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Will Robots Rule? with Martin Ford

Is your job robot proof? Author Martin Ford in his books Rise of the Robots and the sequel rule of the robots, joins me this week to discuss the rapidly approaching consequence of AI and Robots on our workforce on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of four books, including Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything (2021), the New York Times Bestselling Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages), Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it (2018), and The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (2009). He is also the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm.

His TED Talk on the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on the economy and society, given on the main stage at the 2017 TED Conference, has been viewed over 3 million times. Martin is also the consulting artificial intelligence expert for the Rise of the Robots equity index from Societe Generale, which is focused specifically on investing in companies that will be significant participants in the AI and robotics revolution. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a graduate business degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He has written about future technology and its implications for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian and The Financial Times. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including NPR, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. Martin is a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence—and what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.

Martin continues to focus on entrepreneurship and is an active board member of Genesis Systems, a startup company that has developed a revolutionary atmospheric water generation (AWG) technology. Genesis will soon deploy automated, self powered systems that will generate water directly from the air at industrial scale in the world’s most arid regions.

Learning Never Exhausts the AI with Dr. Brendan Englot

Navy divers regularly enter treacherous waters, not to save their fellow Americans, but to clean the ships hull. This is one of an infinite number of life endangering jobs that machines may be well suited for. Can machines be taught these complicated tasks and should we allow them to replace humans? Join Dr. Brendon Englot and I for the discussion on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

https://faculty.stevens.edu/benglot

Dr. Brendan Englot is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2014. Brendan has fifteen years of experience developing and deploying mobile robots and autonomous navigation algorithms via land, air and sea. At Stevens, he is the founder and director of the Robust Field Autonomy Lab, which develops robust autonomous navigation solutions for mobile robots operating in harsh and unstructured environments. His research uses artificial intelligence to improve the situational awareness of mobile robots operating in degraded conditions, and to enable intelligent robot decision-making under uncertainty. Brendan received S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, 2009 and 2012, respectively. At MIT, he studied motion planning for surveillance and inspection applications, deploying his algorithms on an underwater robot to inspect Navy and Coast Guard ships. During 2012-2014, Brendan was with United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA, where he was a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory and a technical contributor to the Sikorsky Autonomous Research Aircraft. Brendan received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2020, and in 2018 he was appointed the Geoffrey S. Inman Endowed Junior Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Brendan also serves as Interim Director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI).

The State of Security with Jeremy Hehl

Every week we hear of a new threat; a threat to our security, our privacy, our economy and to ourselves. But my next guest says – not so fast, the white hats are turning the tide and winning. Returning guest and friend Jeremy Hehl, a VP of Channel at CYDERES and Cyber Security expert joins me on the show to explain how the Cyber Security war is being fought....and won – on the this week's episode of the QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

Jeremy Hehl currently acts as Vice President of Channel at CYDERES; his efforts are focused on next-generation cloud-native security solutions. Jeremy has an expert level of proficiency in assisting organizations with security modernization and cloud transformation built on Google’s Autonomic Security Operations platform. Jeremy has a deep interest in threat intelligence, machine-learning, artificial intelligence, and Red Team Operations. Jeremy has previously worked as a developer, pre-sales engineer and professional cat-herder – his current favorite past-time is mining STIX/TAXII databases for threat actor slip ups.

The Ethics of Being Human with Dr. Paul Root Wolpe

Artificial Intelligence is just one of the areas having a profound effect on ethics. This week Dr. Paul Root Wolpe the  director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University, talks with me about the impact of technology and what it will mean to be human in the digital age, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:
https://ethics.emory.edu/who-we-are/our-people/director.html
Paul Root Wolpe is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics; a professor in the departments of medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neuroscience and biological behavior, and sociology; and the director of the Center for Ethics. Dr. Wolpe moved to Emory University in summer 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the faculty for more than 20 years in the departments of psychiatry, sociology, and medical ethics, and faculty in its Center for Bioethics.

Dr. Wolpe spent 15 years as senior bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience and sits on the editorial boards of more than a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics. He is the president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors; a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country's oldest medical society; and a fellow of the Hastings Center, the oldest bioethics institute in America. He also served as the first national bioethics adviser to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

His publications span the fields of sociology, medicine, and bioethics, and he has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias on bioethical issues. A futurist interested in social dynamics, Dr. Wolpe focuses on the social, religious, ethical, and ideological impact of medicine and technology on the human condition. Considered one of the founders of the field of neuroethics, which examines the ethical implications of neuroscience, he also writes about other emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence. His teaching and publications range across many other fields of bioethics, including death and dying, genetics and eugenics, sexuality and gender, mental health and illness, alternative medicine, and bioethics in extreme environments such as space. He frames those discussions through his sociological interest in knowledge formation, ideology, religion, and social movements. He also writes and talks about the Jewish contribution to thinking about the ethical aspects of medicine and technology. He is the co-author of the textbook Sexuality and Gender in Society, and editor and a key author of the end-of-life guide Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life.

Dr. Wolpe has served on a number of national and international nonprofit organizational boards and working groups, such as Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence Selection Committee and DARPA’s Neuroscience ELSI Panel. He has testified twice to the President's Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Responsible Science Committee that rewrote the canonical volume “Responsible Science,” and Co-Chaired the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Commission looking into reorganizing the APA’s ethics procedures in response to disclosure of its participation in ‘enhanced interrogation’ collaboration with the CIA and Department of Defense.  He is also a consultant to academic institutions and the biomedical industry.

A dynamic and popular speaker internationally, Dr. Wolpe has been chosen by the Teaching Company as a "Superstar Teacher of America," and his courses are distributed internationally on audio and videotape. He has won the World Technology Network Award in Ethics, has been featured in a TED talk, and was profiled in Atlantic Magazine as a "Brave Thinker of 2011." Dr. Wolpe is a contributor to broadcast and print media, as well as having been featured on 60 Minutes and profiled in the Science Times of the New York Times.

Humans to Mars! with Chris Carberry

Next week, I plan on attending the humans to mars summit at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. While I have always been fascinated by space travel and our universe, I am equally fascinated by the evolving technologies that are benefiting us here on Earth while we pursue the stars. New ways of communications, remote healthcare, surgery, printing our own food, the list goes on. I've invited Chris Carberry the CEO of Explore Mars, a nonprofit organization committed to this effort and the sponsor of this summit, to join me for a quick dialogue to help us understand what's going on at the summit, what we can expect to see and experience, and why you and I should care about sending Humans to Mars. Join us for the conversation on this week's episode of The QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

https://www.exploremars.org/

Chris Carberry is the CEO and co-founder of Explore Mars, Inc. (Explore Mars), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit space advocacy organization that was created to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars by the mid-2030s. Carberry is a well-respected expert and influential director of strategic alliances in the space community as well as with non-traditional organizations. Carberry has presented oral (and written) testimony to both the United States Senate as well as the United States House of Representatives and has been active in all levels of policy engagement with both the Executive and Legislative branches of government. In recent years, he has overseen Explore Mars’ annual Humans to Mars Summit, the largest annual conference focused on sending humans to Mars. He has also spearheaded dozens of programs including the Mars Innovation Forum, the annual Community Workshops for the Achievability and Sustainability of Human Exploration of Mars series, the AR/VR and Space workshop series, the ISS and Mars Conference in Washington, D.C. and in Strasbourg, France, and the Women and Mars Conference in Washington, D.C. He has also conducted programs overseas, in such countries as the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Carberry is also the creator, and one of the senior editors, of the annual publication known as the Humans to Mars Report that was highlighted in the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. In 2013, Carberry was awarded a NASA Group Achievement award. Carberry is the author of over 100 articles and Op-Ed pieces that have appeared in such publications as USA Today, US News and World Report, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, San Jose Mercury Times, Foxnews.com, Houston Chronicle, The Hill, The Telegram (UK), The Boston Herald and many other publications. He has been featured in over 100 national and international television, radio programs and podcasts such as NBC Nightly News, Fox News, CNN, BBC World, and NPR and is frequently asked for commentary from print news outlets around the world. Prior to joining Explore Mars, Carberry served as Executive Director of The Mars Society. He also played a leadership role in congressional outreach events such as the 2006-2020 Space Exploration Alliance Legislative Blitz and has coordinated numerous briefing panels and other events on Capitol Hill over the past two decades. Carberry serves on the Board of Advisors for iGiant and Mars World Enterprises, and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society. Carberry is the author of the 2019 book, Alcohol in Space: Past, Present and Future, and the upcoming book, The Music of Space (to be released in 2022). Both volumes are being adapted into documentary films. Prior to his space career, Carberry worked as an archivist of modern political papers and was research assistant for numerous best-selling biographers. Carberry received a B.A. degree in political science and a M.A. in history and archival methods

May the Fourth Be with You with Megan Hofmeyer

Sustainable energy technology is constantly evolving; what's trending up, what's come under pressure because of supply chain, geopolitics, or maybe just science? This week I'm joined by Megan Hofmeyer, Director of Sustainability at QTS Data Centers. Megan is a colleague and a friend of mine, and I asked her to share the results of her on-going research in this area. We discuss nuclear power being back in the discussion, how supply chain is severely impacting solar energy panel production, ongoing trends in social initiatives and so much more. Join us for the conversation on the this week's episode of The QTS Experience.

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The Converging Threat with Charles Margiotta

As technology changes, so do the security threats. We no longer live in a world that can survive on separate cyber and physical security plans. Instead, corporations and governments are beginning to merge these plans together and work with one another to fight against the threats. This week, my guest is Charles Margiotta, Charlie retired from the FBI after 23 years of service and before that he was with the NY State Police. We discuss what Converged Security is, and why we need to pay attention to it on the next QTS experience.

 

For more information on QTS's approach to converged security, go to: https://www.qtsdatacenters.com/why-qts/converged-security

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Quantum Dots and Invisibility Cloaks with Dr. David Ginger

When does advanced technology become magic? Professor David Ginger is a chemist, Chief Scientist, and – well – a magician. David spends some time with us helping us to understand what Quantum dot is and why its in our future – and how we just may end up with invisibility cloaks – on the next QTS Experience.About Our Guest:
https://depts.washington.edu/gingerlb/
 http://www.cei.washington.edu/

David S. Ginger earned dual B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics at Indiana University in 1997 with departmental honors and highest distinction, performing undergraduate research with Victor E. Viola.

He received a British Marshall Scholarship and an NSF Graduate Fellowship and completed his Ph.D. in physics with Neil C. Greenham in the Optoelectronics group at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2001.

After a joint NIH and DuPont Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University in Chad Mirkin’s lab, he joined the faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle where he is currently the Alvin L. and Verla R. Kwiram Endowed Professor in Chemistry, Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Scholar in Clean Energy, and Adjunct Professor of Physics, and serves as the Chief Scientist of the Washington state funded UW Clean Energy Institute. He holds a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), and is the co-founding co-director of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry, and Technology (NW IMPACT), a joint research collaboration between PNNL and UW.

He is an elected fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and has been named a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a Research Corporation Scialog Fellow in solar energy conversion, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the ACS Unilever Award in Colloid and Surfactant Science.

He is the 2012 recipient of the Burton Medal of the Microscopy Society of America, participated in the 2012-2013 class of the Defense Science Study Group, and was honored as a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in 2016.

His research centers on the physical chemistry of nanostructured materials with applications in optoelectronics, energy and sensing, and his group makes use of techniques ranging from scanning probe microscopy to optical spectroscopy.

He is also an Associate Editor at the ACS journal Chemical Reviews.
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Is the Internet Open and Free? with Joel Beasley

As a people we are working through what it means to have an open and free Internet. How should we think about censorship, guardrails, opportunity, risk? Joel Beasley, host of the Modern CTO Podcast, has interviewed hundreds of CTO’s, thought leaders, and tech evangelists and he has something to say – so join us for the conversation, on the next QTS Experience.

 About Our Guest

In 2017, while writing the Modern CTO book [moderncto.io], Joel started interviewing CTOs. These interviews turned into the Modern CTO Podcast creating a conversational atmosphere for leaders to share their experiences. In 2018 we received a call that CTO of Microsoft Kevin Scott would be joining us as a guest, and then the CIO of T-Mobile Cody Stanford. After these episodes aired came NASA, Verizon and before we knew it we had a waiting list for future guests. Fast forward to today and the Modern CTO Podcast is the #1 Leadership & Tech Podcast in the world. Over 100k CTOs, Lead Developers, and rising tech leaders actively listen to the Modern CTO Podcast [moderncto.io].

Website: https://moderncto.io/

Podcast: https://moderncto.io/podcast/

The World as It’s Always Been with Dr. Patrick Allitt

Everyone thinks they’re  right. We’re predicting the role of Artificial Intelligence, the future of work, the impact of big data - The questions is; 50 years from now will our grandchildren agree with us? Patrick Allitt is a professor of American History at Emory challenges the notion that history can predict the future.

About Our Guest:
Watch his TEDx talk here: https://youtu.be/Loeiei9LA-s
Patrick Allitt was born and raised in the English town of Derby.  He was an undergraduate at Oxford University (1974-77) and a graduate student in U.S. History at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1986).  He held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, and has been a professor of American history at Emory University in Atlanta since 1988.  He is the author of seven books, most recently A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism (Penguin).  He is also the presenter of eleven recorded lecture series with The Great Courses, most recently, The Great Tours: England, Scotland, and Wales (36 lectures).