17):Optimistic.Jonathan Roberts (24:19):A year ago, the VCs and the technologists believed if you just slammed enough information into an AI system, you'd never need content ever again. And that the brain itself was the moat. Then deep seek proved that the brain wasn't a moat. That reasoning is a commodity because we found out that China could do it cheaper and faster, and we were shocked, shocked that China could do it cheaper and faster. And then the open source community rebuilt deep to in 48 hours, which was the real killer. So if reasoning is a commodity, which it is now, then content is king, right? Because reasoning on its own is free, but if you're grounding it in quality content, your answer's better. But the market dynamics have not caught up to that reality. But that is the reality. So I am optimistic that content goes back to our premium position in this. Now we just have to do all the boring stuff of figuring out what a viable marketplace looks like, how people get paid, all of this, all the hard work, but there's now a future model to align to.Damian Fowler (25:23):I love that. Alright, I've got to ask you this question. It's the last one, but I was going to ask it. You spent time building maps, visualizing data, and I've looked at your site, it's brilliant. Is there anything from that side of your creativity that helped you think differently about building say something like decipher?Jonathan Roberts (25:42):Yeah. So I think it won't surprise anyone to find out that I'm a massive nerd, right? I used to play d and d, I still do. We have my old high school group still convenes on Sunday afternoons, and we play d and d over Discord. Fantasy maps have been an obsession of mine for a long time. I did the fantasy maps of Game of Thrones. I'm George r Martin's cartographer. I published the book Lands of Ice and Fire with him. Maps are infographics. A map is a way of taking a complex system that you cannot visualize and bringing it to a world in which you can reason about it. I spent a lot of my life taking complex systems that nobody can visualize and building models and frameworks that help people reason about 'em and make decisions in a shared way. At this moment, as you're walking up and down the cosette, there is no map for the future. Nobody has a map, nobody has a plan. Not Google, not Microsoft, not Amazon, not our friends at OpenAI. Nobody knows what's coming. And so even just getting, but lots of people have ideas and opinions and thoughts and directions. So taking all that input and rationalize again to like, okay, if we lay it out like this, what breaks? Being able to logically reason about those virtual scenario. It is exactly the same process, that mental model as Matt.Damian Fowler (27:12):And that's it for this edition of The Big Impression. This show is produced by Molten Hart. Our theme is by loving caliber, and our associate producer is Sydney Cairns. And remember,Jonathan Roberts (27:22):We do not as much tell the world what to think about. The world tells us what they care about. Data's lovely, but unless you do something with it, it's useless.Damian Fowler (27:31):I'm Damian, and we'll see you next time.

In Estonia, Delfi Meedia has built one of the strongest foundations for AI in journalism. With one of the highest digital subscription rates in the world, Delfi has moved beyond the buzz around AI to put it into everyday practice, supporting both its journalism and business.In this episode, host Nikita Roy is joined by Ivar Krustok, Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Delfi Meedia. Ivar breaks down how a small-market publisher is shipping AI that actually helps journalists: from live cross-language translation and newsroom bots to an in-house “company ChatGPT” toolkit wired into 25 years of archives and public records.Key topics include:•Delfi's three-bucket AI strategy: everyday newsroom tools, experimental long-term projects, and company-wide literacy.•Why Delfi built its own “company ChatGPT” toolkit to search 25 years of archives.•How bots and agents are transforming dashboards into conversational tools for subscriptions, ads, and editorial performance.•Lessons from AI experiments, from court-case monitoring that surfaces hidden stories to audience-facing image generators.•The ongoing challenge of scaling AI literacy across hundreds of staff while keeping adoption practical and trust-centered.Sign up for the Newsroom Robots newsletter for episode summaries and insights from host Nikita Roy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As universities and enterprises both turn to large-scale digital learning, the challenges of scaling education look remarkably similar across sectors. From managing data pipelines to ensuring learners feel a sense of connection, success depends on more than just technology. In this Pure Storage-sponsored episode of the ‘AI in Business' podcast from Emerj, Norma Scagnoli, Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at the Illinois Institute of Technology, discusses how higher education institutions are navigating cultural resistance, accreditation hurdles, and governance demands while scaling MOOCs and degree programs. She also shares lessons enterprises can apply as they build partnerships with universities and adopt AI-driven personalization for workforce training. Want to share your AI adoption story with executive peers? Click emerj.com/expert2 for more information and to be a potential future guest on the ‘AI in Business' podcast! If you've enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show! This episode is sponsored by Pure Storage. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.

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Pippa speaks to Neil Schreuder, Checkers’ Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer about their new smart trollies. Lunch with Pippa Hudson is CapeTalk’s mid-afternoon show. This 2-hour respite from hard news encourages the audience to take the time to explore, taste, read and reflect. The show - presented by former journalist, baker and water sports enthusiast Pippa Hudson - is unashamedly lifestyle driven. Popular features include a daily profile interview #OnTheCouch at 1:10pm. Consumer issues are in the spotlight every Wednesday while the team also unpacks all things related to health, wealth & the environment. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Lunch with Pippa Hudson Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 13:00 and 15:00 (SA Time) to Lunch with Pippa Hudson broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/MdSlWEs or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/fDJWe69 Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs, shares insights on where AI is making the biggest strides in healthcare, especially in documentation and diagnostics. He also explores areas where the technology still falls short, emphasizing the importance of high-quality data and thoughtful implementation.

The Great Balancing Act: Navigating Innovation and Stability in Healthcare Tech with Scott Arnold Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Scott Arnold, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Tampa General On this episode, host Megan Antonelli speaks with Scott Arnold, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at Tampa General Hospital. With decades of experience and a broad leadership portfolio spanning IT, cybersecurity, analytics, clinical engineering, and venture investment, Scott shares insights on the evolution of digital health. He reflects on the transformation of healthcare technology—from the early days of electronic health records to today's focus on robotics, video tech, and enhancing the digital experiences of both patients and team members. Scott also discusses how consistent leadership alignment has helped drive innovation while maintaining stability across Tampa General's digital strategy. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

In this episode, Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs, shares insights on the rapid evolution of AI in healthcare and the importance of validating digital tools. He emphasizes maintaining human connection in care as technology enhances efficiency and transforms the patient experience.

Send us a textWhat exactly does a credit union's chief strategy officer do?  On the show today is Bill Snider, the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at Clearview Federal Credit Union, a credit union with around $2 billion in assets that serves 10 counties around Pittsburgh.Longtime listeners will recall that I have expressed skepticism about strategies at many credit unions, also their commitment to innovation.Snider is here to show that in fact a credit union indeed can have a genuine strategy and be innovative and, importantly, these abilities are essentials for Clearview which - by virtue of its location - has to compete with PNC, a Pittsburgh local bank that also has assets of about $555 billion and is in fact the seventh largest bank in the US. But Pittsburgh is its home and definitely plays on the local angle.The show is wide ranging - we talk about AI, mobile apps, and also community service and feeding the hungry.But all of that is in the innovative stew that a chief strategy officer has to deal with today.Listen up.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.comAnd like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto

Matt Pine is training Marines to use 3D printing in the field and helping deploy the technology globally for the United States Marine Corps. Working primarily with desktop machines, he focuses on MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul), improvised repair, and delivering parts to where servicemen and women need them most. Matt talks about the needs of the Marine Corps, and we explore the differences between 3D printing at Camp Lejeune and in a forward operating area. We discuss which parts are needed, what materials are required, and how 3D printing can be scaled effectively. We also learn how Matt trains Marines to 3D print and which Marines can and should be trained in this process. His experiences overseas and in conflict zones give him a sanguine view of what is needed and what 3D printing can realistically deliver. This episode was brought to you by Continuum Powders.

The Big Unlock Podcast · Transforming Wellness-First Senior Communities Through AI and Social Determinants – Podcast with Mike Hughes In this episode, Michael Hughes, Senior EVP, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at United Church Homes, shares how the organization is reshaping the future of senior living. Moving beyond a traditional housing-first model, United Church Homes is leading a shift toward a wellness-first approach that prioritizes health, dignity, and independence for older adults.  With more than 100 communities across 15 states, the organization is leveraging scalable, data-driven strategies to support aging in place, particularly for vulnerable populations. Mike explains how understanding and addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) is key to improving outcomes, and how machine learning is helping evaluate the impact of non-clinical interventions in real-world settings. From transitioning fall detection to fall prevention, to exploring lightweight sensor technologies, Mike emphasizes the importance of proactive care and personal motivation in sustaining long-term wellness. He also introduces the organization's Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program—a unique initiative that brings innovators into senior communities to co-create human-centered solutions rooted in real-life experience. Take a listen.

Dr. Andy Franklyn-Miller discusses Plant Peptides with Dr. Ben Weitz. [If you enjoy this podcast, please give us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, so more people will find The Rational Wellness Podcast. Also check out the video version on my WeitzChiro YouTube page.]   Podcast Highlights         ____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Andy Franklyn-Miller is the Chief Medical and Innovation Officer for Nuritas, the world-renowned pioneer in AI-based peptide discovery. The website for Nuritas is Nuritas.com. Dr. Ben Weitz is available for Functional Nutrition consultations specializing in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders like IBS/SIBO and Reflux and also Cardiometabolic Risk Factors like elevated lipids, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.  Dr. Weitz has also successfully helped many patients with managing their weight and improving their athletic performance, as well as sports chiropractic work by calling his Santa Monica office 310-395-3111.

In the premiere episode of this new Pulse Check series, Ctrl + Create: AI for Creatives, host Dave Hunt sits down with Matt Owens, Co-founder and Chief Design and Innovation Officer at Athletics. With decades of experience in design, branding, and demystifying new tools, Matt shares how his team is using AI to push creative boundaries, streamline workflows, and preserve the magic of craft. This episode explores how creative studios—and higher ed marketers—can embrace AI with curiosity and confidence, not fear.Guest Name: Matt Owens, Chief Design and Innovation Officer & Founding Partner, Athletics - http://athleticsnyc.comGuest Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/volumeone/https://www.instagram.com/mattvolumeoneGuest Bio: Matt Owens is a New York-based designer, creative director, founder, and entrepreneur, and the author of the book A Visible Distance: Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design, published by Set Margins. With 25 years of experience across all facets of creative practice, Matt works with ambitious leaders, strategists, designers, creative technologists, and marketers to bring rich multi-faceted creative ideas and experiences to life.A Texas native, Matt studied graphic design at the University of Texas at Austin and received a Master's Degree in graphic design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is a founding partner of Athletics, a brand innovation studio based in New York City, and serves as Chief Design and Innovation Officer. Founded in 2004, Athletics has grown through a commitment to design innovation and an ability to work with clients such as Major League Soccer, IBM, Citrix, Google, Amazon, and Square to meet the challenges of contemporary brand-building.Matt has helped teams leverage new tools and processes across disciplines and led projects for clients including Abbott, NYU, XQ, Guild, The Pulitzer Prizes, and Culligan. He has spoken internationally, and his work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, The American Center for Design, and the AIGA. His thought leadership has been published in Print Magazine, Fast Company, Ad Week, and AdAge. His early experimental design work at volumeone.com was selected to be in SFMoMA's permanent collection. In his spare time, Matt can be found writing about design and entrepreneurship on Substack and Medium, experimenting in Cinema 4D, and developing new ventures like Kingston Standard and the creative and strategic foresight collective Preseason. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Attend the 2025 Engage Summit! The Engage Summit is the premier conference for forward-thinking leaders and practitioners dedicated to exploring the transformative power of AI in education. Explore the strategies and tools to step into the next generation of student engagement, supercharged by AI. You'll leave ready to deliver the most personalized digital engagement experience every step of the way.Register now to secure your spot in Charlotte, NC, on June 24-25, 2025! Early bird registration ends February 1st -- https://engage.element451.com/register

Bienvenue dans ce nouvel épisode de Toutes Puissantes ! ✨Aujourd'hui, j'ai la joie de recevoir Magali Anderson à mon micro, pour inaugurer un nouveau format : Les confidences de Toutes Puissantes .Dans cette série, des femmes occupant des postes de pouvoir partagent un obstacle majeur rencontré dans leur parcours, et comment elles ont trouvé des ressources pour le surmonter.Et quel honneur d'ouvrir ce cycle avec Magali.Ingénieure mécanique diplômée de l'INSA de Lyon, Magali a passé une grande partie de sa carrière dans l'industrie, notamment chez SLB, où elle a occupé des postes de direction sur quatre continents. Elle a ensuite été Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer du groupe Holcim, avant de siéger aujourd'hui au conseil d'administration de Anglo-American et de Capital Coalition. Elle est aussi la fondatrice de S4 – Secret Society of Sustainability Spies.Mais aujourd'hui, Magali ne vient pas seulement parler de carrière ou de titres.Elle vient témoigner d'un sujet encore tabou : le harcèlement professionnel.❓ Comment le vivre quand on est une femme à haut niveau de responsabilité ?❓ Quels impacts durables sur la confiance, la trajectoire, la légitimité ?❓ Et surtout, comment sortir du silence et reconstruire son pouvoir intérieur ?Magali nous livre avec franchise, intelligence et courage, un récit rare et nécessaire. Celui d'une femme brillante, mais pas épargnée. D'une leader, qui choisit aujourd'hui de parler pour celles qui n'osent pas encore.Un épisode fort, qui brise le silence autour d'une réalité bien trop fréquente – et pourtant trop souvent tue.

In this episode, Chris Thomas, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer here at Munro, meets Ali Kashani, Founder & CEO of Serve Robotics, for a discussion on Serve's autonomous food delivery robots.https://www.serverobotics.com/Munro Live is a YouTube channel that features Sandy Munro and other engineers from Munro & Associates. Munro is an engineering consulting firm and a world leader in reverse engineering, costing, and teardown benchmarking.Munro Home of Lean Designhttps://leandesign.com/

In this episode of Level Up CX Tech, we talk with Brent Baker, Vice President and Chief Customer & Innovation Officer at Nashville Electric, about their journey to the cloud, the challenges they faced along the way, and how a cloud-based CX platform is helping Nashville Electric deliver a better customer and employee experience. 

Erin and Charissa talk to Ed Pilkington, Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer at Diageo live onstage from Cannes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Bennett, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Modivcare, is addressing and expanding supportive care services to provide transportation, personal care services, and remote patient monitoring. A lack of transportation leads to missed appointments and therapies, necessitating a coordinated approach to support vulnerable populations. Modivcare utilizes remote sensors and AI to enhance human engagement and coordination, and is designed to be both preventative and predictive, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital.  Jeff explains, "Modivcare works on behalf of health plans, states, and risk-based entities. We provide supportive care services that meet the needs and address the needs of patients. One of those services is transportation, so non-emergency medical transportation. We also provide personal care services, which support members with activities of daily living, like bathing, meal preparation, and such. And then finally, I lead the monitoring organization, which provides services to monitor members or patients at home so they can live and age at home on their own." "The biggest need, at the top, is that our members have health-related social needs or SDOH needs. They also are living with chronic conditions, so they need supportive care services that not only provides that core service -- so there's the obvious "I need a ride" or "if I press the button because I've fallen and I need 911 to be called if I need an ambulance or my caregiver or family member to come help me." But most importantly, the services that they need are providing an engagement service. Really, what we provide is a supportive care service that drives human connection through cutting-edge technology that drives continuous engagement. They always know that we're here, and we listen to them. We understand their needs and try to address those needs, which could be healthcare-related, social-related, or simply loneliness. So it spans that broad spectrum. And any one of our services, we're delivering that core service, but we're also driving engagement and listening for what else the member needs." #Modivcare #SDOH #SupportiveCareServices #MedAI #DigitalHealth #CareCoordination modivcare.com Download the transcript here

Jeff Bennett, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Modivcare, is addressing and expanding supportive care services to provide transportation, personal care services, and remote patient monitoring. A lack of transportation leads to missed appointments and therapies, necessitating a coordinated approach to support vulnerable populations. Modivcare utilizes remote sensors and AI to enhance human engagement and coordination, and is designed to be both preventative and predictive, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital.  Jeff explains, "Modivcare works on behalf of health plans, states, and risk-based entities. We provide supportive care services that meet the needs and address the needs of patients. One of those services is transportation, so non-emergency medical transportation. We also provide personal care services, which support members with activities of daily living, like bathing, meal preparation, and such. And then finally, I lead the monitoring organization, which provides services to monitor members or patients at home so they can live and age at home on their own." "The biggest need, at the top, is that our members have health-related social needs or SDOH needs. They also are living with chronic conditions, so they need supportive care services that not only provides that core service -- so there's the obvious "I need a ride" or "if I press the button because I've fallen and I need 911 to be called if I need an ambulance or my caregiver or family member to come help me." But most importantly, the services that they need are providing an engagement service. Really, what we provide is a supportive care service that drives human connection through cutting-edge technology that drives continuous engagement. They always know that we're here, and we listen to them. We understand their needs and try to address those needs, which could be healthcare-related, social-related, or simply loneliness. So it spans that broad spectrum. And any one of our services, we're delivering that core service, but we're also driving engagement and listening for what else the member needs." #Modivcare #SDOH #SupportiveCareServices #MedAI #DigitalHealth #CareCoordination modivcare.com Listen to the podcast here

Join Jamal Khan and Jennifer Johnson as they explore the evolving landscape of AI in healthcare, focusing on its applications, ethical considerations, data privacy, and the role of Chief AI Officers. This discussion highlights the importance of governance, patient consent, and the potential of AI to improve healthcare workflows while addressing data security challenges. Learn about how to implement AI responsibly for better healthcare outcomes and operational excellence.  Speakers: Jamal Khan, Chief Growth and Innovation Officer at Connection Jennifer Johnson, Director of Healthcare Strategy and Business Development at Connection   Show Notes: 00:00 The Evolution of AI in Healthcare 03:04 Ethics and Governance in AI Applications 06:05 Data Privacy and Security Concerns 08:49 The Role of Chief AI Officers 12:07 Patient Consent and Data Usage 14:54 AI's Impact on Healthcare Workflows 18:00 Computational Power in Health Data Analysis 20:47 Virtual Assistants in Healthcare 24:00 Clinical Trials vs. Drug Discovery 26:55 The Future of Patient Data Management 28:11 AI Adoption in Insurance Companies 33:05 Transparency and Explainability in AI 37:28 AI Use Cases in Healthcare 44:10 Cloud vs On-Prem AI Solutions 49:23 Data Orchestration in Healthcare   For more information on AI services for healthcare, visit https://www.cnxnhelix.com/healthcare.     

In February, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Vera Zakem as California's State Chief Technology Innovation Officer at the California Department of Technology. Zakem brings deep experience from national security, democracy and human rights, and technology policy. Most recently, under former President Joe Biden, she served as the Chief Digital Democracy and Rights Officer at USAID, where she led global efforts to align emerging technologies with democratic values. Zakem assumes the role as California, like many governments, is accelerating its embrace of artificial intelligence. Justin Hendrix spoke with Zakem about the promise of state-led innovation and how to avoid its perils, what responsible AI governance might mean in practice, and how California might chart a course that's both ambitious and accountable to its citizens.

A live SXSW panel on how employee complaints illuminate the path to organizational innovation.Wrong question: How can AI revolutionize productivity in my organization?Right question: What do my employees hate most about their jobs?For the Portland Trail Blazers, a winning game plan for AI implementation didn't begin with a tech-first approach — it began with a talk-first one. “The whole concept was to talk about pain points," explains David Long, VP of Digital Innovation, describing the "Lunch and Launch" sessions where employees could openly share frustrations about their daily work. “People really enjoy talking about what they hate about their jobs,” says Christa Stout, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, and as they did, they illuminated opportunities for optimization. “By getting this insight across the whole company, it is already opening our eyes [to how] we can potentially transform the business more broadly,” Stout says.In this special live episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, recorded at SXSW, host Matt Abrahams leads a panel with Long, Stout, and Stanford colleague Jeremy Utley, exploring how "catharsis catalyzes change.” For any team wanting to implement new technology or rethink workflows, these experts reveal how creating space for complaints can catalyze meaningful innovation throughout an organization.Episode Reference Links:Jeremy UtleyDavid LongChrista StoutEp.77 Quick Thinks: AI Has Entered The Chat – A "Conversation" with ChatGPTEp.134 How to Chat with Bots: The Secrets to Getting the Information You Need from AI  Connect:Premium Signup >>>> Think Fast Talk Smart PremiumEmail Questions & Feedback >>> hello@fastersmarter.ioEpisode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTubeMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInChapters:(00:00) - Introduction (04:42) - The Business Behind Basketball (06:13) - Why AI and Why Now? (07:21) - Collaborating with the Team (08:39) - The Lunch & Launch Method (11:11) - Branding AI Initiatives (12:29) - David Detractor & Kelly Kindness (16:00) - Human Connection through AI (16:45) - Auditing for Brand Consistency (18:53) - AI in National Parks (21:36) - Making AI Personal (22:58) - Using AI to Learn AI (27:27) - Encouraging AI in the Workplace (30:21) - Change Management: Iteration Over Perfection (34:07) - Start with Curiosity and Empower Action (37:50) - Communication Ingredients (39:22) - Conclusion   ********This episode is sponsored by LinkedIn. Dare to discover what's next. Explore your job potential at LinkedIn. Become a Faster Smarter Supporter by joining TFTS Premium.  

Send us a textJohanna Atienza and Paul Pulver are the Chief Growth and Innovation Officer and the CEO of Options for Learning respectively.Johanna brings over 15 years of experience in higher education and community-based programming to her role. Before joining Options for Learning in 2022, she served as the Associate Vice President of Advancement and External Relations at Pacific Oaks College and Children's School. Johanna oversees strategic initiatives, program innovations, communications, admissions, and project management at Options for Learning, and is deeply passionate about educational equity, early childhood education, mental health, foster youth, and anti-bias education. She's actively involved in local initiatives like Growing Together Pasadena and All Children Thrive Pasadena, as well as supporting organizations like Leadership Pasadena, Ability First, and the Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena. Johanna holds a bachelor's degree in political science with minors in film and sociology from USC, along with a Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law.Paul Pulver, who has been the CEO of Options for Learning since 2019, oversees all the organization's programs and operations, serving nearly 9,000 children annually across 90 sites and 300 classrooms throughout the greater San Gabriel Valley. With over 35 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Paul is known for facilitating organizational growth and has held leadership roles at various nonprofits, including as Executive Director for Pathways LA, Vice President of Development and Communications for Maryvale, and Executive Director for United Cerebral Palsy of Orange County. Paul currently serves as the Vice President of the Board for the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles and is a board member of Su Misericordia, a faith-based organization supporting indigenous people in Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministries and a ministry credential from Azusa Pacific University. Outside of his professional life, Paul enjoys sports, gardening, and cherishing time with his wife, three children, daughters-in-law, and three granddaughters.Together, Johanna and Paul are making significant strides in fostering educational opportunities and supporting families across Los Angeles County. Tune in as we explore their inspiring work, dedication to social impact, and commitment to building communities where children and families can thrive.Website: optionsforlearning.orgPhone: 626-699-8060Instagram: @optionsforlearning___________________Music CreditsIntroEuphoria in the San Gabriel Valley, Yone OGStingerScarlet Fire (Sting), Otis McDonald, YouTube Audio LibraryOutroEuphoria in the San Gabriel Valley, Yone OG__________________My SGV Podcast:Website: www.mysgv.netNewsletter: Beyond the MicPatreon: MySGV Podcastinfo@sgvmasterkey.com

“Making progress is soul-crusher free." "We can control how we react to it." "Assume positive intent."   Episode summary | In this conversation, Tim Leake, founder of Let's Lightbulb, discusses how to make work enjoyable and productive. He shares insights on creativity, collaboration, and the importance of humor in high-stakes environments. Tim emphasizes the need for leaders to be generous and supportive, creating a culture where everyone can thrive. He also highlights practical strategies for overcoming soul-crushing moments in the workplace and the ripple effect of generosity in leadership.   R.O.G. Takeaway Tips | Creativity and speed are unfair advantages in today's fast-paced world. Assuming positive intent can transform team dynamics. Humor and levity can create a psychologically safe environment. Generosity in leadership fosters deeper connections and opportunities. Collaboration requires structure to be effective and efficient. Soul crushers are often invisible but can be addressed through proactive measures. Listening is a critical skill for effective leadership. The more value you give away, the more it comes back to you. Creativity is essential for solving problems in any field.   Chapters |  00:00 Introduction to Tim Leake and Soulcrushers 01:41 The Courage to Create: Tim's TEDx Experience 05:24 The Concept of Soul Crushers and Their Impact 10:25 Empowering Work: Making Work Fun Again 15:58 Practical Strategies to Combat Soul Crushers 19:36 Creativity as a Core Element in Problem Solving 21:30 Leveraging Humor and Levity in Business 24:20 The Multifaceted Benefits of Fun in Work 25:51 The Impact of Fear on Communication 28:30 Creating Psychological Safety in Teams 32:45 The Power of Generosity in Leadership 37:37 Building Relationships Through Generosity 44:18 The Ripple Effect of Generosity 46:43 Sparking Creativity in Teams 48:21 The Importance of Listening in Leadership   Guest Bio | Tim is a founder, facilitator, and crusher-of-soul-crushers at Let's Lightbulb — a consultancy that helps leadership teams accomplish twice as much in half the time, through creative and strategic workshop facilitation. He specializes in running High-ROI Off-Sites and Solution Sprints for executive and leadership teams. Additionally, he's an Executive Trainer at AJ&Smart, often called the world's best facilitation training company. He's been using facilitation, creativity, and innovative thinking to help businesses drive revenue for over 25 years. Before creating a company of his own, Tim spent nearly a decade as the Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer for RPA, one of the largest independent agencies in the U.S. Prior to RPA, he was a global innovation and transformation facilitator and speaker with Hyper Island — helping companies (including General Mills, Target, Ikea and many more) thrive in a constantly changing digital world. He began his career on the creative side of the advertising industry, where he was a Creative Director & Director of Creative Innovation at Saatchi & Saatchi NY, and got his start at TBWA/Chiat/Day, as a copywriter working on world-famous efforts like the Energizer Bunny and Taco Bell Chihuahua campaigns. He's a frequent speaker at international events including the Cannes Festival of Creativity (France), Hyper Island (Sweden), CPH Transform (Copenhagen), Dani Komunikacija (Croatia), AToMiC (Canada), Advertising Week (USA), SXSW (the country of Texas), and more.   Guest Resources:  www.letslightbulb.com Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas Humor That Works by Andrew Tarvin   Bridge Between Resources: 5 Degree Change Course Free N.D.I. Network Diversity Index  Free Generosity Quiz    Credits: Tim Leake, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 233, Special Guest, Sydney Cummings Houdyshell.

In this episode of the AW360 podcast, we're joined by Matt Owens, Chief Design and Innovation Officer at Athletics, a boutique brand innovation studio based in NYC. Matt shares how Athletics helps brands navigate a rapidly evolving creative landscape—from building “living” brand systems to embracing AI not as a crutch, but as a creative co-pilot. … Continue reading "Rebel Optimism: Matt Owens on Designing Brand Systems for a Creative Future"

Transforming healthcare requires a blend of technology, content, and heart-centered design that prioritizes patients. In this episode, Shawn Nason, Chief Experience and Innovation Officer at PatientPoint, shares insights on how his company empowers better health through its unique product portfolio, which includes interactive screens in waiting and exam rooms and back-office solutions. He emphasizes the importance of creating personalized, easy, and surprising experiences for patients, citing personal stories from his own cancer journey. Shawn highlights how PatientPoint uses content to drive behavior change, offering educational and entertaining material that simplifies healthcare processes for patients. Looking ahead, he discusses his company's bold initiatives, such as expanding its innovation network and collaborating with industries outside of healthcare to transform the patient experience. Tune in and learn how PatientPoint is reimagining the future of healthcare by putting people at the heart of technology and design! Resources: Connect with and follow Shawn Nason on LinkedIn. Follow PatientPoint on LinkedIn and visit their website.

Paul VanderMarck is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of SageSure, leading the development of its proprietary technology platform and adopting new technologies to continue to advance the user experience. Previously, Paul was a managing director at boutique investment bank Financial Technology Partners, where he worked with a wide range of high-growth businesses across the insurtech landscape on capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. He previously spent 25 years as Chief Product Officer and as a member of the leadership team that grew Risk Management Solutions (RMS) from a startup into a $300 million revenue business while creating an entirely new market and transforming the way that the global insurance industry manages catastrophe risk. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in structural engineering, both from Stanford University. Episode SummaryThis interview discusses innovative strategies in the insurance industry, particularly focusing on proactive customer engagement and the use of technology to enhance claims processing. Here are the key points: Proactive Outreach: The company emphasizes the importance of reaching out to customers after catastrophic events, rather than waiting for claims to be filed. This approach aims to provide timely assistance and mitigate potential damages. Use of Technology: The integration of AI and aerial imagery allows the company to identify damaged properties quickly after disasters. This technology enables them to prioritize outreach to affected customers, even those who may still be evacuated. Claims Management: The discussion highlights the need to eliminate inefficiencies in claims processing, often referred to as "leakage." By using innovative solutions, the company aims to reduce unnecessary costs while ensuring that customers receive fair treatment during the claims process. Market Adaptation: The company has successfully navigated challenging market conditions, including inflation and increased reinsurance costs, by providing valuable products to agents and maintaining a strong growth trajectory. Customer Satisfaction: The video underscores the importance of customer satisfaction, particularly in claims handling. Engaging with customers during claims processes can lead to higher satisfaction rates, which is crucial for the company's reputation and success. Overall, the episode presents a forward-thinking approach to insurance, focusing on technology, customer engagement, and operational efficiency to improve service delivery and maintain competitiveness in a challenging market. This episode is brought to you by The Future of Insurance thought leadership series, available globally from Amazon in print, Kindle and Audible audiobook. Follow the podcast at future-of-insurance.com/podcast for more details and other episodes. Music courtesy of Hyperbeat Music, available to stream or download on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music and more.

¿Se puede emprender… sin renunciar a tu trabajo? En este episodio exploramos una idea que rompe paradigmas: emprender desde dentro de una organización. Para ello, nos acompaña Andrés Vázquez, Digital Intelligence and Innovation Officer en América Móvil, un líder que ha demostrado que también se puede innovar, transformar e impulsar grandes cambios desde una de las empresas más grandes de telecomunicaciones en Latinoamérica.Andrés fue pieza clave en el lanzamiento de la red de distribuidores Telcel y en el empaquetamiento de internet en el recibo Telmex, proyectos que redefinieron la forma en que millones de personas se conectan y comunican. Hoy conversamos sobre su decisión de emprender desde adentro: qué lo inspiró, qué obstáculos enfrentó y, sobre todo, qué podemos aprender de su mentalidad para aplicarlo en nuestros propios caminos, estemos donde estemos.Si alguna vez pensaste que emprender solo era para quienes abandonan todo… este episodio te va a abrir una nueva perspectiva.Conecta con nuestros invitados: : -Conecta con Andrés Vazquéz  en: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresvamer/ -Conecta con Roger Alarcón: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-alarcon/ Escucha las entrevistas completas en: -Andrés Vázquez : Backside 30: Intraemprendimiento abierto: desde dentro pero con terceros. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5y6OSDMQJtT46xlNFkFKg4?si=mjvcsW13TDyfrUJUYNLDyQ -Roger Alarcón: Short 41: Diferencia entre un empresario y un emprendedor.  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0H4BfviYNHdNYNM7G87KTC?si=qKtqX9QFRza_-veFc6qWWg ¡No te pierdas nuestras miniseries semanales  para conocer más acerca de todo eso que acerca a generar riqueza y abundancia en todos los ámbitos de tu vida! Suscríbete a nuestro canal en SpotifyVe la entrevista completa en YouTubeSigue negocioscool en todas nuestras redes Conecta con nosotros a través de LinkedIn

Matt Owens is co-founder and Chief Design and Innovation Officer at Athletics, a brand studio based in Brooklyn, and author of the book, A Visible Distance: Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design. A graduate of Cranbrook's Graphic Design Program, he previously worked as an art director for Methodfive, founded a small design studio, One9nine, and self-published the Flash-experimental design quarterly Volumeone. In this conversation, Jarrett and Matt talk about the gap between graphic design education and practice, the parallels between design today and design in the 1990s, and why Flash was a transformative piece of design software. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/269-matt-owens. 
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In this episode of the AlchemistX Innovators Inside Podcast, Ian Bergman sits down with Azita Esmaili, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Eviden, to explore the dynamic interplay between AI, innovation management, and future-proofing organizations. They dive into the rapid pace of technological change and discuss how building a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making can empower enterprises to not only adapt but thrive in uncertainty. Drawing from her extensive experience—transitioning from engineering to digital transformation—Azita shares practical strategies for developing challenge libraries, measuring ROI, and navigating the human elements of change. Tune in for actionable insights on how to harness AI responsibly and strategically, ensuring that innovation remains a transformative force for the future.Key takeaways include:AI's Fast Pace: Technology is evolving quicker than regulatory frameworks can adapt.Culture of Learning: Success depends on fostering a mindset of continuous learning and experimentation.Integrated Strategy: Align technology, data, and people to embed AI effectively.Experimentation is Key: Without a set playbook, learning by doing is essential.Measurable Impact: Use clear KPIs and challenge libraries to track progress and ROI.Human Element: Address resistance to change and the emotional impacts of innovation.Adaptive Future-Proofing: Focus on building flexible, resilient systems rather than predicting the future.Balancing Risks: Manage cybersecurity and compliance challenges while innovating.Don't miss out—subscribe now to stay ahead with more expert insights and join the conversation on transforming tomorrow's challenges into today's opportunities!For more episodes and resources, visit https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com/podcasts.

Omkar Kulkarni, MPH, Vice President and Chief Transformation & Innovation Officer at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, shares how the organization is leveraging AI in ways that align with its mission—highlighting what excites him most about the technology and how it's being integrated across the system. He discusses workforce improvements and how they're preparing for the future, while also addressing challenges such as adapting to rapidly evolving technology and the critical need to rely on strong, core operational processes.

In this episode, Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs, explores the dynamics of digital health startups—what makes them thrive, where they struggle, and how smart pivots can drive success.

Want to unlock AI's potential in your organization? Skip the brainstorms and go all in with an AI Hackathon! In this final installment of the Applied AI series, CMO Courtney Baker is joined by CEO David DeWolf, and Chief Product and Technology Officer Mohan Rao to break down why AI hackathons might be your best tool for driving adoption, sparking collaboration, and building lasting impact. Whether you're a tech startup or a professional services firm, this episode gives you the blueprint. Special guest Jeff Gallimore, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Excella, shares best practices from their GenAI-focused hackathons—including how engaging clients as judges and building cross-functional teams helped move ideas from prototype to production. From enabling constraints to cultural buy-in, Jeff explains how hackathons can be more than just a creative break—they can be a launchpad for real outcomes. Courtney, David, and Mohan reflect on their own hackathon experiences and offer strategic advice on making hackathons successful—from aligning with your roadmap to ensuring outputs are built to scale. Plus, how non-engineers can thrive in AI innovation thanks to tools like Canva and prompt engineering. All that PLUS Pete Buer breaks down the rise and fall (and jailbreak) of the Humane AI Pin. The big lesson? Innovation only sticks if it meets the market where it is. Whether you're running your first hackathon or looking to level up your next one, this episode is packed with practical tips, real stories, and a bit of good-natured competition. Want to see what Knownwell's platform can do with your data? Visit www.knownwell.com to get started.  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gu2jq1Ol_Z0  Show notes Connect with Jeff Gallimore on LinkedIn Learn more about Excella Connect with David DeWolf on LinkedIn Connect with Courtney Baker on LinkedIn Connect with Mohan Rao on LinkedIn Connect with Pete Buer on LinkedIn Watch a guided Knownwell demo Follow Knownwell on LinkedIn

Send us a textWe sit down today with Dr. Torian Easterling to talk about the challenges of working in health equity and care delivery for the most vulnerable in these uncertain times, the importance of checking in, being steady and steadfast in our goals, understanding that while it is important to promote justice and preserve the progress, the status quo wasn't completely working for those that are the most vulnerable and that it is important to rebuild our programs with true equity at the forefront and not performative DEI by building relationships and collaborations with non science or non health entities (law, community organizations, laundromats!) to get everyone to live the lives that we all deserve to live. We cannot go back and NYC is leading the way through the work of NYC Commission on Racial Equity.Dr. Easterling is a distinguished physician and public health leader, currently serving as the Senior Vice President for Population and Community Health and Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer for One Brooklyn Health (Brookdale, Interfaith and Kingsbrook- Jewish). In this senior leadership role, Dr. Easterling spearheads the Office of Community Health and Health Equity- with a mission to strengthen the system's capacity to address health inequities and improve the health and well-being of the communities served.Prior to his tenure at One Brooklyn Health, Dr. Easterling held the positions of First Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). In these roles, he led New York City's equity response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensured equitable distribution of vaccines to vulnerable populations and communities.Dr. Easterling is a member of several boards and commissions, including the NYC Commission on Racial Equity (NYC CORE). He continues to drive local policy and planning efforts to improve community health. Dr. Easterling is the Co-Founder and Director of Education for the Young Doctors Project, intergenerational mentoring program for high school boys of color.Book Recommendation:We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.Health Insurance 101Medicare And Commercial Health Insurance: The Fundamental Difference", Health Affairs Blog, February 15, 2012Cindy Mann and Adam Striar, “How Differences in Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial Health Insurance Payment Rates Impact Access, Health Equity, and Cost,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 17, 2022NYC Racial Equity Legislation and InfrastructureNYC City Charter Section on Racial EquityMayor's Office of Racial EquityNYC CORENY 1. Commission calls on city to release Racial Equity Plan by March 21Link to Charter Preamblehttps://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCcharter/0-0-0-4Thanks to Jeff Jeudy for providing the music!Email your questions and comments to drtonianddraimee@gmail.com

March 13, 2025: Tracy Donegan, Chief Information and Innovation Officer at MLK Community Healthcare, shares her approach to solving seemingly insurmountable problems through creative thinking and scrappiness, pushing beyond conventional limitations. The conversation explores MLK's commitment to health equity through innovative programs like their street medicine team and the upcoming empath unit for psychiatric patients. Tracy offers insights into the importance of fostering partnerships built on shared mission and reducing clinician burnout, all while maintaining a deeply personal connection to the community she serves.Key Points:01:48 Tracy's Professional Journey07:08 Digital Innovation and Patient Engagement10:11 Community Impact and Health Equity16:50 Lessons from the Pandemic23:49 Speed Round: Personal InsightsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com We all know the quote from Peter Drucker, "If you can measure it, you can manage it."   It's pretty easy to apply when throwing a javelin but difficult when measuring success in complex software development projects. Today, we sat down with Jeff Gallimore, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer and founder of Excella. He brings with him decades of experience collaborating with teams on successful federal projects. We start by noting the fallacy of using one metric to measure success. While completing the initiative on time might make an agency administrator happy, that will change rapidly if compliance is not achieved, and scaling will break the system into pieces. Jeff has seen breakthroughs using a framework called DORA, DevOps Research and Assessment). The key metrics are deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and failed deployment recovery time.  These metrics, now part of Google, are research-based and predictive of IT and organizational outcomes. They emphasize the importance of a holistic approach, avoiding single-metric focus, and the role of leadership and culture in fostering high-performing teams

In this episode of BRAVE COMMERCE, Steve Siegal, Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer at Curology, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to discuss Curology's journey from a DTC disruptor to an omnichannel skincare leader. Steve shares how launching in Target, Walmart, and CVS has reshaped Curology's strategy, driving credibility, visibility, and a seamless consumer experience across channels.With a background spanning legacy CPG and digitally native brands, Steve offers a unique perspective on full-funnel marketing, measurement, and retail partnerships. He explains how Curology is using retail as a brand awareness engine, connecting physical shelf presence with its DTC prescription model to maximize consumer engagement and lifetime value.For brands navigating omnichannel expansion, this conversation offers actionable insights on balancing brand and performance marketing, integrating data for smarter decision-making, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Tune in to learn how to future-proof your brand in the evolving retail landscape.Key TakeawaysRetail as a Brand Awareness Engine – Physical retail builds credibility and visibility while introducing consumers to a brand's broader ecosystem.Full-Funnel Marketing is Critical – Success in omnichannel requires seamless integration between brand-building and performance-driven strategies.Data-Driven Decision-Making Powers Growth – Understanding how investments in DTC and retail interact is key to optimizing profitability and consumer engagement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs, discusses the financial pressures facing health systems today. He explores the impact of shrinking margins on digital transformation, patient care, and innovation, while addressing critical issues like physician shortages, reimbursement challenges, and the evolving landscape of value-based care.

In this episode, Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Health Innovation Officer at datosX Digital Health Labs, joins Scott Becker to discuss the challenges health systems face in evaluating digital health solutions. From determining the right testing period to ensuring successful implementation, Dr. Purohit shares insights on how organizations can make strategic decisions about adopting and sustaining new technologies in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape.

In this episode, Dr. Michael Ast, Chief Medical Innovation Officer at Hospital for Special Surgery, discusses key trends in orthopedics, the growing role of AI and robotics in surgery, and HSS's expansion efforts. He shares insights on AI-driven tools improving efficiency, the future of personalized surgery, and HSS's commitment to expanding high-quality musculoskeletal care nationwide.

In this episode, Dr. Michael Ast, Chief Medical Innovation Officer at Hospital for Special Surgery, discusses key trends in orthopedics, the growing role of AI and robotics in surgery, and HSS's expansion efforts. He shares insights on AI-driven tools improving efficiency, the future of personalized surgery, and HSS's commitment to expanding high-quality musculoskeletal care nationwide.

Katherine Dease, the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) discusses the future of annuities and how the Digital First Initiative could accelerate growth. With special guest host, Michael Celi, Chief Product Officer of Zinnia, Katherine shares insights on the challenges of modernizing the annuity industry, particularly the data problems that hinder innovation. The conversation highlights the importance of user experience, the role of annuities in holistic financial planning, and the need for collaboration among industry players. They also touch on regulatory considerations and the metrics for measuring success in the initiative, emphasizing the call for industry participation to drive meaningful change. Learn more at thatannuityshow.com

Featuring Marc Johnson, Senior Associate Dean, Student Engagement, and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at the Darden School at University of Virginia.     (Recorded 12/20/24)

Jim has a wide-ranging conversation with recurring guest Peter Wang on AI copyright frameworks and the rapidly changing tech landscape. They discuss "the Chattening" (ChatGPT's release in November 2022) & its impact, parallels between current AI & the invention of science, humans as narrow-band sensors, cybernetics & control systems, the unbearable slowness of being, the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, language & intelligence, why eyeballs are white, copyright challenges with AI, the Anaconda ML Public License framework for AI rights & usage permissions, AI's impact on various industries, impacts on software engineering careers, giant frontier models vs specialty models, AI models' convergence on underlying reality, representation complexity, evaluation frameworks, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP16 - Anaconda CTO Peter Wang on The Distributed Internet JRS Currents 092: Peter Wang on The Meaning Crisis and Consequentiality "The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?" by Jieyu Zheng & Markus Meister "The Platonic Representation Hypothesis," by Minyoung Huh, Brian Cheung, Tongzhou Wang, & Phillip Isola "Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net," by John Perry Barlow Bluesky Qwen2.5 Instruct (model) Peter Wang is the Chief AI and Innovation Officer and Co-founder of Anaconda. Peter leads Anaconda's AI Incubator, which focuses on advancing core Python technologies and developing new frontiers in open-source AI and machine learning, especially in the areas of edge computing, data privacy, and decentralized computing.

Brandon Karpf sits down with Mike Silverman, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at FS-ISAC, to discuss the white paper Building Cryptographic Agility in the Financial Sector. Authored by experts from FS-ISAC's Post-Quantum Cryptography Working Group, the paper addresses the vulnerabilities posed by quantum computing to current cryptographic algorithms. It provides financial institutions with strategies to safeguard sensitive data and maintain trust as these emerging threats evolve. Discover the challenges and actionable steps to build cryptographic agility in this insightful conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is no surprise to any of you that the more meaningful your brand is to people, or customers, the more successful it will be. Well the good news is there is a company–Havas–who has been researching what makes a brand meaningful every year for the past 15 years. And this week Jim will talk with two leaders at Havas who oversee this annual research.Jim's guests on The CMO Podcast are Mark Sinnock, the Global Chief Strategy, Data and Innovation Officer at the Havas Group, and Joanna Lawrence, the global chief strategy officer at the Havas Media Network. Havas is one of the oldest and largest global communications companies. Founded in 1835 in Paris by Charles Louis Havas, today the group does business in 100 plus countries, with roughly 23,000 people; annual revenues approach $3 billion Euros. Each year since 2009 the Havas group has designed and fielded a massive research project called Meaningful Brands. The intent is to provide insights and guidance on how to build a brand that has deep meaning for its customers, thereby driving sustained growth and profitability. The scope is impressive: more than 1.5 million interviews, in 24 countries, with 41 categories and 2600 brands analyzed. Tune in as Jim chats with Mark and Joanna about learning from the latest Meaningful brands study.Havas' 2024 Meaningful Brands™ Global Report: People Face ‘Permacrises' with Resilience: https://havasmedianetwork.com/news/havas-2024-meaningful-brands-global-report-people-face-permacrises-with-resilience/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ambient AI in clinical documentation is transforming healthcare by enhancing physician workflows, marking a shift toward efficient and satisfying healthcare experiences. In this episode, Dr. Dean Dalili, Chief Medical Officer at DeepScribe, and Dr. Jason Hill, Innovation Officer at Ochsner Health, discuss the transformative potential of ambient AI in clinical documentation and its impact on healthcare. Dean and Jason talk about how DeepScribe's technology is optimizing physician workflows, enhancing patient satisfaction, and driving measurable ROI for health systems. Dr. Hill and Dr. Dalili stress the importance of system-wide adoption and co-development partnerships in shaping the future of ambient AI in healthcare. Tune in to explore how ambient AI is transforming healthcare and discover insights from leaders shaping the future of clinical documentation! Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Dean Dalili on LinkedIn. Follow DeepScribe on LinkedIn and explore their website. Connect with and follow Dr. Jason Hill on LinkedIn. Follow Ochsner Health on LinkedIn and visit their website.

"There's been a degree of toxic positivity in US healthcare," says Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Health Plan. In this episode about healthcare's need for radical change, Dr. Jain challenges industry orthodoxy and calls for a leadership revolution. From Medicare Advantage turbulence to the failures of healthcare consolidation, he offers an insider's view of what needs to change.We cover:

ChatGPT and Meta face widespread outages. Trump advisors explore splitting NSA and CyberCom leadership roles. A critical vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 has been disclosed. “AuthQuake” allowed attackers to bypass Microsoft MFA protections. Researchers identify Nova, a sophisticated variant of the Snake Keylogger malware. Adobe addresses critical vulnerabilities across their product line. Chinese law enforcement has been using spyware to collect data from Android devices since 2017. A new report highlights the gaps in hardware and firmware security management. A Krispy Kreme cyberattack creates a sticky situation. N2K's Executive Editor Brandon Karpf speaks with guest Mike Silverman, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at the FS-ISAC discussing cryptographic agility. Do Not Track bids a fond farewell.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today, N2K's Executive Editor Brandon Karpf speaks with guest Mike Silverman, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at the FS-ISAC discussing cryptographic agility. You can learn more in their new white paper "Building Cryptographic Agility in the Financial Sector." We will share the extended version of this conversation over our winter break. Stay tuned.  Selected Reading ChatGPT Down Globally, Services Restored After Hours Of Outage (Cyber Security News) Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to 'technical issue' (CNBC) Unfinished business for Trump: Ending the Cyber Command and NSA 'dual hat' (The Record) Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug (The Register) Microsoft MFA Bypassed via AuthQuake Attack (SecurityWeek) Nova Keylogger – A Snake Malware Steal Credentials and Capture Screenshorts From Windows (Cyber Security News) Adobe releases December 2024 patches for flaws in multiple products, including critical (Beyond Machines) Mobile Surveillance Tool EagleMsgSpy Used by Chinese Law Enforcement (SecurityWeek) Three-Quarters of Security Leaders Admit Gaps in Hardware Knowledge (Infosecurity Magazine) Krispy Kreme cyberattack impacts online orders and operations (Bleeping Computer) Firefox, one of the first “Do Not Track” supporters, no longer offers it (Ars Technica)  Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices