Susan MacTavish Best interviews Ali Kashani, CEO and co-founder of last mile robot delivery company Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV). Musicians Queen Esther and friends perform live. About Ali Kashani: Dr. Ali Kashani is the co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, the maker of Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robots that has received investments from Uber and NVIDIA. Founded in 2017 as the robotics division of Postmates, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners ...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 12 min
I'll be speaking with Hind Hassan, the 2024 winner of The Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism. We'll be discussing her life, experiences, and views on the current state of journalism. With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther & pianist Sharp Radway.
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min
I'll be speaking with national security expert and geopolitical thinker Dmitri Alperovitch . Dmitri recently published World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century . With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther.
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The History of Intelligence with Max Bennett . Max is the author of The Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains, and is the cofounder & CEO of Alby, an AI company based in NYC. This salon features music by Queen Esther & Friends and is supported by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF). Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligence (DI) initiative seeks to break down disciplinary boundarie...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. Neil is a specialist in the philosophy of human rights, philosophy and technology, sexual ethics, and research on alternative sexualities. He is the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press) and Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights (Oxford University Press). He is particularly interested in the intersection of sex and technology and is ...
Jul 01, 2024•54 min
Posthoc Salons founder, Susan MacTavish Best, interviews Lisa Ferri about her experiences covering the Trump trial, the verdict , and what she sees ahead in the media landscape in the run up to the Presidential election. Lisa is an Emmy award-winning journalist who's spent three decades covering politics and culture inside some of America's most storied newsrooms: 60 Minutes, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and Deadline White House, ABC's Good Morning America and World News Tonight....
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Does Consciousness Matter? A conversation w/philosopher David Chalmers in SoHo for evening filled with conversation, live music, homemade food and our warm NYC Posthoc community. The salon is supported by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) . TWCF funds grants that are accelerating research on consciousness , and David is a fellow grantee of TWCF....
Apr 29, 2024•54 min
In this episode of the POSTHOC Digital Podcast, Susan interviews Deborah Bonello, former Head VICE News Latin America and author of NARCAS: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels. Deborah made the journey to the POSTHOC LA warehouse all the way from Mexico City to discuss her reporting on female-led organized crime that ultimately led to writing NARCAS.
Jan 30, 2024•33 min
For our last Posthoc salon of 2023 we invited economist Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg into our living room for an evening of conversation and music. Hilda is an entrepreneur, investor, author and philanthropist. She is the founder and chairman of Strategic Investment Group, an independent investment management firm. For a dozen years, Hilda was the Chief Investment Officer (Pensions) at The World Bank. She’s served on the board of numerous public companies (US Airways, McGraw-Hill, Harvard Management...
Jan 05, 2024•59 min
We hosted a salon with Substack in LA to celebrate their community of writers and creators, and to meet the company's co-founder Hamish McKenzie, whose interview you're about to hear. We discussed the origins of the company, Hamish's own background as a writer and what about the platform fosters such a unique relationship between creators and subscribers.
Dec 04, 2023•24 min
The Age of Prediction salon was co-hosted with Amy Brand , Publisher, MIT Press celebrating the publication of the new book T he Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by MIT Press authors Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher Mason. Igor is the Founder/CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative investment firm. Christopher is Professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. Alyssa...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In this week's edition of the Posthoc podcast we're interviewing Matt Gutman in Los Angeles about his life, experiences and his new book . Matt is ABC News' Chief National Corresponden t and his book No Time to Panic came out this week and is currently featured in Oprah's book club. We'll also hear a musical performance from Queen Esther who flew in from NYC for her very first performance in LA - enjoy!...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min
You're listening to the Posthoc Salon Podcast and in this episode we'll be speaking with Emma Cherniavsky, CEO of UNHCR (UK) , the UK arm of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We'll here music from pianist Maria Angel Garcia, who won first prizes and has been a semi- finalist in well renowned national and international piano competitions. This salon is supported by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation ....
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Embracing the Future of Humanity with Art & Science - This salon, tackling the rapid evolution of our relationship with technology, was co-hosted in London with Templeton World Charity Foundation and co-moderated by TWCF President Andrew Serazin.Our guest interviewees will include artist Agnieszka Pilat , who paints large-scale portraits of technology with the help of AI-powered painting-assistant robots. We’ll also be speaking to Michael Muthukrishna , Associate Professor of Economic Psycho...
Aug 15, 2023•51 min
In this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan will be doing her third interview with Justin Garcia, Executive Director of The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University about The State of Sex, Love, Gender and Well-Being in 2023 in Los Angeles and Beyond. This is POSTHOC's second salon with Justin; our last one was a public salon in the fall of 2022 with New York Public Radio at WNYC's Greene Space. While that salon primarily focused on New Yorkers, this time around Justin and I will dig in on West ...
Jul 26, 2023•53 min
Posthoc's latest salon on forgiveness was co-hosted w/ Templeton World Charity Foundation , surrounding their participation in Harvard University's conference “Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." We invited Templeton grantee, psychologist Ev Worthington who has been studying the science of forgiveness for over 30 years and in addition to being a renowned researcher on the subject. His interview with Susan and Templeton President Andrew Serazin is woven into musical performances on the ...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
In this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan interviews Dan Lyons, a New York Times best-selling author who has also written for the HBO hit series Silicon Valley, served as senior editor at Forbes, and has been published in virtually every major outlet from The Economist, NYT and Wall Street Journal to Wired, NPR, BBC and The Guardian. Dan's latest book STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in a World That Won't Stop Talking , was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in February. This s...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min
On this week's edition of the Posthoc podcast, you'll hear our conversation with Templeton World Charity Foundation grantee Sander van der Linden , Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. Sander's book Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity will be coming out in February so this will be a sneak-peek into the book. Posthoc artist-in-residence Grac...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 9 min
On this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan interviews longtime former Editor of Food & Wine , and founder of Speaking Broadly DANA COWIN . This salon was co-hosted with OLIVER ZAHN, astrophysicist and cofounder of data science company Climax Foods . After 3 years of rigorous research and development by top food scientists, Climax revealed at this salon for the first time four varieties of luxurious, sustainable, plant-based cheeses . We were also joined by Grammy award-winner Grace Weber,...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min
On this episode of the Posthoc podcast, we interview author and journalist David Gelles. David is the author of the new book "The Man Who Broke Capitalism," a dive into the tumultuous legacy left behind by Jack Welch. David is a reporter on the Climate desk at The New York Times and has profiled many CEOS as the Corner Office columnist.
Oct 11, 2022•38 min
Paul Rosolie is the wildlife director of JungleKeepers , an organization that protects some of the world's most crucial rainforest habitat. Along with running a conservation project called Tamandua Expeditions that uses tourism to support rainforest conservation, Paul’s work has taken him to some of the last dark places on the map: For the past 16 years he has specialized in threatened ecosystems and species in countries like Indonesia, Brazil, India, and Peru. This salon is part of our ongoing ...
Oct 10, 2022•50 min
This salon with Pray.com is part of our ongoing series on human flourishing with Templeton World Charity Foundation . In 2021 TWCF launched a five-year initiative which has included expanding our scientific understanding of how the practice of spiritual and religious exercises are linked to outcomes that are associated with human flourishing. Pray.com was founded in 2016 in California. It's a top 10 grossing lifestyle app in more than 125 countries and it is the world's #1 app for daily prayer a...
Jul 13, 2022•53 min
Welcome to our first digital salon in a series that is presented by healthcare company GALILEO (www.galileo.io). In this salon, Susan MacTavish Best (Posthoc) and Carolyn Manning (Galileo) will be speaking to Professor Frank Keil about his new book WONDER. Frank Keil is Psychology & Linguistics Professor at Yale University. For the past 40 years, he has studied how adults and children learn and reason about the physical world around them. In Spring 2022, he came out with a new book called WO...
May 23, 2022•47 min
Not So Sweet Insulin Prices, a health equity-focused conversation with Galileo CEO Tom Lee and Olympic champion swimmer Gary Hall Jr. This salon is part of a series we are producing with healthcare company GALILEO. Who's Galileo ? Many of you have met Galileo's founder Tom Lee at past salons. Galileo is a modern medical group operating across all 50 states, designed to improve the quality and affordability of care for diverse and complex populations. Galileo was founded by Tom Lee, MD, the physi...
May 18, 2022•54 min
Susan talks with Jacob Ward, author of “The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back” about how unconscious instincts drive our decision making process. This salon is part of a series we are producing with healthcare company GALILEO. Who's Galileo ? Many of you have met Galileo's founder Tom Lee at past salons. Galileo is a modern medical group operating across all 50 states, designed to improve the quality and affordability of care for diverse and complex p...
Mar 23, 2022•53 min
This salon is the first in a series we are hosting with healthcare company GALILEO . I'll be speaking to journalist Florence Williams. Florence is the author of Heartbreak , a personal and scientific journey which has just come this week. ( Pick it up here. ). During Covid, I interviewed her about her prior book, The Nature Fix , why we need nature in our lives to make us happy. Florence is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times , New York Times M...
Mar 07, 2022•42 min
Kicking off the 2022 Posthoc salon season we have a hot topic based on a just-released book, HOLLYWOOD, CHINA, AND THE GLOBAL BATTLE FOR CULTURAL SUPREMACY Salon with Erich Schwartzel . Erich is a reporter covering the film industry at The Wall Street Journal and author of RED CARPET , just featured on the front page of the NYT Book Review Sunday edition paper. Dig in to learn more about China and Hollywood's complicated relationship, and why a break-up may be imminent or already occurring. POST...
Mar 02, 2022•53 min
Today’s salon, “Does God Need an R&D Department,” is cohosted by POSTHOC and Templeton World Charity Foundation. The co-interviewer today is TWCF president Andrew Serazin. Our guest today is Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices. POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the s...
Jan 10, 2022•55 min
Matters of the Heart with Sandeep Jauhar POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations. Instagram: @posthocpictura Twitter: @PosthocSalons LinkedIn: Posthoc Facebook: @Posthocpictura
Dec 14, 2021•51 min
First it was a show at the Smithsonian, this year it's an auction at Sotheby's. Art created for Burning Man is on fire, and it's coming to NYC. And to celebrate that, Ana Roth and I are hosting a little shindig, a Burning Man inspired art salon at my loft in Soho. I'll be throwing out 5 questions to artist Fab 5 Freddy - NYC’s cultural curator and courier. POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate e...
Nov 01, 2021•32 min
