Learning Episodes

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, our guest is Vandana Singh, SciFi Author, Professor, Framingham State. We discuss Climate Imaginations, how climate is taught in college these days, and how to envision positive futures and motivate large-sca...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast we interview Cindy Forde, Author of Bright New World: How to Make a Happy Planet, and Founder of Planetari. We discuss the challenge of communicating climate change to children. Futurized goes beneath the tren...

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrep...

In episode 154 of the Futurized podcast, the topic is: Taking Antiques into the Future. Our guest is R.T. Custer, CEO & co-founder of The Vortic Watch Company.  In this conversation, they talk about the rich history of manufacturing in the US, combining ...

Today, Anjalee Naranthiren, the 19-year-old speaker, founder and Program Director at Startup Dojo and host of the YoungPreneur podcast is our guest on the Futurized podcast (@futurized2). In this conversation, we talk about teen entrepreneurship, how to ...

Lisa Bodell (@LisaBodell), futurist and CEO of FutureThink (@futurethinktank) is interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur in episode 135 of the Futurized podcast (@futurized2), the topic is Simple ...

Patrick Scannell, author and digital technologist, interviewed by Futurized podcast host Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist and author. In this conversation, they talk about how human thought is going through a paradigm shift where we are learning t...

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author. In episode #106 of the podcast, the topic is: Th...

Michael Leckie, Founding Partner of Silverback Partners LLC, author of the new book The Heart of Transformation, published by Kogan Page, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, they talk about how organizational ch...

Alan Moore, Designer, Consultant, and Author, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about what regenerative business practices truly entail which is to go well beyond sustainability. We discuss h...

Tomer Afek, Co-founder of Spacemesh, the web-scale smart contract system that lets anyone run blockchain computation from home on their desktop PC, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, we talk about how current m...

Natalie Kuldell, Executive Director & founder, BioBuilder Educational Foundation, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about synthetic biology for all, bringing engineering into life science and...

Taniya Mishra, Founder of SureStart, the diverse AI training platform, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about why STEM or STEAM is not enough. They discuss pre-college and post-college--the leaky inflection poi...

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth, CEO and co-founder of CanopyLAB, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about empowering learners, and about blended learning, moving beyond screen time to Virtual immersionm AI/AR – how to use ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

Shai Fuxman, Project Director at Education Development Center (EDC), interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about what’s the big deal with social and emotional learning. They cover the tremendous measurable benefits ...

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 ...

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, ...

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Furqan Nazeeri, Partner at Extension Engine, the online education platform consulting firm. In this conversation, they talk about what learning is all about, how COVID-19 both (in)validates and facilitates online le...

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Savi Barrowes, host of the Dream Big and Live Free podcast. In this conversation, which I initially had planned as a prep call, we instead dove straight in. We talked about Savi’s path to empowerment, her quest to e...

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...