Episodes
Nov. 13, 2019
Future of Music and Technology: Sweet or Sour Notes?
Here’s today buzz: “Technology has changed how we listen to music…and the way music is made…and created new genres” (www.ronaldshannonjackson.com). The Internet has changed the music industry drastically…early issues like ill...
Nov. 6, 2019
Is Your Smart Home Spying On You & Is It OK?
Today’s Buzz: “I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker…baby monitor…my bed…to find out whether it would betray me” gizmodo.com. “In a world wh...
Oct. 30, 2019
AI Goes Shopping: Humanizing the Retail Customer Experience
Today’s Buzz: clickz.com reports that 44% of shoppers indicated they would become repeat buyers after a personalized experience, and adoption of AI by marketers is expected to increase by over 250% over the next two years. Ac...
Oct. 23, 2019
Truth or Dare: Is AI the Future of Retail?
Today’s Buzz: “As the concept of “New Retail” spreads globally, many Fortune Global 500 retail companies are implementing AI technologies such as computer vision and NLP in unmanned stores and warehouses or virtual stores and...
Oct. 16, 2019
Millennial Women Taking Charge: Badass Superstars
Today’s Buzz: “It's hard to believe that only a few generations ago, women had three career options: teacher, secretary or a nurse. Fast forward to 2017 and women have blurred the lines of traditional gender roles. … women an...
Oct. 2, 2019
Future HR Human vs HR AI: Who Will Be Hiring and Firing You?
The Buzz: “Despite the intrinsic contradiction, it’s clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning are primed to play a leading role in HCM’s future.…AI’s ability to consume and analyze massive quantities of data, m...
Sept. 25, 2019
CyberSecurity Wars: Will Tech Help YOU or THEM?
Here’s today’s Buzz: “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked…you deserve to be hacked” (Richard Clarke). “People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming” (Doug Shadel). “As the wor...
Sept. 18, 2019
Grocery Expiration Date: Automate or Die?
Here’s today’s Buzz: In a Kantar Retail study, only 2% of US food and alcohol sales are made online. 84% of respondents in a 2017 Morgan Stanley study prefer to grocery shop in person. But change is coming to grocery! Superma...
Sept. 11, 2019
Banking on the Future: Fintechs Finance Makeover
The Buzz: “Like many technology driven industries, [Fintechs] regulations are horribly outdated, authored at a time when an app meant fries for the whole table, and spam was just canned meat. Imagine running a business under ...
Aug. 28, 2019
Tech Goes To College: Opening Doors for Unique-Ability Students.
The Buzz: “The transition from high school to college life is difficult enough for any number of students without considering a disability” (edsmart.org). Bryan Stromer describes Cerebral Palsy as a part of his identity: “If ...
Aug. 21, 2019
Her First 100K: The Tech-Fueled FemPreneur
It’s fairly clear that women are starting businesses faster than ever According to the ABS, 34 Percent of businesses operators in 2014 were women an increase in business ownership by females of more than 46 Percent in the last twenty years.
Aug. 14, 2019
Look Up! It Is Not a Bird or a Plane. It Is A Drone!
Drones in the sky, drones in the sea, drones on land: this is the future of human augmentation. There are few pieces of technology that excite tech lovers and the general public quite like drones.
Aug. 7, 2019
Welcome To Your Digital Life: Science Fiction vs. Science Fact
The buzz: “From tin-can robots to sophisticated, sentient virtual environments, artificial intelligence is a dominant theme in science fiction. With real-world advances in machine learning and deep learning, the gap between f...
July 31, 2019
Are YOU Talking To ME? Podcasts, Radio, Live-Streaming: Craze or Classic?
How are you hearing me: Live on internet radio? On a recorded podcast? Steve Jobs said in 2005: “Podcasting is the next generation of radio and users can now subscribe to more than 3,000 free podcasts and have each new episod...
July 24, 2019
AI At Work: Ready to Meet Your Robot Co-Workers?
Who’s at the desk next to me? What – a robot? The buzz: “They record our shows, cook our food, play our music, and even run our cars. We just don't see it because these robots don't have a face we can talk to or a butt we can...
July 17, 2019
A.B.C.D -CBD: Miracle Med, Dubious Drug or Wishful Woo-Woo?
The buzz: '[CBD] is a Disneyland for a pharmacologist. There are so many possible mechanisms, so many possible ways it can be useful' (Francisco Guimaraes, Brazil pharmacologist, www.washingtonpost.com). According to board-ce...
July 10, 2019
AI and Your Videos: Coolness Beyond Cute Cats
The buzz: AI is now the most in-demand tool in the media market…According to a report, viewers are 85 percent more likely to buy a product after watching a video…The technology is making things easier. Even giants like YouTub...
June 26, 2019
High-Tech Touchdown! Fan-Controlled Football and Future of Sports
The buzz: Soon there will be entire American football league built on the premise that fans should be able to choose the players and coaches that make up each of the eight inaugural teams and even pick the teams' offensive pl...
June 19, 2019
Brave New World of Digital Ethics: Who's Deciding Our Technology Rules?
The buzz: We now have the world in our pockets. Our TVs are smart. Our cars soon to be driverless…The technology we craft creates new use cases, opportunities, and dangers. The tech and its application cannot be separated. Th...
June 12, 2019
Help Me Get Dressed! 1 Billion Reasons for Adaptive Fashion!
The buzz: The fashion industry is starting to care about people with disabilities…designing apparel, shoes and other products for consumers with non-standard body types, boosting an overlooked population's confidence – and th...
June 5, 2019
Todays Lunch Special: Tuna and Blockchain Sandwich!
The buzz: I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from (Anthony Bourdain). Food safety is becoming a serious concern along the entire “food chain” – hunters, fishers, farmers, processors, transporters,...
May 29, 2019
Preview for Technology Revolution: The Future of Now!
The buzz: “The future is already here”? Tired of the hearing this? We are, too. That was yesterday’s future. Today’s future hasn’t happened. After 7.5 years and 372 episodes heard by millions around the globe, Coffee Break wi...
May 22, 2019
The Key to Automotive Industry Disruption: Become Customer-Obsessed - Part 2
The buzz: “Today’s average high-end car has roughly seven times more code than a Boeing 787” (mckinsey.com). The auto industry faces unprecedented changes: ride and car-sharing, electrification, autonomy, climate change regul...
May 15, 2019
The Future of Equality in Business, Technology and Innovation - Part 2
The buzz: “In this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world” (Nicholas D. Kristof). Organizations from the United Nations to university clubs have been trying to secure a...