SmarterMarkets™
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SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.
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Apr 24, 2021 • 1h
Architects of the Information Age Episode 5 | Todd Buchholz Helping Find Prosperity Amongst the Post-Pandemic Chaos
Erik Townsend returns to SmarterMarkets™ this week to introduce Michelle Dennedy’s co-host: Todd Buchholz, former Whitehouse Director of Economic Policy and Managing Director of the Acclaimed $15 Billion Tiger Hedge Fund.
Apr 17, 2021 • 43min
Architects of the Information Age Episode 4 | Caroline Wong Asks — Who’s Responsible for Protecting our Digital Assets of the Future?
Michelle Dennedy sits down with “Cybersecurity Strategist of the Year” Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt, to examine the question “Who’s responsible for protecting our digital assets of the future?”
Apr 10, 2021 • 58min
Architects of the Information Age Episode 3 | Jim Whitehurst Working to Define Ethical Standards for a New Digital Economy
Michelle Dennedy, former Chief Privacy Officer of Cisco and Intel, sits down for a refreshingly candid conversation with Jim Whitehurst, President of IBM and former CEO of Red Hat, on her can’t-miss premiere episode of Smarter Markets.
Apr 3, 2021 • 1h 11min
Architects of the Information Age Episode 2 | Michelle Dennedy and the Crusade to Protect Digital Privacy
Erik Townsend interviews new SmarterMarkets host Michelle Dennedy on her own background as a digital privacy activist. This episode is designed to introduce the audience to Michelle herself, and then in coming weeks Michelle will introduce listeners to a side of Silicon Valley most have never seen.
Mar 27, 2021 • 1h 9min
Architects of the Information Age Episode 1 | Leemon Baird and Understanding Distributed Ledger
Hedera Hashgraph co-founder Dr. Leemon Baird explains the function distributed ledger technology (DLT) provides, then goes on to outline how DLT needs to evolve in order to scale up to eventually supporting a fully tokenized financial market architecture.
Mar 20, 2021 • 53min
Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 6 | Robert Friedland’s Answers for What it Will Take to Green The Global Economy (2 of 2)
Billionaire financier Robert Friedland returns as Michelle Dennedy joins the SmarterMarkets hosting team. Robert and Erik discuss what it will take to Green the Global Economy in Part 2 of this extensive 2-part interview.
Mar 13, 2021 • 53min
Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 5 | Robert Friedland’s Answers for What it Will Take to Green The Global Economy (1 of 2)
Billionaire financier Robert Friedland returns as Michelle Dennedy joins the Smarter Markets hosting team. Robert and Erik discuss what it will take to Green the Global Economy in Part 1 of this extensive 2-part interview.
Mar 6, 2021 • 55min
Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 4 | Bill Pazos Outlining the Future of Carbon Markets
AirCarbon Exchange co-founder and COO Bill Pazos joins us this week to discuss the history, present challenges, and future of the carbon credit trading industry.
Feb 27, 2021 • 1h 6min
Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 3 | John Goldstein on How to Actually Achieve ESG Goals through Effective Impact Investing
Goldman Sachs’ global head of sustainable investing practices John Goldstein is this week’s feature interview guest. We discuss how to engage in ESG investing to make a difference by engaging directly with the industries that need reform, rather than avoiding them. John calls this Impact Investing, and we discuss this practice in detail in this episode.
Feb 20, 2021 • 1h 12min
Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 2 | Tom Raftery on the Coming Green Revolution
SAP’s chief innovation officer and outspoken green energy proponent Tom Raftery is this week’s feature interview guest. We discuss the coming green energy revolution and what it will mean for markets and the economy as a whole.
