Futurized - thought leadership on the future

Oct 29 2024 193 ep. 52 mins 9
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The Futurized podcast goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Futurist Trond Arne Undheim, PhD, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur, interviews smart people with a soul. Every week, founders, authors, executives and other thought leaders come on the show to discuss the societal impact of deep tech (e.g. AI, blockchain, IoT, CRISPR, nanotech, 3D printing, quantum, robotics) and the emerging future of work, markets, business and society.

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Physical Security

Oct 29 2024 45 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Faisal Pandit, VP & GM of Global Security Products at Johnson Controls. They discuss the future of physical security, in a context where technology evolution enables the evolution of products that enable productivity in addition to safety. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forc

Indoor Solar Futures

Oct 22 2024 43 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Giovanni Fili, Founder & CEO of Exeger Sweden AB. They discuss the future of indoor solar and his vision to remove all the disposable batteries in the world. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environm

Personalization

Oct 16 2024 39 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews David C. Edelman, co-author of Personalized, former CMO of Aetna and a visionary in AI-powered personalization and customer strategy. They discuss personalization, the art of creating customer experiences at scale that get fine-tuned with each successive interaction. Futurized goes beneath the trends to tr

The World in 2050

Oct 01 2024 52 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. They discuss the world at mid-century and how we can and should change the future writ large through thought leadership, individual behavior change, and pressure on politicians. Futurized g

Psychological Fragility

Sep 10 2024 44 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dana Klisanin, a psychologist, futurist, and author. They discuss coping mechanisms for existential risk worries and events, including engaging in rewilding experiences, sensory exploration, etc. This is part of Futurized's focus on the takeaways from the third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference

CRISPR in the Future

Aug 27 2024 47 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Neal Bear, author of The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, Harvard lecturer and well-known TV producer. They discuss why CRISPR keeps him up at night, its current and future uses and misuses, in short, both the promise and peril. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption i

Microscale 3D printing

Aug 20 2024 46 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews John Kawola, CEO of Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). They discuss the opportunities of micro-scale 3D printing to transform supply chains, create new products, and achieve better sustainability, both in terms of current market and futuristic uses that include AI. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track

Futuristic Encryption

Aug 13 2024 49 mins  
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 encryption, its use cases, and especially the role of open source cryptography in a world with increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Fully Homomorphic Enc

Biosecurity Activism

May 28 2024 45 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Sofya Lebedeva, PhD-student in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where she works on immunology. They discuss the skills necessary to be successful in the interesection of risk, synthetic biology and immunology, and especially her passion around biosecurity. This is part of Futurized's focus

Serendipity Networks

May 21 2024 58 mins  
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ken Stanley, CEO & founder of Maven, a new online social network focused on following interests, not people. Stanley is the author of Why Greatness Cannot be Planned (Springer, 2015). They discuss Stanley's work on open-ended AI algorithms and how they can foster and enhance desirable serendipity. Ope