Episodes

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The Buzz: “Like many technology driven industries, [Fintechs] regulations are horribly outdated, authored at a time when an app meant fries for the whole table, and spam was just canned meat.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 ...
Sept. 4, 2019

Encore: 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. 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...
May 8, 2019

Is Digital Selling Dead? - Part 2

The buzz: “The idea that social selling is dead or dying is a bit over exaggerated…Cold calling should be dead” (Koka Sexton). In conversations about account-based marketing, we keep hearing that cold calling, email and socia...
May 1, 2019

Accessible and Inclusive UX Design: The Business Case - Part 2

The buzz: When UX doesn’t consider ALL users, shouldn’t it be known as “SOME User Experience” or… SUX?” (Billy Gregory). The World Health Organization estimates 1B people, 1 in 7, live with a disability. Per the UN Convention...
April 24, 2019

Do Intelligent Technologies Make The Intelligent Enterprise? - Part 2

The buzz: “Augmenting human decision-making at the enterprise level will bring us to the next level in growth” (Joseph Byrum, Principal Financial Group). Companies are exploring how to cope with the volume and velocity of cha...
April 17, 2019

HCM Trends: The Wine Bottle Index

The buzz: “The global human resource management (HRM) sector is projected to reach $30 billion by 2025. in other words, the business of creating innovative HR solutions is booming” ?(learn.g2crowd.com/2019-hr-trends). In 2016...
April 10, 2019

ERP and Beyond: From Techno Buzz to Value-Add Solutions

The buzz: “Few business applications have attracted as much management attention over the years as ERP systems … the line between fact and fiction or myth and best practice can be difficult to discern.”?(www.atkearney.cz) In ...
April 3, 2019

Circular Economy: Radical and Unproven or Saving the Planet? Part 3

The buzz: “We will design products differently if we knew that those products were going to come back to us…and we could extract value from them” (T. Domenech). 150 years of industrial evolution have been dominated by a one-w...