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Minter Dialogue Episode #357 Dr Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner, is the CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines and director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. WIth his team, Mark is looking to bring technology to life, pioneering in the creation of autonomously animated virtual humans. In this conversation with Mark, we discuss people's relationship with machines, the challenges of making emotions appear in a machine, we explore the way forward in AI and the stumbling blocks of sentient AI. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #356 Laurent Choain is Chief People Officer, head of people, education and culture at the Mazars Group, a global audit and consulting company employing over 40,000 professionals around the world.  In this conversation, we discuss how Human Resource management has changed, Mazars' strategy for recruiting and retaining the best talent (or the Creative Class), their focus on hiring naturally insecure over-achievers; how to create and maintain a powerful culture, the particularities of the French management style and culture, how to handle diversity and inclusion and much more. A vibrant and operational discussion. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #355 David Meerman Scott, the man who invented newsjacking, a world renowned author, speaker and strategist on the key topics of sales, marketing and PR. His books include Real-Time Marketing & PR, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, the new hit book The New Rules of Sales & Service and my personal favorite: Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead. In this interview, we discuss his new book, Fanocracy, cowritten with his daughter, Reiko Scott. We look at how to develop fans, the difference between fan centricity and customer centricity, the differences for luxury brands and much more.  If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterd

Minter Dialogue #354 Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of the publicly traded Pegasystems, a leader in cloud software for customer engagement and operational excellence, which he founded in 1983. In this podcast with Alan, we discuss the founder story, Pega's mission, the state of AI, Pega's focus on empathy in its CRM solution, the challenges of measuring empathy and the transformation path that Pega is leading its clients on.   If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #353 Adah Parris is a futurist, cultural innovator, keynote speaker and Board advisor. Adah's an enthusiastic curator of people, patterns and stories. In this conversation with Adah, we discuss some of the biggest challenges facing business and society, her take on storytelling, the idea of a human blockchain and cyborg shamanism. A wide-ranging and delightful discussion. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #352 Ella Goldner, co founder and General Manager of Zinc VC, which exists to build and scale a brand new way to solve the most important societal problems faced by the developed world. In this conversation, we discuss Zinc's overall mission and business model, a deeper dive into the three first missions -- Mental Health, Globalisation & Automation & Later Life -- that Zinc launched, how to make social impact work, and how Ella leads this highly entrepreneurial and meaningful venture.  If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #351 Sarah Parsonage previously MD at PerformanceIN and publisher of The Memo, founded One Question, a unique event asking all speakers to tackle just one question. In this interview, we discuss the inspiration behind One Question, which was the best one and why, the state of the events industry, how to create great events, what the big challenges business executives face that One Question answers and why to become a member. A passionate conversation. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #350 Charlene Li, is the founder & Senior Fellow of Altimeter, a Prophet Company, giving business leaders the insights to thrive in the face of change. Charlene is a celebrated keynote speaker and has written or co-authored six books, the last of which is The Disruption Mindset. In this interview with Charlene, we discuss how disruption itself has changed, when or if you can get too big to be disrupted, the role of bravery and how to go about changing culture. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #349 This week's interview is with Nicole Yershon who has been identified by The Drum as one of 25 women who have shaped the British digital industry over the last 25 years. Nicole is founder of the NY Collective, author of Rough Diamond, speaker and in 16 years at Ogilvy, founded the Ogilvy Lab. In this conversation with Nicole, we discuss how to be an intrapreneur -- bringing that entrepreneurial spirit into big business, the challenges for agencies to provide better solutions for their clients, why it's about better not best practices, building a great network and much more.  If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #348 Matt Phelan is an investor, advisor and entrepreneur, having successfully cofounded and sold his 4Ps Marketing Agency. In 2014, he cofounded The Happiness Index, using technology and data to give employees and customers a voice to help transform organisations. In this podcast, Matt reveals a scoop as we discuss the importance and opportunities for business to explore happiness, using data and insights. We look at how to measure happiness, how to view and garner employee engagement and why companies ought to be employee first. A stimulating conversation on an important topic. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #347 Dr Michelle Zhou PhD is cofounder and CEO of Juji, an entrepreneurial initiative to help create responsible and empathic chatbots (or AI Helpers)) that can converse naturally, listen actively, and automatically infer users' interests, preferences, and needs to provide personalized guidance. In this conversation with Michelle, we look at how the team have been using AI to understand the other via text-based interactions, what have been some of the key challenges and learnings in the process of developing Juji, and how you 'users' can best implement Juji to create an empathic chatbot for your business. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://ww

Gang Lu is the founder and CEO of TechNode, the leading bilingual tech media in China, covering startups and large listed companions, the entrepreneurial community and angel/VC investment activities. TechNode is also the official partner of TechCrunch China. Gang is also the co-founder of OpenWeb.Asia a network of premium blogs that focus on the Asian web industry. In this conversation, we talk about running a business in China, how Gang manages the four different versions of TechNode, the transformation of China, we talk about the competitive environment between the big tech companies in China, insights into some especially Chinese startups and companies, and much more about the exciting evolution of the Chinese market. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate

Minter Dialogue Episode #345 Daniel Snell, Director and cofounder of Arrival Education, an award-winning talent and development business, offering total diversity solutions to forward-thinking businesses. Daniel has overseen 10,000 hours of classroom delivery, which has given him unique insights and knowledge about education. In this conversation, we dig in to his work on diversity and inclusion, how to tap into the potential of your team and unlock the diversity dividend, how to make education more effective and how to make change -- including attitudes -- at work. You'll find all the show notes on minterdial.com. Now for the interview. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (h

Minter Dialogue Episode #344 Uday Akkaraju, CEO and founder of Bond.AI is on a mission to bring empathy to the finance world. Bond.ai is a human-centred AI Platform for financial institutions, powered by the world's first empathy engine for finance. Uday is a bona fide innovator, technologist and designer. In this conversation with Uday we talk about his entrepreneurial journey on why he started, how he's creating an empathic AI, his increasingly sophisticated work with personas, the challenges and power of creating the right voice and much more. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #343 Frequently featured for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic and the New York Times, Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, serial entrepreneur, and author of two books and many research papers. Vivienne has had a truly fascinating life journey as you'll discover. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. In her free time, Vivienne has invented AI systems to help treat her diabetic son, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers weeks in advance, and reunited orphan refugees with extended family members. In this far-reaching chat, we discuss Vivienne's work on AI, belief-based utility, understanding the messiness of life and of our systems, dealing with homelessness and diabetes, hacking Google Glasses and a whole lot more. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show no

Minter Dialogue Episode #341 Nora Gherbi is the founder of WHO CARES!? Chronicles, a New York-based international caring initiative aiming to promote and provide insight into everything related to CSR. WHO CARES!? Chronicles focuses on great leadership and best practices for the socially conscious business. Nora is also on the advisory board of several non for profit, tech and fashion companies. In this discussion with Nora, we discuss how companies should be or could be creating high value impacts, the potential for an Impact Index, the role of empathy and vulnerability in business, the production of content and finding ways to intelligently promote corporate social responsibility. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can f

Minter Dialogue Episode #342 Shaun Moore is the founder and CEO of TrueFace AI, providing facial recognition for real world applications. Shaun's at the cutting edge of object and facial recognition, a hot and sometimes controversial topic. In this conversation with Shaun, we look at the state of the art of facial recognition, some of the key ethical and privacy issues, the regulatory environment, and how TrueFace is working with government and Fortune 500 customers -- including age verification solutions for gambling, tobacco and alcohol. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #340 Sam Charrington is an industry analyst, specialized in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He's also the host of the very successful podcast, TWiMLAI aka This Week in Machine Learning and AI. In this conversation with Sam, we plunge into how and why businesses are using ML and AI, the biggest learnings Sam has had after doing nearly 300 episodes, who was his favorite guest, as well as the outlook for AI/ML in 2020. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #339 Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor and the CEO of Behavioral Signals, an enterprise software company that delivers a robust and fast-evolving emotion AI engine that introduces emotional intelligence into speech recognition technology. Rana has been awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, the ‘US China Pioneer’ Award by IEIE. He was also recently listed in Inc. Magazine as an “AI Entrepreneur to Watch”. In this stimulating conversation with Rana, we look at how he and his team at Behavioral Signals break down emotions via voice, what are the next avenues of development in voice and speech detection, and how so much can be revealed via voice. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Ot

Minter Dialogue Episode #338 Ashley Galina Dudarenok is a China marketing expert, founder of two companies, Alarice a social media agency and ChoZan, for training, keynotes and masterclasses on marketing in China. Based in HK, Ashley is also an influencer and best-selling author who has just published her third book, New Retail Born in China Going Global: How Chinese Tech Giants Are Changing Global Commerce. In this conversation, we talk about some of the important things to get right when marketing in China, some insights to Ashley's life as an influencer and the truly revolutionary world of retail in China that has been termed as "New Retail." Please send me your questions as an audio file or text to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)