- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Gerd Leonhard
Futurist, Public Thinker, Author of “Technology vs. Humanity”, and CEO of The Futures Agency
GERD LEONHARD’S FUTURE NARRATIVE IS GROUNDED IN THE 4Ps: PEOPLE, PLANET, PURPOSE, AND PROSPERITY “People, Planet, Purpose, and Prosperity” is Gerd’s motto, and helping to design “The Good Future” is his key objective. Gerd is one of the top-rated contemporary futurists worldwide. He has presented at over 2000 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years, worked with Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi, Deloitte, and IBM. Gerd has influenced and inspired millions to “imagine and create a better tomorrow”. Wired magazine named him one of the most influential Europeans, and he is listed as #7 in the global ranking of futurists. As a leading voice on the future of humanity and author of the bestseller “Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine”, Gerd has built a storied reputation as the go-to keynote speaker and thought leader when it comes to digital ethics, human-beneficial technology, sustainability, and the need for a new, future-fit economic logic. With his unique cinematic ‘super-keynote’ format, Gerd is continuously pioneering the art of keynoting, while his digital/remote ‘keynote television’ style of virtual presentations has propelled him to the top of the list of the most talked-about virtual keynote presenters worldwide. Gerd was a professional musician, a critically acclaimed filmmaker, producer, a successfully failed .com paper-millionaire, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London), and a visiting Professor at the Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil. Gerd is no stranger to the media. He frequently shares his often controversial but always prescient views in publications such as The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Wired UK. He’s contributed interviews on the BBC, CNN, Arirang TV, Swiss SRF, ZDF, ARD, and ARTE, and appeared as a special guest in many documentaries. He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and often works from Las Brenas, Lanzarote.
X: @gleonhard
Sandra Matz
Columbia Business School professor, computational social scientist, and pioneering expert in psychological targeting
and author of Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
Dr. Sandra Matz is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, in New York, where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Human Performance. As a computational social scientist with a background in psychology and computer science, she studies human behavior and preferences using a combination of big data analytics and traditional experimental methods. Her research uncovers the hidden relationships between our digital lives and our psychology with the goal of helping businesses and individuals make better and more ethical decisions. Sandra's work is frequently covered in major news outlets, including the Economist, the New York Times, BBC, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Inc., WIRED, the Washington Post, the Independent, the Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, Scientific American, Fortune, Forbes, and more.
X: @sandracmatz
