Category: Technology Trends

Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and futurist. He recently appeared on a the "Cutting Edge" podcast to discuss the singularity.

Rohit Krishnan is a venture capitalist and a writer at www.strangeloopcanon.com. He invests in companies using cutting edge technology to create the future. He also writes essays about exploration, of ways to push the frontier of our knowledge forward, and bridge the gaps between Business, Science and Technology.

Dr Allan McCay is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School. His research focuses on how law will impact emerging technologies like brain-to-brain and brain-to-computer interfaces.

Physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Steve Hsu has done extensive research in the field of computational genomics. He joins us to talk about the present and future of genetic engineering, as well as the thorny ethical questions raised by this line of work.

Steven Kotler is one of the world’s foremost experts on human peak performance and the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books. He joins us to discuss his latest novel, "The Devil's Dictionary."

There has been a tremendous amount of chatter over the past year about NFTs--how they're a scam, how they'll usher in a new era of democratized web3 for the entire planet, and everything in between. Tonight we're joined by Michael Maizels, a former professor of art history, who is unusually well-placed to help us get to the bottom of this.

Matt Pines is a Managing Consultant at the Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity and geopolitical risk advisory firm. He has over ten years of experience helping the government and private sector firms address pressing security and resilience challenges.

Jeremy Clark is an associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, where he holds the Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies. His gold medal dissertation was on designing the first cryptographically verifiable system used in a public sector election.

Scott Ruoti is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, where he focuses on security and privacy, usability, and human-computer interaction. He takes a diverse and multidisciplinary approach in studying everything from optimized emailing systems to the distributed ledger, and we are thrilled to get his perspective on use cases for the blockchain.