Bernard Marr's Future of Business & Technology Podcast

In this live session I will be joined by Diana Fernandez, Sr. Director Business Development, Cloud Systems, Oracle EMEA to discuss the acceleration of digital transformation, what it means for enterprises and how they can get ready for it. We will explore the key business challenges and cover topics such as data, security, edge computing and cloud deployment.

In today’s climate, it is more important than ever to take care of employees and to streamline and automate HR processes.  In this livestream, we will look at how the Mondadori Group, the largest publishing company in Italy, has transformed its HR and people management processes. We will be talking about the need to transform HR and people management processes in companies and how the current pandemic has fast-tracked the need for digital transformation.

In this podcast I will be talking about my new book "The Intelligence Revolution: Transforming Your Business With AI" and answer any question people have about AI.

In this podcast, I will be joined by Thomas H. Davenport, who is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He is also the author of 20 books and many articles in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.We will be taking a look at the future of AI, the impact of the global pandemic, as well as the key tips to deliver successful AI projects in the future.

In this conversation with author and technology executive John K. Thompson we will explore how to build successful analytics teams in companies. We will explore what makes a high-performing analytics team, the key mistakes to avoid and the important steps to create and grow a team that will successfully deliver your data and analytics projects.

Artificial intelligence has been a technology mega trend for some time now, but the current pandemic has created more urgency for companies to automate and innovate. In this live stream, I will be joined by Mitra Azizirad, Corporate Vice President of AI and Innovation Marketing at Microsoft. We will be discussing how AI can help address today's business challenges.

In this podcast, I will be joined by Hannah Fry, mathematician, radio and TV presenter, and author of the book: Hello World: How to be human in the age of machines. In this conversation I want to explore with Hannah what it means to be human in a world increasingly driven by data and algorithms and how we as humans can thrive alongside machines.

In this session, I will be joined by Ivo Koerner from IBM. Ivo is IBM’s VP for Systems in Europe and we will be discussing why it is so important to make the right strategic investments in technology and data today. Companies, big and small, are under pressure to reduce costs and survive. However, every business hoping to expand (including small and medium sized companies) needs to make sure they emerge from the pandemic and the economic crisis in a way that allows them to thrive in the new normal. Ivo and I will be discussing how to make the right strategic investments in technology and data now to deliver a competitive advantage in the future.

It’s a race against time for organizations to adapt to the new world order. Neil Kinson, Chief of Staff Redwood Software and Bernard Marr discuss why automation, now more than ever, is one of (if not the) most important steps for any organization to continue to thrive rather than just survive, how to do this in practice and what does this mean for the jobs of people within these organisations?

Even before the current pandemic, two of Middle East’s largest economies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had raced towards leveraging the power of digital technologies to drive socio economic growth. Comprehensive national programs like the UAE Vision 2021 and Saudi Vision 2030 that outlined the key tenets of a new knowledge based economy were launched wherein data led decision making was prioritized, and new avenues of growth were being explored using emerging technologies including AI, IoT, Blockchain etc. In this conversation, we will look at deciphering some key aspects of this digital revolution in the UAE and Saudi Arabia; what this means for different stakeholders, some key prevailing digital trends in these markets, the role of data, and what does the future look like.