Bernard Marr's Future of Business & Technology Podcast

When it arrives, the Covid vaccine will be the world’s biggest and most important supply chain challenge ever. What will be the logistics and supply chain challenges to overcome? How will the supply chain be sure and how can the vaccine be authenticated?  These are the questions I will explore with Larry St. Onge, President of the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector at DHL and Jon S. Chorley, Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Product Strategy at Oracle.

In this conversation, I will be joined by Kirk Borne, The Principal Data Scientist & Data Science Fellow, and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton. We will talk about data science and artificial intelligence today as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

In this conversation, we will discuss how to use AI for the good of people. In particular, we will explore the role of Natural Language Processes (NLP), which gives machines the ability to understand and produce human language. To to this, I will be joined by Nate Nichols, chief scientist at NarrativeScience. We will look at the state of the art in NLP and how AI is enabling machines to tell stories from data. We will also look into the future and explore how this might change the role of humans in the work place.

I am joined by Jonathan Batty, IBM's Head of Communications for the Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project, to discuss the launch of the Mayflower autonomous ship and the future of automation, and what that means for our oceans and us humans.

What questions can science not answer? In a recent conversation with Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, mathematician, broadcaster and author Marcus du Sautoy we explored some questions that he pondered in his book What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge.

In the live session, I am joined by Tiffani Bova, the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and author of the best-selling book Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. We will be discussing the key paths to success in a post-coronavirus world.

In my latest podcast, I am joined by  Hadas Bitran, Alice Piterova, Kelvin Summoogum and Greg Bowman from Microsoft.Together we will be talking about AI and how this technology is having a transformative effect on our society and different parts of the world.

Recommendation engines have become hugely important and powerful tools for companies today. The way Netflix, Amazon, or Facebook use them influence us daily. In this session, we will explore how companies can best use that technology but also how recommendation engines have transformed developments in consumer culture and have changed our relationship with choice. To discuss this topic I am joined today by Michael Schrage, author, innovation expert and research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In this session I will be joined by Scott Smith, Futurist, Author, Managing Partner at Changeist to explore how you look into the future and sense change that might be coming. We now live in a world where change is faster than ever, and where strategic foresight is a business imperative. We will look at practical tips that will enable anyone to better envision possible futures before we discuss some of today’s biggest future trends.

In this interview, I am joined by Kishan Agrawal, who is the Vice President of Oracle Applications Labs on how Oracle - this leading computer technology company has gone through its own digital transformation and shift towards cloud.Make sure you sign up for Oracle’s System Advantage Forum EMEA on the 9th of September: https://www.oracle.com/uk/systems-adv...