The Buzz: “To become a Hacker you need skills, a strong presence of mind and what not? But before that all you need is an inspiration with a pinch of motivation….” (www.tech2hack.com). “What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others….” and “Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker” (Emma...
Apr 01, 2020•55 min
The Buzz: “As video adoption for content marketing continues to rise, there’s no doubt that more organizations are looking to online video to improve their strategies…smartphone and tablet adoption has created a prime opportunity for more mobile video content” (www.brainshark.com). Still not convinced? “The sheer cost of video production has come down to a point where there are no barriers to entry. Buyers have devices that can play videos with them at all times” (Joe Pulizzi). “Humans are incre...
Mar 25, 2020•56 min
Today’s buzz: “Auto makers look into their crystal balls – and their shops – to get an idea as to what's fueling the car of 2025. Most car makers agree: The next 10 years will see more change in the auto business than the last 20” (theglobeandmail.com). “Self-driving cars…once found only in science fiction, are about to become a reality” (Goldman Sachs, 2016). “When you think of a flying car one might think of The Jetsons. The company Terrafugia is working to get its flying car off the ground by...
Mar 18, 2020•55 min
The buzz (according to www.impactbnd.com): “Social media is ever-changing. There’s always a new crazy way people can document every aspect of their lives, but what if you’re a business? With so many social media sites already out there and even more popping up each day, where do you begin? Do you create a Facebook account or do you hop on whatever “the new Pinterest” is today? Utilizing social media in your business strategy…gives you the chance to connect with fans, customers, and prospective c...
Mar 11, 2020•54 min
The Buzz [literally!]: “Drones in the sky, drones in the sea, drones on land: this is the future of human augmentation” (popularmechanics.com). “From a military innovation, to an exciting hobby, to a technology that’s transforming commercial industries, the use of drones has rapidly changed over the past years — and future opportunities in the field are limitless” (calu.edu). What does this have to do with YOU? Public safety and emergency services professionals in law enforcement, fire rescue, e...
Mar 04, 2020•52 min
The Buzz: “Passwords are an integral component of security hygiene, but beyond password strength requirements, it’s largely a user-driven initiative” (digitalguardian.com). How is your password hygiene? Not to get personal, but passwords are our first line of protection against cyber criminals, so password health matters. Digital Guardian surveyed 1,000 people’s password security habits. 44% changed passwords once a year or less, 11% never. 20% experienced online account compromise. 70% had 10+ ...
Feb 26, 2020•53 min
The Buzz: “As more and more consumers embrace CBD and its reputed benefits, companies are jumping on the CBD bandwagon. According to the Brightfield Group, a CBD and cannabis market research firm, the legal CBD market is projected to surpass $23 billion in annual U.S. sales by 2023…Recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states and medical marijuana is legal in 23 states.…The firm’s 2019 report on the U.S. CBD market, From Farm to Aisle…notes that large retailers, such as CVS and Walgreens, are le...
Feb 19, 2020•53 min
Today’s Buzz: “By 2030 the average person in the U.S. will have 4.5 packages a week delivered with flying drones. They will travel 40% of the time in a driverless car, use a 3D printer to print hyper-individualized meals, and will spend most of their leisure time on an activity that hasn’t been invented yet … Most people will have stopped taking pills in favor of a new device that causes the body to manufacture its own cures. Space colonies, personal privacy, and flying cars will all be hot topi...
Feb 12, 2020•53 min
“Just about everyone involved in the show brought their A-game this year, with several major product categories seeing some truly transformative technology, namely in computing, gaming, and the smart home…the public debut of the first-ever laptop with a foldable display…the smart home is bound to get even smarter in 2020 …including smart door locks, connected toothbrushes, and the fastest beverage cooler we've ever seen…” (https://www.businessinsider.com/best-products-ces-2020) What are they tal...
Feb 05, 2020•55 min
Here’s today’s buzz: “The one thing all small businesses have encountered…is the fact that people don’t know who they are, what they do, or where they can be found. How can a business owner solve this issue? It’s easy. Social media is the first step to take” (www.klusster.com/). “Social media is constantly evolving and it’s exciting to think about what it will look like in just a few years’ time.” (blog.logograb.com) Today, we’ll ask four bold FemPreneurs to predict the future of social media pl...
Jan 29, 2020•53 min
Today’s Buzz: “If you have to tell people on your social media profiles you're an ‘influencer’, you are probably not. Reality check” (Rebecca Aguilar). Level set: An influencer is an individual who has the power to affect purchase decisions of others because of his/her authority, knowledge, position or relationship with his/her audience. According to InfluencerMarketingHub.com, “Influencer marketing has grown from strength to strength over the last few years. Sure it has suffered a few hiccups, ...
Jan 22, 2020•55 min
The buzz: “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange.” (David Bowie) If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what #2020 holds for your company, your industry, yourself and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Live today, January 15, 2020 – and on-demand from December 4, 11 and 18, 2019 and January 8, 2020 – we’re bringing you predictions from more than 50 thought leaders covering the exciting technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2...
Jan 15, 2020•56 min
The buzz: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Søren Kierkegaard). If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Live today, January 8 and on January 15, 2020 – and on-demand from December 4, 11 and 18, 2019 – we’re bringing you predictions from 60 thought leaders covering the exciting technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better...
Jan 08, 2020•56 min
The buzz: “Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming” (David Bowie). If you’re hoping to gaze into a magical crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your career, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Live today, December 18, 2019, and on January 8 and 15, 2020, plus on-demand from December 4 and 11 – we’re bringing you predictions from 60 thought leaders covering the exciting technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better...
Dec 18, 2019•55 min
The buzz: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Søren Kierkegaard). That’s why this show is called Technology Revolution: The Future of Now!! If you’re hoping to gaze into a magical crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your industry, your career and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Live today, December 11, 2019, and on December 18 plus January 8 and 15, 2020, and on-demand from December 4 – we’re bringing you predictions from 60 thought...
Dec 11, 2019•55 min
The buzz: “The future is not what it used to be” (Laura Riding & Robert Graves, 1937). If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Live today, December 4, 2019, and December 11 and 18, and January 8 and 15, 2020 – we’re bringing you predictions from 60 thought leaders covering the exciting technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2020 and beyond. Pour a c...
Dec 04, 2019•57 min
Today’s Buzz: Auto makers look into their crystal balls – and their shops – to get an idea as to what's fueling the car of 2025. Most car makers agree: The next 10 years will see more change in the auto business than the last 20. theglobeandmail.com Self-driving cars…once found only in science fiction, are about to become a reality. (Goldman Sachs, 2016). When you think of a flying car one might think of The Jetsons. The company Terrafugia is working to get its flying car off the ground by 2025....
Nov 20, 2019•53 min
Here’s today buzz: “Technology has changed how we listen to music…and the way music is made…and created new genres” (www.ronaldshannonjackson.com). The Internet has changed the music industry drastically…early issues like illegal downloading and music sharing sites (like the now-defunct Napster) to current disputes over music streaming services and how much the artists/labels should be paid in royalties” (www.recordingconnection.com). In our era of instant access, streaming has become ‘ground ze...
Nov 13, 2019•54 min
Today’s Buzz: “I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker…baby monitor…my bed…to find out whether it would betray me” gizmodo.com. “In a world where we’re all paranoid about devices spying on us (and rightfully so), perhaps no other devices receive more scrutiny than smarthome products. But is that scrutiny warranted?” howtogeek.com “Just about every smart device, that is connected to the internet and offers personal...
Nov 06, 2019•53 min
Today’s Buzz: clickz.com reports that 44% of shoppers indicated they would become repeat buyers after a personalized experience, and adoption of AI by marketers is expected to increase by over 250% over the next two years. According to smartdatacollective.com, “Retailers are saying goodbye to intuitive guessing based on old-school data-gathering methods to convert customers. Welcome to the age of machine learning in retail.” howtotoken.com reports “Artificial intelligence and big data are being ...
Oct 30, 2019•54 min
Today’s Buzz: “As the concept of “New Retail” spreads globally, many Fortune Global 500 retail companies are implementing AI technologies such as computer vision and NLP in unmanned stores and warehouses or virtual stores and are accelerating supply chain upgrades to better position themselves for the future of shopping” (medium.com). “Retailers often feel understandably reluctant to give emerging technologies a try unless they feel extremely confident in the eventual payoff. A Capgemini Researc...
Oct 23, 2019•53 min
Today’s Buzz: “It's hard to believe that only a few generations ago, women had three career options: teacher, secretary or a nurse. Fast forward to 2017 and women have blurred the lines of traditional gender roles. … women and millennials disrupting the workplace and changing the business world as we know it” (forbes.com). “Unlike previous generations who may have either looked at self-investment as self-indulgence or who simply didn’t have the resources or technology available to make supplemen...
Oct 16, 2019•53 min
The Buzz: “Despite the intrinsic contradiction, it’s clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning are primed to play a leading role in HCM’s future.…AI’s ability to consume and analyze massive quantities of data, manipulate variables and discover patterns makes it ideal for candidate sourcing” (Adam Rogers). “The future of HR is both digital and human as HR leaders focus on optimizing the combination of human and automated work. This is driving a new priority for HR: one which require...
Oct 02, 2019•54 min
Here’s today’s Buzz: “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked…you deserve to be hacked” (Richard Clarke). “People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming” (Doug Shadel). “As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.” (newton lee). “Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid” (James Scott). “…the idea that security starts and en...
Sep 25, 2019•54 min
Here’s today’s Buzz: In a Kantar Retail study, only 2% of US food and alcohol sales are made online. 84% of respondents in a 2017 Morgan Stanley study prefer to grocery shop in person. But change is coming to grocery! Supermarket chain Kroger plans to partner with Nuro on a driverless food delivery service. The futuristic grocery, kickstarted in 2016 by Amazon Go, offers a connected grocery store with no checkouts using deep learning, computer vision, and sensor fusion. Microsoft and Kroger anno...
Sep 18, 2019•55 min
The Buzz: “Like many technology driven industries, [Fintechs] regulations are horribly outdated, authored at a time when an app meant fries for the whole table, and spam was just canned meat. Imagine running a business under laws written before your industry or product ever existed…Congress directions for regulators about what “banks” are and do are based on how banking worked in the 1970s…Banks, as institutions, do not really exist anymore. Customer activities exist and financial services exist...
Sep 11, 2019•56 min
The Buzz: “The transition from high school to college life is difficult enough for any number of students without considering a disability” (edsmart.org). Bryan Stromer describes Cerebral Palsy as a part of his identity: “If someone has already written me off because of the way I walk, it gives me the opportunity to prove them wrong and exceed their expectations, while also hopefully redefining how they think about disability” (forbes.com). The Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973…many college ...
Aug 28, 2019•54 min
Here’s today’s Buzz: Theceomagazine.com reported the rise of the ‘fempreneur’. “It’s fairly clear that women are starting businesses faster than ever…According to the ABS, 34% of businesses operators in 2014 were women…an increase in business ownership by females of more than 46% in the last twenty years.” According to Inc.com, “the top 20 most influential millennial entrepreneurs all created an internet-based service… 87% of millennials believe the success of a business should be measured on it...
Aug 21, 2019•53 min
The Buzz: “Drones in the sky, drones in the sea, drones on land: this is the future of human augmentation” (www.popularmechanics.com). “There are few pieces of technology that excite tech lovers and the general public quite like drones” (www.roboticsbusinessreview.com). “… Business execs with their finger on the pulse of tech trends and updates realize the myriad of benefits drones could offer by integrating the tech into their operations” (www.mondo.com). “From a military innovation, to an exci...
Aug 14, 2019•50 min
The buzz: “From tin-can robots to sophisticated, sentient virtual environments, artificial intelligence is a dominant theme in science fiction. With real-world advances in machine learning and deep learning, the gap between fact and fiction is narrowing. Real AI is not all about robots and self-aware computers. From Siri, search engines and motion-sensing video games to medical imaging and diagnostics, artificial intelligence is an increasingly significant part of our lives” Cray.com. Today we u...
Aug 07, 2019•55 min
