Next Big Thing - with Lauren Ingram

Channel 4's creative innovation director Landy Slattery on creativity meets AI Landy Slattery is the Creative Innovation Director at Channel 4, having spent over two decades in TV, most recently at the in-house agency within Channel 4. From graduating Central St Martins during its most radical era, to implementing the first ever menopause policy at Channel 4, Landy has always enjoyed challenging the status quo. She is now relishing the opportunity to pursue new technologies in her role even while they are still nascent. Join Lauren and Landy for a discussion on the future of creativity and where it intersects with AI and emerging tech - and where it meets our real lives too. LINKS: Landy Slattery on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landy-slattery-03bb2713  Next Big Thing host Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingramlauren/  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Are you feeling a bit low on motivation during a slow summer? Got AI overwhelm and want to get back in your groove? In a solo episode from our founder Lauren Ingram, we’ll take you through what to do if you need a bit of a boost! LINKS: Follow Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingramlauren/  Follow Next Big Thing on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextbigthingstudios EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Only 0.7% of AI funding went to female founders. Yep you read that right...! We need more women at the forefront of AI, whether that's building AI startups, getting funding, joining AI taskforces within their companies, or simply dabbling with ChatGPT to get the best out of it. In a special bonus episode, Next Big Thing founder Lauren Ingram shares why this is now an urgent need - this year is when the critical conversations are happening about AI, and women need their voices heard in it. LINKS: Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingramlauren/  Book a Demystify AI workshop with us: https://www.nextbigthingstudios.com/services  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Mike Russell has pivoted his voiceovers business to embed AI into the offering at Music Radio Creative. And alongside his 338,000 followers on his main YouTube channel, Mike has started a spinoff called Creator Magic all about AI tools for content creation. Lauren talks to Mike about the future of the internet, the impact of AI, and possibly even the end of the world... LINKS: Mike Russell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imikerussell/  Mike’s YouTube channel (338k subscribers) https://www.youtube.com/@MikeRussell  Mike on how to automate a daily podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeOi-91DaRc  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠ 

Denzil Eden engineered an amazing conversational AI tool way before ChatGPT hit the news. Her product Smarty can organise your calendar with just a few words, and plays the role of your personal assistant. Denzil has degrees in computer science & AI from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard, but found that the market wasn’t ready for her advanced product for a long time - and that pitching her startup now is a very different process now that people understand slick chatbots. We talk about why AI literacy is so important, and what she would do differently if she started again today (spoiler alert: she wouldn’t build the tool just yet!). LINKS: Denzil Eden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denzils/  Smarty AI: https://www.smarty.ai/  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex LaneWe record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Kate Ross has pivoted her digital agency of the last 15 years, called eight&four, to offer its own suite of AI tools because she was frustrated by the limitations of just using ChatGPT. She shares the agency’s successes and the misses in building bespoke AI solutions, such as a tone of voice tool that a large travel brand now lets every employee use. Kate also gives us some good old fashioned British cynicism (or realism!) about the hype and bluster (and even white lies) about some of the AI tools out there. She is also bullish on the future of creativity. So if you’re a marketer, work in an agency, or use tech to sell more in your business, this episode is for you! LINKS: Kate Ross on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katemhross/  eight&four: https://www.eightandfour.com/  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Samantha G. Wolfe is one of the leading voices in the metaverse space - she is an adjunct professor at NYU's Steinhardt School teaching courses including ‘The Business of the Metaverse, and 'Avatars and Virtual Humans’, and she’s authored two books including ‘Metaversed: See Beyond The Hype’. We cover AI-generated influencers, using tech for good or evil, and - in her position as a leading expert in emerging tech - what she sees as the next big thing. LINKS: Samantha G. Wolfe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawolfe/  Samantha’s consultancy PitchFWD: https://www.wearepitchfwd.com/  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Lea Turner grew her LinkedIn following phenomenally fast in late 2019 - so when covid hit in 2020, she pivoted her business and started offering LinkedIn training. Now with 168k followers on LinkedIn and a sold-out membership community for small businesses, Lea is the perfect person to tell us how to stand out in the AI era when there’s a ton of noise out there. We cover: Why now is the right time to build a personal brand - and how to get started What to write on LinkedIn if you find it cringey Algorithm changes to stay on top of And Lea’s no-holds-barred thoughts on AI and business LINKS: Lea Turner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-turner/  Lea on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadoeslinkedin/ Get Lea’s free LinkedIn cheat sheet: https://leaturner.co.uk/products/free-linkedin-cheat-sheet  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram

Leanne Elliott Young knows how to capture the zeitgeist, whether at Nike in their highly secretive Rm72 team and collaborating with Virgil Abloh, or now at the helm of the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), as a cofounding team of self-professed “architects of a new digital culture”. Leanne talks through her career, having been approached to join Nike not long after graduating, and spent nearly a decade there before rejecting fashion norms and throwing herself into digital fashion and pioneering bleeding edge tech instead - helping IoDF achieve world firsts such as the first ever NFT worn at the British Fashion Awards. Leanne also shares her vision for the future, where technology seamlessly integrates into our lives, and our consumption habits shift towards reselling rather than producing everything new. LINKS: Leanne Elliott Young on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanne-elliott-young-metaversemama/  Leanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanneelliottyoung/  Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF): https://institute-digital.fashion/  EVENTS:  Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios   CREDITS: Host: Lauren Ingram Producer: Alex Lane We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

You don’t need 50 new AI tools, you just need a few that you know how to use really well. So if the constant tech changes are leaving you with FOMO, we’ve got you covered. Host Lauren Ingram, former women's lead for Meta, interviews leaders about the latest tech and why it matters. Next Big Thing is here to help you not just survive, but thrive in the next internet. Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextbigthingstudios/ Instagram @nextbigthingstudios