Data Episodes

Aug. 13, 2024

Futuristic Encryption

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Rand Hindi, an entrepreneur and deeptech investor who is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company. They discuss the future of ...

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May 25, 2021

The Geotech Decade

David A. Bray, Inaugural Director of the GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council, the esteemed Washington DC-based think tank, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about the Report of the Co...

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March 30, 2021

Gig Mobility

Ryan Green, CEO & co-founder, Gridwise, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about whether gig mobility services (MaaS) become the standard for how to move in cities? What does the future o...

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Feb. 25, 2021

The path towards Science 2.0

Jean-Claude Burgelman, Professor of Open Science Policy at the Free University of Brussels, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about The Impact of Digital on Science. JC Burgelman’s career spans the EU, foresight, Me...

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Feb. 15, 2021

The Future of Digital Health AI

Catherine Havasi, CEO and co-founder, Dalang Health, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about Patient experience. Telehealth. Personalizing digital health. The AI space (ConceptNet, crowdsourcing for AI, word emb...

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Jan. 14, 2021

Futuristic AI

Ben Goertzel, CEO and founder of SingularityNET and Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about Futuristic applications of interoperable AI. Sophia- the robot. ...

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Dec. 28, 2020

How To Fix Fake News?

Sebastiaan van der Lans, founder of WordProof, the startup using blockchain to authenticate content on the internet, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about How to Fix Fake News? Players in the Internet content i...

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Dec. 24, 2020

Hunting for Emerging Tech

Shaun Vanderpool, CEO and founder of Il Lupo and Hempire, an avid hunter of emerging technology to commercialize, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about how difficult it is for our educational system to recogniz...

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Dec. 1, 2020

AI for Medicine

Thomas Clozel, CEO and co-founder of Owkin, the federated data network startup boosting AI for medicine, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about integrating AI and system biology to enable breakthrough medical m...

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Nov. 25, 2020

The Future of AR

Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential AR/VR conference since 2010, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about communi...

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Nov. 24, 2020

The Future of Peer-to-Peer

Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance betwee...

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Nov. 23, 2020

Future Tech - a preview

In this mini-episode, futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021. He also reads an excerpt from the book. Future Tech explains ...

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Nov. 10, 2020

The Future of AI in Government

Lord Clement-Jones, consultant of global law firm DLA Piper, former chair of the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about emerging regulations for subs...

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Nov. 5, 2020

How to Invest in Sci-Fi Tech?

Adam Draper, Managing Director and co-founder of Boost, the startup accelerator and VC firm, is interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about taking your investment advice from sci-fi movies. Exoskeletons, jet packs, ...

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Nov. 3, 2020

Parliamentary Tech and Hypertransparency

Fotis Fitsilis, Head of the Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talked about how parliamentary transparency, steeped in legal informatics, innovation in govtech, open data and ong...

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Oct. 27, 2020

The Future of Open Finance

Amrit Kumar, President and co-founder of Zilliqa, the blockchain platform, is interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim, host of the Futurized podcast and author of Future Tech (2021), Pandemic Aftermath (2020), Disruption Games (2020) and Leadership Fr...

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Oct. 22, 2020

The Future of Cryptocurrency

Ryan Selkis, founder and CEO of Messari, the crypto economy analyst firm, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim, host of Futurized podcast and author of Future Tech, Pandemic Aftermath, Disruption Games and Leadership From Below.  In this conversati...

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Oct. 12, 2020

Global Innovation Index

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Professor Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University, co-author of Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Foundation. In this conversation, they talk about measuring innovation, the challenges...

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Sept. 29, 2020

The Future of Computational Media

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Chris Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University, Director of Smithsonian Videogame Pioneers Initiative and Research Scientist at MIT microphotonics center. Chris was busy this wee...

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Aug. 12, 2020

Pandemic Aftermath: Introduction

In this episode, the topic is Pandemic Aftermath: How Coronavirus Changes Global Society. Trond Undheim reads from the introduction to his eponymous book which was published by Atmosphere Press in June, 2020. The first portion of the book is non-fiction....

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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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July 28, 2020

The Future of Elderly Care

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ken Accardi, CEO and founder of Ankota.  The takeaway is that the future of elderly care, and home care specifically, is going to be shaped by predictive population health which will prevent and intervene...

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July 21, 2020

Reality and Hype in Deep Learning

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim interviews Otkrist Gupta, who talks about reality and hype in deep learning, a sub-field of artificial intelligence. The takeaway is that deep learning is a promising technique but faces steep challenges getting ou...

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