Future Of Work Episodes

Nov. 20, 2020

The Serendipity of Social Innovation

Christian Busch, Director, NYU Global Economy Program, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author. In this conversation, they talk about serendipity, the art and science of creating good luck, and how it is intimately related to future trend...

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Nov. 19, 2020

AI for Learning

Futurist David Shrier, Managing Director and co-founder of Esme Learning Solutions. and Associate Fellow at Oxford University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about what’s next in digital learning innovation. ...

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Nov. 17, 2020

Living the Future of Work

Gary Bolles, Chair for the future of work at Singularity University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about how organizations try to channel human energy-but still need processes and practices, that can become ...

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Nov. 9, 2020

The Future of Royalty

H.R.H. Prince Michel de Yougoslavie, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about growing up as a Pan-European royal. We cover his deep interest in art and success with exhibiting his photography. We also touch on …

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Oct. 20, 2020

Evolving Startup Ecosystems

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Christian Nagel, Founder of Venture Lane, business angel and expert on go-to-market strategies, communication and international rollout. In this conversation, they talk about tribal community building, networking, f...

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Sept. 22, 2020

The Future of Commoditized Robotics

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Tom Ryden, Executive Director of MassRobotics, the biggest co-working space and robotics community in the US. In this conversation, they talk about what's happened over the past decade, where is the robotics field n...

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Sept. 17, 2020

The Future of Work

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ian Barkin, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Sykes and host of the OneTake podcast. In this conversation, they talk about The Future of Work, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), automated outsourcing, experienc...

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Aug. 27, 2020

The Future of Engineering Education

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interiews Babi Mitra, founding Executive Director of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) initiative at MIT. They talk about the urgent need to update the way we educate our engineers which is an effort happenin...

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Aug. 13, 2020

The Future of Industrial Operations

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Natan Linder, CEO and co-founder of Tulip Interfaces, the manufacturing technology platform spun out of MIT Media Lab. They talk about fusing hardware, software and design to create new product experiences, touching...

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Aug. 11, 2020

The Future of Human Perception AI

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Gabi Zijderveld, Chief Marketing Officer at Affectiva, the MIT MediaLab spinout. They talk about perceptive AI, the future of augmented reality, data privacy, and ethical uses of face recognition. The takeaway is t...

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Aug. 4, 2020

Post-pandemic Tech

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews David A. Bray, Inaugural Director of the GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council, the esteemed Washington DC-based think tank. We talk about jazz improv, geopolitics, technology, privacy, openness, human dignity, dat...

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July 29, 2020

Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure--Introduction

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim reads from the introduction to his book Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure which was published by Atmosphere Press in May, 2020. The takeaway is that taking part in disruption games, just …

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July 14, 2020

Solving for Surveillance Capitalism

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mathew Lowry, founder of MyHub.ai, who talks about how he sees the challenge of surveillance capitalism by big tech. The takeaway is that as polarized and broken as the online business model for …

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June 19, 2020

Futurized Trailer

Are you exited or curious about the future? Does your job depend on it? Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Join Trond Arne Undheim, futur...

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